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- It's bad, but not like the '70s - Staten Island Advance - SILive.com
It's bad, but not like the '70sStaten Island Advance - SILive.com, NY - 2 hours agoDavid Paterson (sans the poetry) in an unusual televised speech on July 31. And when Paterson compared the state's current financial woes to the 1970s, ...
- Ahmed Faraz’s death widely condoled - The News - International
Ahmed Faraz’s death widely condoledThe News - International, Pakistan - 22 minutes agoNawaz Sharif said that Ahmad Faraz not only supported the struggle against dictatorship, issue of civic movements or movement of lawyers through his poetry ...
- Barker retires as volunteer at G.W. Carver - Neosho Daily News
In woods deep and dark at the George Washington Carver National Monument is a statue of the famous scientist as a boy. The bronzed boy sits upon a rock, a plant in his hand, staring contemplatively into the trees, chin at a slight upward tilt. But ...
- Hometown team gets 2nd in National Poetry Slam first bout (The Capital Times)
It was a war of words Wednesday night, and Madison was somewhat triumphant. The hometown spoken word team placed second in its competition against San Antonio, Houston and Manchester during its first bout in the National Poetry Slam held at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Various venues around the city are hosting the competition, which ends Thursday night. Although each team ...
- Western apparel spotlighted at Cowboy Symposium - LubbockOnline.com
Western apparel spotlighted at Cowboy SymposiumLubbockOnline.com, TX - 16 hours agoThis year's cowboy symposium will also feature chuck wagons, a Native American powwow, horse-training shows, music and poetry. It will continue until near ...
- Wordslingers 2008 brings a modern message from the 13th Century - The Union of Grass Valley
Wordslingers 2008 brings a modern message from the 13th CenturyThe Union of Grass Valley, CA - 32 minutes agoSince 1977, Barks has collaborated with scholars of the Persian language to bring the poetry Rumi into American free verse. Barks explains that Rumi's ...
- Mexican-themed festival planned for Tuesday - Post-Star
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- This weeks’s "dark day" at the Saratoga Race Course will be brightened by a fiesta. La Fiesta en el Museo de la Hipica, a free festival of traditional music and arts associated with the racetrack and its backstretch workers ...
- Poetry, please! - Telegraph.co.uk
Poetry, please!Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 21 minutes agoWhat is it that makes a poem memorable? Stephanie Plentl asks a selection of famous readers for their favourite verse. Funny, moving, engaging, sad and even ...
- Lady's night at the beckoning microphone - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldLady's night at the beckoning microphoneSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoI said the songs were stilted and over-thought and that the lyrics were 'sixth-form poetry'," he says. So who should turn up that night but Conway. ...
- Charlotte Kohler dies; had edited literary magazine - Inrich.com
As a child growing up in Richmond, Charlotte Kohler enjoyed reading "Billy Whiskers" children's books. A love of the written word developed from that time and stayed with her during a long career as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and an ...
- South Central? South Bronx? No, It’s the Middle East - Egypt Today
After decades of conflict throughout the region, it’s no wonder the international community has not painted the Middle East in the brightest of colors, but what are those within this portrait doing to change the picture? Would you believe that ...
- St. Andrew students win poetry contest - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
St. Andrew students win poetry contestThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 20 minutes agoLike Rachel, she can be light-hearted and funny, but her poem "Our First Life" reveals a philosophical side. Katie wants to become a psychiatrist. ...
- Poets reflect on National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison - Isthmus Daily Page
Poets reflect on National Poetry Slam 2008 in MadisonIsthmus Daily Page, WI - 7 hours agoWhile SlamCharlotte took home their second consecutive national title, and Urbana Poetry Slam won the inaugural Group Piece title, the competition and ...
- The way they were - Greater Milwaukee Today
Greater Milwaukee TodayThe way they wereGreater Milwaukee Today, USA - 4 hours agoA lot of those songs work as stand-alone poetry." Fantle is now the vice president of public relations for Visit Milwaukee. In college, he fed his passion ...
- Philly moves to the Fringe (Courier-Post)
On a recent Monday night, a crowd of friends, family, media and the curious waded into Plays and Players, a fine old theater on Delancey Street in Philadelphia.
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