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- Interview with Magdalena Ball of The Compulsive Reader and ... - Blogcritics.org
Interview with Magdalena Ball of The Compulsive Reader and ...Blogcritics.org, OH - 4 hours agoShe's also the author of Sleep Before Evening, a poetry chap book titled Quark Soup, and the nonfiction work, The Art of Assessment. ...
- Kay Ryan named U.S. poet laureate (UPI)
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
- Iran honors great poet Omar Khayyam (Payvand Iran News)
Iran has honored the 960th birthday anniversary of the eminent Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam of Neyshabur.
- Young Ripley poets showcase free verse - Jamestown Post Journal
Young Ripley poets showcase free verseJamestown Post Journal, NY - 1 hour ago"And thanks for letting me win," ended Garret Einfeldt's poem entitled "Ode to my PS2." The talented participants of the poetry showcase were: Kalishia ...
- Poet Salinas dies at 70 - Fresno Bee (subscription)
Poet Salinas dies at 70Fresno Bee (subscription), CA - 22 minutes agoHe met Levine in 1967, and joined poetry workshops offered by Levine, Peter Everwine and Robert Mezey. He wrote one poem, about the revolutionary Che ...
- Book Festival will be a real page turner - Market Rasen Today
Book Festival will be a real page turnerMarket Rasen Today, UK - Apr 29, 2008... workshops, poetry readings, a full children's programme and more, the Lincoln Book Festival promises to be a thriller in its own right. ...
- Roots of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Gardens' - New York Sun
Roots of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Gardens'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoWhen he quotes Homer or Rilke or Wallace Stevens (he is steeped in poetry from antiquity to the present), his references are always both pertinent and quite ...
- Celebrate the Genius of Shel Silverstein This Month - Market Wire (press release)
Celebrate the Genius of Shel Silverstein This MonthMarket Wire (press release) - 56 minutes agoRemembered by longtime Silverstein fans as "Uncle Shelby's Zoo, Don't Bump the Glump!," Shel's first ever poetry collection, has been highly sought after as ...
- Elderly poet is well-versed in humor (Leader-Telegram)
Norma Desprez doesn't hide her age. She embraces it. The 88-year-old Eau Claire grandmother writes about her golden years in the new poetry book "Silhouettes of Aging: An Octogenarian's Retort."
- Sad details of everyday life distilled into brilliant collection - Norwalk Hour
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You'll remember Seinfeld, the '90s sitcom famously dubbed "a show about nothing." Here's part of Charles Simic's blurb for Tate's new collection, "The Ghost Soldiers": "To write a poem out of ...
- Klaus Michael Grueber | Opera director, 67 - Philadelphia Inquirer
Klaus Michael Grueber, 67, a German opera and theater director renowned for lyric elegance, died Sunday on the Brittany island resort of Belle-Ile-en-Mer, where he had a second home. Town officials gave no cause of death. Mr. Grueber broke the ...
- Recipe for a happy marriage - Telegraph.co.uk
Recipe for a happy marriageTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours ago... Thomas gave his whole life to poetry. Inevitably, there were those who suffered thereby. To judge from Byron Rogers's masterly "black comedy", ...
- Complete List of Nominees for 2008 Emmys (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
The pedigreed HBO miniseries John Adams nabbed a leading 23 nominations this morning for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys, followed by 30 Rock with 17 nominations and Mad Men with 16.
- Return To Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows - ScienceBlogs
Return To Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of SparrowsScienceBlogs - 23 minutes agoThis well-written book is a brilliant synergy between science and poetry. It describes the author's highly personal journey to establish a connection to ...
- Contest: Win DSO series tickets (Detroit News)
For the second year, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with The Detroit News, will kick off "8 Days in June," the cutting-edge music festival at The Max M. Fisher Music Center.
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