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- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness (The New York Sun)
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a composer be acclaimed for his mastery of rests? In fact, though Stafford often wrote about silence — and made grand claims for it — he was an unusually ...
- Children's books: Old and new - Nashua Telegraph
"My Bent Tree" by Kathy Brodsky, illustrated by Cameron Bennett; Helpingwords: cloth, 44 pages, $19.95. "The Little Fisherman" by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Dahlov Ipcar; Islandport Press: cloth, 32 pages, $16.95. One day, as Kathy Brodsky ...
- Falling into novel notion - Windsor Star
Windsor StarFalling into novel notionWindsor Star, Canada - 10 hours agoShe is best known as a poet and, in 2004, won the Griffin Prize, the country's most prestigious poetry award for her collection titled Loop. ...
- Local author shortlisted for prestigious provincial award - Standard Freeholder
Local author shortlisted for prestigious provincial awardStandard Freeholder, Canada - 20 minutes agoIt was there, while a student, one of her professors, Robert Yergeau, encouraged her to submit her poetry to his own publishing house, Le Nordir, ...
- BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback - Inter Press Service (subscription)
BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian BlowbackInter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 4 hours agoEnglehardt's work -- and those he selects from the blog -- read like poetry. In the rapid-fire blogger world, he breaks the mold by sticking to the old ...
- Neath’s annual festival is all set to be a real winner - WalesOnline
Neath’s annual festival is all set to be a real winnerWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoAn evening of poetry and music with Neath Chamber soloists and Peter Jones. All proceeds in aid of Neath Cancer Challenge. Admission £5, £4 concessions. ...
- My Glasto Experience - The South African
My Glasto ExperienceThe South African, UK - 2 hours agoThere’s comedy, poetry, theatre, political speeches, and a whole host of mini communities offering all kinds of weird and wonderful experiences. ...
- Poetry course at National Library - Trinidad News
Poetry course at National LibraryTrinidad News, Trinidad and Tobago - 49 minutes agoPOET Anson Gonzalez will be conducting “Master Anson’s Poetry Writing SkilShop” , at the National Library on Saturdays from June 14 to July 19. ...
- Petaluma Poetry Walk Anthology reading May 25th - Listen&Be Heard
Petaluma Poetry Walk Anthology reading May 25thListen&Be Heard, CA - 57 minutes agoMaybe a quarter of the 85 poets featured in the Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology will be celebrating and/or reading at Bird & Beckett Books and ...Petaluma Poetry Walk Anthology reading Listen&Be Heardall 2 news articles
- Author, poet to speak at women's business dinner (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A self-published poet and author will be the keynote speaker tomorrow at a dinner celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Richmond chapter of the American Business Women's Association.
- Foregoing black tie for white formal fetches plenty - Vancouver Sun
Foregoing black tie for white formal fetches plentyVancouver Sun, Canada - 6 hours agoCAST MASTER: Arthur Erickson Conservancy founder Cheryl Cooper will lecture Londoners on the feted city architect's "concrete poetry" Thursday. ...
- Taoiseach joins leading theatre companies as Irish take Manhattan - Irish Times
Taoiseach joins leading theatre companies as Irish take ManhattanIrish Times, Ireland - 7 hours agoThe Abbey is in New York staging its production of American writer Sam Shepherd's Kicking a Dead Horse. Mr Cowen was uncharacteristically diffident in such ...
- Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prizes to be handed out at dinner in ... - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - Authors Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje are among the literary stars set to celebrate the best in poetry tonight at a dinner in downtown Toronto. The Griffin Poetry Prize Awards give $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50 ...
- R. S. Gwynn's "Fried Beauty" (Seattle Times)
Texas poet R. S. Gwynn is a master of the light touch. Here he picks up on Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet "Pied Beauty," which many of you...
- The real Boris Johnson: is there any such thing as a Libertarian ... - Daily Telegraph Blogs
To the general disappointment of Labour, Boris Johnson has not shown any real signs of weakness, although the campaigning journalism that got Ken into such hot water over the last year, threatens to swamp his own team in controversy after a mere two ...
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