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- Rising Stars series in Millennium Park - ABC7Chicago.com
Rising Stars series in Millennium ParkABC7Chicago.com, USA - 4 hours agoFinalists in the national Poetry Out Loud contest will open each of the four performances. The series kicks off on Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 pm, ...
- LA Phil guest conductor Bramwell Tovey at the Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesLA Phil guest conductor Bramwell Tovey at the Hollywood BowlLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoWhat with the earthy nature of "Carmina Burana" -- its Latin and old German love poetry given gung-ho music for chorus, orchestra and vocal soloists ...
- 'Dangers of ignoring India's poor' (rediff.com)
Author Arvind Adiga discusses his new book and describes how he got the idea for it
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (The Charlotte Observer)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. 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. ...
- Sluggish pace hampers RVP's 'Brooklyn Boy' - Marin Independent-Journal
Sluggish pace hampers RVP's 'Brooklyn Boy'Marin Independent-Journal, CA - 2 hours agoThe simple poetry found in ordinary lives has never been lost on me. I just didn't find it here. And sometimes the way people speak and respond is just ...
- Caitlin talks her way to trophy success - John O'Groat Journal
Caitlin talks her way to trophy successJohn O'Groat Journal, UK - 56 minutes ago... Mrs Szyfelbain, who writes poetry as Jenny Stewart, was delighted with the depth of talent. The dialect classes opened with a poem penned by retired ...
- Yada Yada Yada | Prone Maybe I am a dirty writer. But so was Nabokov. - Velocity
Yada Yada Yada | Prone Maybe I am a dirty writer. But so was Nabokov.Velocity, KY - 2 hours agoNow, I was fully aware that my column and blog are considered dirty by some people, but I'd never thought my poetry or fiction was, especially not by an ...
- Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: the shortlist - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: the shortlistguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoOf the six, Mark Cocker's Crow Country is the shortest and, like poetry, it repays rereading in short bursts, so you can savour the lyricism of the writing. ...
- Meeting marks President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday (Việt Nam News)
Ha Noi — A meeting was held in Ha Noi on May 18 to celebrate President Ho Chi Minh’s 118th birthday, which falls on May 19.
- Interview with Magdalena Ball of The Compulsive Reader and Blogcritics Magazine (Blogcritics.org)
"I think that the term 'legitimate' is full of emotion and fraught with danger!" states Ball. Magdalena Ball is the founder of The Compulsive Reader, a book review site focusing on literary fiction and long, in-depth reviews. She's also the author of Sleep Before Evening, a poetry chap book titled Quark Soup, and the nonfiction work, The Art of Assessment. A winner of both local and ...
- Nurturing a young country - ScrippsNews
She calls it history's "other half." But for too long, Cokie Roberts believes, the story of our country's first fragile years, from the woman's point of view, languished in the shadow of all those best sellers about the Founding Fathers. In 2004, she ...
- State of the arts - guardian.co.uk
State of the artsguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoIts kaleidoscope show, free for guests, is a weird refracted summation of American History. Thirty-six Ben Franklin faces morph into marijuana leaves as you ...
- Don Guy will be missed - Harnesslink
Don Guy will be missedHarnesslink, New Zealand - 3 hours ago... Gilgamesh, Glenaldon, Monetecito, Poetry Man, Rathillet, Shy Dene, 1983 Wedderburn Pacing Cup winner Tarhill, Tonka Apollo, Transit Earl and Ubleis. ...
- It's Happening -VILLAGER - Inside Toronto
HUMBERCREST UNITED CHURCH hosts its 43rd annual from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This year's sale features china, linens, jewelry, books, toys, sports equipment, clothing for all, glassware, pots and pans, and much more. A snack bar is also available ...
- GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR (Kirkus Reviews)
Travel writer and novelist Theroux (The Elephanta Suite, 2007, etc.) offers an elegiac retracing of roads and railroads taken across the vastness of Eurasia.
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