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- Spoken Word Festival highlights - Calgary Herald
Spoken Word Festival highlightsCalgary Herald, Canada - 33 minutes agoOn May 2, it's the launch of poetry collections by Weyman Chan, Colin Brown, Stephen Collins, Sachiko Murakami and Fred Wah at the Art Gallery of Calgary, ...
- Young talent floats atop Hass' River of Words - San Jose Mercury News
Young talent floats atop Hass' River of WordsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 50 minutes agoOn May 12 at the Library of Congress, Hass emcees the awards ceremony for the Environmental Poetry and Arts Contest, an annual event mounted by River of ...
- Teens Saving the World One Child at a Time - Alameda Sun
Teens Saving the World One Child at a TimeAlameda Sun, CA - 35 minutes agoSome proceeds from the annual AHS Poetry Slam on Friday, May 23, will go to the Peace of Mind Club to help Naba. For more information on how to get involved ...
- Pico and Derek Walcott - Trinidad & Tobago Express
Pico and Derek WalcottTrinidad & Tobago Express, Trinidad and Tobago - 20 hours ago"His use of language, to me, whether in prose or in poetry, is as rich and sinuous and layered as almost any that I can think of in English, and insofar as ...
- A steady stream of consciousness - Honolulu Advertiser
The materials an artist chooses to work with speak volumes about the artist. Jon Hamblin chooses to work on weathered, corrugated roofing metal that has been discarded. On the wavy, dented and often punctured surfaces he paints figures, animals and ...
- Patti Smith shines in the Noche de los Libros in Madrid - Typically Spanish
Typically SpanishPatti Smith shines in the Noche de los Libros in MadridTypically Spanish, Spain - Apr 23, 2008By hb - Apr 24, 2008 - 7:32 AM The United States singer gave a performance of poetry and music at the Real Casa de Correos. Patti Smith was the star of the ...
- Nigeria: The State of the Arts - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: The State of the ArtsAllAfrica.com, Washington - 2 hours agoIn poetry, I look forward to the day when and where a national event like the celebration of Nigeria's independence, Children's Day or inauguration of a new ...
- Paul McCartney Among Yale's Honorary Degree Recipients - Hartford Courant
Paul McCartney Among Yale's Honorary Degree RecipientsHartford Courant, United States - 6 hours agoHe went on to write more than 20 books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror." Faust, the first female ...
- Charles âChuckâ Ely, 75 - Martinsville Reporter-Times
Born Feb. 13, 1933, in Lee County, Va., he was the son of the late Elza and Ethel Ely. He was the widower of Gladys Ely, who preceded him in death in 1997. He had been employed with the Allison Division of General Motors for more than 20 years as a ...
- Scientist will speak at Authors! (The Toledo Blade)
The 14th season of the Authors! Authors! series continues at 7 p.m.
- Inspiring local writers - Idaho State Journal
Inspiring local writersIdaho State Journal, ID - 1 hour agoShe also recalls, ''I'd lost my poetry. That's another form of terror.'' It was following this period that she went to the ocean in Maine for inspiration, ...
- Sialkot mourns Prof Asghar Saudai - The Post
Sialkot mourns Prof Asghar SaudaiThe Post, Pakistan - 3 hours agoThey paid homage to the man for his meritorious services to Pakistan Movement, poetry, philosophy and education. Condoling the death, social, ...
- Local students graduate from Lawrence Academy - Sentinel & Enterprise
GROTON -- Lawrence Academy celebrated its 215th commencement exercises on May 30, graduating four area students in its Class of 2008. Matthew Cramb earned several terms on the academic honor roll, was a member of the football team for a season and ...
- Behind the scenes and beyond the speeches at the Tonys (Chicago Sun-Times)
NEW YORK â When playwright Tracy Letts thanked his backers for producing a new American play and casting it with "theater actors" he hit on one of the more intriguing aspects of Sunday night's Tony Awards.
- Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from Pushkin Press) (Blogcritics.org)
This new edition is a good reminder of the still-intimate relationship between literature and physical objects. When it comes to music and literature, the digital age has reduced the need for physical objects of art, but not their appeal. The surge in demand for new vinyl records demonstrates the persistence of the physical.So does the thriving business of self-publishing. At a time when anyone ...
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