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- Art event showcases union poetry (Daily Orange)
The poets who gathered in Maxwell Auditorium Tuesday were not the type one might expect at a typical poetry reading. Some drove buses for a living, others washed floors. Some wore wrinkled work shirts with their names stitched above their pockets. Some had dropped out of college after one or two years, while others had never made it through high school.
- Steffens takes top honor at book awards bash - San Diego Union Tribune
Steffens takes top honor at book awards bashSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoPoetry: Gabriela Aanaya Valdepeña and Chris Vannoy, “Twenty Poems Against Love & a Song for the Air.” Biography: Bettie B. Youngs, “The House That Love ...
- Patients and Families Invited to Share Stories - pilot.com
Writing about a potentially life-threatening illness can have a positive impact on the people dealing with it, according to researchers who have studied the effects of expressive writing on cancer patients. The personal expression of feelings through ...
- Summer Solstice Poetry 7 features New Jersey poets BJ Ward and ... - Packet Online
Catherine KHN Magia will read and perform her poetry at Summer Solstice Poetry 7 in West Windsor, June 22. For all of his life, poet BJ Ward observed that his father had black hands, literally ink-stained from his work on the presses of the Newark ...
- Book Reviews: Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People; National Anthem (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People: New and Selected Poems 1979-2007. By Susan Firer. The Backwaters Press. 163 pages. $16. National Anthem. By Kevin Prufer. Four Way Books. 82 pages. $15.95. Susan Firer and Ke...
- A visit to Austria - The Post
A visit to AustriaThe Post, Pakistan - 2 hours agoThe contemporary cultural milieu of Austria has a rich heritage in architecture and poetry; this goes back to the Middle Ages and in medicine and science it ...
- Nam Le's long, literary journey - San Francisco Chronicle
Nam Le's long, literary journeySan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 2 hours agoBy then Le was reading voraciously - Auden, Tennyson, Rilke - and writing poetry. "That was the dream - to become a poet." Instead, feeling the pressure to ...
- Children's books are final chapter in educator's life - Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
Children's books are final chapter in educator's lifeCoon Rapids ECM Publishers, MN - 6 hours agoDuane Lee Garber, a retired elementary school principal, has written a personal memoir and contributed to a family poetry anthology. ...
- "Yes we can," but... - renewamerica.us
"Yes we can," but...renewamerica.us, DC - 2 hours agoHe is a college graduate with a number of hobbies and interests, including reading, writing poetry and short stories, web designing, watching professional ...
- Stanford reading rescues poet who wrote of loss, destitution and abandonment (Stanford Report)
Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about.
- Breaking Piñatas gives healing culture back to community (University News)
The West Side was treated to live local cultural performances of art, poetry, dance, music and drama at Breaking Piñatas on Thursday, April 17, when students and social activists presented their work at Guadalupe Center, 1015 Avenida Cesar E. Chavez. The fundraiser was the brain-child of Chato Villalobos as a way to demonstrate to the community the range of its cultural wealth and to give it ...
- Teacher instills love of Latin - Philadelphia Inquirer
Teacher instills love of LatinPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 12 hours agoJingly Italian music played softly in the background as students worked on translations and read poetry. At the front of the room, Munday, a tall man with ...
- Mothers and others (WorldNetDaily)
My old friend "Ginny" – wife, mother, grandmother, artist – called right after dinner the other evening, sounding like she was in tears, the way she was the time she wrapped their family car around a tree and she turned to me, the non-driving advice maven, for comfort and encouragement.
- Snow performs at the Half Shell - NRToday.com
Snow performs at the Half ShellNRToday.com, OR - 49 minutes agoHer music often originates as poetry in her journal. She said the melody comes later. “Most writers I know usually do it the other way around, ...
- Readers' tributes to their dads (Abilene Reporter-News)
Was Dad always taking the pictures?
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