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- Kenya: Kwani Lit Fest Faculty (AllAfrica.com)
Kwani faculty comprises a selection of some of the most exciting contemporary writers from Africa and beyond.
- Bulletin Board - Stratford Bard
Bulletin BoardStratford Bard, CT - 24 minutes agoThe deadline has been extended through September for the Stratford Senior Services poetry contest that is open to the community. Original entries should be ...
- When POTA becomes subject for poem for minister (New Kerala)
New Delhi: What connects POTA, the UPA government's recent win in the trust vote, Twenty20 cricket, tsunami, love and the Nano car?
- Notes on a small island: The things that really make Britain great (Independent)
Although originally an Australian import, the alcopop became very much a part of the British way of life during the youth alcohol crisis of the 1990s.
- Claude Debussy, by Paul Roberts - The Independent
Debussy's life is well documented, but he remains an enigma. In his quest to unravel this, Paul Roberts has aimed to win new insights into the music of which, as a concert pianist, he's a distinguished interpreter. He has succeeded, distilling a ...
- Vandals get classroom penance - Lafayette Journal and Courier
Using “The Road Not Taken” and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways — and the redemptive power of poetry.
- Jeremy Paxman ridicules Robert Burns as king - Times Online
Times OnlineJeremy Paxman ridicules Robert Burns as kingTimes Online, UK - 20 hours ago... explosive vernacular and insipid English, vigorous bawdry and pietistic moralising, who was prevented from writing sustained poetry of the very highest ...
- AP Top News at 7:44 a.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Change is coming, that much Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama agree on as they plunge into a five-month campaign for the White House. The primaries behind them, the presidential rivals were wasting no time drawing the battle line for a fall fight that will make history with the election of either the oldest first-term president in McCain or the first black leader in Obama. In ...
- Renowned author will reside at APSU - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Renowned author will reside at APSUClarksville Leaf Chronicle, TN - 31 minutes ago"In addition to novels, Erdrich has written volumes of poetry, children’s books and a memoir of early motherhood," says a news release from APSU. ...
- Persian calligraphy: Gentle curves of beauty - PRESS TV
PRESS TVPersian calligraphy: Gentle curves of beautyPRESS TV, Iran - 2 hours agoKnown as the most attractive Persian calligraphy style, Nasta'liq was broadly used in copying romantic and epic Persian poetry and literary manuscripts, ...
- Savard among 65 artists in ‘Visions from the Heart’ - Easton Courier
Savard among 65 artists in ‘Visions from the Heart’Easton Courier, CT - 47 minutes agoThe art exhibition will be open to the public at City Lights Gallery; admission is free. The gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 to 5 and ...
- Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' - International Herald Tribune
Robert Macfarlane is looking for his wild in England, Ireland and Wales, territory that for most of us evokes words like "manicured," "turf" or, at the very least, "domesticated." His book about a series of pilgrimages to the moors, islands, lochs ...
- Happy in his world of words (Deccan Herald)
Lyricist Javed Akhtar needs no introduction. Sreya Basu caught up with the man behind many immortal Hindi songs during his visit to Kolkata for Indian Idol 4 auditions.
- African-American series character is a role model for black girls (Belleville News-Democrat)
In his mind, Derrick Barnes is already casting the film version of his new children's books.
- Love your library: Wild reads ‘Way opens’ (Somerville Journal)
A bi-monthly columnist for the “Somerville Journal” for 10 years, Wild is presently writing the sequel to her novel, “Swimming In It,” entitled “Welling Up,” and revising her play, “Not for Nothing.”
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