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- Gallery: Rock star's hit for hospice - Portsmouth News
Gallery: Rock star's hit for hospicePortsmouth News, UK - 11 minutes agoBut in a break back home between albums and touring, Andy rediscovered an old volume of poetry written by family friend Peter Dixon (see story far right). ...
- Author, poet to speak at women's business dinner - Inrich.com
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. During a presentation titled "Live Out Loud -- on Purpose ...
- New Times / Art (New Times Weekly)
One artist calls her work “stitched drawings.” Another prefers the term “art quilts.” And if you asked the 23 other artists who contributed to the Cal Poly University Arts Gallery’s exhibit, A Tear in the Fabric: The Conceptually Driven Quilt, you’d probably hear a few more terms.
- Students Learn Art Of Debate - Click2Houston.com
HOUSTON -- About 20 students are at an Urban Debate Camp at Prairie View A&M University learning the art of debate, KPRC Local 2, Your Education Station, reported Thursday. One of the students is senior high school student Shanese Foster. "I needed ...
- Cambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse song - Canada.com
Canada.comCambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse songCanada.com, Canada - 5 hours agoIt also quotes Ruskin's maxim: "lyric poetry is the expression by the poet of his own feelings." Cambridge officials said students were then asked to ...
- Sanya Richards clinches Olympic berth (Miami Herald)
Sanya Richards has her eyes locked on a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. But that didn't prevent her from looking past the first step toward being best in the world, which was to confirm that she is best in the nation in the 400-meter sprint. Slicing through a headwind on the backstretch and gaining momentum with a tailwind on the homestretch, Richards won her race by three strides at the ...
- Steele library to hold young adult event - Star-Gazette
The Steele Memorial Library in Elmira will offer Coffee House and Open Mic Night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today as part of its Young Adult program. The event will include live music, poetry slams, and book discussions for high school and college ...
- Paintings, poems therapy for daughter's death - Edmonton Sun
Moneca Melan paints less these days - perhaps a sign that she's begun recovering from her teen daughter's death in a senseless car wreck. The 50-year-old Sherwood Park woman always dabbled in art, but began painting watercolours "fast and furious" in ...
- CU professor publishes translation of ‘Aeneid' (The Ithaca Journal)
The Roman poet Virgil spent the last 11 years of his life writing “Aeneid,” an epic poem of a hero's journey from Troy to Italy, styled on Homer's “Odyssey” and “Iliad.”
- On being Maltese - Times of Malta
On being MalteseTimes of Malta, Malta - 2 hours agoTopics range from and under the wings of culture and identity to language and ethnicity to theatre and poetry to the natural environment and habitat; ...
- John Adams Survives - City Journal
John Adams SurvivesCity Journal, NY - 34 minutes agoAdams’s final words were poetry itself: “Thomas Jefferson survives.” Actually, Jefferson had died a few hours earlier, though of course Adams didn’t know ...
- Grand slam (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
The Worcester Poets Asylum has been sending teams of bards to the National Poetry Slam Finals every year for more than a decade, and this year's no exception, with eight of the area's finest competing for four spots in the competition, at Madison, Wis. Stylistically varied, the poets range from vivacious and funny to political to literary, sometimes with the same poet exchanging one hat for ...
- Britain's Got Talent star Andrew Muir vows to win it for ill cousin - Glasgow Sunday Mail
BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Andrew Muir shares a tender, heartbreaking moment with his six-year-old cousin Lori, who is dying of cancer. Last night, Scots plumber Andrew, 24, earned a standing ovation for his performance of Paolo Nutini's Rewind. But ...
- Office Drones, Without the Buzz - New York Observer
I VOLUNTEERED TO REVIEW THIS novel by my former Village Voice co-worker Ed Park because I assumed the conflicts of interest would be so blatant they’d implode—a roman à clef, in which I myself might play a minor role, about the alt-weekly where ...
- Religion Notes - Morning News
Unity of Fayetteville hosts an Open Mic night from 7 to 9 p.m. July 19. The evening features poetry, music and passages from books. The Men's Bible Study at First Presbyterian Church in Bentonville meets every Friday at 6:30 a.m. The current study is ...
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