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- Manchester Literary Festival launches poetry prize - Guardian
Manchester Literary Festival launches poetry prizeGuardian, UK - 1 hour agoOne of the biggest open competitions in English language poetry is being launched in Manchester, ahead of the city's literature festival this autumn. ...Write way to win £10000 Manchester Onlineall 2 news articles
- Education Briefs: March 17, 2008 - Record-Searchlight (subscription)
Education Briefs: March 17, 2008Record-Searchlight (subscription), CA - 1 hour agoBy Record Searchlight staff Shasta College will hold a poetry-writing workshop this week featuring Julia Connor, the poet laureate of Sacramento. ...
- Bombshell: The explosive backstory in the Robert Ortloff murder trial ...
Phoenix New Times - Four summers ago, she'd never written anything more than what she calls "really bad" poetry, and that was in college ... I'm in my mid 20s, and I know lots of girls in their 20s and 30s who love Edward and Bella as much as any teen girl ...
- The pen is mightier? (San Antonio Express-News/KENS 5)
21 works read or performed at event protesting war in Iraq.
- General plan report: Look forward, not back
Vacaville Reporter - To access the general plan go online to www.solanogeneralplan.net. By the way, I should disclose that I was a member of both ... The Reporter does not publish poetry in its letters to the editor columns, nor consumer complaints, thank-you letters for ...
- Sierra Leone: Of High-Sounding Words and the Art of Writing (AllAfrica.com)
The art of writing could be completely different from what contemporary journalism requires of information gatekeepers, especially newspaper journalists.
- Dandy Yankee doodles: When did American painting escape the shadow of Europe? (Independent)
In 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson was looking forward to the great American poem. "We have yet had no genius in America... Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. ...
- Globe Northwest best bets - Boston Globe
Globe Northwest best betsBoston Globe, United States - 7 hours agoHoulihan, an Acton resident, is director of the Concord Poetry Center, a resource center for poets based at the Emerson Umbrella in Concord. ...
- Tom Kerrigan - American Reporter
LOS ANGELES -- When I read a book by Joan Didion or a poem by Dana Gioia about what it's like to be a native Californian, I'm always puzzled because their experiences and impressions are so different than mine. Perhaps if they had grown up in Los ...
- Parisian mementoes from an old Romantic (The New Zealand Herald)
From images of Christ to spidery self-portraits, the films, drawings and photographs spanning 30 years of Patti Smith's life are a treat for fans - though nothing matches the raw singularity of her voice.
- Mountain to Mountain hosts 'Views of the Himalaya' on Thursday (Summit Daily News)
Photography exhibit andmountaineer panel offers glimpse into culture and people of the Himalaya
- Laughter Lift-off With The Launch Of The Roald Dahl Funny Prize - Booktrade.info
Laughter Lift-off With The Launch Of The Roald Dahl Funny PrizeBooktrade.info, UK - 38 minutes agoThe prize aims to reward those authors and artists who write and illustrate their books using humour in their stories, poetry and fiction. ...
- Diss starts a new chapter with literary festival - Diss Express
Diss starts a new chapter with literary festivalDiss Express, UK - 3 hours agoBy Georgina Smith Diss Literary Week begins on Monday, making the town a top draw for book lovers. The event, funded by the town council and Diss Cittaslow, ...
- Music can be path to better learning in language and math - Alaska Journal of Commerce
WASHINGTON (AP) - The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: An educator with a passion for making school fun. Michael Bitz won a national competition with his idea for ...
- Norwegian cult of words (The Telegraph)
I am a feminist. Not a militant one. But if the need arises, I wouldn’t mind being confrontational,†says Herbjørg Wassmo (picture left) , author of The House with Blind Glass Windows and one of Norway’s most famous writers.
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