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- First-time novelist finds 'Salvation' - Island Packet Online
"My daddy always said that if the good Lord can take the time to care for something as small as a baby sparrow nesting in a tree, then surely He could take the time to listen to a little girl in Ringgold, Ga. So every night before I went to bed, I ...
- Amiri Baraka to kick off spoken word education institute - University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications
Amiri Baraka to kick off spoken word education instituteUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications, WI - 1 hour agoAuthor of more than 40 books, including essays, poetry, drama and music history, Baraka will give a reading from his works. The reading will be followed by ...
- For all to see; Broadway mural artist is legally blind - Western Star
For all to see; Broadway mural artist is legally blindWestern Star, Canada - 4 hours agoKearley, who is an avid reader and writes poetry, started the fine arts program at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, but is now concentrating on a degree in the ...
- Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity - New York Times
New York TimesYeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate IntensityNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoThe opening of each poem commands silence: And nodding by the fire, take down this book. The readers include Seamus Heaney, Sinead O’Connor and Theo Dorgan, ...
- Creative writing class for kids to start July 21 - Star-Gazette
This course will give children who like to write the kind of individual attention required to nurture writing skills. Haiku, poetry, stories and journaling will be encouraged in a variety of settings.
- 2 choral groups plan spring concerts - Toledo Blade
2 choral groups plan spring concertsToledo Blade, OH - 1 hour agoOne of 42 performers selected for this contest, Kostraba, who also performs and leads a chamber music group locally, is playing Robert Muczynski's ...
- School budget's priorities distorted - Payson Roundup
You don't need a Ph.D. to know what works in school. Find a great teacher -- and get out of the way. Think about it. Just summon middle school from the hoary mist of memory. Do you remember the dates and details they put on the AIMS test -- or do you ...
- Night and the Poets - Oregonian
Photo via the Harlem Nights MySpace. The show starts late at Ohm tonight; past 10 p.m., and a musician is missing. The room is still mostly empty, the tables with their flickering candles mostly uninhabited. The slender man at the mic is named ...
- Doubly Blessed - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
. Clifford Franklin Morningstar Today is Father's Day. I expect that my son Jeff is spending this day with his Dad, either playing golf together or watching a golf tournament on TV. My fathers are gone. Yes, that is fathers, plural. I have been ...
- Bob Dylan's Apocalypse - Christian Post
"I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise, Whom nature's beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes." - Bob Dylan In a pop music world where issues are seldom addressed and creativity and individuality have been lost, Bob ...
- Amanda Knox: I'm only a target because I'm sexy - Times Online
Amanda Knox, the American student accused of involvement in the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia last November, wrote in her diary that she was only a target in the case because she is attractive. In hundreds of pages of ...
- Spreading Scarlett Fever (The New York Sun)
As Scarlett Johansson's first album, "Anywhere I Lay My Head," arrives in stores today, the suits over at Rhino Records are hoping they can channel their star's hipster eminence and box-office drawing power into something more than a novelty item in the class of Scott Baio's 1982 eponymous debut. It won't be easy. Whether or not Ms. Johansson's collection of Tom Waits covers is any good (and the ...
- The opinion pages: mostly a man's world - San Francisco Chronicle
The opinion pages: mostly a man's worldSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 6 hours ago"It's not like writing the great American novel," Orenstein said, "it's not poetry. There are basic concepts that are pretty easy to share with people. ...
- Area Deaths - Daily Home Online
BIRMINGHAM – Services for Mr. James Coleman, 60, will be Wednesday, May 21, at 11 a.m. at Sims Funeral Chapel, Talladega, with Pastor W.J. Posey officiating. Burial will be in Rocky Zion Cemetery in Pell City. He was a native of St. Clair County ...
- Astros broadcaster gets fresh start at 78 - Houston Chronicle
Astros broadcaster gets fresh start at 78Houston Chronicle, United States - May 6, 2008We use words with sound and feeling and try to add history and poetry to make it sound beautiful. We consider a baseball broadcast a romantic project. ...
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