Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Teen Prostitute Describes Life On The Streets (KTVU 2 San Francisco)
As police continue to crack down on suspected prostitutes in Fruitvale, one young woman spoke candidly to KTVU reporter Amber Lee about how her young life as a top student fell into a downward spiral of sex and drugs.
- A sad, true story that's as strong as its subject - Boston Globe
A sad, true story that's as strong as its subjectBoston Globe, United States - 6 minutes agoFuller knows this rough world intimately and renders it with a kind of spare prose-poetry. Describing an oil rig, she writes: "It's a place of repetitive, ...
- Grad students to hold yearly writing forum - Binghamton University Pipe Dream
Grad students to hold yearly writing forumBinghamton University Pipe Dream, USA - 2 hours agoLemon, a writer of poetry, has been published in a multitude of magazines, such as Best American Poetry 2008. Like these talented writers, panelists at the ...
- Soy Unica! set for this Saturday - Meriden Record-Journal
Soy Unica! set for this SaturdayMeriden Record-Journal, CT - 11 hours agoShe discovered through writing and giving poetry recitals that, though she was young, she was influencing people's lives. In 1999, she moved to Miami, ...
- The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materials (Independent)
Monoculture threatens literature just as much as landscape. If featureless plains of soya beans or oilseed rape can ruin not just the charm but the resilience of an eco-system, then a reading culture built around a narrow band of middle-of-the-road fiction and biography runs the risk of wrecking its fertility. From tutors on creative-writing courses I hear the complaint that their students ...
- Turning 100 is just another adventure - San Diego Union Tribune
Turning 100 is just another adventureSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 33 minutes ago“When people ask me how I've lived so long, I just tell them I don't let things bother me,” said Patten, who celebrates her 100th birthday at her home in ...
- New Releases - Wichita Falls Times Record News
"MAX PAYNE" Mark Wahlberg is Max Payne, who is a widowed cop determined to deliver justice as he investigates a string of killings in his city. PG-13 for violence, including intense shooting sequences, drug content, some sexuality and brief, strong ...
- Macca's back! - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentMacca's back!Irish Independent, Ireland - 5 hours ago"I'd get out poetry books and just kind of scour them and find phrases, then stick them to a phrase from another book, so I wasn't nicking somebody's whole ...
- NYS Poet Jean Valentine to read works at Alfred University - AU News
AU NewsNYS Poet Jean Valentine to read works at Alfred UniversityAU News, NY - 11 minutes agoHer previous collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 won the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. Author Adrienne Rich said, ...
- Campus news - Opelousas Daily World
Approximately 52 Senior Beta members are attending the Fall District Day on Tuesday. Club sponsors are Jervis Thibodeaux and Jill Artall. On Wednesday, the PLAN test will be administered to the sophomore class. Parents are reminded about the 1:30 p.m ...
- Real life is curiouser & curiouser - Manila Times
I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the top.”—Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked To Himself As If Reciting Poetry by Haruki Murakami ...
- Wake up, little Suzi - Sunday Paper
Wake up, little SuziSunday Paper, GA - 14 hours agoYour press release promises selections from all five nominated musicals at next week’s ceremony—they could be the death of me, since I usually time my ...
- Pioneering small publisher New Rivers Press marks 40th anniversary (Pioneer Press)
Bill Truesdale would be proud. New Rivers Press, which Truesdale founded in 1968, is going strong at Minnesota State University (Moorhead),
- A storied history - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeA storied historyBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoAnd Katherine Biddle was a published poet and prolific writer of essays and reviews on poetry. It was also the birthplace of Lorenzo Dow Baker, ...
- Ayoon Wa Azan (My Apologies to Many Readers) - Dar Al-Hayat
Ayoon Wa Azan (My Apologies to Many Readers)Dar Al-Hayat, Lebanon - 1 hour agoI have received requests for more poetry, which makes me think the readers are not interested in my opinion. I do not blame them. ...
|
|
Get better Mortgage Rates today and save!
Get your Online Degrees today!
|