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- For the Love of Skipjacks (Bay Weekly)
Sails taut and spray flying, sailing vessels have plowed through time and our imaginations. With every adventure came a sailor’s story. On the Chesapeake, the broad-beamed skipjack has inspired many tales, from the work of dredging oysters to the watermen themselves.
- ‘Writers Wriot’ this Saturday - Wickenburg Sun
‘Writers Wriot’ this SaturdayWickenburg Sun, AZ - 4 hours agoCorrine Rawlin, who has presented at cowboy poetry gatherings in Pullman, Wash., and Durango, Colo., will have copies of her poetry available. ...
- Canada Council stands behind poetry award - The Chronicle Herald
TORONTO — The Canada Council, which administers the Governor General’s Literary Awards, is standing by the decision of its jury to award this year’s poetry prize to Jacob Scheier, despite complaints by some critics that the decision is tainted ...
- Pulong Binalaybay: An insider's review - News Today Online
Pulong Binalaybay: An insider's reviewNews Today Online, Philippines - 3 hours agoDuring the event we had several writers come over to deliver their poetry and give a background of their craft. Among those invited were Prof. ...
- Passion Play - Variety
VarietyPassion PlayVariety, CA - 18 minutes agoBut Sarah Ruhl's much-developed 3½-hour intimate epic, "Passion Play," delicately wafts over the didactic with her own special lyrical blend of poetry, ...
- Cultural groups celebrating funding boost from state - MetroWest Daily News
Cultural groups celebrating funding boost from stateMetroWest Daily News, MA - 11 hours agoBy Kelsey Abbruzzese/Daily News correspondent The state's cultural community, including MetroWest area museums and art programs, celebrated the news this ...
- Studs Terkel: Broadcaster, author and oral historian who recorded blue-collar life in 20th century America (Independent)
Mention the name of the interviewer and broadcaster Studs Terkel, who spent most of his life in Chicago, and it invariably brings to mind an inveterate chronicler of blue-collar, hardscrabble America – such books of oral history as Race, Division Street, Working and Hard Times. In fact that quintessential American owed this turn in his career, at the age of 55, to the English actress Eleanor ...
- Mentally ill woman's death in jail a tale of missed opportunities - Philadelphia Daily News
Sandy Morgan didn't have a receipt when she walked out of the Boothwyn Wal-Mart with more than $500 worth of dolls, toys and girls' clothes. In her mind, she didn't need one. She owned Wal-Mart, she told a manager who tried to stop her. Sandy knew ...
- Rise & inspire - Westerly Sun
The Chorus of Westerly launches its historic 50th season by doing what it does best — singing beautiful choral music by a great English composer. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Hodie†(“This Dayâ€) is the very model of a British Christmas ...
- Sheridan College professor releases first book - Oakville Beaver
Sheridan College professor releases first bookOakville Beaver, Canada - 3 minutes ago“It was a perfect piece of writing and I didn’t have to do anything to it,†he recalled of working on the collection of poetry with MacEwen. ...
- Art is the heart of healing - Monterey County Herald
Art is the heart of healingMonterey County Herald, CA - 10 hours agoThe art exhibit was designed, not as a fine art show by professional artists who exhibit in galleries, necessarily, but to present the paintings, poetry, ...
- Thankful for the NEA? - National Review Online
Thankful for the NEA?National Review Online, NY - 1 hour agoHis love of poetry dates from his youth: His mother recited poetry to him from memory. Gioia maintains that preserving a connection to one’s roots and ...
- Ghost Town - Scenta.co.uk
Ghost TownScenta.co.uk, UK - 9 hours agoThough hardly likely to become a perennial favourite, this enjoyable movie is funny, bracing and inventive for the first hour and much less so thereafter. ...
- Jockstrip: The world as we know it. (UPI)
Bin Laden's prowess as poet examined ... Deputies nab nude bartender ... Firm invents board game for sacked bankers ... Judge: Restore beer ad over Wrigley ... The world as we know it from UPI.
- TECHFEST 2008: Red Shift Open Mic Night - Stevens Institute of Technology The Stute
TECHFEST 2008: Red Shift Open Mic NightStevens Institute of Technology The Stute, NJ - 13 hours agoThe secret's out - engineers and scientists actually love poetry and music. This past Saturday Red Shift, the Stevens literary magazine, hosted its Open Mic ...
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