Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Our view: Famous 1884 speech offers a memorial to war dead - Public Opinion
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He delivered a famous Memorial Day address -- entitled "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire" -- on May 30, 1884, at Keene, N.H., before John ...
- Pierscape: Springtime Is The Right Time - Cape Breton
Today's lesson is if you are going to write about an art exhibit, make sure you don't leave the catalog for the show in your friend's car. I make no claims to any expertise in judging any of the visual arts; I can't even say I know enough about them ...
- Edgar Austin Mittelholzer: A caribbean voice - Stabroek News
J uanita Cox is a PhD student writing her thesis: ‘Edgar Mittelholzer and the Shaping of his Novels’ at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her interests include Caribbean literature, culture and history and a version of this article will be ...
- Facing uncertainty evokes former caretaker's cheer - Dayton Daily News
Jim Sandegren talks with DDN's Dale Huffman by Buckey Dixie Blandy's grave at Woodland Cemetery. Balndy was a flag pole sitter. Jim got the headstone for the grave. Photo by Ed Roberts Click to enlarge Jim Sandegren, who for two decades lovingly ...
- 'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outlet (The Oklahoman)
Friday afternoon, I learned about a form of comic relief that likely will appeal to office workers. It's an offshoot of the Arts Council of Oklahoma's Wintertales storytelling program and modeled after PoetrySlam, where budding poets get to share with an audience verses they've penned. OKC StorySlam does the same thing, except in storytelling form, and each month focuses on a different theme. ...
- Library may bear publisher's name - Jackson Clarion Ledger
Library may bear publisher's nameJackson Clarion Ledger, MS - 4 hours agoHe also wrote poetry. His father wrote a book of poetry." Tisdale died July 7 at age 80. Given his lifelong love of the printed word, Thomas-Tisdale said ...
- What is a good way for children to work on their communication skills? - Lawrence Journal World
What is a good way for children to work on their communication skills?Lawrence Journal World, KS - 6 hours ago... read to them as much as possible because they want to imitate what mom and dad do. And believe it or not, kids get really excited about poetry and rhyming.”
- A cultural history - Economist
A cultural historyEconomist, UK - 1 hour agoJean Cocteau managed a professional boxer and rhapsodised about his “active poetry” and its “mysterious syntax”. Jean Genet wrote poems to a “thief-boxer” ...
- Sun Road events planned June 27 - Daily Interlake
June 27 is a big day of celebration in Glacier National Park, with festivities marking the 75th anniversary of the opening of Going-to-the-Sun Road over Logan Pass. The centerpiece will be official dedication ceremonies at Lake McDonald Lodge (the ...
- Funny prize from Rosen - guardian.co.uk
Funny prize from Rosenguardian.co.uk, UK - 35 minutes agoThe prize aims to reward those authors and artists who usehumour in their stories, poetry and fiction. Books will be judged in two categories: for children ...
- Letters to the Editor - June 8 - Daily Camera
Upon learning that George "Bud" Peterson, new (and Republican) Chancellor of the University of Colorado, is creating an endowed chair of conservative thought, I was floored. He says he doesn't necessarily want a political conservative -- only an ...
- A Week Of Sheer Fakery - Newsweek
A Week Of Sheer FakeryNewsweek - 7 hours agoThey have been sharing them with strangers, and their feelings have been about the death of a stranger who, they say, although she never made laws or poetry ...
- Calendar of Events for Week of May 28, 2008 - Newton Record
Calendar of Events for Week of May 28, 2008Newton Record, MS - 3 hours agoA $1000 grand prize is being offered in a religious poetry contest sponsored by the New Jersey Rainbow Poets. There are 50 prizes in all totaling almost ...
- Joliet library hosting events - Billings Gazette
• June 19-July 31: Summer Reading Olympics for students of all ages. Crafts and story time 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays. Reading Olympics opening ceremonies 1 p.m. Thursday. • July 19: A chat and chew featuring "Beans, Franks & Cowboy Poets," with ...
- India, literature and culture - Telegraph.co.uk
India, literature and cultureTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHe cashed in on the late 19th-century revival of medieval Bengali poetry by inventing an alter ego, "Bhanusingha", a medieval poet who wrote convincingly in ...
|
|
Refinancing Mortgages can save you money!
Get your Online Degree today!
Mortgage News Archives
|