Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- DFW Events, October 10 (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
Editor’s note: Concert tickets can be purchased by phone from Ticketmaster at (214) 373-8000 unless otherwise noted. Purchase tickets online from Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com. Events listed are subject to change without notice. Confirm dates in advance by calling the numbers listed.
- Scholarship at writing camp includes waiting tables - Tulsa World
RIPTON, Vt.  It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s. But ...
- Many ways to spend Heritage Day - Joburg
Many ways to spend Heritage DayJoburg, South Africa - 6 hours agoIt features newly introduced activities such as the Standard Bank Youth Zone where there will be talent shows, poetry readings, stand up comedy, ...
- NAACP will honor activists at annual brunch - Staten Island Advance - SILive.com
NAACP will honor activists at annual brunchStaten Island Advance - SILive.com, NY - 18 hours agoShe has won essay contests and enjoys singing, dancing, reading and poetry. Virginia Allen, president of the North Shore-Staten Island Section of the ...
- Ritical: BVI’s conscious youth - SKNVibes.com
SKNVibes.comRitical: BVI’s conscious youthSKNVibes.com, St. Kitts and Nevis - 1 hour agoI was always good at poetry from young, so writing comes natural. But I really started writing music when I was like 18, when I start to convert into ...
- Readings and events on LI - Newsday
Readings and events on LINewsday, NY - 1 hour agoWhether your thing is villanelles or hip-hop rhymes, there's a place for you at Open Mic Poetry Night, sponsored by the Poetry Association. ...
- Shop offers Latino literature, more - Desert Sun
After spending 38 years as an educator and administrator, Palm Springs resident Luciano Ramirez is now educating the community through books. Ramirez, 62, and his wife, Tonia Bustamante-Ramirez, 55, have operated their store, Latino Books y Más, for ...
- Social status no matter for mingling children - Jakarta Post
Social status no matter for mingling childrenJakarta Post, Indonesia - 5 hours ago... financially secure families and 500 street children met and played traditional games together before watching performances of songs, poetry reading, ...
- Scorched Jimi Hendrix guitar sells for £280,000 - Daily Telegraph
The rock legend torched his 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of a show at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March 1967. The stunt sent roadies rushing to put out the flames and left Hendrix needing treatment for minor burns. But amid ...
- "The hippest guy in the room:" Poet Robin Blaser, 83 - Vancouver Sun
"The hippest guy in the room:" Poet Robin Blaser, 83Vancouver Sun, Canada - 7 minutes agoThe next day the "hippest guy in the room" went on to win the $50000 Griffin Prize for Canadian poetry, based on his recent opus, The Holy Forest: Collected ...
- A modernist whose paintings scratch the heart (Miami Herald)
The Ecuadorean painter Oswaldo GuayasamÃÂn (1919-1999) is the least known of the pioneers of Latin American Modernism. Fortunately for aficionados of Latin American art, an exhibition of his work is on display at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo GuayasamÃÂn is the artist's first U.S. retrospective in more than half a century and goes a long way ...
- 1947 changed her life - The Asian Age
1947 changed her lifeThe Asian Age, India - 6 hours agoIt was the year 1947, a young girl from Hyderabad met poet Kaifi Azmi at a mushaira (poetry session), love blossomed and the two got married. ...
- Arab ex-Knesset member highlights diminishing US role in world affairs (The Daily Star Lebannon)
The world's changing power dynamics during the Bush administration era were the focus of a lecture by former Arab-Israeli MP Azmi Bishara before a full audience at Hamra's Al-Madina Theater on Monday evening. In his lecture - entitled "What's the role for America after Bush?" - Bishara noted that the United States remains.
- Farmer poet balances apples and orations (Portsmouth Herald)
It's a fruitful season for Charlie Pratt. The apple orchard is ripe and#8212; just ended its first weekend open. It was the same week his new book "Still Here," hit shelves, a chapbook of his poetry.
- Slam poetry, rowdy and growing - Minneapolis City Pages
Slam poetry, rowdy and growingMinneapolis City Pages, MN - 1 hour agoBut what comes out of his mouth isn't a poem drenched in testosterone; it's not about drugs or mean streets or bar fights. It's about the heartbreak of ...
|
|
Get better Mortgage Rates today and save!
Second Mortgage
|