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- Arts Olympus to dress up the Queen Mary - Daily Breeze
In the encyclopedia of the provocative, there are entries for Culture Clash and Culture Club. Robert Slaughter's new project could come right after them, under the heading Culture Cruise. Originally from Barstow ...
- Procrastination: A Beginners Guide by Anuvab Pal for Random House - MyBangalore
Procrastination: A Beginners Guide by Anuvab Pal for Random HouseMyBangaloreThe play is essentially about WH Auden (well really, a play about a play on WH Auden) and you expect the poetry and you expect the genius, but for most of ...
- Tanana Valley Fair talent show attracts Fairbanks' finest - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Tanana Valley Fair talent show attracts Fairbanks' finestFairbanks Daily News-MinerSparky Jones' powerful spoken-word poetry offered a look into her struggle with cancer, while a pair of little boys entertained the crowd with armpit noises ...and more »
- Last Night's TV: Faith Schools Menace?/More 4
Religious prejudice may be the only form of discrimination now funded by government. We spend money – and quite a lot of it – on discouraging racial bigotry and age intolerance. We also pay to ensure that gender bias and homophobia keep their ugly heads down. But, through the agency of faith schools, the belief that one form of religious conviction is superior to others (and that pretty much any ...
- Malaysia Must Not Give Up Fight For Palestinians In Gaza - Muhyiddin - Bernama
BernamaMalaysia Must Not Give Up Fight For Palestinians In Gaza - MuhyiddinBernamaPic Mohd Nasarudin AdibKUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- Malaysia must not give up its fight to free Gaza from Israel's occupation despite the many hurdles ...
- Tagore's 69th anniversary of death today - The Daily Star
Tagore's 69th anniversary of death todayThe Daily StarOnly hours before his death in 1941, the poet dictated his last poem. Bangla Academy organises a solo speech and a cultural programme on the occasion at its ...
- Appreciating Robert Bresson: 'Seemingly Simple but with Mystery at the Heart ... - The American Culture
The American CultureAppreciating Robert Bresson: 'Seemingly Simple but with Mystery at the Heart ...The American CultureBresson saw his task as writing with images and sounds, and thus for him a film is, in a way, like poetry in that each image receives its power and ...
- Geoffrey Hill wins Oxford Professor of Poetry election by landslide
'Greatest living poet in the English language', who celebrates his 78th birthday today, voted in ahead of nine other candidates His academic credentials and plethora of literary prizes have meant that Geoffrey Hill has been the frontrunner for the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from the race's start - and, this afternoon, the British poet was elected by a landslide. Hill, who celebrates his ...
- NOT OF OUR TIME - Brooklyn Rail
NOT OF OUR TIMEBrooklyn RailWe need the force and eloquence of Lang's poetry to magnify and reaffirm what's at stake. But we seek entertainment here, not just edification. ...and more »
- Author Harel Lawrence Appears On The Christian Authors Show To Discuss His Christian ... - PRLog (free press release)
PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 25, 2010 – Harel Lawrence’s latest release, Take A Closer Look: A Spiritual Journey Into The Soul, serves as a tool for closer examination of love, faith and Christian spirituality. One ...
- A senseof place, a sense of time - Montreal Gazette
A senseof place, a sense of timeMontreal GazetteIf she ever does try too hard, it's in having Mandy be a poetry lover, a signifier of sensitivity that feels a little too easy. ...and more »
- Getting hands dirty for a cause - Deccan Chronicle
Getting hands dirty for a causeDeccan ChronicleSon Inba, now five, has been an environment campaigner too and even had eco-poetry on the invitation for his birthday. The pot-shaped invite had a sapling ...
- NPR's prized voice to visit Waco
National Public Radio ambassador of good will Carl Kasell is coming to Waco.
- Bright and Beautiful: Bill Douglas's 'My Childhood' - Indie Wire (blog)
Indie Wire (blog)Bright and Beautiful: Bill Douglas's 'My Childhood'Indie Wire (blog)The films were shot in color but developed in a smudgy, old-fashioned black-and-white, and while the characters' speech is loud and clearly Scottish, ...
- Best bets - Times Herald-Record
Best betsTimes Herald-RecordROASTED POETRY — They'll be roasting coffee and ideas at 7 pm at Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 Route 207 in Campbell Hall. Robert Milby hosts a featured ...
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