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- Book Review (Princeton Town Topics)
Today is William Shakespeare’s 444th birthday. It’s also the 392nd anniversary of his death. Little has been made of the fact that he died on the day he was born (such phrasing might have amused Hamlet or any of Shakespeare’s philosophical cynics), that being April 23, 1616.
- PBS documentary features Shands Art in Medicine program - Independent Florida Alligator
While poetry, dance and performance serve as recreation for some, the activities can also serve as creative steps toward recovery for patients involved in the Shands Arts in Medicine program. Centered around the philosophy that participation in the ...
- The best novelist in America today - Telegraph-Journal
The best novelist in America todayTelegraph-Journal, Canada - 5 hours agoFord doubts his work "makes the world a better place," and quotes WH Auden's famous line "poetry makes nothing happen." Americans don't turn to literature ...
- MT cops working to nab online predators (KBZK Bozeman)
Detectives in Montana say that child sexual exploitation is exploding and as part of our special series, Montana's News Station takes an in depth look at what police are doing statewide and locally to stop internet predators.
- Craig Poetry - Craig Daily Press
Craig Poetry girls meet every Thursday except the second Thursday of the month at Downtown Books, 543 Yampa Ave. Call 824-5343 Craig Daily Press doesn't necessarily condone the comments here, nor does it review every post
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (The Star)
"Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'"
- Tutu: Gaza Blockade Abomination - Common Dreams
He strongly condemned what he called international “silence and complicity†on the blockade, which he compared to the actions of Burma’s leaders. Speaking at the end of a two day mission to the area, the former archbishop said the humanitarian ...
- Window into Emily's past - Sunday Times.lk
Sunday Times.lkWindow into Emily's pastSunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka - 3 hours agoBeside her bed is a copy of a fragmented poem in her own handwriting. Although over a hundred years have passed since Emily Dickinson died, ...
- Japanese-American authors to read, sign books in Albany - Albany Democrat-Herald
Writers Edward Miyakawa and Mitzi Asai Loftus will speak on “The Japanese-American Experience†from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Browser’s Bookstore, 1425 Pacific Blvd. S.E. During World War II when they were children, Miyakawa and Loftus lived with ...
- A memoir created in verse - Woodbury Bulletin
A memoir created in verseWoodbury Bulletin, MN - 12 minutes agoEvelyn Klein’s last book was a memoir written in poetry. One of the four or five books she’s working on currently is more of a Twin Cities memoir, ...
- Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 3-9 - The Jewish Journal of greater L.A
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 3-9The Jewish Journal of greater L.A, CA - 33 minutes ago10 am Free. Mount Sinai Memorial Park, 6150 Mount Sinai Drive, Simi Valley. (866) 717-4624. The Long Beach Jewish community will join with clergy throughout ...
- The Poetry Session at O'Shea's - Cape Cod Today
The monthly spoken word open mic. May's featured reader is Harwich poet and Mad River Press founder, Barry Sternlieb. Arrive before 7 if you'd like to sign up to read. The Session is an all-ages event. (TM) Che Pecat' is a new and unique line of ...
- Redwood High senior wins first prize for poetry - Marin Independent Journal
Redwood High School senior Andrew Lin won first prize at the Marin Poetry Center's 19th annual High School Poetry Awards ceremony. Lin won for his poem "Waiting, a response." Stephen Siegel, also a senior at Redwood High, won second place for his ...
- Avon Duct Tape Festival offers sticky fun - Cleveland Plain Dealer
FILE PHOTOGRAPH The annual Avon Duct Tape Festival is a three-day salute to that most useful of materials -- duct tape. When a group of citizens asked Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Inc., to sponsor a town festival, Henkel agreed -- if it were also a ...
- Solomon Volkov's "The Magical Chorus" - International Herald Tribune
The Magical Chorus A History of Russian Culture From Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn By Solomon Volkov Translated by Antonina W. Bouis 333 pages. $33. Alfred A. Knopf. On March 2, Russians went to the polls and dutifully voted for Dmitri Medvedev, the ...
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