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- 'Bird' takes flight - Washington Blade
'Bird' takes flightWashington Blade, DC - 14 minutes ago... be known as a culture that feared death/ and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity,” rings true, but comes off more like prose than poetry. ...
- Pulitzer Prize poet will read today (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon will present a free reading at 8 p.m. today in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House on the University of Iowa campus.
- Hérica Valladares of Classics Department Wins Rome - Johns Hopkins Gazette
Hérica Valladares of Classics Department Wins RomeJohns Hopkins Gazette, MD - 2 hours agoDuring her stay, Valladares will finish researching and writing her first monograph, On Tenderness: The Semantics of Love in Roman Painting and Poetry. ...
- Festivities to mark Israel's 60th birthday - Charleston Post Courier
Festivities to mark Israel's 60th birthdayCharleston Post Courier, SC - 51 minutes agoThe series this year has as its theme "Israel at 60" and will feature a poetry reading by Ambassador Reda Mansour, consul general of Israel in Atlanta, ...
- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- Farewell to Wadi Bua (Benazir Bhutto) - Payvand Iran News
LARKANA: My aunt and I had a complicated relationship. That is the truth, the sad truth. The last fifteen years were not one we spent as friends or as relatives, that is also the truth. But this week, I too want to remember her differently. I want to ...
- Library Corner: Lindsay Collection an exceptional avenue to fine arts - Longview Daily News
Library Corner: Lindsay Collection an exceptional avenue to fine artsLongview Daily News, WA - 2 hours ago... “Collected Plays of Edward Albee (v.3),” “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton,’ “Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner” edited by Page ...
- Ray Manzarek Plots New Doors Documentary, Another Live Album - Rolling Stone
The Doors ‘ Ray Manzarek has a host of new Morrison and co. projects in the works for 2008 . First up is another Doors live album Live in Pittsburgh 1970 , the third installment in the “Bright Midnight Archives” collection of official bootlegs ...
- 15-year-old high school grad prepares for college this fall - Martinsville Bulletin
15-year-old high school grad prepares for college this fallMartinsville Bulletin, VA - 1 hour agoShe prefers art and writing poetry and short stories. The social aspect of school life in her earlier years was not as easy as her classes were. ...
- Heritage Fiesta to open in Cagayan de Oro - Sun.Star
Heritage Fiesta to open in Cagayan de OroSun.Star, Philippines - 20 hours agoA demonstration of traditional arts and crafts (Maranao and Higaonon weaving, Subanen baskets, mats, poetry and beads) and exhibit of churches will open on ...
- Literary calendar for June 29-July 5 (The Charlotte Observer)
Sunday SIGNING: Helen Thayer (“Walking the Gobi”), 1 p.m., Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 4345 Barclay Downs Drive. 704-602-9800. Monday BOOK CLUB: Elizabeth Still will host the Southern Fiction Book Club, 6 p.m., Joseph-Beth Booksellers. SIGNING: Sherrie Mathieson (“Forever Cool”), 7 p.m., Joseph-Beth Booksellers. BOOK CLUB: Tavia and Claire Highsmith will host the Mother/Daughter ...
- Key figure in promoting American Indian literature dies - Miami Herald
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses. Allen ...
- The Sheldon Museum of Art Presents Peace, Love and the Psychedelic Sixties (Art Daily)
Rene Derouin, Tournez Tournez Pendat 50 Ans, 1969. LINCOLN, NE.-
- Amy Winehouse lyrics are academic - Daily Telegraph
So English literature students at Cambridge have been asked to criticise Amy Winehouse lyrics in a final year examination. Are the lofty spires of academic excellence crumbling into a morass of pop culture? Is this the apotheosis of dumbing down ...
- Robert Hass Discusses His Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poetry - NewsHour
NewsHourRobert Hass Discusses His Pulitzer Prize-Winning PoetryNewsHour - 3 hours agoHe had this sense that, if art doesn't somehow preserve our memory of the gift of life on Earth we've lost, so something like that.
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