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- DVD: HBO's 'John Adams' brings a patriot's story to life - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"John Adams," a seven-part HBO mini-series, arrives Tuesday on DVD, starring Paul Giamatti as the second U.S. president and Laura Linney as his wife, Abigail. The stirring program offers a history lesson with a heavy dose of realism. It pulls our ...
- Margaret Jarek column: From pain comes works of art - The Reporter
Margaret Jarek column: From pain comes works of artThe Reporter, WI - 3 hours agoThere would be no art, no music, no poetry or philosophy or science. All of this and more has arisen as a counterpoint to our own pain. ...
- Camano library sale an emotional, financial success (Everett Herald)
There was a successful book sale Saturday. Camano Island Friends raised more than $1,000 to support the year-old Camano Island Library. It was emotional.
- Wild West Wales is pure rock and roll - Aberdeen Press and Journal
Wild West Wales is pure rock and rollAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - 3 hours agoThe Welsh are reputed to have poetry in their blood and music in their souls. Some of the warmest and most genuine people I have ever met, they live in an ...
- A Reading of “The Character of a Happy Life” by Sir Henry Wotton - The Epoch Times
And having nothing, yet hath all. What is the secret to happiness? Countless self-help books claim they have the answer. There are the three steps to this—and the five steps to that. Still, no one has cracked it, increasing our perplexity and ...
- Poetry review: 'The Ghost Soldiers: Poems' by James Tate (Orlando Sentinel)
The sad details of everyday life are distilled into a brilliant collection. James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry.
- Tongue? Tonge? Toung? Tung? For and Against Simplified Spelling - Wall Street Journal
Over the past eight centuries, spelling reformers and their opponents, from Mark Twain to Theodore Roosevelt, have explained their goals in both poems and prose. Below, review some of the most famous. (See related article.) "And for ther is so gret ...
- A Unique Exhibition in Tehran by Artist Bita Ghezelayagh - Payvand Iran News
This is what I thought when I went to see the first major art show by Bita Ghezelayagh at the Hadi Mirmiran Gallery at Artists Forum in mid-July. The exhibition was of her work in Felt and Silk. A section of the exhibition was her expression as an ...
- John Lundberg: Jack White's Poetic Apology (HuffingtonPost)
This wasn't your everyday means of damage control -- trying to appease angry denizens of Detroit with a poem seems doomed to failure -- but it earned White Stripes rocker Jack White a lot of local press.
- Renowned P.E.I. author, poet dies at 78 (The Guardian)
Frank Ledwell, a renowned UPEI teacher, author, former poet laureate and a member of the Order of PEI, died overnight Thursday in Charlottetown.
- Library hosts Summer Celebration (The Valdosta Daily Times)
VALDOSTA — South Georgia Regional Library hosts its Summer Celebration Saturday, highlighting the success of its Summer Reading Program.
- Poetry in Motion: US gymnast Nastia Liukin - IBTimes India
TVNZPoetry in Motion: US gymnast Nastia LiukinIBTimes India, CA - 1 hour agoUS gymnast Nastia Liukin performs on the balance beam during the womens' gymnastics individual all-around competition. Nastia Liukin won gold medal in ...Johnson is most precise for US women's gymnastics Houston Chronicleall 184 news articles
- Stoooopid .... why the Google generation - Times Online
Times OnlineStoooopid .... why the Google generationTimes Online, UK - Jul 20, 2008trying to read a book called Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson. Crushed in my train, I had become the ...
- IRAQ: The Love Stories Are Gone - IPS
IRAQ: The Love Stories Are GoneIPS, Italy - 1 hour agoThis is the kind of love story Iraqis tell nowadays. "The country of the Arabian Nights and of wonderful poetry is no longer good for love," Maki al-Nazzal, ...
- Book Notes - Daily Progress
Virginia Arts of the Book Center. Charlottesville’s book artists collective and studio, will be holding two advanced summer seminars for artists and poets. In June, internationally known book artist Johanna Drucker will be leading a week-long ...
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