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- Fundraiser for The Writers Place is a Night of Poetry and Jazz (Kansas City InfoZine)
This fundraiser for The Writers Place features poetry by Phyllis Becker and Dan Jaffe, and music by local jazz greats.
- Willoughby pair eliminated on 'Nashville Star' - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Laura Fedor, left, and Sophie Zalokar. Willoughby natives and best friends Laura Fedor and Sophie Zalokar ended their eye-rolling first run at fame by being booted off TV's "Nashville Star" on Monday, but they're not done yet. Fedor, an 18-year-old ...
- Without a Prayer - Rolling Stone
P hoenix, July 13th, Sunday morning. Thank God John McCain has declared that he wants to wallpaper the continent with new nuke plants, because now the chances are better that this wretched slab of hot, birdshit-covered asphalt they call a state will ...
- South Africa: Musical Concert to Celebrate Madiba's Life (AllAfrica.com)
Some of Africa's best artists will perform at a special music concert to be staged in celebration of Nelson Mandela's life in Johannesburg next month.
- The Diary: Susan Irvine - Financial Times
The Esoterics is not the name of an art-rock band but what my friend Lucy and I call the particular kind of event we invite each other to. I’ll invite her to a forum on Jacques Derrida. She’ll invite me to hear Iain Sinclair’s bearded cohorts ...
- Conjuring transitions - Washington Blade
For poet and 2007 Barrow Street Press Prize winner Ely Shipley, whose first book “Boy with Flowers” will be out in October, poetry has been a way to express issues of identity and gender since his youth. Shipley, 31, who calls himself “gender ...
- The buzz on 'Garden of Last Days' (Portsmouth Herald)
It started with the image of a wad of cash on a bedroom bureau. From there "The Garden of Last Days" took Andre Dubus III to Florida strip clubs, 9/11 hijackers, the Koran, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the gym parking lot and a gushing column by...
- Religion: Speakers (The Herald-Mail)
St. John's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Scott Bellows will preach Sunday at the 8 and 10:15 a.m. communion services. The summer choir will sing at the later service.
- ECCB launches poetry, song contest - Sun St.Kitts/Nevis
ECCB launches poetry, song contestSun St.Kitts/Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis - 53 minutes agoThe Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is launching a poetry and song competition as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations under the theme, ...
- A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy world - The Olympian
A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy worldThe Olympian, WA - 1 hour agoI unfolded the scrap of paper with its 16 words, and wondered how this sparse verse, which I'd carried around since college, applied to my life. ...
- Reversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due to Self-Taught Poets - Illinois Wesleyan University
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityReversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due to Self-Taught PoetsIllinois Wesleyan University, IL - 22 minutes agoIn Prandi’s latest book, The Poetry of the Self-Taught: An Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon (Peter Lang Publishing, May 2008), she adopts the term “self-taught ...
- Abu Dhabi revives interest in poetry in Arab World (Middle East Online)
Al Mazrouei: Abu Dhabi’s poetry contests bringing classical Arabic verse back to life.
- Pentucket: 'Classic teacher' retires after 30 years - Newburyport Daily News
WEST NEWBURY — After 30 years of educating the children of the Pentucket Regional School District, eighth-grade English instructor Judy Hays has closed the book on her professional teaching career. At an award ceremony earlier this month, Hays was ...
- Sports, juggling, yoga camps in Webster - Democrat and Chronicle
Webster Parks and Recreation is accepting registration for youth summer camps and classes, including soccer, yoga, juggling and fiction and poetry writing. Juggling classes for anyone 8 years old and older cost $35 and will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 ...
- My old man: a voyage around our fathers - guardian.co.uk
My old man: a voyage around our fathersguardian.co.uk, UK - 32 minutes agoHer first book of poetry, the autobiographical The Adoption Papers, was published in 1991 and won the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award. ...
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