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- Former poet laureate plans K-State visit - Topeka Capital Journal
Former poet laureate plans K-State visitTopeka Capital Journal, KS - 6 hours agoHe has published more than 60 books, including 20 books of his own poetry. He also has published numerous translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, ...
- Capture Now - Variety
Josh Jonas explores the death of a child in his one-man show 'Capture Now,' directed by Larry Moss. A Kurt Petersen and Jane Bergere presentation of a solo show in one act, written and performed by Josh Jonas. Directed by Larry Moss. With: Josh Jonas ...
- What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blur - Times Online
Last week, 430,000 freshers made their way to university, an event that The Daily Telegraph would normally have marked with a photograph of an 18-year-old exposing a tantalising stretch of midriff as she ferried crockery on to campus, but this time ...
- Poet Justin Coe to tour North Devon schools - Torquay Herald Express
BACK to North Devon by popular demand is poet Justin Coe who will be touring several schools and colleges. He will be here for two days on October 2 and October 3 to coincide with National Poetry Week. Justin Coe — also known as Justin Rhyme— is ...
- Sarah-Jane Drummey in Druid Theatre Company's production of "The ... - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesSarah-Jane Drummey in Druid Theatre Company's production of "The ...Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago... toward the end -- who seems more real than anyone onstage. But then as always with Synge, it's from the bloody gashes that the poetry of prosaic life flows.
- With Obama's election, Angelou feels a poem coming on (Winston-Salem Journal)
Upon his election as president in 1992, Bill Clinton -- affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president -- asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou now feels a new poem welling up inside her after Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- The antidote to universal troubles - Times Online
The antidote to universal troublesTimes Online, UK - 9 hours agoThe most concise distillation of why poetry matters is in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. When one of the boys complains that most poetry is about ...
- MoMA exhibit features van Gogh's starry nights - International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK : Before Vincent van Gogh could make what would become one of the world's most famous and beloved images, he had to figure out how to use color to paint the blackness of night — and how to do it in the dark. The story of the technical ...
- A memorable travel - New Nation
I went to visit the Mazar of Beri Imam Abdul Latif Al Malqab at 10.30 a.m. and offered Fatiha. I came to know from the people of Islamabad that he was great preacher of Islam. But I saw people in prostrate position in this Mazar which is Shirk and ...
- The Roustabout - New York Times
The RoustaboutNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoIt isn’t necessarily an advantage in the poetry world, especially the American poetry world, to be known for writing things that aren’t poetry. ...
- Gary Hyland's Love of Mirrors nominated for Book of the Year for Saskatchewan Book Awards (Times Herald)
A selection of poems by Moose Jaw writer Gary Hyland has been nominated in the categories of Book of the Year and Poetry book for the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Awards.
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide - Seattle Times
The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest ...
- An author's life/Ken Wylie (Northern Express)
“I went to West Africa for two years. Those two years were a transforming experience for me, an absolutely transforming experience.” Ken Wylie speaks like a writer, with detailed descriptions full of novelistic digressions, dramatic and sweeping.
- Poetry contest to wake dead - The Orion
Poetry contest to wake deadThe Orion, CA - 17 minutes agoClark is a published poet and creative writing professor at the university. Her collection of poems, "Ohio Blue Tips," is on sale at Lyon Books. ...
- Love of music, classical literature influences organ player - Monadnock Ledger Transcript
Love of music, classical literature influences organ playerMonadnock Ledger Transcript, NH - 5 hours agoWhile in London, Smith visited Russell Square and met Eliot, who then worked as the poetry editor for the UK publishing company Faber & Faber. ...
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