Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- We talk with acclaimed poet Mark Doty in advance of his Pittsburgh reading. (Pittsburgh City Paper)
"What I really want to do is make a poem that is as involved as it can be in how it feels to live." By Paul Ruggiero.
- Plenty To Do At Centers (Brandon News & Tribune)
The Hillsborough County Department of Aging Services offers seniors leisure activities, field trips, educational classes and lunch at senior centers in Brandon, Plant City, Ruskin, Lutz, Wimauma and two locations in Tampa, Riverside and West Shore.
- Encounters at the End of the World (DVD Talk)
To better appreciate "Encounters at the End of the World," it's best to view it not as a scientific documentary, but as a home movie from screendom's crankiest old bastard.
- Palestinian Cultural Heritage - Middle East Online
Palestinian Cultural HeritageMiddle East Online, UK - 1 hour agoThe Palestinian cultural heritage is full of popular songs, poetry, sayings, stories handicrafts and other forms of folklore. They are the bridges that ...
- LitTO: May 13–21 - Torontoist
TorontoistLitTO: May 13–21Torontoist, Canada - 15 hours ago5:30 pm Free. The Art Bar Poetry Series presents Halli Villegas and Myna Wallin, aka Ms. Kitty and Miss Kitty, respectively. Clinton’s Tavern (693 Bloor ...
- Nights at the Red Steinway (The New York Sun)
Now, about that red piano: Charles Bourgeois, the longtime integral member of George Wein's Festival Productions, which produces the ongoing JVC Jazz Festival, told The New York Sun that the company simply requested a standard 9-foot concert grand, but was surprised as anyone when the instrument that was delivered turned out to be encased in bright red enamel, with a bright red bench to match. ...
- Iranian Woman treks for peace across Asia (Payvand Iran News)
Roya Loghmanian, an Iranian mother of three, is treking for peace across Asia. Her journey began in Tehran, and if completed as planned, it will end in Beijing just in time for the Olympic Games.
- She sets the scene for poetry (Sakonnet Times)
In a hospital emergency waiting room two years ago on a night before Thanksgiving, Shari Alvanas watches as a woman hobbles in on a broken ankle that's bent at such an extreme angle "she looks like a Barbie doll," and then later, as people carry in a man with a knife stuck in his head; Shari knows she'll use some of this in her poems one day.
- On the Record - ABC News Blogs
Allan Raible writes about music and the music industry. He is based in New York. Friday, as you know, is July 4th, so I have compiled a list of some of my favorite songs appropriate for celebrating our independence. Some songs are overtly about the ...
- Seven Days (Colorado Springs Independent)
In teenage days, a friend and I ran our own car and boat detailing outfit. Once, we helped a retired heart surgeon prepare his 26-foot sailboat for an around-the-world voyage.
- Metro teen makes national poetry recitation final (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Georgia's young poetry reciting champion has advanced to the final rounds in the national Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. Elijah P. Orengo, 16, a sophomore at Westlake High School in Fulton County, emerged Monday as one of the top four poetry reciters in his region and will compete with 11 other students Tuesday night in the national finals. Orengo, looking casual in brown corduroy trousers, ...
- Slow-Motion Quick-Draw #10 - Werewolves, Part One. - Chud.com
Jon Abrams was born & raised in New York, and studied Film Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He has worked in and around the Los Angeles film & television industry in just about every possible capacity for the past seven years. Jon is ...
- Add These to Your Summer Reading List - Washington Post
Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda took your questions and comments concerning literature, books and the joys of reading. Each week Michael Dirda's name appears -- in attractively large type -- in The Post's Book World section, where he writes about ...
- Creators of cool (Boston Globe)
REYKJAVĂŤK - The Thursday before last, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, president of Iceland, welcomed artists, organizers, and others to his tidy residence on a narrow peninsula to shake hands and sip wine. Outdoors, terns darted above a calm bay and the tilting headstones of a cemetery. Inside, the white-haired head of state stood in a salon beneath a large canvas in ...
- Slate women discuss the American Girl dolls, books, movie, and message ... - Slate
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl opened nationwide in theaters this week. The movie, which tells the story of a girl growing up during the Great Depression, is the first big-screen film based on the American Girl dolls. Pleasant Co., founded in 1986 ...
|
|
Get a Home Loan today and save!
California Mortgages
November 2007 Mortgage News
|