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- Swedes first in NP speech event - Gothenburg Times
Serious prose—7. Zac Franzen. Poetry—2. Zac Franzen, 3. Elisa Meridith, 6. Brennan Costello. Duet acting—5. Willis Middleton and Jeramie VanAcker, 9. Josh Clark and Zac Franzen. Also competing were Alex Spencer, Morgan Kowalewski, Jon Rehmert ...
- Tarannum’s Mera Rakht-e-Safar gets best book award - Greater Kashmir
Jammu, Mar 5: The prominent Urdu writer Tarannum Riyaz’s book, “Mera Rakht-e-Safar†has ... In Kashmiri, the award has gone to “Yim Maine Sokhanâ€, a collection of poetry and short stories by Amin Kamil. Ved Rahi’s book on Lal Ded has been ...
- John Spillane: From Cork to the Universal - Huffington Post (blog)
John Spillane: From Cork to the UniversalHuffington Post (blog)Yet for all the depth and poetry in his songs, his gigs are full of craic. Humor, warm banter and gentle self-deprecation are the order of the day. ...
- WORD TO YOUR MOTHER: Confessions of a student mother - Rebel Yell
Click image to enlarge. Dun dun dun…. Is that poopie in my son’s diaper? Faster than a speeding power wheel and able to get to the baby changing station in a single leap, I put on my cape and pull back my black stringy hair. In one fluid motion I ...
- Cultural recap - Prague Post
The key word on the classical scene in 2009 was festivals. With the National Theater and State Opera running on tight budgets, and the demise of Prague Autumn leaving a big hole in September, festivals new and old flourished as never before ...
- HSB Real Estate Advisory Services' Benedetto - GlobeSt. com
On day number two of this year’s Memorial Day weekend, Christian M. Benedetto Jr.’s wife Suzy suggested that he get a hobby. "Apparently watching the House marathon or the History channel, while emailing clients from my blackberry, did not ...
- Hip Hop's final frontier - Fiji Times
Hip Hop's final frontierFiji TimesI loved poetry, and was infatuated with how rappers would play with words; I loved the attitude, and most of all the beats. From as early as 1993, ...
- Bragan was friend to all who knew him - ESPN.com
FORT WORTH, Texas -- I loved Bobby Bragan's voice. It was his signature, his calling card. Some would probably call it gruff. Every time I heard it, I thought of single-malt scotch, a good cigar and Sinatra singing somewhere in the background. There ...
- Book review: 'Chronic Poems' by D.A. Powell - Dallas Morning News
John Freeman is the author of The Tyranny of E-mail and editor of Granta magazine. Some poets can show us the exterior world, and some can ferry news of their inner turmoil. Few possess the double vision required to do both. Sylvia Plath surveyed and ...
- Between The Lines: The Cellist of Sarajevo (KGBT 4 Rio Grande Valley)
Twenty-four hours after a cellist’s family and friends were killed in a mortar attack, he returns to the play the cello on the very spot they lost their lives.
- Kit Gets Catty - University Chronicle
Kit Gets CattyUniversity ChronicleIf you have something happening on campus, a fundraiser, a play, a poetry bash, etc, how do you get your information out? There are the posters put up by ...
- Sloppy mystery plotting a crime - Toronto Star
Sloppy mystery plotting a crimeToronto StarAs it is, Dalgliesh, a police inspector with a fondness for writing poetry, is hardly cut from the same cloth as the jaded, emotionally stunted gumshoes ...
- Stories waiting and aching to be told - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
Looking back on last year’s Galle Literary Festival, Stephen Prins recounts his meeting with the distinguished Irish novelist, Edna O’Brien Edna O’Brien, the distinguished Irish novelist, is feeling the heat. It is a scorching Monday afternoon ...
- Higher ed - Daytona Beach News-Journal
Students attending Stetson University in DeLand will notice a change that's occurring on campuses across the country. Schools are switching from steering students to bank-generated loans to the Federal Direct Loan Program. Starting with the summer ...
- Quidditch sweeps across WSU - Kansas.com
Kansas.comQuidditch sweeps across WSUKansas.comPerhaps, had she lived today, she too would have thrilled to the poetry and power of Quidditch. The Andersons and their teammates — most of them strings ...
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