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- NOTES AROUND TOWN (Atlanticville)
The Shrewsbury Chorale will hold a gift raffle fundraiser at 7 p.m. tonight at the Radisson Hotel, 50 Gibson Place, Freehold Township. Admission is $30 and includes desserts, entertainment and a set of raffle tickets. Additional tickets will be available at the event. For reservations, call 732-776- 5276. For information, visit www.shrewsburychorale. org.
- 'American Widow' offers personal take on a public tragedy - Scarlet Scuttlebutt
'American Widow' offers personal take on a public tragedyScarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ - 3 hours agoWhile her dialog is sometimes clunky, her internal reflections touch upon pure poetry and Choi captures the urgency of her writing with graceful and minimal ...
- The Poetry Of A Political Speech - Huffingtonpost.com
Presidential nomination acceptance speeches surely aim to create great quotes, not to repeat them. So I should have figured that when I went digging around in such speeches this past week looking for lines of poetry, I'd come up empty handed. Well ...
- Three Great Social Contractarians: Hobbes, Locke, and … Blackbeard ... - New York Times Blogs
Peter Leeson , the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University and author of the forthcoming book “The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates,” blogged here earlier this week about U.F.O.’s and dominoes . This ...
- Poets slam down their rhymes in Brink Lounge bout - The Capital Times
Poets slam down their rhymes in Brink Lounge boutThe Capital Times, WI - 2 hours agoThis wasn't a flowery, Shakespearean sonnet exhibition with pentameters and rhymes and professions of romantic love. Instead, Wednesday night was the second ...
- Montville’s Teacher of the Year: Brenda Severino - TheDay
Montville’s Teacher of the Year: Brenda SeverinoTheDay, CT - 3 hours agoLast year, her fourth graders put on a “coffee house” poetry reading evening. One year her sixth grade history students researched the Middle Ages and put ...
- Easton plans different barn raising - Connecticut Post
Easton plans different barn raisingConnecticut Post, CT - 42 minutes ago"I love the barn. It's beautiful. It would be a shame if it were not maintained," Hornstein said. Persons interested in the silhouettes or tickets for the ...
- Classic works performed with drama - Red and Black
Classic works performed with dramaRed and Black, GA - 6 hours agoStudents can hear a dramatic reading from a critically-acclaimed translator of Greek poetry today. Stanley Lombardo, who has performed his translations on ...Lecturer finds novelty in ancient tales Red and Blackall 2 news articles
- America Back on Track... for Wednesday, July 23rd - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Albert Guinon said, "When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong – or absolutely right." Some observations on the news... Maureen Dowd has an excellent column today about Obama’s Middle East ...
- New U.S. poet laureate, Kay Ryan, is a lesbian - Oregonian
Arguably more interesting than her sexual orientation is the tidbit that when newly crowned U.S. poet Laureate Kay Ryan was rejected from the Poetry Club as an undergraduate at UCLA. While the New York Times article profiling the newly recognized ...
- Review: 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson - Chicago Sun-Times
What some folks are calling a once-in-a-decade sci-fi classic is, in fact, a best-ever genre-crushing power-script that defies simple classification. Neal Stephenson's Anathem is a 900-page world-building exercise. It takes the long view, and creates ...
- Poetic return for city native (North Adams Transcript)
NORTH ADAMS -- A North Adams native and Drury High School graduate will return to the city on Saturday to share her poetry with a community she hid it from while growing up.
- Authors grieve over apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, writer of "Infinite Jest" (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week.
- New gallery opens with poetry, jazz and art - knox.VillageSoup.com
knox.VillageSoup.comNew gallery opens with poetry, jazz and artknox.VillageSoup.com, ME - 6 hours agoA poetry reading from 1 to 3 pm will precede the reception, and a jazz jam dedicated to the memory of Charles Bechler will run from 5 pm into the night. ...
- Long Wharf Theatre Announces Double Bill Of Athol Fugard - HULIQ (press release)
Long Wharf Theatre Announces Double Bill Of Athol FugardHULIQ (press release), NC - 7 hours agoThirty-five years after Fugard's monumental collaboration Sizwe Banzi is Dead made its American premiere at Long Wharf Theatre, he returns with two stories ...
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