Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Milpitas students, parent noted by black educators (The Milpitas Post)
Several Milpitas students were honored at the 19th annual Spring Recognition Ceremony of the Santa Clara County Alliance of Black Educators on April 27. Kianna Ezel, Good Xavier, Darrien Hamberry, Tanika Hampton and Shanika Hampton, all from Thomas Russell Middle School, were recognized for taking significant steps to become aware of history and heritage.
- Marko the Prince (Backstage.com)
is the title of an epic poem about a 14th-century Serbian hero who fought in the Battle of Kosovo.
- The revelation of Rev. Wright - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The revelation of Rev. WrightMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 10 hours agoHis speeches are long on poetry and make what can only be described as millennial promises. On the evening that he clinched the nomination, he suggested ...
- 'Football is Faster than Words' - Turquie Européenne
'Football is Faster than Words'Turquie Européenne, France - 36 minutes agoIt was poetry. Pamuk: It’s like religion. There is no "why." I can still recite the entire lineup of the 1959 Fenerbahçe team like a poem. ...
- Writer leads group into love affair with words (San Diego Union-Tribune)
RANCHO SAN DIEGO – Rita Ryan Micklish has always relished the written word. When she was 10, she wrote letters to everyone she knew and soon started creating poems. She published her first short story in 1962, and her work has appeared in numerous publications since.
- 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, ...
- Apply for a fellowship in crafts or playwriting - Daily Press
Apply for a fellowship in crafts or playwritingDaily Press, VA - 1 hour agoParker's poetry explores themes of love and the joys and struggles of everyday life. Parker's book is available through online bookstores or through the ...
- Bound Volumes - Manchester Journal
Bound VolumesManchester Journal, VT - 52 minutes agoMANCHESTER — Robert Frost delighted an audience of two hundred members and friends of the Southern Vermont Poetry Society at the Equinox Theatre in ...
- Bill Clinton - News Busters
CNN senior political analyst (and former Clinton adviser) David Gergen, responding to Todd Purdum’s recent Vanity Fair article on Bill Clinton during a segment on Monday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," acknowledged that the former President "does have a ...
- Words and music - The Carrboro Citizen
Words and musicThe Carrboro Citizen, NC - 53 minutes agoHer poems have been published in The Asheville Poetry Review and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and she’s received a John Hope Franklin Grant for ...
- Nature fest a hit - Shetland News
Nature fest a hitShetland News, UK - 4 hours agoA very popular poetry evening in Shetland library had 60 people attending to hear members of the isles' dialect group Shetland ForWirds read about the ...
- From 'Failure' to '08 Distinguished Artist - Pioneer Press
Poet, musician and essayist Bill Holm is "a protean American radical in the tradition of Thoreau and Whitman," said Milkweed Editions founder Emilie Buchwald, who has published several of his books. (Jonathan Chapman, Special to the Pioneer Press ...
- Eat well in the new Frontier - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Ask a barbecue purist what they think about meat done in a gas-fired pit and you're likely to get an earful about how the only true Q is cooked low and slow over coals. Then there are the folks who wonder why restaurants don't take full advantage of ...
- Finalist's entry captured in yard (The Augusta Chronicle)
A Riverside Middle School pupil has raised the bar for Columbia County competitors in a worldwide art and poetry contest.
- Like butter - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Like butterSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 22 minutes agoBecause frankly, even though I have spewed prose, poetry, and other art forms in praise of butter, I had kind of forgotten what it tasted like. ...
|
|
Get better Mortgage Rates today and save!
California Mortgages
|