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- Always Comfortable in Her Own Skin (New York Times)
Bettie Page, who died Thursday, was Queen of the Pinups in the 1950s, appearing in thousands of photographs and numerous short films in states of jubilant undress.
- The first ever BeethovenFest is bringing area musicians together to ... - Kalamazoo Gazette
Painting of Ludwig van Beethoven (1820) by Joseph Karl Stieler | Wikimedia Commons The first ever BeethovenFest next Sunday will mark the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. KALAMAZOO -- The first ever BeethovenFest next Sunday will mark ...
- Mark Doty Wins National Book Award for Poetry - Advocate
An acclaimed gay writer just got more acclaimed. Writer Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems  won the National Book Award for poetry at an awards presentation Wednesday night in New York City. "Elegant, plain-spoken, and unflinching ...
- The forgotten war poet - Times Online
Times OnlineThe forgotten war poetTimes Online, UK - 26 minutes agoA life largely spent doing the exact opposite of what he had mapped out for himself ended in a macabrely appropriate death. Being the hero he was probably ...
- Leeds poetic champions pick up their prizes - Yorkshire Evening Post
Leeds poetic champions pick up their prizesYorkshire Evening Post, UK - 2 hours agoMr Barnes also won the best poem award presented by Leeds Trinity and All Saints College. The annual peace poetry competition is supported by Arts at ...
- Bulletin Board: Dec. 18 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board: Dec. 18Norwich Bulletin, CT - 18 minutes agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY AND THE POETS/PROSE WRITERS ON THE SOUND, 10 am to noon, Jan. 9, East Lyme Public Library, EAST LYME. ...
- Charity ball raises £4000 for breast cancer - Stourbridge News
Charity ball raises £4000 for breast cancerStourbridge News, UK - 6 hours agoSylvia launched her poetry book called “Simple and to the Point†in September, with all the proceeds going to the charity. Lye pubs have also been rallying ...
- Book Review: WOOF - Women Only Over Fifty by Diana Black, Mary ... - Blogcritics.org
Book Review: WOOF - Women Only Over Fifty by Diana Black, Mary ...Blogcritics.org, OH - 2 hours agoThis little book would make a great Christmas or birthday gift to anyone who loves a good laugh, but especially to those Woofers over 50. ...
- NLR Student Wins Honors in National Contest - KARK
KARKNLR Student Wins Honors in National ContestKARK, Little Rock - 5 hours ago... WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry. ...
- ALBUM REVIEW East from the Midwest (The Tech)
By S. Balaji Mani STAFF WRITER Chicago-based trio Pillars & Tongues don’t just play together: they talk to each other, critique each other, and advise each other—with their instruments, of course. Their frank, uninhibited musical conversations have been compiled onto a disc entitled Protection , released just last month on the Contraphonic imprint.
- Filmmaker Ketan Anand on reviving home banner, Himalaya Films - Screen Weekly
Screen WeeklyFilmmaker Ketan Anand on reviving home banner, Himalaya FilmsScreen Weekly, India - 28 minutes agoIt is like one of his films with prose and poetry flowing into each other. It begins with Nida Fazli’s nazm and then has a narrative by Tom Alter. ...
- British playwright Pinter dead at 78 - Middle East Online
Tributes poured in on Friday for Nobel Prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter, one of theatre's biggest names for nearly half a century, who died aged 78. Pinter, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, had been suffering from cancer ...
- Powerful depression era drama - Danbury News Times
Powerful depression era dramaDanbury News Times, CT - 33 minutes agoSteinbeck adapted the later work for the stage and, although it is written in the stagy, terse and spare language of 1930s dramas, the poetry and poignancy ...
- How Devil Dan unleashed his Roller Derby vision - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
How Devil Dan unleashed his Roller Derby visionSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 46 minutes agoTall and rangy with stark features and dark, curly hair, he was dressed in a black long-sleeved undershirt, black cowboy boots, black jeans and a black ...
- Audience savors Ondaatje’s reading - Wesleyan Argus
Audience savors Ondaatje’s readingWesleyan Argus, CT - 1 hour agoAppearing on campus as part of the Wesleyan Writing Program’s Distinguished Writers Series, he read excerpts from both his prose and poetry, which include ...
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