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- Beauty, found among the shards (Real Change News)
Writer Terry Tempest Williams learned how to create mosaics. Then she applied this skill to the fragmented world around her. Direct eye contact breeds intimacy. Look at someone long enough and the distance between you, no matter how vast, contracts almost into nothingness.
- 'The Express' Tells the Story of Ernie Davis' Love and Battles (The Lakeland Ledger)
The new film "The Express" - about Syracuse running back Ernie Davis - holds special importance for Helen T. Gray, The Kansas City Star's religion editor.
- Andre Dubus III reads - Portsmouth Herald News
Andre Dubus III readsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 2 hours agoI should add that I read an awful lot of contemporary poetry and admire the work of Jim Harrison, Edward Hirsch, Stephen Dunn, Kim Addonizio, Sharon Olds, ...
- Time to consider Riel the poet - CBC.ca
CBC.caTime to consider Riel the poetCBC.ca, Canada - 32 minutes ago... to become a priest and while he was studying the classics, he fell in love with this form and he was already writing a lot of poetry in his teen years. ...
- Morrison Library Revives Graphic Arts Loan Program - Art Daily
Morrison Library Revives Graphic Arts Loan ProgramArt Daily - 2 hours agoSchaefer called the removal of some prints from circulation "sad but inevitable." During the program's hiatus, Warren said Internet and computer programming ...
- U.S. shifts its approach in Iraq (MSNBC)
With violence down sharply this year, the U.S. military is broadening its efforts to reconcile Sunnis and Shiites.
- Brew in the new - - - Beer in new directions - San Francisco Examiner
Lorenzo Dabove is Italy’s leading beer champion. Anyone who knows him realizes he is as opinionated as he is passionate. So get ready to duck if he doesn’t take kindly to a beer – any beer. “Brew in the New” was one of his workshops at the ...
- TAKEN BY STORM (New York Post)
MANDY Patinkin's performance in "The Tempest" is absolutely melodic - and not only when he bursts into song. As the sorcerer Prospero, he delivers Shakespeare's poetry with lilting vocal cadences and swirling hand movements in what isn't so much a...
- Dark and unaccustomed words - Trinidad News
Dark and unaccustomed wordsTrinidad News, Trinidad and Tobago - 3 hours agoBut it is the self, and its relationship with that vexing theme of the meaning of “home,” which dominates, right down to the very last lines of the poem ...
- Poetry: Three simple questions ad infinitum - Evening Sun
Lately I've been focusing upon the answers to three questions: Where do I come from? What am I? Where am I going? I've borrowed these questions from Ronald Wright who got them from Paul Gauguin, who inscribed the three queries in French upon a ...
- Facebook postings land N.C. teachers in hot water - The State
CHARLOTTE -- A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher faces firing for posting derogatory comments about students on Facebook, while four others have been disciplined for posts involving “poor judgment and bad taste,” school district spokeswoman ...
- Election inspires Angelou poem (The Charlotte Observer)
Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton – affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president – asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance. “I'm sure Mr. Obama, president-elect, will have them bring his own poet,” the ...
- Ella Minnow Pea , a New Musical, Tested in University of Michigan Workshop Nov. 20-23 (Playbill)
A couple of New York City musical theatre writers have been in residence in Ann Arbor, MI, in recent weeks, honing their new musical, Ella Minnow Pea, for a sold-out workshop production by the University of Michigan's respected musical theatre program.
- Louise grad publishes first book of poetry (El Campo Leader-News)
Ma 1986 graduate of Louise High School, has just published her first book of poems called "Of All the Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best." The poet David Wevill, who taught Dr.
- Photographers Back in Class - Wabash College
Wabash CollegePhotographers Back in ClassWabash College, IN - 27 minutes agoI ended my Tuesday on the familiar third floor of Center Hall in Professor Marc Hudson’s creative writing poetry class. The guys write poems and submit them ...
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