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- Legislature approves $1 billion for life sciences - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Legislature approves $1 billion for life sciencesThe Massachusetts Daily Collegian, MA - 9 hours ago"Our main goal is to utilize the funding through the life science initiatives to cost share a major program: the advanced therapeutics cluster," said Dr. ...
- Poet d.a. levy memorialized in new book (Akron Beacon Journal)
Today it seems unlikely that a man would be sentenced to six months of imprisonment for saying a naughty word at a poetry reading — in front of the 17-year-old boy who'd written the poem the word contained. But that is what happened to d.a. levy, the iconic 1960s Cleveland poet memorial-ized in d.a. levy & the mimeo-graph revolution by his contemporaries, Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg.
- In StorySlam, strangers go on stage & bare their souls (Philadelphia Daily News)
IF WHAT'S DONE in the dark will come to light, baring your soul to a shadowy room of strangers could end in disgrace. But at First Person Arts StorySlam, where 10 amateur storytellers mount a dimly lit stage to share details of intimate experiences with an audience of unknowns, it usually ends with applause.
- Sexy Poetry Trouble for Local School Leader - WHIO Radio
Sexy Poetry Trouble for Local School LeaderWHIO Radio, OH - Feb 19, 2008Springfield City Schools officials are investigating the incident after a student downloaded a book of poems written by Antonio Love, Perkins' pseudonym. ...
- Serbia's summons - Washington Times
Serbia's summonsWashington Times, DC - 13 hours agoActors at the Thursday rally gave emotional readings from poetry that aimed somewhere between the heart and the jugular. "Those who oppose us have scurried ...
- True remembrance - Guardian
GuardianTrue remembranceGuardian, UK - 59 minutes agoThey visit Paris together, talk endlessly, marry, set up home, sit up at night writing fiction and poetry. Then they have a child. ...
- ALA names three honorary members (ALA)
(CHICAGO) Pat Mora, Effie Lee Morris and Peggy Sullivan were elected to honorary membership in the American Library Association (ALA) in action taken by the ALA Council at the ALA 2008 Midwinter Meeting, held January 11 to 16 in Philadelphia.
- Earth Day, Energy Fair poems sought - The News-Review
Earth Day, Energy Fair poems soughtThe News-Review, OR - 4 hours agoDOUGLAS COUNTY: The Earth Day and Energy Fair is holding a poetry contest for all Douglas County students ages 6 to 18. Any form of poetry, including haiku, ...
- Long may it wave, laundry on the line - Quad-Cities Times
CHEER up! In these troubled times, there are small events like hanging clothes outside to dry that make us whistle a happy tune. A recent Sunday column, “Hanging Out,” has brought everything from poetry and oodles of letters to a box of ...
- Galway Kinnell and Mark Doty (Washington City Paper)
Galway Kinnell and Mark Doty are giants of the poetry world. Kinnell has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his 1980 Selected Poems; Doty was the first American to win the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. How would one describe their work?
- Veteran turns to poetic musings - Ledbury Reporter
Veteran turns to poetic musingsLedbury Reporter, UK - 8 hours agoLEDBURY pensioner and war veteran Harold Griffin has published his first collection of poetry, at the age of 92. But it is the second book that Mr Griffin ...
- Steel Magnolias hosts open house - Long Beach Press-Telegram
Steel Magnolias hosts open houseLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - 9 hours agoHe recites poetry, knows about the Big Bang theory and never fails to amaze me. We can't thank the Stramski Center enough." Honoree Chair, Joyce Krauss ...
- Sabga laureates to receive awards tonight - Trinidad News
Sabga laureates to receive awards tonightTrinidad News, Trinidad and Tobago - 2 hours agoDabydeen’s oeuvre consists of some 24 books of poetry, fiction and academia. He won a Commonwealth Prize for Poetry with his first book, Slave Song, ...
- The Tracey Fragments - Filmcritic.com
The Tracey FragmentsFilmcritic.com - 4 hours agoFor what it's worth, however, these shards of art-school poetry fit into the palette: If any attempt at natural dialogue had been made, this would have been ...
- Friday, March 21st (The New York Observer)
W e have worked ourselves into a fur ball of excitement over the Dada Poetry Salon at Cornelia Street Café, masterminded by Kathi Georges, who told us that “Dada originally came to life during WWI, and there was a big New York scene, especially literary, so we’re going to be bringing some people back to life.”  read more »
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