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- Poetry contest focuses on spoken word - Prescott Daily Courier
Poetry contest focuses on spoken wordPrescott Daily CourierTri-City College Preparatory High School will host their first Poetry Out Loud competition on Thursday, Jan. 21. The competition will feature students ...and more »
- UI alum returns to read from poetry - UI The Daily Iowan
UI alum returns to read from poetryUI The Daily IowanThe poet will read from his first collection of poetry, Cultural Studies, at 7 pm today in Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St. Admission is free. ...
- IBé and May Lee-Yang win Midwestern Voices and Visions Awards to fund new work - Twin Cities Planet
IBé and May Lee-Yang win Midwestern Voices and Visions Awards to fund new workTwin Cities Planet"I didn't like traditional poetry at the beginning," says Kaba. His poems, he explains, "are short stories about myself. I want a dialogue with my audiences ...
- Us: Americans Talk About Love - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorUs: Americans Talk About LoveChristian Science MonitorAlongside death, love is surely the most obsessed-over subject in the history of literature and poetry. In his new anthology, Us: Americans Talk About Love, ...and more »
- Life At The Moorview Institute, Chapter Eight - The Spoof (satire)
Life At The Moorview Institute, Chapter EightThe Spoof (satire)Sex poems! She needed guidance and God sent her to Sex poems! "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. ...and more »
- Albion College students enjoying French culture - Mirror
Albion College students enjoying French cultureMirrorEimers, who is looking forward to learning how French students choose which foreign language to study, indicated the Albion students may start with poetry ...
- Tehran Halts Travel By Poet Called 'Lioness Of Iran' - WBUR
... doing this all her life. She has always said, 'I'm going to write what I see. I'm going to be honest and candid and truthful,'" Milani says. "I believe she has never sold her pen or her soul. Simin Behbahani has always written poetry that ...
- News calendar: Feb. 5-19 - Salem Gazette
News calendar: Feb. 5-19Salem GazetteMark the envelope “Naomi Cherkofsky Memorial Contest.†Winners will be invited to read at the forums' annual Poetry Day reading, this year held Saturday, ...
- Scott Sherman on John Ross' Mexico City - Truthdig
Scott Sherman on John Ross' Mexico CityTruthdigBut do not expect dispassionate writing or journalistic objectivity: Ross' prose style imparts the coiled rage of Howard Zinn; the hallucinogenic ...and more »
- Jurist and aide find meeting of the minds in Rubicon's 'Trying' - Ventura County Star
Jurist and aide find meeting of the minds in Rubicon's 'Trying'Ventura County StarBiddle and Schorr find a mutual enthusiasm for the poetry of ee cummings, a man who could say much in minimal ways. The actors handle their characters' ...and more »
- 'Union Atlantic' sails on river of commerce - Minneapolis Star Tribune
'Union Atlantic' sails on river of commerceMinneapolis Star TribuneIn Haslett's hands, the potentially dry descriptions of a complicated series of fiscal gambits and regulatory policy spring to dramatic life. ...and more »
- Pacifica Historical Society hosting presentation about ... - San Jose Mercury News
... as he can remember, and he's written a book (now with an Irish publisher) about Tom Crean, the Irish seaman with Scott and Shackleton in the Antarctic. You can see the introduction to this book, and some of David's poetry at his website ...
- South Brunswick arts panel seeking volunteers - MyCentralJersey.com
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — When the South Brunswick Arts Commission holds its annual reorganization meeting Thursday, the focus will be on finding new volunteers. "I would love to have someone who is extremely knowledgeable about technology," said ...
- The Books Interview: Frank Kermode - New Statesman
The Books Interview: Frank KermodeNew StatesmanBrooks was explaining to me why he was so rich, enormously so - because of the book he wrote with Robert Penn Warren about understanding poetry, ...
- Music review: Berkeley Symphony - San Francisco Chronicle
Music review: Berkeley SymphonySan Francisco ChronicleExcept for the expansive final song, which celebrates a wedding and its erotic aftermath, these are brief and allusive snippets of poetry. ...
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