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- Argentine poet Juan Gelman receives Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor (International Herald Tribune)
Gelman suffered wrenching personal loss under his country's military rule and wrote of it in poignant verse, received the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor on Wednesday.
- Teen feud ends in death - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Teen feud ends in deathSanta Rosa Press Democrat, CA - 3 hours agoAt Carlé on Friday, students gathered in an enclosed quad to talk about their feelings, read poetry, burn incense, scatter rose petals and embrace. ...
- Browsing poetry - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
begins the first poem in Kevin Prufer's fourth book, "National Anthem." OK, it's not much of a clue, but it is another image of silence, only this time something's happening in the silence — a thought is humming. It's a tiny indication of what ...
- Whale of a city - Boston Globe
Whale of a cityBoston Globe, United States - 47 minutes agoODD FACT: Eugene O'Neill, the country's only Nobel-prize-winning playwright, spent his early summers in New London, where he later wrote stories and poetry ...
- NSO & Vladimir Ashkenazy, Staying True to Sibelius - Washington Post
Vladimir Ashkenazy began his two-week run as the NSO's guest conductor last night. (By Sasha Gusov -- The Kennedy Center) Osmo Vanska, who conducted a memorable program of mostly Sibelius last year, may have the surest hand with the Finnish composer ...
- A private glimpse of reality - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukA private glimpse of realityguardian.co.uk, UK - 41 minutes agoShe knows that ordinary talk is required, but poetry keeps breaking through. How can she explain herself? Philip puts on a Handel concerto, and she feels ...
- REVIEW: DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL - SATURDAY - This is Nottingham
REVIEW: DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL - SATURDAYThis is Nottingham, UK - 7 hours agoAfter agreeing it was a ritual Rock City really got going as Williams performed a mix of poetry and hip-hop. His keyboardist looked like dracula with his ...
- I know what you're thinking - Boston Globe
I know what you're thinkingBoston Globe, United States - 2 hours agobut, Miss Conduct, when do we get to read your poetry? Ah, my friends, the time has come. Back in the day, Miss Conduct had a job where she worked with a ...
- Present at the creation - Boston Globe
Amid the ongoing debate about the Founding Fathers - Is John Adams still underrated? Was Thomas Jefferson an unforgivable hypocrite? - one proposition recurs in the annual crop of books timed for publication around the Fourth of July. This was a ...
- Authors' summer reading lists full (Arizona Daily Star)
Richard Ford's summer reading list includes Richard Price's "Lush Life," Tobias Wolff's "Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories" and Gustave Flaubert's "A Sentimental Education."
- Fort Lauderdale conference offers real-world advice to poets (Sun-Sentinel)
Lauderdale conference offers real-world advice for artists Successful spoken-word poets mine their souls for inspiration.
- 195th Bhanu Jayanti observed (Nepalnews. com)
The nation marked the 195th Bhanu Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Aadikavi (first poet) Bhanu Bhakta Acharya by acknowledging the immense contribution he has made to Nepali language and literature.
- Teenage poet sharing her work (The North Bay Nugget)
Susie Gooch didn't think her poem Infinitely was an award-winning piece when she first wrote it. I was on the bus on the way from my sister's graduation in Guelph and I didn't really have anything with me so I started writing on Post-it Notes," said the 17-year-old. [...]
- Poetry integral part of life in hamlet - VietNamNet Bridge
Poetry integral part of life in hamletVietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 2 hours ago... Tay have communicated by poetry. Although the poems are often about their working lives, many villagers also use them to teach their children about life ...
- GBC to award 296 degrees (Elko Daily Free Press)
ELKO - The students in Great Basin College's class of 2008 will commence their professional lives with a graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. May 17 in the Elko Convention Center.
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