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- Griffin Poetry Prizes go to Blaser and Ashbery - CBC News
Robin Blaser, poet and professor emeritus from B.C.'s Simon Fraser University, was awarded the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize for Canadian poetry on Wednesday night. Blaser was joined by acclaimed U.S. poet John Ashbery, who took home the ...
- Playwright and poet - The Gazette (Montreal)
Playwright and poetThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 9 hours agoBorn on a farm near Stratford, Ont., Reaney completed a doctorate under legendary literary critic Northrop Frye, who strongly influenced his writing. ...
- The Weekend's Here - NovoMetro
The Weekend's HereNovoMetro, CA - 27 minutes agoJazz and poetry have been making beautiful music together since the early 1920s, when writers like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Sterling Brown fused ...
- Kidd Stays in the Picture - New York Sun
Kidd Stays in the PictureNew York Sun, United States - 6 hours agoThis year's edition will present more than 50 events, including music and dance performances, poetry readings, film and visual art projections, ...
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Favorites Reading List - La Jolla
Summertime Favorites, a list of recommended readings, represents the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) long-standing effort to highlight classic literature for young people from kindergarten through high school. Thousands of parents and ...
- ODDS AND ENDS: "Two Legends" concert in Saginaw features tenor ... - MLive.com
MLive.comODDS AND ENDS: "Two Legends" concert in Saginaw features tenor ...MLive.com, MI - 41 minutes agoHer book "Exiliana" tells about her exile from Chile and her poetry book "House" find each poem ending with a stanza in Spanish. ...
- Visiting poets - Ledbury Reporter
Visiting poetsLedbury Reporter, UK - 15 hours agoIT is good news that six poets will visit local schools during the forthcoming Ledbury Poetry Festival in order to encourage young people to write in verse. ...
- Carlisle Floyd tries to make his opera 'Susannah' accessible - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesCarlisle Floyd tries to make his opera 'Susannah' accessibleLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoMuch like that of Robert Frost's poetry, the opera's musical style is superficially devoid of artifice -- but deceptively so. ...
- Cohen's the Homme in his Hometown - Boston Globe
With visions of tea and oranges dancing in his head, assistant arts editor and "SE" contributor James Reed went all the way to Montreal yesterday to catch Leonard Cohen’s homecoming show there. And it was worth it… "OK, is that what I think it is ...
- South poetry jam inspires impromptu compositions - Delaware News
South poetry jam inspires impromptu compositionsDelaware News, OH - 1 hour agoGreg Booth, who said he was a friend of Cartell's, acted out Taylor Mali's poem Like Lilly Like Wilson. "I'm writing the poem that will change the world/and ...
- Saddam feared getting 'venereal diseases' from his U.S. prison guards ... - Canada East
CAIRO, Egypt - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or some other l disease during his U.S.-supervised captivity, according to excerpts of his prison writings published in a leading Arab newspaper Monday. The London-based pan ...
- DELAWARE: State names new poet laureate - Delmarva Daily Times
DOVER — A poem can be a lonely, silent thing. But when it’s ready, said JoAnn Balingit, Delaware’s 16th and latest poet laureate, “It has to be witnessed, because you want to communicate it.” And if there’s one thing a poet laureate wants ...
- Reviewed by Alexandra Fuller - Washington Post
Reviewed by Alexandra FullerWashington Post, United States - 21 minutes agoThe martyrdom of Saro-Wiwa is a challenge to writers who find themselves in the midst of gross injustice to abandon the subtleties of fiction and poetry. ...
- Friendship Parish holds worship service of talent - Marion Star
The Friendship Parish churches recently held a worship service with its own talent praising God's word through music. Friendship Parish is made up of United Methodist churches including Boundary, Canaan, Denmark, Ebenezer, Edison, Caledonia, Claridon ...
- Book review by Will Podmore - National Secular Society
Book review by Will PodmoreNational Secular Society, UK - 1 hour agoIt has an introduction, ‘Flicks and this fleeting life’, by Harrison himself and another by his colleague the filmmaker Peter Symes, ‘It’s all poetry to me’ ...
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