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- A-T editors take 'spiritual' journey (Advance Titan)
As the smoke from the third bowl was making its presence known on my psyche, I began to attempt the lighting of a fourth. Lighter on, touch the pipe, nothing. Did I even get close? Oh my God. This stuff is really working. I can’t even discern where my hand is in relation to my body.
- Renowned poet kicks off author series at WCCC - Warren Reporter
Warren ReporterRenowned poet kicks off author series at WCCCWarren Reporter, NJ - 6 minutes agoAlso in April 2008 CavanKerry Press published a volume of short stories entitled "The Poetry Life: Ten Stories." One of those stories, "William Blake," was ...
- Rochester author is a finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Pioneer Press)
Minnesotan Yuko Taniguchi's debut novel, "The Ocean in the Closet," is among five finalists for this year's $10,000 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction.
- Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and icon, dies - Newsday
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Texas . He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has ...
- Ideastream talk-show host Dee Perry talks about interviewing - Cleveland Plain Dealer
CHRIS STEPHENS/THE PLAIN DEALER Dee Perry believes some people shy away from public radio and television because they think they're elitist. "I think they re wrong." Dee Perry is Cleveland's connoisseur of arts and culture. Every weekday, she hosts ...
- Bumbershoot Recommendations: Saturday, Aug. 30 - Seattle Weekly
Bumbershoot Recommendations: Saturday, Aug. 30Seattle Weekly, WA - 57 minutes agoThat's what's so great about Fuck Off and Die, a celebration of teen angst that is part stand-up and part well-curated depressed-adolescent poetry. ...
- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (270) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
A. James Bacevich was my Colonel while I was in the 11th ACR stationed in Fulda, Germany. Not sure if you know much about his background, but he was, I believe, passed over for general and retired. His being passed over was at the time attributed to ...
- Bronte Myths Tackled Head-On In Exhibition - HULIQ.com
A new exhibition at the famous Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth hopes to tackle some of the commonly held myths and perceptions about the lives of the Bronte family head-on. The exhibition will be on view though April 2009. Visitors to the Museum ...
- Updated 9/3: Hip-hop poet to promote book at Oakton - Des Plaines Times
Updated 9/3: Hip-hop poet to promote book at OaktonDes Plaines Times, IL - 1 hour agoCoval also is the author of Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica) and co-founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, a youth-poetry ...
- Tolworth author robbed of valuable manuscript - Sutton Guardian
A Tolworth author has appealed for the return of his valuable manuscript after being robbed in Surbiton last night when he stopped to ask for directions. Sohan Lal Saini, 72, of Hamilton Avenue, Tolworth was driving back from Surbiton station at 10 ...
- Historian and history maker - guardian.co.uk
Historian and history makerguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoA bright Jewish child saved from the Warsaw ghetto amid the apocalypse of Nazi occupation, educated in patriotism and poetry by Catholic pedagogues of the ...
- WNMU professor to speak in Canada (Silver City Sun-News)
SILVER CITY — Most Americans are unfamiliar with Jose Rizal. Western New Mexico University Professor Jean Hall considers herself a student of the life of the Rizal, a Philippine hero.
- Frank Megargee (Baltimore Sun)
Age 90 Eastern Shore correspondent for The Evening Sun loved writing poetry and painting in watercolors. F rank N. Megargee, a former longtime Eastern Shore correspondent for The Evening Sun who was also a poet and an artist, died Wednesday of heart failure at Mallard Landing, a Salisbury retirement community, a day before his 91st birthday.
- 'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outlet - NewsOK.com (subscription)
'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outletNewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 2 hours agoThat means you never know what to expect: Truth is optional and dance, music, visual art and poetry can be used to embellish a story. ...
- A flood of ideas - Iowa City Press Citizen
A flood of ideasIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 24 minutes agoFor 16-year-old Miranda Stinson, a poem she helped write Saturday was "the worst poetry I've written in my life," she said. But it likely ranks high as the ...
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