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- Matthew Rhys to voice Dylan Thomas animation - Guardian Unlimited
Actor Matthew Rhys, who portrayed Dylan Thomas in the movie The Edge of Love, is to continue his connection with the poet by voicing a TV animation based on one of his poems. A Child's Christmas in Wales, which sees Thomas recreate the festive ...
- Professor Derek Brewer - Daily Telegraph
Professor Derek Brewer, who died on October 23 aged 85, was pre-eminent as a scholar of medieval literature and was Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from 1977 to 1990. A man of huge intellectual energy, Brewer dominated his field by virtue of ...
- The Shakespearean sonnet - Times and Democrat
When you write about William Shakespeare, you use superlatives. The greatest of all writers of English. The greatest writer of anything. The largest vocabulary, the user of most words -- 25,000, 40 percent of which he made up himself. He lived in a ...
- Virginnie's Hat - Book Review (BellaOnline)
Dori Chaconas writes Virginnie's Hat. Holly Meade does the illustrations. Determined young girl secures her hat. Children view three swamp animals: crawdaddy, snake and alligator. Animals in Children Books.
- Douglas Kearney says winning a Whiting Writers' Award is a fresh start - Los Angeles Times
Douglas Kearney says winning a Whiting Writers' Award is a fresh startLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoHis poetry, which walks the line between print and performance, often deals with issues faced by an African American man in contemporary society. ...
- Big passion drives 'Little Voice' - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Big passion drives 'Little Voice'Seattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours agoWhen she got back to the US, where she was attending UCLA, Bareilles put her music front and center, writing poetry and songs about life. ...
- The Browser: Eat your words, John | Cutting remark | Another dark Cave (Guardian Unlimited)
Eat your words, John | Cutting remark | Another dark Cave
- Best bets in the local arts (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
"Sarafina!" Wednesday-Sept. 14 at Washington University's Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard. Sept. 19-21 at the Orthwein Theatre at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, 101 North Warson Road. Preview performances at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. $25, $15 for students.
- 140 authors expected at annual Brooklyn Book Festival - New York Daily News
The crowd browses in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall at the 2007 Brooklyn Literacy Festival in Columbus Park in downtown Brooklyn. Matthews/AP Walter Mosley, who created Detective Easy Rawlins, will be honored at this year's Festival. Corkery/News ...
- Creative opportunities for the disabled flourish - Joplin Independent
Creative opportunities for the disabled flourishJoplin Independent, MO - 6 hours agoThe 50-page work will include poetry, short fiction and non-fiction, and art. Selected contributors will receive a small honorarium and two copies of the ...
- At the Baldwin Public Library - Mirror
At the Baldwin Public LibraryMirror, MI - 5 hours agoPoetry Slamtacular! Ð 7 pm Ð Perform or dramatize your poetry or someone else's with music, costume or just your voice. Solo or in a group Ð memorize or ...
- Teachers urged to 'take risks' inspires pupils - The Independent
Britain's teachers should go back to taking risks in the classroom to inspire a love of learning among their pupils, the leader of the country's preparatory schools will say today. Diana Watkins, incoming chairman of the 600-strong Independent ...
- North Texas Events, September 12 - Times Record News
North Texas Events, September 12Times Record News, TX - 27 minutes agoCAMPSITE TALK ON COWBOY POETRY Saturday, as well as Sept. 20, Oct. 4 and Oct. 11, Copper Breaks State Park, 13 miles south of Quanah and 8 miles north of ...
- Dire predictions call for traditional approach (CBC)
Scottishness is something you can't outrun. I have spent most of my life trying - and my Scottish-Canadian mother has been patience itself over the years as she watched me lashing at those Calvinist ties that bind - but I concede defeat. Every woman becomes her mother. I give in, ma. I am Scottish.
- Single Dad Overcomes Rocky Childhood to Publish First Book of Poetry - Newswise (press release)
Single Dad Overcomes Rocky Childhood to Publish First Book of PoetryNewswise (press release) - 1 hour ago“God knows I can't maintain my love for writing without technology. My keyboard is an extension of my pen.” Watts is determined to show his daughters the ...
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