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- Literary prizes piling up like autumn leaves - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Literary prizes piling up like autumn leavesPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 3 hours agoPoetry: "Watching the Spring Festival" by Frank Bidart; "Fire to Fire" by Mark Doty; "Creatures of a Day" by Reginald Gibbons; "Without Saying" by Richard ...
- Hot tickets: London's going out guide - This is London
This is LondonHot tickets: London's going out guideThis is London, UK - 3 hours agoThere's a spirit of high-mindedness to this year's Poetry International festival and don't miss In The Red and Brown Water. ...
- The outsiders: Misfits and mavericks who make music magical - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentThe outsiders: Misfits and mavericks who make music magicalIrish Independent, Ireland - Nov 14, 2008They had great poetry, great confrontation and took what was happening into the suburbs and on to television screens. They were proper outsiders. ...
- Rahman Rahi receives Jnanpith award - Rising Kashmir
Rahman Rahi receives Jnanpith awardRising Kashmir, India - 2 hours agoHis book “Siyah Roode Jaren Manz” (In Black Showers) - a collection of Kashmiri poetry - reflects the agony of Kashmiris in the conflict of identities. ...
- Newest charter school empowers students to believe in their intellect - University of Chicago Chronicle
University of Chicago ChronicleNewest charter school empowers students to believe in their intellectUniversity of Chicago Chronicle - 51 minutes agoStudents compose original songs, publish books of poetry and compete in robotics competitions, among other activities. In addition to beginning early ...
- Black Businesses Organize - Arlington Connection
Black Businesses OrganizeArlington Connection, VA - 13 hours agoA new group seeks to increase networking among the region’s African American business owners. By David Schultz/The Connection BILLY CALDWELL is an African ...
- Leadership and Honor, Noble and Not So - New York Times
New York TimesLeadership and Honor, Noble and Not SoNew York Times, United States - 10 hours agoAddison’s intricate metered poetry is not easy to bring to life, and the skills of the cast of this Off Off Broadway production vary wildly. ...
- Two Lytle families meet amidst the Civil War - Murfreesboro Post
Two Lytle families meet amidst the Civil WarMurfreesboro Post, TN - 1 hour agoGen. William Haines Lytle was a warrior-poet with a major reputation in the heyday of poetry. His first known poem was written when he was 14. ...
- Alcohol, Satan In Funny 'Seafarer' - Hartford Courant
Hartford CourantAlcohol, Satan In Funny 'Seafarer'Hartford Courant, United States - 2 hours agoThis preternaturally wise and fiendishly funny retelling of the Devil's Pact harks back to early Christian folk tales that long preceded Faust's infamous ...
- Joliet woman's tragedy finds photographic outlet (The Herald News)
Four years ago, Molly Snodgrass, now 48, of Joliet, fell down a flight of stairs and injured her brain. This ended her ability to write poetry, short stories or teach creative writing classes. But miraculously, Snodgrass' tragedy also opened up new worlds of creative expression for her, with the help of a camera.
- Calendar today for Oct. 9 - phillyBurbs.com
Calendar today for Oct. 9phillyBurbs.com, PA - 3 hours agoPoetry workshop, presented by the Burling-ton County Poets, 7 pm, Burlington County Libra-ry, 5 Pioneer Blvd., West-ampton. Registration not required ...
- COMMUNITY BRIEFS (Asheville Citizen-Times)
The Black Mountain Library closed in September for a major renovation and is now running out of its community room. Built in 1968, the Black Mountain Library hasn't had a substantial renovation since construction.
- Jeremy Prynne for poet laureate! - Guardian Unlimited
OK, not really. Pigs might fly before JH Prynne , whose work comes with a notorious reputation for obscurity and who is famously shy of giving interviews or reading in public, would either be up for, or any good at, being poet laureate. But my point ...
- What Krugman Was Really Thinking - New York Times Blogs
Here’s a list of over 300 photo captions from readers of this blog, and another couple hundred from Marginal Revolution here (with others here and Tyler Cowen ’s favorites here ). “One had longed for the Nobel Prize, the other loved being ...
- The Press Gang - End of an Error - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
The Press Gang - End of an ErrorNorfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK - 6 hours agoTheir recipe for success has changed little over that time - comedy, folk song, poetry, prose, all doused with dialect and taking a Norfolkman's wry ...
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