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- Festival embraces African rhythms - Waterloo Record
Festival embraces African rhythmsWaterloo RecordMusic, dance, poetry and drama were the highlights of the annual festival put on by the African Women's Association of Waterloo Region. ...
- ArtsWestchester Awards HVWC $26400 Grant - Patch
ArtsWestchester Awards HVWC $26400 GrantPatch8 pm August 22: "Black Nature – Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry" will be a reading presented by HVWC and Slapering Hol Press in conjunction ...
- Sunday Book Review: ‘Burmese Lessons’ by Karen Connelly - New York Times
Burma became a pariah state when Gen. Ne Win and a military junta took power in a coup in 1962 and renamed the country Myanmar . When Connelly arrives, their iron grip has held the country for many years. Not ...
- Turks see Ottoman legacy in new light - The Associated Press
Turks see Ottoman legacy in new lightThe Associated PressAn exhibition of Ottoman poetry is on display at Istanbul's international airport. Ottoman cuisine, a fusion of flavors from old imperial lands, ...and more »
- Authors explore the range of feelings of fatherhood - Savannah Morning News
Authors explore the range of feelings of fatherhoodSavannah Morning NewsFrom critical analysis to poems, short stories and interviews, these writings form a composite of the challenges facing families of color, and what can be ...
- Dublin in a new light on bike hike - Irish Times
Irish TimesDublin in a new light on bike hikeIrish TimesWe stop at the statue of Patrick Kavanagh but none of us can recite any of his poetry. We have better luck at Oscar Wilde – we can all reel off one or two ...
- Time for a bit of Latitude - East Anglian Daily Times
East Anglian Daily TimesTime for a bit of LatitudeEast Anglian Daily Times... to a friend, you must be logged in. Now in its fifth year, hundreds of acts from the worlds of music, theatre, comedy, literature, film, poetry, dance, ...and more »
- Story of My Life - Jamaica Observer
Story of My LifeJamaica ObserverHonestly, poetry writers don't usually do it for me but, whatever. Technically, he wasn't supposed to be "doing" anything for me; this was strictly a ...
- Making art in the face of death - ABC Online
Making art in the face of deathABC OnlineThe music and poetry created by the Jewish community in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius – one of the most devastating sites of Nazi-occupation during ...
- BOOK REVIEW: Cain and Abel: The sequel? - Washington Times
Washington TimesBOOK REVIEW: Cain and Abel: The sequel?Washington TimesHe explains that "those who choose to argue in prose ... are unlikely to be receptive to a case that is most effectively couched in poetry. ...
- NDC Give to Fulera What Youve Done for Konadu
*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D. The CPP Youths have faulted the NDC for rehabilitating the house of the mother of Konadu Rawlings for her to move in, while neglecting Mrs. Fulera Limann, [the wife of Dr. Hilla Limann] who was a First Lady before her (Abridged From JoyFMOnline, July 13, 2010).
- Fledgling filmmakers bring museum to life - The Aucklander
Fledgling filmmakers bring museum to lifeThe AucklanderIt's a marked contrast to their other contests like the Anzac poetry competition. The museum's learning director Karen Mason says the competition is a ...
- Called to duty: Gordimer’s vision of the writer’s life - Buffalo News
Read the title again. That’s right: It says “Writing and Living,†not the other way around, which would seem to be more fitting in the order of time. That is because for Nobel Prize-winner Nadine ...
- Window on the world - Al-Ahram Weekly
Window on the worldAl-Ahram WeeklyTheir characters are not the universally known heroes of poetry or folktales but representatives of the common citizen," concluded Abu Lughod. ...and more »
- Hugh Muir's diary - The Guardian
Hugh Muir's diaryThe GuardianLast day for voting to find a new Oxford professor of poetry. And though many fear the odds are irretrievably stacked towards Geoffrey Hill, we hope sense ...and more »
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