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- UT Dallas Celebration to Mark Juneteenth - University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
UT Dallas Celebration to Mark JuneteenthUniversity of Texas at Dallas (press release), TX - 37 minutes agoLocal artists and poets, some of whom have participated in SUAAB’s Underground Poetry Circus. Earlier in Juneteenth week, the Student Union & Activities ...
- Danbury Candlelight event set for Wednesday (The News-Times)
A candlelight remembrance event, "Many Lights in the Darkness," will be held Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Danbury Green Band Shell on Ives Street.Two local groups, the Greater Danbury Mental Health Authority and New Heights, are putting on the event to commemorate May as Mental Health Month.
- Progressing from Bad to Verse - National Review Online Blogs
Progressing from Bad to VerseNational Review Online Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoThe sad state poetry is in may have best been revealed when George W. Bush made Billy Collins poet laureate — an appointment that caused quite a stir in ...
- Indian blogger's series in Pak text book - Hindustan Times
An Indian blogger's write-ups on five things Pakistanis love about their country may soon be included in a Pakistani school text book. The Oxford University Press in Karachi, which is working on a Class 11 text book, has sought Mayank Austen Soofi's ...
- Assume the Position - North Coast Journal
Assume the PositionNorth Coast Journal, CA - 10 hours agoPetrolia resident Ellen Taylor has been indefatigable in promoting her "Hurwitz in Handcuffs" competition, which seeks ballads and doggerel poetry ...
- British universities are losing out as authors are selling their archives to US institutions (Guardian Unlimited)
British universities are losing out as big bucks are leading authors to sell their archives to US institutions, says Chris Arnot
- Suburban Symphony's Eric Dina to realize dream of conducting William ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eric Dina, co-principal trumpet of the Suburban Symphony Orchestra in Beachwood, conducts a rehearsal of William Grant Still's "Afro-American" Symphony at Beachwood High School. What: Martin Kessler and Eric Dina conduct Samuel Barber's "A School for ...
- Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 verse novels - guardian.co.uk
Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 verse novelsguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe author of four critically acclaimed collections of poetry, the latest of which, Corpus, won the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Prize, Michael Symmons Roberts ...Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 books about civil war guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- In Memoriam: Thomas M. Disch - PopMatters
Los Angeles TimesIn Memoriam: Thomas M. DischPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoIn his 1998 book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of (a companion piece to his 1996 excoriation of modern poetry (The Castle of Indolence), Disch created a ...Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008 Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide Columbus Dispatchall 12 news articles
- Out & About in Bellevue | July 16 - PNW Local News
Out & About in Bellevue | July 16PNW Local News, WA - 2 hours agoSoulFood Poetry Night: 7-9:30 pm every third Thursday. Includes two featured readers and an open-mic reading. SoulFood Books Cafe, 15748 Redmond Way, ...
- Ottawa author on Trillium short list - Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa author on Trillium short listOttawa Citizen, Canada - 4 hours agoOttawa's Rob Winger has been short-listed for a Trillium Book Award for Poetry for Muybridge's Horse, a biographical poem that follows the career of ...
- Report finds racial gap in student suspensions - Worthington Daily Globe
Keenan Hooper likes to joke around and admits he has a motormouth. He also admits to getting into trouble again and again with teachers weary of his antics. School officials have sent him home more times than Keenan or his mom can count. So often, in ...
- Seven things to do in Augusta - Hindu
HinduSeven things to do in AugustaHindu, India - 3 hours agoHowever, when I stood in front of the famed fairway of the Augusta national golf club, my eyes beheld a rolling poetry. After a security check and a ...
- Poetry is in motion around us daily - Elmira Star-Gazette
Poetry is in motion around us dailyElmira Star-Gazette, NY - 6 hours agoAs a young girl, I preferred to read and write poetry that rhymed. Although most of my love poems until my mid-20s were in rhyming verse, upon becoming a ...
- Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytelling - EurekAlert (press release)
Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytellingEurekAlert (press release), DC - 1 hour ago... in poetry in his essay, published on bestofneworleans.com. Codrescu also recommended Freund's book in the online journal Exquisite Corpse (corpse.org). ...
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