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- Arts council offers new online application process (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
The Illinois Arts Council has announced a new online application process (CueRate) for the Artists Fellowship Program. The Artists Fellowship Program awards $7,000 fellowship and $700 finalist awards to honor Illinois artists of exceptional talent and enable them to pursue their artistic goals.
- Secret diary reveals wife's undying love for Dylan Thomas - Times Online
Dylan Thomas’s marriage was notoriously tempestuous, blighted by drunken brawls and mutual infidelity until the poet drank himself to death at the age of 39. On his death bed, his wife, Caitlin, reportedly burst into his hospital room asking: “Is ...
- On writing well and having fun (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
What do you get a beloved old writers' conference in its 60th year? How about a theme that's on the edge of punning catastrophe? For the past three days at the Holiday Inn, Independence Mall - the traditional venue of the Philadelphia Writers Conference, founded in 1949 - it was "Diamonds Are a Quill's Best Friend."
- The Contemporary Art Museum’s Playground of the Ridiculous is a ... - Vital VOICE
The Contemporary Art Museum’s Playground of the Ridiculous is a ...Vital VOICE, MO - 5 hours agoEach event includes a film screening, dance performance, poetry reading, musical act and access to the current visual art exhibits by John Armleder and ...
- Queen Victoria had an affair with Indian courtier: Film - Rediff
Contrary to her sombre public image, in private Britain's Queen Victoria was a passionate, romantic and a feisty politician who even had an affair with an young and handsome Indian servant, according to a new film. Apart from the Indian courtier ...
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors - Evening Sun
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly. Poets hold before us ...
- Kate Clanchy's workshop (Guardian Unlimited)
The Forward prize-winning author of Slattern, Samarkand and Newborn wants you to write a letter-poem to someone you've lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen
- Contest includes short fiction and poetry writing - Summerland Review
Contest includes short fiction and poetry writingSummerland Review, Canada - 5 hours agoThe Penticton Writers and Publishers are hosting the 2008 Clem Battye Legacy Award Writing Contest opened to Short Fiction and Poetry. ...
- Ladies show off their true colours - Bundaberg NewsMail
Ladies show off their true coloursBundaberg NewsMail, Australia - Jul 18, 2008The women's group is dedicated to "disorganisation" and bringing ladies together for friendship and a bit of a laugh. Ms Ford is one of the 12-women dance ...
- Too Soon for Iraq Dramas? - Gawker
Why isn’t George Packer ’s terrific little play Betrayed — about the three pro-American Iraqis who don’t quite get what they need from America – not doing better? (It opened in February at the Culture Project in Soho, extended its run for a ...
- Rekha’s all praise for Goutam now - Times of India
Rekha’s all praise for Goutam nowTimes of India, India - 13 hours agoIn the last 10 minutes of the film where I break down after the demise of Nana he photographed me with a lyrical grace which was poetry in motion.”
- Peter brings Bay history to life in modern medium - Byron Shire News
Peter brings Bay history to life in modern mediumByron Shire News, Australia - 5 hours agoPeter Duke with the CD he has produced on 100 years of photography, short stories, poetry and art in Byron Bay. Peter Duke drove into Byron Bay for the ...Lions president passes on Byron club 'crown' Byron Shire Newsall 2 news articles
- Backstage Pass: - Meridian Star
SCOOBA – The Sucarnochee Revue is coming to East Mississippi Community College on Friday, July 18. The Revue, a celebration of musicians from the Black Belt region of Mississippi and Alabama, played to a sell-out crowd last summer during its first ...
- What's on your cat's mind? Ask a pet whisperer - MSNBC
NEW YORK - Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their "whisperer," and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10-year-old ...
- Charming Orange County cafés (Orange County Register)
These local cafés provide more than just a java jolt. I consider myself an artist. I write, draw, study dance – anything that allows me to express myself in a creative way.
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