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- VMI receives grant to enhance Arabic program (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Selected cadets at Virginia Military Institute will benefit from a more robust Arabic language program, and the college will become a model for how other schools can teach the language, thanks to a grant award announced last week.
- Sculpture attack decried - The Union Leader
Sculpture attack decriedThe Union Leader, NH - 9 hours agoLeigh said she watched as the ant was installed May 12, and has even written poetry about it. "To decapitate it is very mean-spirited. ...
- Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from Pushkin Press) (Blogcritics.org)
This new edition is a good reminder of the still-intimate relationship between literature and physical objects. When it comes to music and literature, the digital age has reduced the need for physical objects of art, but not their appeal. The surge in demand for new vinyl records demonstrates the persistence of the physical.So does the thriving business of self-publishing. At a time when anyone ...
- Snacking on Actors - Richmond Style Weekly
Richmond Style WeeklySnacking on ActorsRichmond Style Weekly, VA - May 6, 2008Director Scott Wichmann and music director Ryan Corbitt put together a delightful banquet of entertainment — a variety show of music, short plays and poetry ...
- Literary prize worth $67,481 (The Capital)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A 22-year-old English major at Washington College who has used new media to reflect on her experiences with old-fashioned printing won one of the nation's largest undergraduate literary awards yesterday.
- Just what are you up to? (Tallahassee Democrat)
The annual Welcome Back Students issue of Limelight hits the street and the Web on Aug. 22. It's an expanded edition that will be packed with information and stories about this fall's concerts, plays, movies, art exhibits, literary readings, comedy shows, festivals, Downtown GetDowns, homecoming activities, dance performances and much more.
- Why Zimbabwe Will Not Resist - The Zimbabwean
Why Zimbabwe Will Not ResistThe Zimbabwean, Africa - 46 minutes agoYes the poetry of politics articulates the problem as inflation, the rise of the parallel market, the loss of democratic practices, human rights abuses. ...
- In the frame - Financial Times
Even we who have experienced these techniques for years – in my case 35 – cannot quite get used to them. Each May, we are flown to a remote French fishing port and subjected to ruthless disorientation methods. Night becomes day; day night. We are ...
- Robin's world's greatest - MegaStar.co.uk
MegaStar.co.ukRobin's world's greatestMegaStar.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Williams will play Lance, a high school poetry teacher who covers his son's freak death – in a, er, self-pleasuring ...
- Editorial comment May 26 2008 - The Ashburton Guardian
Editorial comment May 26 2008The Ashburton Guardian, New Zealand - 1 hour agoIt might have been the right story 20 years earlier, but coming out when it did it was like calling a wedding a funeral. There were all these special ...
- Publicize Your Love - TheStranger.com
TheStranger.comPublicize Your LoveTheStranger.com, WA - 42 minutes agoIt's been a while since I read an entire book of poetry in rapture. After finishing Rising, Falling, Hovering, I was reminded of why I love the medium, ...
- Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008: Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide (The Columbus Dispatch)
NEW YORK -- Author, poet and critic Thomas M. Disch -- who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God -- died Friday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 68.
- A Defence of Religion - OpEdNews.com
Certain western thinkers use irrationality as a ground for the superiority of western civilisation, a ground that gives them the moral authority to look down upon, and manipulate, the irrational. It may come as a shock to them to learn that we are ...
- 'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outlet - Daily Oklahoman
To learn more about StorySlam, contact Steven Kovash at 831-2874 or send an e-mail to okcstoryslam@yahoo.com . Friday afternoon, I learned about a form of comic relief that likely will appeal to office workers. It's an offshoot of the Arts Council of ...
- Retiring Chancellor and Sisters Make Gift to Kauai Community College - Honolulu Advertiser
Retiring Chancellor and Sisters Make Gift to Kauai Community CollegeHonolulu Advertiser, HI - 5 hours agoIn addition to her scholarly work, she enjoys creative writing and has had her poetry and fiction appear in local publications such as “Bamboo Ridge. ...
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