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- Was the 'Japanese Renaissance' lost at sea? (The Japan Times)
Last week, Japan celebrated Umi no Hi (Marine Day). First observed as a national holiday in 1996, Marine Day marks the anniversary of the return of Emperor Meiji from a boat trip to Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido on July 20, 1876. It is intended, as current Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura has said, "to thank the sea for its benefits and hope for the prosperity of Japan as an ...
- McQueen's creative contributions recognised - Southland Times
McQueen's creative contributions recognisedSouthland Times, New Zealand - 14 hours agoShe has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry three times; in 1983, 1989 and 1991. After teaching in Dunedin for several years, she moved in 1995 to ...
- TV star's heartbreak as son dies - Irish Independent
TV star's heartbreak as son diesIrish Independent, Ireland - 1 hour agoHe described Ian as a "very bright and multi-talented young man" who played guitar, wrote his own poetry and was also a "useful" actor. ...
- Expanded event will honor founder (The Ann Arbor News)
New attractions are planned for the 13th annual African American Downtown Festival on Saturday, and a moment of silence will be included to pay tribute to its founder, Lucille Hall Porter.
- Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing - Times Online
Alfred and Emily by Doris LessingTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoNobel laureate Doris Lessing has lived nearly nine decades of intensely varied life, and has written everything from operas and plays to poetry and ...
- Channa's Sigiriya: The First Sri Lankan Ballet - The Island (subscription)
The Island (subscription)Channa's Sigiriya: The First Sri Lankan BalletThe Island (subscription), Sri Lanka - 1 hour agoIn 2007, WJM Lokubandara (yes, the one and only Honourable Speaker), who has had a notorious long-standing, love affair with the Sigiriya damsels published ...
- Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Other Top Black Book Publishers to Receive The Wheatley ... (BlackNews.com)
National (BlackNews.com) - Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. and Executive Director/Co-Founder of the African American Pavilion at BookExpo America has been selected to receive the prestigious Wheatley Book Award.
- Mother Folk! - Style Weekly
Style WeeklyMother Folk!Style Weekly, VA - 12 minutes agoWith her own label, Righteous Babe Records, 19 original albums, the release of a book of poetry and paintings (“Verses,” September 2007) and the release of ...
- Local students experience distinctive college camp - Coalinga Record
Local students experience distinctive college campCoalinga Record, CA - 3 hours agoA 5C's poetry assignment -- "Recipes for Mind, Body, Soul" -- gave Keck an outlet to express himself. Keck went beyond the assigned poem and created an ...
- Bubble and Scrape Deluxe Edition - Pitchforkmedia.com
Bubble and Scrape Deluxe EditionPitchforkmedia.com, IL - 50 minutes agoAs we learn from the reissue's extras, final studio takes emerged from much sappier drafts of high school poetry magazine fodder. The album version of "Soul ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Forbes
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work ...
- Skye high ... Cuillin mountains make a stunning backdrop for a ... - guardian.co.uk
Skye high ... Cuillin mountains make a stunning backdrop for a ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoCandles, cut glass and slim poetry volumes all added to my sense of wellbeing. Had this been one of those grey, rain-lashed evenings when the mist descends ...
- 2007 first-time novelists - Rocky Mountain News
Authors background: Charney, 27, is founding director of the first consulting group on art crime prevention. He has masters degrees in art history from the Courtauld Institute in London and Cambridge University and is pursuing a doctorate degree in ...
- Every School Every Thursday -- Urbandale - Des Moines Register
In Lynnrick Rogers' fourth-grade students are becoming detectives. They are learning how to read and understand mysteries. The students are reading "The Boxcar Children Series" by Gertrude Chandler Warner. They are truly intrigued by the fact that ...
- Scripted Through Sin 7.22.08: All Apologies - 411mania.com
Scripted Through Sin 7.22.08: All Apologies411mania.com, TX - 2 hours agoIt's like Lewis Black's infamous statement, "if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." Like what the fuck does that even mean ...
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