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- When poetry was king (The Prague Post)
May Day may have been relatively quiet in Prague this year, but during the Cold War it was a political flash point. In 1947, the U.S. Congress decreed May 1 Loyalty Day, hoping to stave off its growing international communist overtones.
- Words of mouth - guardian.co.uk
Words of mouthguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago... and incident, but not poetry. Here is Edward Thomas, chastening the Belgian symbolist Maeterlinck: "Anything, however small, may make a poem; nothing, ...A pure thrush word guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in US - NWI.com
It's no coincidence that in just the past week, I've received two publicist pitches promoting the return of absinthe, that green liquor potion portrayed in movies and pop culture as mind-altering. ( Graphic ) In the 1952 classic film MGM musical ...
- Community briefs June 11, 2008 (The Sharon Herald)
HERMITAGE – The Buhl Park Concert Band will open the park’s free summer concert series at 6:30 p.m. today at the Performing Arts Center in Buhl Farm, Hermitage.
- Dropout Dilemma: Parkway Spends Big to Keep Kids Coming to School - KSDK
(KSDK) -- Parkway's Fern Ridge High School is a public school with a proven track record of reaching out to students "at risk" of quitting school. Shatara Parker is a graduating senior at Fern Ridge High School. She says a during-school poetry slam ...
- Abu Dhabi hosts dates festival next month (Middle East Online)
Qubaisi says Liwa Mazayin Al Ratb Festival aims to encourage improvement of quality of UAE dates.
- Myrtle Beach museum hosts Gullah celebration - Hilton Head Island Packet
Myrtle Beach museum hosts Gullah celebrationHilton Head Island Packet, SC - 7 hours agoThe exhibit is part of Saturday's free Family Day, which also features "A Gullah Culture Celebration." MYRTLE BEACH -- Residents and visitors to the Grand ...
- Borders Goes It Alone With New E-Commerce Site - E-Commerce Times
Borders Goes It Alone With New E-Commerce SiteE-Commerce Times - May 27, 2008... gives more prominence to original video programming from Borders Media, including "Borders Book Club," "Borders Kitchen" and "Borders Open Door Poetry. ...
- Don't knock it until you try it - Daily Gazette
I read with great interest the other day a letter to the editor that said, in essence, the way to make children and teens less violent is to make incarceration less attractive. Dress them in frilly clothes, he said; video tape them doing stupid ...
- U. Houston professor receives award for poetry - U-Wire.com
Poet, essayist and University of Houston English professor Tony Hoagland received the Jackson Poetry Prize in April. The award recognizes talented writers of lesser fame and boasts national exposure as well as $50,000. UH Creative Writing Program ...
- Kenya: 'We Have Had Enough of Foreign Plays' (AllAfrica.com)
For a very long time, plays that dominated Kenya's theatre scene were all foreign adaptations. Theatre powerhouses such as Mbalamwezi, Phoenix Players and Heartstrings Ensemble barely had a Kenyan production worth writing home about.
- Summer activities abound at area libraries - The County Press
Summer activities abound at area librariesThe County Press, MI - 2 hours agoJenifer Iviskas Strauss will present stories; at 2 pm June 24 poetry and music will be brought to children by Kevin Kammeraad; Acting-up Company will bring ...
- Book Review: The Last Of The Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Blogcritics.org)
A beautiful book that does the seemingly impossible of holding humans up to ridicule while exalting their potential simultaneously. Satire is a delicate matter, or at least it should be. Far too often satire seems to be confused with farce for some reason, which is sort of like confusing a chain saw with the delicate touch of a surgeon's scalpel. It's true that both will cut close to the bone, ...
- In Your Schools - June 2, 2008 (The News & Advance)
Achievements and school happenings for the week of June 2, 2008.
- In Your Schools - June 9, 2008 - Lynchburg News and Advance
In Your Schools - June 9, 2008Lynchburg News and Advance, VA - 1 hour ago-The following Liberty High School students were named finalists in the Anne Spencer Poetry Contest: Maggie Esposito, Olivia Graff and Stephanie Overstreet. ...
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