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- 'Goldengrove' follows grief-stricken teenager - Akron Beacon Journal
So much seems tragic when we're teenagers: our appeal — or rather, the lack thereof — to the opposite sex; our embarrassing parents; a spectacularly bad haircut. Nico, the 13-year-old protagonist of Francine Prose's new novel, experiences all ...
- Locally bred special effects guy gets Emmy nod - MLive.com
Rick Shick, the Grand Blanc-bred film and TV special effects artist, is going Saturday night to, he quips, "where the non-pretty people go." That is, he and his wife, Meg, are headed to the Emmys, but not the glitzy show that honors prime-time TV ...
- Poet to visit borough libraries - This is Stourbridge
CHILDREN’S poet Paul Cookson will be sharing funny poems with youngsters at borough libraries this week. He will be at Stourbridge Library from 11am to noon, Halesowen Library from 1.30pm to 2.30pm, and at Long Lane Library from 3pm to 4pm on ...
- SUNY Plattsburgh Presents Calendar of Events Through Early October - ReadMedia (press release)
SUNY Plattsburgh Presents Calendar of Events Through Early OctoberReadMedia (press release), NY - 14 minutes agoPoetry Reading by Gerry LaFemina, 8 pm, Commons, Champlain Valley Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh. LeFemina is the author of several chapbooks, four full-length ...
- Dancing in the spotlight on opening night (China Daily)
With just a few days until the Olympics begin, the buzz surrounding what to expect from the Opening Ceremony has everyone talking - and guessing in the dark.
- Entries invited for Gunn writing contest - Inverness Courier
Entries invited for Gunn writing contestInverness Courier, UK - 3 hours agoThe categories for entries are: adult prose, adult poetry, secondary school, primary school. The theme is ‘Living with one another’, a phrase taken from a ...
- Look on my works, and despair - guardian.co.uk
Look on my works, and despairguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoIt as if they were finalists in a Friday-Nite Hyborian Age poetry smackdown, pitting the long of tooth against the short on smarts, where first prize is a ...
- Hundreds march for knife victim Darren, 14 - Guardian Unlimited
Several hundred people yesterday marched through the streets of Inverclyde, Scotland, to protest against the spiralling culture of knife crime which has blighted the lives of families across the country. The demonstration was organised by family and ...
- Power of the poets - Warren Times Gazette
Power of the poetsWarren Times Gazette, RI - 1 hour ago“Writing poetry always centers me,†she explained. And one of the reasons she hoped to share the art with others was to help them find ways to balance ...
- Bar Refaeli Presents Ironic Iconic America - Just Jared
Bar Refaeli Presents Ironic Iconic AmericaJust Jared, NY - 7 hours agoThe show will highlight American beauty, fashion, love and sex, design and food. Poet, multi-media artist and “observationalist†Rives (HBO’s Def ...
- Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked' - Guardian Unlimited
"Today I am going to kill something," says the unnamed protagonist of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure. "Anything. / I have had enough of being ignored and today / I am going to play God." Duffy, one of Britain's most admired poets, might ...
- Soul survivor - Tampabay.com
Soul survivorTampabay.com, FL - 19 hours agoIf Florida were perfect, folks would already be lining up to buy Laumer's prose attempt at The Odyssey. Elementary and middle school students would throw ...
- DisORIENTed Express tickets available - Palestine Herald-Press
PALESTINE — It’s 1969! Rumors are flying! What is causing pandemonium in the boondocks? Unexplained explosions and unidentified flashing lights are hovering over area farms and remote backwoods. Reports of an alien spacecraft landing a few miles ...
- Artists' Natural Habitat - The Bulletin
It's not every day that a magazine comes to life. But through September, that's precisely what's happening through the Storefront Project, an unusual experiment by Megawords Magazine to let plain folks engage in a dialogue among themselves and with ...
- FRONT PAGES OF '07 - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
FRONT PAGES OF '07The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 1 hour agoYou know this can only lead to two things: Poetry. Or tears. On top of that, we have 29 of those girls graduating this night from Aspire, a tuition-free ...
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