Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Our national anthem…a song of patriotic ardor - Fulton Valley News
Yesterday was July fourth. Said that way doesn’t seem to be any more than just another day on the calendar. Phrased “the Fourth of July,” it seems to express a lot more than just another date of the year. It has a special sound, sort of ...
- Roots of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Gardens' - New York Sun
Roots of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Gardens'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoWhen he quotes Homer or Rilke or Wallace Stevens (he is steeped in poetry from antiquity to the present), his references are always both pertinent and quite ...
- Alsop's first season ends with energy - Baltimore Sun
Alsop's first season ends with energyBaltimore Sun, United States - 6 hours agoThere were, to be sure, lovely things in Alsop's phrasing of the Adagio, though the tendency to push ahead left some of the music's internal poetry ...
- Summer reading programs about to begin - Gadsden Times (subscription)
Summer reading programs about to beginGadsden Times (subscription), AL - 39 minutes agoEach registered child who reads at least 15 library books by July 16 will receive a free T-shirt and be invited to a party July 30. ...
- Many colors in newly revamped Green Show (Ashland Daily Tidings)
The strains of Bach's "Concerto for Two Violins" and Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 1" drifted into the hills around the Oregon Shakespeare Festival under an unsettled spring sky, and the crowd in front of the OSF's Elizabethan Stage applauded generously.
- Baba-i-Urdu had left no will for his burial — Jamiluddin Aali - DAWN Group
The living room of Dr Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Khan Aali’s 6th floor apartment is heavily decorated with pictures – hanging on the walls and sitting on the bookshelves and other pieces of furniture. In one picture, as a child Aali is seated in ...
- Whitley gets Big Read Grant - Times Tribune of Corbin
Whitley gets Big Read GrantTimes Tribune of Corbin, KY - 6 hours ago(In this survey, literature is defined as any novels, short stories, poetry, or drama, with no distinctions made for quality or length. ...
- The greatness of Aimé Césaire - Business Day
The greatness of Aimé CésaireBusiness Day, Nigeria - 1 hour agoFrom the burning emotion of the poetry in the Cahier in the 1930s, to the Discours of 1956, there is a timeless universality in his adoption of the ...
- The Sellouts (San Diego Reader)
Thursday 15 “Like a robot making love to a tree,” says odd-pop duo Ghostland Observatory about dousing dance-y funk jams with electronica and pop hooks. But the pair’s known more for their unusual pose in pigtails and vampire cape.
- Portugal holds on to words few can grasp - International Herald Tribune
LISBON : The latest brouhaha involving cultural property is unfolding here — and not, for a change, over stolen vases or precious war booty, but a poet's correspondence. As usual, it's a window onto a nation's character. The elderly heirs of ...
- Crafting the last word (The Burlington Free Press)
Students reach for big themes, memories in speeches
- Africa: Cape Town Commemorates Africa Day - AllAfrica.com
Africa: Cape Town Commemorates Africa DayAllAfrica.com, Washington - 7 hours agoThere was also an arts and crafts exhibition involving about 100 exhibitors, short films on African heritage, poetry readings, drama, song and dance ...
- Good for Ball, Bad for Ball - Major League Baseball
Here's how it works: A second baseman ranging up the middle to scoop up a grounder and flip it behind his back for the force at second -- or a shortstop doing the same with a feathery backhanded flip -- is Good For Ball. It's pure poetry, and if it ...
- ‘Paruthiveeran’ hogs the limelight (The Hindu)
Awards for Priya Mani and Vasanthabalan
- Obama mentor: 'Smash on, victory-eating Red Army' - WorldNetDaily
The man who heavily influenced U.S. Sen. Barack Obama during his growing years wrote poetry praising the aggression of communism, criticizing "Sweet Jesus" and mocking the traditional hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers," according to an advocate for ...
|
|
Get better Mortgage Rates today and save!
California Mortgage
|