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- Regional authors signing books today - Daily Independent
ASHLAND — Eight regional authors will be signing books today from noon to 2 p.m. at the Jesse Stuart Foundation on the corner of Winchester Avenue and 17th Street. Those appearing are: ‰John David Preston, an attorney from Paintsville, who wrote ...
- Parting gifts for Martin's mate - BBC News
What's the power of poetry? As a parting gift, Martin McGuinness presented Ian Paisley with a couple of hand-written poems. Mr McGuinness wrote one of the poems himself One was a passage from Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy in the laureate's own ...
- Photographer finds home with Taiwanese squatters - Georgia Straight
Photographer finds home with Taiwanese squattersGeorgia Straight, Canada - Aug 7, 2008A tea house, garden, and pond are hand-built out of a falling-down group of small houses; an archive is assembled; poetry readings and performances take ...
- Mary Washington professor is named poet laureate (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, is Virginia's new poet laureate, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today. Emerson, who grew up in Chatham in Pittsylvania County, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for "Late Wife," her third book of poetry. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in English and earned a master's degree in ...
- [Best Bets] Sunday, August 24 (Jackson Free Press)
Check out the Dinosaurs exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science . Adult admission is $5, $3 for children; call 601-354-7303 for details. … Seven*Studioz hosts open-mic poetry from 8:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.
- Coming Up - Daily Independent
Rob McNurlin and his Beatnik Cowboys, plus Paul Callicoat and Sasha Colette, will perform Saturday at 7:30 p.m. From the permanent collection of the Kentucky Folk Art Center, select works of Minnie Adkins. Paintings by Bill Meadows, pottery by his ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, August 15th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Carl Jung who said, "The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid." Some observations on the news... I know people suffering with dementia whose memory works better than does ...
- Booknotes: New Mexico writer examines unsolved murder (El Paso Times)
NM writer examines unsolved murder - University of New Mexico Press author Paula Moore is scheduled to sign copies of her book "Cricket in the Web" at 2 p.m.
- Teaching peace through "Highs and Lows" - Mennonite Central Committee
Teaching peace through "Highs and Lows"Mennonite Central Committee - 1 hour agoWith the smaller children, she worked on the basic elements of creative writing, especially poetry. They did acrostic poems and list poems. ...
- City Of Raleigh Awards Six Arts Medals - The Raleigh Telegram
The Raleigh TelegramCity Of Raleigh Awards Six Arts MedalsThe Raleigh Telegram, NC - 2 hours agoHe is a writer of more than 20 forms of poetry, drama, essays and literary criticism. In 2008, he became the first Southerner and the first African-American ...
- Areal Republican platform (WorldNet Daily)
We recall the words of the old popular song, "What a Difference a Day Makes; 24 Little Hours." In this political year, it was actually 38 hours, but the poetry is the same.
- Quote of the day - Open Democracy
People are generally benefiting from the changes. Change is good. In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. 22 - 12 - 2005 Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s ...
- After the Gorge - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsAfter the GorgeNew York Times Blogs, NY - 57 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Festival feast of arts - Gazette & Herald
Festival feast of artsGazette & Herald, UK - 37 minutes agoThere will be an organ recital and poetry reading at St Mary's Church on October 8, an evening of English music at Marden House on October 7. ...
- I Love You; Please Go Away - Yahoo! News
I Love You; Please Go AwayYahoo! News - 4 hours agoSeveral years ago, I attended a poetry slam at New York's Bowery Poetry Club. One of the presenting poets, whose name now escapes me, ...
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