Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Poets on the shortlist for the Giffin Prize - Toronto Star
The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize is bestowed Wednesday during a gala in the Distillery District, with two awards of $50,000 going to the best Canadian and best international book of poetry published in English last year. The event is preceded Tuesday by ...
- Grammy Award-winning Robin Eubanks brings commanding flavor, style ... - JazzStage Productions
Grammy Award-winning Robin Eubanks brings commanding flavor, style ...JazzStage Productions, MI - 30 minutes agoHer critically-acclaimed poetry provides the foundation for her workshop, “Rhythm and Words – Poetic Principles That Can Make Your Prose Sing. ...
- Rahsaan Patterson doesn't do labels - San Francisco Chronicle
Rahsaan Patterson doesn't do labelsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoAnd like the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the stand-up comedy of Richard Pryor and the music of Patterson's trans-Atlantic peer Amy Winehouse, much of what's ...
- David Biespiel's poetry column addresses variations in Philip Whalen's 'Zenshinji' (The Oregonian)
L ast month I was visiting a cousin who showed off his framed broadside of the poem "Zenshinji" by his late friend, poet Philip Whalen. Whalen was born in 1923 in Oregon and grew up in The Dalles (he and my cousin attended Reed College during the Gary Snyder and Lew Welch era of the late 1940s).
- Jackson Heights holds first poetry festival (Queens Courier)
An idea that came up over coffee turned into the recently-held, first annual Jackson Heights Poetry Festival. Festival founders Marina Yoffe and Sarah Heinemann first had the conversation last summer. Yoffe said that afterwards they thought the poetry festival should be more than just an idea.
- False role models - DAWN Group
IT was quite surprising to read the news item (June 19) that the APDM leaders will expose Asif Zardari’s corruption if he fails to restore the judiciary. What a noble way of blackmailing and combating corruption. In other words, they will never ...
- We All Watch Oprah (Jackson Free Press)
Juan Felipe Herrera is one of the preeminent voices in 20th-century Chicano poetry. Since the early 1970s, he’s devoted his multimedia work to challenging the notions of what it is to be a Mexican American.
- Obituary: Andrew Crozier (Guardian Unlimited)
July 19, obituary: Poet, publisher and rescuer of many forgotten works
- The master of warring words goes to fight school - Globe and Mail
The master of warring words goes to fight schoolGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoI write what I write - specialized, effective dramatic poetry." His Village Voice essay was something else again, provocative, but written in a manner less ...
- Terence Davies back at the BFI - Screendaily
Terence Davies is again BFI-bound. The revered British director made his first features (including The Trilogy , Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes) under the auspices of the British Film Institute's now defunct production arm. Now ...
- Survivor tells of Holocaust - Asbury Park Press
Survivor tells of HolocaustAsbury Park Press, NJ - 5 hours ago... was the guest speaker at the Holocaust commemoration after recently writing a book, "Say the Name: A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry," published by ...
- Nightlife Calendar: 06/06/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Nightlife Calendar: 06/06/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 22 minutes agoMon. open mic, music and poetry third Thurs. of month; 1121 E. Front, TC; 946-4476; www.jacobswell.info. Kilkenny's Irish Public House, live music 9:30 ...
- Two iUniverse Titles Featured in May Kirkus Discoveries Newsletter - PR.com
Bloomington, IN, May 08, 2008 --( PR.com )-- The iUniverse titles "Witness" by Bill Blais and "Corporate Governance" by Eric Yocam and Annie Choi were featured among the best-reviewed books of the month in the May issue of Kirkus Discoveries ...
- Hip-Hop: Amir Sulaiman (a muslim rapper in usa) - Raptiviste.net
Hip-Hop: Amir Sulaiman (a muslim rapper in usa)Raptiviste.net, Morocco - 37 minutes agoAmir Sulaiman began writing poetry at the age of twelve. In 1996, he began performing at colleges, universities, bookstores, and coffee shops as a student ...
- Oregon Literary Fellowships submission deadline set - WilliametteLive.com
Oregon Literary Fellowships submission deadline setWilliametteLive.com, OR - 1 hour agoThe programs of Literary Arts are Portland Arts & Lectures, Poetry Downtown, Oregon Book Awards, Oregon Literary Fellowships, Poetry in Motion, ...
|
|
Refinance your Mortgage today and save!
Home Mortgages
Mortgage News Archives
|