Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- The ethereal world of radio poetry - Guardian Blogs
Listening on Sunday to a radio playing Ezra Pound's wartime radio broadcasts of propaganda and poetry is an eerie experience, the original broadcasts - somehow amplified in the present - echoing uncannily in my mind. My thoughts were already turned ...
- The Amrita Pritam I Knew - Indian Express
The Amrita Pritam I KnewIndian Express, India - 8 hours agoAdmired for her poetry, and criticised for her disdain for tradition, Amrita lived life on her own terms. Though tongues wagged, she chose to listen to her ...
- Pulitzer Prize winner named Va.'s poet laureate - WTOP Radio
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Tim Kaine appoints University of Mary Washington professor Claudia Emerson as Virginia 's new poet laureate. Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called "Late Wife." The book uses a collection of ...
- Poet to visit Ashley Hall (The Post and Courier)
Sometimes to go forward one must first go back. The reverse is no less true. As Bourne Professor of Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Thomas Lux says the most effective means of igniting in young people an interest in verse is to expose them to the poetry of their own time.
- Excerpt: Tyranny of Nice by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere - Western Standard- Shotgun Blog
Excerpt: Tyranny of Nice by Kathy Shaidle and Pete VereWestern Standard- Shotgun Blog, Canada - 52 minutes agoShaidle, who blogs at Five Feet of Fury and has penned a critically-acclaimed poetry collection, is currently fighting an HRC-related court case. ...
- Herzog 'encounters' nature - AZCentral.com
NEW YORK - The new documentary from the eccentric German director Werner Herzog, "Encounters at the End of the World," is not your typical nature film. Invited by the National Science Foundation to explore Antarctica, Herzog brought just one ...
- Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami - Daily Telegraph
"We read fine things", claimed Keats, "but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author." It is hard to imagine many readers going the same steps as Haruki Murakami. A bestselling Japanese novelist whose work has been ...
- 'Bangkok Dangerous' reaches No. 1 in slow weekend - MLive.com
AP File Photo The total weekend box office gross was expected to reach just $66 million. LOS ANGELES -- The Nicolas Cage action-thriller "Bangkok Dangerous" needed just $7.8 million to take the top spot at the box office in what was the slowest movie ...
- Karin Fossum veers from Sejer to a new style of darkness - Courier Mail
Karin Fossum veers from Sejer to a new style of darknessCourier Mail, Australia - 1 hour agoWHAT better for Karin Fossum after an extended career of poetry, short stories and the acclaimed Inspector Sejer Mysteries than this? ...
- Farewell gift for writer - three years late - New Zealand Herald
Farewell gift for writer - three years lateNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 2 hours agoPayne's son Tyler said this meant a lot to him, his family, and to those who had read his father's work. "It's been three years since Dad died and I get ...
- Professional disc golf won't leave you frolfing at the mouth - Canada.com
Canada.comProfessional disc golf won't leave you frolfing at the mouthCanada.com, Canada - 5 hours agoWhitlock, in town for the River City Cup, looks like a man who's read some beat poetry in his time. Me: "Can you make a decent living as a disc-golf ...
- Season benchmarks - Star-ecentral.com
Sci-fi classic Blade Runner may not have beaten E.T. at the box office but even after 20 years, you can still appreciate its vision of the future and philosophy. HERE are 10 of the most influential, trend-setting, jaw-dropping summer releases of the ...
- Dark and sweet fables for a modern age (Seattle Times)
Artists Julie Paschkis and Kensuke Yamada offer playful, sometimes disturbing characters and engaging narratives that are both dark and sweet, at Grover/Thurston Gallery and Catherine Person Gallery, respectively.
- Physical Fitness - Chicago Tribune
TODAY Nature walk Anita C. Leight Estuary Center at Otter Point Creek will hold a nature discovery walk at 10:30 a.m. at 700 Otter Point Road, Abingdon. Free for all ages. 410-612-1688. Wine and jazz Fiore Winery will hold a wine, jazz and art ...
- OUT & ABOUT - Bothell Reporter
Calendars are published Wednesdays and Saturdays on a space-available basis. Items for the Wednesday edition must be submitted by noon the previous Thursday. Items for the Saturday edition must be submitted by noon the previous Tuesday. Events ...
|
|
Looking into a Refinance?
Home Mortgages
November 2007 Mortgage News
|