Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Mystical Malay quatrains continue to charm - Jakarta Post
Mystical Malay quatrains continue to charmJakarta Post, Indonesia - 2 hours agoAnd to ensure this process continues, the festival featured the Negeri Pantun book and a website dedicated to this form of folk poetry. ...
- Baroque art and Playboy bunnies - Ottawa Citizen
You may not remember it, especially if you were busy jitterbugging the night away, but Peter Hinton says the late 1950s and early '60s possessed a grandeur and formality now vanished from North America. There was even a baroque and rococo revival ...
- 'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outlet - NewsOK.com (subscription)
'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outletNewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 2 hours agoThat means you never know what to expect: Truth is optional and dance, music, visual art and poetry can be used to embellish a story. ...
- In a word, solid - Winnipeg Sun
In a word, solidWinnipeg Sun, Canada - 15 minutes agoSurprisingly, this synth-washed slow-burner about African-American identity isn't nearly as provocative as its title suggests. ...
- Is the British Museum the greatest museum on earth? - Times Online
Times OnlineIs the British Museum the greatest museum on earth?Times Online, UK - 9 minutes agoOr “the equivalent of George Bush speaking Arabic or writing Arabic poetry. The brilliance of his achievement was to make Greeks feel like Romans and defend ...
- Not all poetry consists of archaic language, thoughts - Leaf Chronicle
As I am gearing up to study poetry again on a college level, I am reading everything I can get my hands on. Unfortunately, I don't think the majority of the American population likes poetry. But here's the reason why. Most people, I think, are taught ...
- Social networking sites benefit low-income group students (New Kerala)
Washington, June 21: Students from low-income groups who use MySpace and Facebook are as technologically proficient as their richer counterparts, according to a study.
- The Reader - Austin American-Statesman
Jeff Salamon is the Austin American-Statesman's books editor and writer, which is somewhat ironic, given that he is a self-described "slow reader." He also has the dubious distinction of being perhaps the only American Literature major in history to ...
- NOBODY BEATS THE LIZ - New York Post
THE great Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the English monarch in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age," Shekhar Kapur's inferior follow-up to their 1998 film, which is still quite lavish and entertaining in the grand old Hollywood manner. That is, expect ...
- Mighty Yeats is pure poetry in motion after Ascot Gold Cup treble - This is London
Mighty Yeats is pure poetry in motion after Ascot Gold Cup trebleThis is London, UK - 15 minutes agoEarlier, Cilla Black, celebrating 45 years in show business, handed out the silverware to the connections of South Central, the winner of the opening race. ...
- McGonagall proves his worth after all - Times Online
Acclaim of a sort has finally come to William Topaz McGonagall, otherwise known as the world's worst poet, after a collection of 35 of his original poems beat expectations to sell for £6,600 to a mystery buyer at auction yesterday. McGonagall, who ...
- Rep's New Playwrights series is full of aesthetic rewards - Vacaville Reporter
One superb play and ensemble of actors was bound to emerge from New Playwrights at the Rep, the series of four original one-acts being performed through June 15 at Missouri Street Theatre in Fairfield. At the end of Richard Slota's "Famous Michael ...
- Daddy Joe blocked from Romo huddle (Chicago Sun-Times)
J essica Simpson and Tony Romo are back ''on,'' but a college pal of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback tells me it's Romo who's calling all the plays.
- Thurston Moore: Sensitive/Lethal (Pitchfork)
The latest in a long run of below-the-radar experimental solo releases for small labels finds the underground rock figurehead making long-form noise music for Carlos Giffoni's No Fun imprint. read more
- Search this blog - ScienceBlogs
Search this blogScienceBlogs - 38 minutes agoThe teens are now being required by a judge to take poetry classes focusing on the verse of Frost: Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as ...
|
|
Thinking about Refinancing Mortgage?
Second Mortgages
Mortgage News Archives
|