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- Not-So-Beachy Summer Reads - Daily Nexus
Summer shouldn’t be an excuse to sit around by the waves working on your deep bronze tan, frying your brain reading Cosmo and listening to your iPod for three sweet straight months (though there’s more than enough time for that, too). If you’re ...
- Dan Stryk's poetry collection, Solace of the Aging Mare, dares to gaze steadily into the challenges of aging (The Kansas City Star)
Dan Stryk’s Solace of the Aging Mare is a subtle meditation on growing old. The questions these poems ask are ones that can never be answered with any finality. The pastoral settings of most of the verses here give us that needed moment of respite when we can begin to look more deeply into ourselves, knowing that ultimately we walk away empty-handed no matter what path we may have chosen to ...
- 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 ...
- Grimshaw reunites with award-winning characters (Otago Daily Times)
It's been a huge year for Auckland author Charlotte Grimshaw, who has been named not only the Montana Medal for fiction but also the Reviewer of the Year. She talks to Alastair Bull of NZPA.
- Institute works to raise Inland area's literary profile (The Press-Enterprise)
The Inlandia Institute, armed with $150,000 from a James Irvine Foundation grant, plans to increase its visibility as a literary center focused on the Inland region.
- CD Reviews: Mellencamp, Nas delight; Hold Steady too steady - U-Wire.com
John Mellencamp's 22nd release, "Life, Death, Love, and Freedom," paints the people's champion of rockin' country in somber, reflective tones. Voice-and-acoustic driven, the album, released on the official Starbucks music label, boasts 14 tracks ...
- * Wine on the River with the WSO - The Casper Star Tribune
* Wine on the River with the WSOThe Casper Star Tribune, WY - 6 hours agoAward winning song writer Mike Blakely, poet Doris Daley, Baggs musician Jake Fleming and cowboy poet Chuck Larsen will headline the Sixth Annual Grand ...
- Prospect Hts. woman dies in crash in Lombard (Daily Herald)
Poetry was Penny Bordsen's passion. She wrote her first poem about a cat named Cookie when she was just 4. But she took a break from her craft to raise her two children and support her family with a job in computer systems and software.
- David McGough / Time Life Pictures - New York Sun
New York SunDavid McGough / Time Life PicturesNew York Sun, United States - 51 minutes agoIt is unknown if Mr. Shatner intended for his 1968 recording of poetry and pop covers, "The Transformed Man," to be the galaxy's funniest album, ...
- Recognizing Israel - American Spectator
Recognizing IsraelAmerican Spectator - 1 hour agoSixty years ago, on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, declared independence, to which American and Soviet recognition was ...
- Nothing to do? That's just wrong - Modesto Bee
Police shoot, kill man who savagely beat toddler to death near Turlock Quest for answers in toddler's violent death Father killed boy; child kicked 'like a soccer ball' Books Ceres football coach tied to cocaine ring Police shoot, kill man who ...
- Declare freedom from foreign fuel - South Coast Today
Declare freedom from foreign fuelSouth Coast Today, MA - 8 hours agoOn that evening, music, sing-alongs and a poetry reading will accompany poster-making and working on the Wing's Court Eco-Garden RainGarden, ...
- SOUTH Newington Festival gets under way today (Friday) with an ... - Banbury Guardian
SOUTH Newington Festival gets under way today (Friday) with an ...Banbury Guardian, UK - 3 hours agoThe arts bonanza kicks off with poetry group Poetic Licence presenting The Seven Ages of Man, which includes poetry, prose and music on the theme of man's ...
- US Open 2008 - BBC Sport
2307: Putting lets Els down at the 14th as he slips back to level par but a wonderful approach to the next puts him back to one under. Rose drops a shot at the 14th (his fifth) and then misses a birdie chance at the 15th. Garcia stops the rot with a ...
- Kay Ryan - A Poet Outside The Poetry industry (Arts Journal)
Ryan has advanced to the top rank of American poets while keeping a principled distance from the institutions of the poetry world. New York Sun 07/18/08
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