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- FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE BEST OF ASIAN AMERICAN FILMMAKING - San Francisco Chronicle
FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE BEST OF ASIAN AMERICAN FILMMAKINGSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 4 hours agoWe're also still looking for aspiring poets younger than 14 for our salute to National Poetry Month in a few weeks. See the contest details on Page 4.
- Krishna Pattisapu among poetry contest winners (Morning Sentinel)
The winners of the 2008 Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will read selections of their work at an awards ceremony beginning at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 27. The ceremony, held in the Student Center Auditorium, also features a reading from this year's contest judge, Sandy Longhorn. The contest theme this year is "It Takes a Woman.
- Tamsin Smith: PS from (RED) (HuffingtonPost)
It will be a dark day for me when internet access pervades the friendly skies. I read poetry on airplanes. It's one of the few times when I can slip guiltlessly into a cocoon free of email, telephone, friend or...
- Honoring Black oral traditions - Hudson Valley Press
Honoring Black oral traditionsHudson Valley Press, NY - 4 hours agoDenzel Washington told reporters that both hip-hop and a form of poetry known as the spoken word have their roots in Black oral tradition. ...
- Echoes of the fractured reality of Palestinian existence - Daily Star - Lebanon
Daily Star - LebanonEchoes of the fractured reality of Palestinian existenceDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 28 minutes ago... and blasphemous content of his poetry. Such life experience seeps through "Inside the Night," as the novel evokes themes of exile, oppression, identity, ...
- Co-founder axes support of popular Quills awards - Tulsa World
Co-founder axes support of popular Quills awardsTulsa World, OK - Mar 1, 2008Nominated authors, in categories from romance fiction to poetry, included Stephen King, Al Gore and JK Rowling. But few readers voted, and sales did not ...
- Local poets pull out all the stops at annual limerick competition (Baraboo News Republic)
The sassiness displayed at the second annual Hooley Limerick Contest in downtown Baraboo this weekend would have been enough to make a man from Nantucket blush. Well, almost. Contest rules stipulated that naughty limericks had to be recited in the alley next to the trash bins. Though none of the local poets took advantage of that possibility, some walked a tightrope. This year's winner, Teddy ...
- Making a statement, layer by layer - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Making a statement, layer by layerThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 22 minutes agoShe became a good observer of people, began to write poetry and developed her own sense of style. "I started designing pieces that my mom would hand sew for ...
- I Walked Through History - Santa Monica Mirror
During the years I’ve lived in Santa Monica, I’ve never seen much of its northern end. But recently I had a chance to visit some of the historic homes on Adelaide Drive, a street that runs along the northern edge of the city above Santa Monica ...
- Libraries offer nature walks for kids (The Monterey County Herald)
Nature walks to the library for children and teenagers will be presented at the Seaside, Carmel Valley and Marina branches of the Monterey County Free Libraries through the spring. "What's Buggin' You," a nature walk and poetry workshop geared to ages 12-18, will be from 1 to 3 p.m.
- A year in San Francisco - USA Today
A year in San FranciscoUSA Today - 30 minutes agoEvents include arts demonstrations, a raucous taiko drumming contest, sumo wrestling, performance of traditional Japanese dance and theater, and of course ...
- Remember when: It was worth skipping school to shake President Truman's hand (Vero Press Journal)
"Harry Truman is coming to town!" The entire student body of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School was excited at this news.
- Mother's Day Events - Richmond.com
Richmond.comMother's Day EventsRichmond.com, VA - Apr 20, 2008Mother's Day Formal Tea in the Enchanted Garden at Edgar Allan Poe Museum: Classic literature, Richmond museums, poetry and tea in the garden. ...Richmond This Week Richmond.comall 5 news articles
- A twisted sense of aesthetic - Newark Star-Ledger
Susan Clinard often walks the Connecticut coastline, don ning an apron and gloves while carrying driftwood off the beach and into her car. People stare. "They say, 'What are you going to do with that?!'" Clinard says with a chuckle. What she does is ...
- 'Snappy' ceremony at Salinas library (The Monterey County Herald)
The newest addition to the John Steinbeck Library in Salinas was unveiled at noon Sunday. Roberto Garcia, the new president of the Friends of the Salinas Public Library, said he wasn't sure what sort of impact the addition might be for the library.
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