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- The Art of Assimilation - Brooklyn Rail
The Art of AssimilationBrooklyn Rail, NY - 14 minutes ago“Everywhere I went, I had a knapsack full of texts—philosophy, Jewish texts, poetry, fiction,” Seidman explains, which he began terming “my traveling ...
- Archivist says collection should become museum - Wasaga Sun
Archivist says collection should become museumWasaga Sun, Canada - 16 hours agoThat is very hard to get at in a straightforward, factual history book so I wrote a companion volume of drawings and poetry called Lady Wasaga," said ...
- Poets touch us with the everyday (The News & Observer)
If you love the idea that poets are whacked-out crazies driven to drink, drugs and suicide by souls too sensitive for this brutal world, "Spill" by Michael Chitwood and "Old War" by Alan Shapiro will break your heart. The two poets, who both teach at the University of North Carolina, write beautifully about married love, children, mortality and the world we read about in the newspaper. They are ...
- Family Sues Police in Taser-Related Death - The Ledger
JACKSONVILLE | The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental health crisis is suing the City of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old ...
- Abe Osheroff, Spanish Civil War vet, dies at age 85 - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Abe Osheroff, Spanish Civil War vet, dies at age 85Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - 4 hours agoIn 2000, he made a second film, "Art in the Struggle for Freedom," about the poetry and poster art of the Spanish Civil War. Osheroff was married three ...
- Dolores Capitan presents awards (Americus Times-Recorder)
Kathryn Stripling Byer, author, read some of her favorite poems at the Writing Across the Curriculum and Dolores Capitan Awards convocation Wednesday at Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW).
- Short, Puckett perform before Carmi audience - Carmi Times
Short, Puckett perform before Carmi audienceCarmi Times, United States - 1 hour ago--Areas in which team members compete range from persuasion and communication analysis to prose, dramatic interpretation, poetry and more. ...
- Local man traces literary roots - Burlington Times News
Local man traces literary rootsBurlington Times News, NC - 1 hour agoHughes went on to become one of the most prominent authors and poets in American history before his death in 1967. “I wish I would have gotten into this ...
- Community Calendar: April 11 to May 1 - Easton Journal
Community Calendar: April 11 to May 1Easton Journal, MA - 1 hour agoPoetry Night: three Poets and an Open Mic. 7 pm, Queset House, 56 Main St., Easton. Readings from Sean Theall, David Surette and George Comeaux. ...
- Savage Siblings - Atlantic City Weekly
In The Squid and The Whale , Laura Linney played a self-centered mother who felt not one ounce of impulse control when it came to letting her kids in on the ugly truth of the world. With her Oscar-nominated performance in The Savages , she plays ...
- Free college courses feed global hunger for learning (USA Today)
n 2002, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started making course content available free online, project organizers had no idea their site would become a favorite destination for science junkies across the globe.
- Reading series to feature young 'hip' writer, musician - The Daily Collegian Online
Reading series to feature young 'hip' writer, musicianThe Daily Collegian Online, PA - 6 hours agoBy Stephanie Goga People don't often confuse poets with rock stars, but a poetry reading by Alexander Long tonight may change some preconceived notions of ...
- 'Funny Games' plays violent game of truth or dare
Boston Globe - ... voyeuristic violence is a recent construct - one he's personally above - when it's actually hard-wired into the human subconscious. (Gore stories go back to "Beowulf" and beyond; the movies just re-create mayhem more faithfully than epic poetry ...
- Adventurer with a purpose
ScrippsNews - He writes with precision, passion and poetry, capturing the romance of adventuring, the uniqueness of Earth's places and the realities of undertaking difficult journeys. "Riding the Dragon's Back," the book he published with Christian Kallen ...
- University hosts poetry readings, recitation competition - UNR NevadaNews
University hosts poetry readings, recitation competitionUNR NevadaNews, NV - 43 minutes agoThe winner’s school will receive a $2000 stipend for the purchase of poetry books and to support literary programs. Second and third place winners each ...
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