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- Ugly Tomatoes Take Manhattan in Farmer's Greenmarket Memoir - Bloomberg
Ugly Tomatoes Take Manhattan in Farmer's Greenmarket MemoirBloomberg - 55 minutes agoTheir names alone make great poetry: Green Zebra, Black Krim, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter. Stark writes inspired family ...
- Oregon's prizewinner worth a read - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Oregon's prizewinner worth a readThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 3 hours agoPoetry magazine published his work. In 1919, he won its $200 Levinson Prize. HL Mencken's American Mercury also published him, and the famously finicky ...
- McCain Makes Strides In NJ - The Bulletin
A new Quinnipiac University poll showed this week that Sen. John McCain has cut Sen. Barack Obama's lead in New Jersey to 3 points, just outside the poll's margin of error. Reflecting a surge of support from white voters, Mr. McCain closed the gap to ...
- WASHINGTON DIARY: Mastering the mother tongue —Dr Manzur Ejaz - Daily Times
WASHINGTON DIARY: Mastering the mother tongue —Dr Manzur EjazDaily Times, Pakistan - 6 hours agoOne day, in poetic trance, when he was reciting his Persian poetry, a wasp made her way into his dhoti (loincloth). Maulvi Sahib, thrashing his dhoti, ...
- 'He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous' - Globe and Mail
'He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous'Globe and Mail, Canada - 45 minutes agoThe inspiration for it was a passing citation to one he made in his 1961 poetry book The Spice-Box of Earth. As for his Yardbird Suite gig, ...
- Druid Theatre Brings 'The Playboy of the Western World' to Rep - Berkeley Daily Planet
Druid Theatre Brings 'The Playboy of the Western World' to RepBerkeley Daily Planet, CA - 8 hours agoHis later play, The Tinker's Wedding wasn’t staged in Ireland until Synge’s centennial in 1971. His plays influenced other playwrights, including Samuel ...
- Calendar (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
ONGOING Alfred T. Hornbacks -- Rockin' C Karaoke, 8 p.m. Tuesdays, no cover. The Beer Joint -- Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover ...
- Crossing barrios to promote peace - San Diego Union Tribune
Crossing barrios to promote peaceSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - Sep 18, 2008He protested the violence through poetry and tried to catch the attention of others through his artwork. At 16, he joined the End Barrio Warfare movement, ...
- Best Bets: Out and About - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Best Bets: Out and AboutSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 7 hours agoSaturday and Sunday are both heavily scheduled with music and poetry readings from 3 to 7 pm Featured performers are Bluiett, Lake and LeFlore as well as ...
- Religion Notes: Sept. 20, 2008 - Record-Searchlight
Religion Notes: Sept. 20, 2008Record-Searchlight, CA - 3 hours agoThe family event includes class demonstrations, a barbecue supper, cowboy poetry and a drawing for a Packers Bay Marina Resort four-day deluxe house boat ...
- Finns ban poetry reading in Russia (Baltic Times)
TALLINN - The Finnish consulate-general in St. Petersburg has said no to the attendance of Sofi Oksanen, a Finnish writer of Estonian background, to a poetry evening in St. Petersburg.
- Bessie Head competition (Mmegi)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards.
- Poet keeps win close to chest - Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki Daily NewsPoet keeps win close to chestTaranaki Daily News, New Zealand - 19 minutes agoFormerly from New Plymouth, Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category for her collection, Cold Snack. ...
- Book ban ends rare Arab-Israeli cultural exchange (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
For 15 years Israeli Saleh Abbasi has traded books between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors, fostering a rare cultural link.
- Samoans strive to survive rising tide (The Star-Ledger)
NEW YORK -- The water isn't up to his chin yet, but Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio sees it rising. In the Kiribati Islands, the tide reaches higher and higher. In nearby Tuvalu, the ocean has swamped and poisoned farmland with its salt.
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