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- Grad earns top award for poetry dissertation - Iowa City Press-Citizen
A recent University of Iowa graduate won a national honor for his dissertation that looks at how people used the once popular, but often viewed as high-brow medium of poetry. Michael Chasar, a regular contributor to the Press-Citizen's Poetic License ...
- Kayker, poet, teacher dies in river accident - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Idaho Mountain Express and GuideKayker, poet, teacher dies in river accidentIdaho Mountain Express and Guide, ID - 8 hours ago... of poetry about whitewater and rivers. In 2005 he was awarded the Idaho Humanities Council's Outstanding humanist Award. "We're losing not just a friend ...
- 3 WNC students win in national contest - Asheville Citizen-Times
Art just seems to be in Tia Simpson’s blood. Her mother has been an art teacher for more than 18 years, and she grew up surrounded by her mom’s paintings and drawings, so when she picked up her own watercolor set it seemed only natural. Simpson ...
- Saturday, May 17, 2008 (Jackson Free Press)
'70s Disco Party Sat, May 17, 7:00 pm. A benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society featuring a $1000 prize for best costume. Castlewoods Country Club (500 Castlewoods Blvd., Brandon).
- Sarah Manguso THE TWO KINDS OF DECAY - New York Times
New York TimesSarah Manguso THE TWO KINDS OF DECAYNew York Times, United States - 26 minutes agoHer book is not only about illness but also about the ways we use language to describe it and cope with it. The author of two books of poetry, ...
- Priceless gifts for Mother's Day - Dayton Daily News
Sunday, May 11, is Mother's Day, and if you're lucky enough to have a mother still living, you should be thinking about what would be meaningful to her. For many consecutive years I stood in the aisles at the nearby CVS or Walgreen's, welling up with ...
- 5 free things to do this weekend (Colorado Springs Gazette)
ART AT ITS PEAK: Stroll among hundreds of art pieces, listen to music and enjoy a day on the grounds of the Pikes Peak Center as Pikes Peak Arts Fest returns 4-8 p.m.
- School Life: Winners - HeraldNet
School Life: WinnersHeraldNet, WA - 1 hour ago... and a lifetime Mukilteo resident, recently won first place in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's poetry contest for her poem entitled "Mukilteo Beach. ...
- Mr Former President Václav Havel - Daily Telegraph
To the Castle and Back is unlike any other political memoir. It is a wonderfully complicated, quintessentially Czech book that could only have been written by Václav Havel: political and philosophical, personal and self-reflective, concrete and ...
- Library Checkout - Northwest Arkansas Times
Library CheckoutNorthwest Arkansas Times, AR - 5 hours agoClayton Scott will host Poetry Intensive for students who have completed sixth through eighth grade from 1-3 pm Saturday in the Walker Community Room. ...
- St. Prosper of Aquitaince - Catholic Online
Called "the best disciple of Augustine," St. Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 370-c. 463/465) devoted his life to defending Augustine's doctrines of grace and predestination against those who opposed it. Prosper may have been born at Limoges; he may have ...
- Entries still open for annual poetry contest - Antelope Valley Press
PALMDALE - The city and the Palmdale Playhouse Writers' Roundtable are still accepting entries for their 12th annual poetry contest. The submission deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday, May 1. The contest has two age categories: youth, for those 14 and under ...
- Obituaries in the news - Washington Post
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) _ Eugenio Montejo, a Venezuelan poet and essayist who won the 2004 Octavio Paz prize, died Thursday. He was 70. The poet's publishing house said he died of natural causes. Montejo's poetry is known for its rich texture and was ...
- Young@Heart-ers put new spin on pop (Orlando Sentinel)
You might know the songs from Top 40, alternative or oldies radio. But we all know how hard it is to make out the correct lyrics. And maybe we don't quite get what Thurston Moore is going on about when Sonic Youth's frontman is singing "Schizophrenia."
- Divorce rings may help some gain closure 10:36 AM CT (Dallas Morning News)
MIDLAND, Texas - That little gold band -- the one your beloved placed on your finger -- was supposed to mean forever. But what happens when it doesn't? What happens when you finally choose to remove it, like 50 percent of married Americans one day will?
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