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- Kinky caps global vibe of pumping folk festival - Chicago Tribune
Kinky caps global vibe of pumping folk festivalChicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoPlenty of children's activities also had youngsters try out African drumming, urban poetry, Puerto Rican bomba and of course the pure pleasure of feeling an ...
- Poland honors longtime Polish history advocate (The Republican)
SOUTH HADLEY - Making people more aware of Polish history has motivated Carolyn C. Topor to a lifetime of good works that recently culminated in her receiving the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
- CPS Rally At Soldier Field Draws Thousands (NBC 5 Chicago)
An estimated 35,000 CPS students attended the "Shout-Out for Schools" rally at Soldier Field, not only celebrating the end of the year, but also putting forward some serious issues.
- Poetry slam: Councilor to challenge Gloucester laureate nomination (Gloucester Daily Times)
Before the Committee for the Arts' choice for the city's next poet laureate, Ruthanne "Rufus" Collinson, starts penning any acceptance speeches, her appointment will have to survive a challenge by a city councilor on Tuesday.
- Authors' summer reading lists full - Arizona Daily Star
Authors' summer reading lists fullArizona Daily Star, AZ - 1 hour agoI thought I'd have a look at "Bleak House," which I've never read, and "Our Mutual Friend," which I remember as one of my favorites, though I don't really ...
- iPO Free on iTunes - AtomTV, Black In America, Strange Days on Planet Earth, & More (The Mac Observer)
Vern Seward brings us another week of free offerings on iTunes, including some Atom.com material being presented by Comedy Central, a preview of a CNN special called "Black in America," and an interesting environmental piece hosted by Ed Norton called "Strange Days on Planet Earth."
- School challenged by deaths of 2 teachers - Billings Gazette
The community at St. Labre Indian School is slowly recovering from the sudden deaths of two teachers last month. "Both of these teachers were enthusiastic, both were team players and both were exceptional teachers," said Toni Wendt, St. Labre ...
- God Particles: Poems by Thomas Lux - Blogcritics.org
God Particles: Poems by Thomas LuxBlogcritics.org, OH - 2 hours agoGod Particles is Thomas Lux’ eleventh book of poetry. His verses contain rather striking and unusual images that disturb or amuse at first and then coalesce ...
- Glastonbury comes to Streatham festival - Epsom Guardian
Glastonbury comes to Streatham festivalEpsom Guardian, UK - 5 hours agoThe festival from July 5 to 13 mixes music, comedy, drama, poetry and dance, with the majority of events free to enter. Patricia Sauer, chair of the ...
- A Voyage Long and Strange - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalA Voyage Long and StrangeWall Street Journal - May 2, 2008The point is made by Peter Gomes, a Harvard chaplain of African-American and Portuguese lineage: "Myth is more important than history. ...
- Poetry with je ne sais quoi - Guardian Blogs
"The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written," declared Doctor Johnson. This was motivation enough, in his view, to "learn the language". It would be charming to think that, prior to ...
- Bahraini poet to star in TV show today - Khaleej Times
Bahraini poet to star in TV show todayKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 21 hours agoThe poetry competition aims at merging modern media concepts with a form of poetry that has been popular for centuries to the masses in order to revive this ...
- Author to sign book written for her mom - GoErie.com
Author to sign book written for her momGoErie.com, PA - 20 hours agoThe Erie resident will sign her new book, "Poetry from the Heart, Meaning from the Soul," today from 1 to 2:30 pm at Blasco Library's Admiral Room, ...
- 'Exiles' is sure to get its claws in your brain (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about “Exiles,” a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” after hearing of the death of five German nuns in a shipwreck on the shoals of the Thames.
- June 20, 2008 (The Barnstable Patriot)
Perhaps the country’s most important friendship, as well as her greatest love story, involve the same unlikely individual – John Adams. Adams’s friendship with Thomas Jefferson was legendary. Adams was a lawyer/gentleman farmer from Braintree, struggling to make ends meet.
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