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- FESTIVA: The Writer's Edition - McAllen Monitor
For three weeks this summer students at the Summer Creative Writing Institute put pen to paper. South Texas researcher and writer Rob Johnson guided students through the process of researching local history as part of the University of Texas Pan ...
- Amazon Art Institute Helps Recover Indigenous Roots - Inter Press Service
MANAUS, Brazil, Sep 24 (IPS) - Dhiani Pa'saro came to Manaus, the bustling city of 1.7 million people in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, eight years ago, after wandering from one village or town to another. At the time he planned to become ...
- College maintenance worker honored for his poetry - KSTP
College maintenance worker honored for his poetryKSTP, MN - Aug 31, 2008Schug’s fire for writing poetry was lit following a third-grade writing assignment. "I handed it in, got some positive feedback, and the rest is history," ...
- Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute - Yahoo News
VIZNAR, Spain - The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War . The dispute has ...
- Hoopeston book club started in 1895 - Danville Commercial News
Hoopeston book club started in 1895Danville Commercial News, IL - 44 minutes agoMembers or invited community sang or recited poetry or short essays. One essay written by one member’s husband was called “Hoopeston in the Year 2000. ...
- NORM: Killers stake it all on 'Do or Die' CD - Las Vegas Review Journal
The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers might not agree with the critics on the success of "Sam's Town" but he's not downplaying the importance of their latest CD: "Do or Die." "Everything is at stake on this album," Flowers tells Rolling Stone in the ...
- Food/wine events in October - AZ Central.com
Food/wine events in OctoberAZ Central.com, AZ - 1 hour agoAppetizers, drinks, live poetry, jazz and R&B. BridgeKey Catering & Cafe, 7010 S. 27th Ave., Phoenix. $10. 602-304-0806. Wine Tastings: 5-8 pm Tuesdays. ...
- Bolt strikes another record - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bolt strikes another recordMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 5 hours agoThe stride, it is poetry in motion. "He's blessed with a unique anatomy, a huge competitive heart, and he's having a good time." Bolt posed before the start ...
- The Art of Travel - DVD Talk
The Art of TravelDVD Talk, OR - 12 hours agoThe direction by Thomas Whelan reaches for poetry and achieves an even flow of culture shock humor and gentle Zen-like absorptions of experiences. ...
- Music Will Ignite World Premiere of Beaty's Resurrection Aug. 29 at Arena; Cast Announced (Playbill)
Casting has been announced for the Arena Stage's production of Daniel Beaty's Resurrection, a music, dance and poetry-filled new work introducing us to a handful of varied African-American men.
- Legendary Celtic bard Ossian subject of art exhibit at U of Guelph - The Canadian Press
Legendary Celtic bard Ossian subject of art exhibit at U of GuelphThe Canadian Press, Ont. - 44 minutes ago... Poetry" is the title of a controversial work published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson who claimed it was the translation of an epic poem by ...
- Poet Hayden Carruth dies - Newsday
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. - Hayden Carruth, an award winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont , has died. Carruth, who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 70s, died Monday at his home in Munnsville, N.Y. after suffering a stroke a ...
- Stanley Plumly's Romance With Keats (The New York Sun)
Poets who die young often have surprisingly lively posthumous careers. John Keats (1795-1821) provides the most celebrated example: Almost immediately after his death in Rome, at the age of 25, he entered the realm of legend. Though his poetry wasn't much read at the time, he himself was quickly transformed into a figure of myth. For Shelley — who drowned with a copy of Keats's last book in his ...
- Bob Dylan Understands the Weak Economy - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsBob Dylan Understands the Weak EconomyNew York Times Blogs, NY - 2 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute - Hickory Daily Record
Great poet's grave stokes Civil War disputeHickory Daily Record, NC - 1 hour ago... and his poetry collections "Poet in New York and "Gypsy Ballads." His work draws on universal themes — love, death, passion, cruelty and injustice. ...
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