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- Poland's Skolimowski returns to Cannes at Directors' Fortnight - AFP
AFPPoland's Skolimowski returns to Cannes at Directors' FortnightAFP - 1 hour agoThis year it celebrates its 40th birthday with a documentary tracking the great film-makers it helped launch internationally -- Jim Jarmusch, Sofia Coppola ...
- Poets create words to live by - Reading Eagle
Poets create words to live byReading Eagle, PA - 17 minutes ago... her stepfather loved to read poetry aloud. “He made my dates sit down and listen to a song or a poem before I could go out with them,” she wrote. ...
- A&E Briefs - Whitworthian
A&E BriefsWhitworthian, WA - 2 hours agoMojgani has appeared on HBO's "Def Poetry Jam" and won the National Individual Poetry Slam in 2005 and 2006, one of only two to ever win the title ...
- Poet's first book on display during reading writeLink("vid_id=802&file=poet.flv "); (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
CEDAR FALLS --- For some, listening to a poetry performance after dissecting the words on a page can be akin to watching the theatrical release of a good book --- often never how you imagined, and frequently disappointing.
- Check it out: Poetry time - Lincoln Journal Star
* “Imaginary Menagerie: A Book of Curious Creatures” (Harcourt, $16 hardcover) by Julie Larios and Julie Paschkis is a collection of poems about mythical creatures from around the world, from the sea serpent to the hobgoblin to the sphinx ...
- Departing teacher filled classes with energy - Des Moines Register
In honor of an English teacher's retirement, let's begin this sentence with a proposition: Grand View College in Des Moines will miss Solveig Nelson. The 15 students in Nelson's advanced grammar class this semester could diagram that sentence, and if ...
- PREVIEW: Tucson poetry festival - Arizona Daily Star
PREVIEW: Tucson poetry festivalArizona Daily Star, AZ - 38 minutes agoSaenz’s first book of poetry, “Calendar of Dust” (1991), snagged the American Book Award. He also has written a collection of short stories, ...
- Erdrich sisters: They're authors, Indians and 'real people living ... - Grand Forks Herald (subscription)
Erdrich sisters: They're authors, Indians and 'real people living ...Grand Forks Herald (subscription), ND - Feb 14, 2008Lise Erdrich and her sister, Heid Erdrich, are authors of fiction and poetry, known for their humor as well as their prose. They are the sisters of Louise ...
- New Tool for Online Collections
Inside Higher Ed - Jesiek, the manager of Virginia Tech’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture , came up with the idea with some colleagues as they discussed the sudden outpouring on online material related to the shootings — such as blog posts, poetry, artwork ...
- 'Against Happiness': What goes up should come down - International Herald Tribune
It is a short but laborious book, and it begins: "Ours are ominous times. Each nervous glance portends some potential disaster. Paranoia most mornings shocks us to wakefulness, and we totter out under the ghostly sun. At night fear agitates the ...
- Weekend guide
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City will choose a team for August's National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wis., from top Utah performance poets. The 8:30 p.m. qualifying event at A Cup of Joe, 353 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, will also feature an open mic in case you want to ...
- Wax lyrical about your area - Bexhill Observer
Wax lyrical about your areaBexhill Observer, UK - Mar 18, 2008"We want a portrait of the sights, sounds, scenes and people told in four categories: fiction, poetry, non-fiction prose and memoir. ...
- Boy cafes and sexy comics feed Japan's girl geek boom
Stuff - ... the flower arrangement club," whispers one girlish, long-haired waiter at the cafe, looking up from the book of German poetry ... But recently, businesses have discovered another type of free-spending Japanese consumer: the female otaku, who tends to be ...
- A campaign blog.
Slate - ... ad manages to tout Richardson's record without reading from a laundry list of accomplishments like Richardson's semi-funny ... Poetry slam: Love thy neighbor—except when you can ding him with a great one-liner. That seemed to be the 11 th commandment of ...
- Teen Art, Music, Poetry Festival (Garden City News)
A teen art, music, and poetry festival will be held on Saturday, May 31, at the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. Talented teens from across Long Island will perform classical, pop, and rock music, including some original songs. The walls will be filled with art. In addition, teens will present ethical action projects they've done that make the world a better place.
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