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- Beatniks and Hollywood Royalty Descend Upon Edmonton (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Edmonton Festivals bring life to the streets for poetry lovers. If to you poetry means the stuff you did in high school English, think again: this is combat in the form of "blink poetry," a yell-a-thon with megaphones, a funkified jazz soundtrack, and multiple battles to the death.
- Auditions for Power to the Poets Tours - East Bay
The Writers Circle and Lisa Starr, Rhode Island Poet Laureate, bring poetry programs to communities around the state. Teams of poets will visit homeless shelters, schools, rehabilitation hospitals, community centers, retirement and nursing homes and ...
- Who’s the Better Action Director: David Gordon Green or Christopher ... - Nymag.com
Courtesy of Sony, Warner Bros. Much is being made over Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green's inexplicable overnight transition from indie auteur (the one behind slow-paced tone poems like George Washington and All the Real Girls ) to helmer ...
- Ceramics & paint - Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Ceramics & paintGlenwood Springs Post Independent, CO - 2 hours agoAlong with these new vases, she ended up with upbeat, decorated plates and pots, as well as three-dimensional tiles adorned with animals and poetry and such ...
- The bird of gardens sang unto the rose: Happy Hafez Day - Payvand
PayvandThe bird of gardens sang unto the rose: Happy Hafez DayPayvand, Iran - 6 hours ago... known as ghazals, are noted for their beauty and bring to fruition the love, mysticism, and early Sufi themes that had long pervaded Persian poetry. ...
- 'Encounters' offers glimpse of nature at Earth's end - MLive.com
Courtesy Photo The big picture: "Encounters at the End of the World" is being featured at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. Filmmaker Werner Herzog was straight with the National Science Foundation when it approached him to make a film about ...
- Across The Savannah - Lincolnton Journal
Across The SavannahLincolnton Journal, GA - 32 minutes agoHe covered an Apollo launch for Life and read his poetry at President Carter's inauguration. One afternoon in 1997 during a summer thunderstorm, ...
- Entertainment calendar for the week of July 31 - Aug. 7 - NRToday.com
Entertainment calendar for the week of July 31 - Aug. 7NRToday.com, OR - 24 minutes agoPOETRY SLAM — 6 pm, Granger Book Co., 111 Second Ave., Myrtle Creek. Read your own poetry or bring your favorite poem to read. Free public event. 793-5599. ...
- Dominic Lawson: We should have no reason to be surprised when a doctor turns out to be a murderer (Independent)
What should a genocidal mass-murderer look like? And what professional qualifications should he have? Of the two men indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal as masterminds of the planned massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslim adults and children, Ratko Mladic fits all our preconceptions.
- Teacher has one job: advance knowledge - Reporter
When he became president of the University of Chicago, Robert Hutchins is supposed to have remarked that a college administrator's job was to provide sex for the students, football for the alumni and parking for the faculty (he promptly eliminated ...
- Foreign film lecture spotlights Brazilian crime - The Roundup
Foreign film lecture spotlights Brazilian crimeThe Roundup, CA - 36 minutes ago"I thought it was interesting how in the movie the characters talked about peace and love but in reality it was the opposite," he said. ...
- Defining Lives Through Poems -- New Poetry Anthology is a Rich ... - MarketWatch
Defining Lives Through Poems -- New Poetry Anthology is a Rich ...MarketWatch - 9 minutes agoThe author's poetry defines people's lives. Each of us can relate to the frustrations and sufferings as well as the joy and bliss. Despite life's struggles ...
- TOME RAIDER: 2008 Oregon Book Award Finalists Announced - Willamette Week
TOME RAIDER: 2008 Oregon Book Award Finalists AnnouncedWillamette Week, OR - 13 minutes ago(For finalists in mamsy-pamsy disciplines like poetry, drama and young adult fiction, just skip to the bottom of the page.) Definite underdog here. ...
- Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry Prize - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry PrizeAllAfrica.com, Washington - 6 hours agoNigeria's highest poetry prize is ANA/Cadbury Prize worth $1000. A letter from the organisers of the award, Assilah Forum Foundation, a non-profit ...
- Asia's hottest new spaces - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzAsia's hottest new spacesStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours agoWHAT TO DO Visit China Best which showcases innovative product launches from young home-grown designers; attend a poetry reading, book launch or workshop ...
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