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- For rapper, creativity comes in many forms - Daily Progress
Sense it in the music, feel it in the video, hear it in the book; Derek Perkins wants the beat of his life, the tone of his philosophy to come through. The 25-year-old entrepreneur is an author, singer, actor and independent record label executive ...
- Spare our children poetry with a moral - Independent
Spare our children poetry with a moralIndependent, UK - 40 minutes agoBy Shirley Dent With two days to go until National Poetry Day, do you know what sort of poetry your kids are reading? Are they being led as 'lonely clouds' ...
- 'Lesbians' don't have to be from Lesbos - The Independent
A Greek court has dismissed a request by people living on the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho whose love poems inspired ...
- Condition of Zambian president worsens (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (3:39 a.m.) The condition of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, hospitalized in France since suffering a stroke in June, has suddenly taken a turn for the worse, state media reported Tuesday.
- 'In Bruges' - Newsday
There is a playful deception going on in the prosaic title of "In Bruges," evocative as it is of chamber recitals and poetry readings in medieval coffeehouses. One is tempted to add a modifying phrase before the "In," for the sake of truth in ...
- THE SATURDAY PROFILE; A Writer Who Followed His Own Clues to Fame - New York Times Blogs
THE SATURDAY PROFILE; A Writer Who Followed His Own Clues to FameNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoHe built an early career as a theater director and dramatic arts teacher, prized poetry over commercial fiction, and, when he finally got around to novels, ...
- Trick roper thrills crowd at cowboy culture awards - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
It isn't every day that a horse and rider can be seen in the Banquet Room of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. But the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration is in town, and boots, hats and ropes were suddenly commonplace Thursday night during ...
- 'REmix' looks at Hmong art and literature through generations - MinnPost.com
MinnPost.com'REmix' looks at Hmong art and literature through generationsMinnPost.com, MN - 2 hours agoThe younger generation of Hmong artists are represented by Alyssa Velazquez, a child with leukemia whose work features almost otherwordly hands among large ...
- Soldier for the right - Rocky Mountain News
Soldier for the rightRocky Mountain News, CO - 2 hours agoIn 2006, after the Democrats took over the governorship and the Statehouse, Kanner told the Daily Camera in Boulder that the victors were moderate Democrats ...
- New York City Binge Festival Begins in August - Broadway World
New York City Binge Festival Begins in AugustBroadway World, NY - 7 hours agoShort plays written by Bekah Brunstetter (NY IT award winning playwright, 2 time Samuel French Festival Short Play Publishing winner), Jason Grote (Soho Rep ...
- Ex-wife's book shows Che's transformation - Milford Daily News
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's transformation from adventurer to revolutionary is chronicled by his first wife in the intimate portrait, "My Life With Che," picking up where his own book, "The Motorcycle Diaries" left off. This revised and updated version ...
- Palestinians mourn national poet Darwish (Middle East Online)
Palestinians in three-day mourning following death of predominant poet Mahmud Darwish.
- Remarks by the First Lady During a Visit to the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Centre Daily Times)
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
- Scholars Defend American Literature (The Harvard Crimson)
With the announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature expected in the coming days, many literary hopefuls are sure to be on the edges of their seats as American authors like Philip Roth, John Updike ’54, and Joyce Carol Oates are considered for the prize.
- Playing the 'Juliet' Gender Card (Washington Post)
"Kimberly Gilbert will most likely never be given this part to play again," begins the biography for the forceful young Washington actress in the program for Taffety Punk Theatre's all-female "Romeo and Juliet." She might be right -- Mercutio may never again come Gilbert's way -- but you know wha...
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