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- Local poet, national honor (Berkshire Eagle)
LENOX — A poem by local author Karen Chase has been chosen for distribution by the Academy of American Poets in celebration of National Poetry Month. Chase said in a recent phone interview that she was "absolutely thrilled" when her publisher contacted her with the news.
- Author Hugo Claus dies at 78 - Radio Netherlands
Author Hugo Claus dies at 78Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - 21 minutes agoHe was suffering from Alzheimer's disease; his publisher says he chose the time of his own death by requesting euthanasia. Hugo Claus is considered one of ...
- Beaverbrook story takes 2 Atlantic Book Awards (CBC Newfoundland and Labrador)
New Brunswick author and CBC reporter Jacques Poitras has won both the Booksellers' Choice Award and the Best Atlantic Published Book Award for his investigative account Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy.
- Alchemy Creative, Inc. Names Daryl Price Executive Vice President ... - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
Alchemy Creative, Inc. Names Daryl Price Executive Vice President ...PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - Apr 21, 2008ALMY is producing video DVD, and developing online gaming and other media products for distribution to both the general public and school systems. ...
- So many contests, so little time - Press & Sun-Bulletin
So many contests, so little timePress & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 2 hours agoTaos, NM, hosts an annual "heavyweight poetry bout," in which famous -- and not so famous -- poets compete against one another in the performing of their ...
- Gobblin' Cobain
San Francisco Guardian - ... flights home for the holidays, foul fowl, sad slipcovers, and relatives who rove the spectrum from irksome to inspirational. Why ... Beneath the songwriter's thoughts, Schnack chooses to float images of everyday romance and poetry captured in Cobain's ...
- Composer Samuel Adler shares knowledge through master’s classes (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA — The prolific composer Samuel Adler thinks setting poetry to music is a good idea, but not if the poet is e e cummings. A 20th-century poet who favored ...
- John Edgar Wideman
New York Observer - Is it high tribute or snarky takedown to say that a novelist’s prose reads like verse? The “poetry of imagination,” scolded Hegel in his Lectures on Aesthetics , precedes the “prose of thought.” Does that notion console the reader of John ...
- Mitisek and Co. expand boundaries of opera with puppets, poetry ... - The Jewish Journal of greater L.A
Mitisek and Co. expand boundaries of opera with puppets, poetry ...The Jewish Journal of greater L.A, CA - 5 minutes agoSo given this history, maybe staging Gruber's eerie comic-book world is a return to earth for Mitisek and the LBO. At least the work is being presented in a ...
- Top Tory mauls Brown with poetry - BBC News
BBC NewsTop Tory mauls Brown with poetryBBC News, UK - 2 hours agoA leading Conservative has given Gordon Brown a melodic mauling by reading fellow MPs a poem satirising his style of government. ...Hutton: 'I'm not Blairite poet' BBC NewsMystery poet attacks Gordon Brown MetroMPs and 'Cabinet minister' show differing memories of Blair Politics.co.ukScotsmanall 8 news articles
- Belgian author Hugo Claus dies at 78 (The Star)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Prolific Belgian writer Hugo Claus, whose Flemish novels, poetry and plays made him a frequently tipped candidate for the Nobel literature prize, died on Wednesday at the age of 78, his publisher told the Belgian news agency Belga.
- Poetry and the creative mind (The Journal News)
The Academy of American Poets presents and evening featuring leading artists, actors, musicians, dancers, scholars and public figures reading favorite poems. Candace Bushnell, Robert Caro, Graydon Carter, Katie Couric, Philippe de Montebello, Jonathan Demme, John Guare, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dianne Reeves, Liz Smith, and Meryl Streep are this year’s guest readers. Sit back and listen tonight at ...
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a rock star? - Sudbury Town Crier
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a rock star?Sudbury Town Crier, MA - 40 minutes agoLongfellow was an international literary icon, said Gioia, beloved by young and old, rich and poor, because his poetry touched the human condition at its ...
- Finalists announced for 2008 Oklahoma Book Awards
Daily Oklahoman - POETRY: -- Reassembling Dust; poet, Fred Alsberg ; publisher Pudding House Chapbook Series, Columbus, OH. -- Not Exactly Job; poet, Nathan Brown ; publisher Mongrel Empire Press, Norman.
- Eating game confirmed for WiiWare - Videogamer.com
Videogamer.comEating game confirmed for WiiWareVideogamer.com, UK - 22 hours ago"Watching Major League Eating is like watching poetry in motion" says Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. "Professional gurgitators have the grace of ...
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