Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Talking Mowlavi with Coleman Barks - Presstv
American poet, Coleman Barks was born in 1937 in Tennessee. He attended North Carolina and California universities, and taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. Barks is known as a translator of works by the ...
- Second wind - World Magazine
Second windWorld Magazine, NC - 46 minutes agoMany of his co-workers and employees did not even know that he wrote poems until he began winning significant poetry awards (leading to his American Book ...
- Kidnap suspect calls days with daughter 'glorious' - Forbes
The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and is accused of kidnapping his young daughter says he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with the girl while evading authorities, but he still isn't talking about his life before 1993. Police say ...
- Riding The Roller Coaster - The Bulletin
Results from a recent study by Sheraton Hotels show that 35 percent of Americans would choose their Blackberry over their spouse. While I'm somewhat positive I'm not in that group, it doesn't change the fact that in the last month, I've been involved ...
- “Montana Ghost Towns and Gold Camps” by Bill Whitfield - New West
“Montana Ghost Towns and Gold Camps” by Bill WhitfieldNew West, MT - 6 hours agoWe stopped at the Black Hills area of South Dakota on the way and found some former mining camps on the map. We camped at these ghost towns. ...
- Annie Proulx's prairie poetry - Times Online
After you have read something by Annie Proulx, you tend to remember the “burdensome names” of the people she has described, those miniature examples of prairie poetry that sound like half-heard personifications or obscure cattle ailments: Orion ...
- Obama's Rapid Response Backfires - Investor's Business Daily (subscription)
Obama's Rapid Response BackfiresInvestor's Business Daily (subscription) - 19 hours agoChanging his name to Kwame Toure, Carmichael wrote a book on "Black Power" that propounds an explicitly socialist, Pan-African vision. ...
- The poet laureate should be freed from the dreary royals and sent off ... - Guardian Unlimited
Up and down this green and drizzly isle, the poets are getting nervous. Nibs, once tranquil, are shaking. Wendy Cope is stocking up for a long siege. Craig Raine is exploring the possibility of moving to Mars. Linton Kwesi Johnson and Liz Lochhead ...
- Calendar: Sunday, Sept. 2008 (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
SPECIAL EVENTS Gospel Music Festival The Sisters of the Holy Family Motherhouse, 6901 Chef Menteur Hwy. Fifteen choirs will perform at festival. 3-6. BENEFITS Charity Poker Tournament Harrah's Theatre, Canal and the River. Event supports The Pro Bono Project, which...
- Andrew McKnight & Beyond Borders playing Beans in the Belfry - Frederick News Post (subscription)
Frederick News Post (subscription)Andrew McKnight & Beyond Borders playing Beans in the BelfryFrederick News Post (subscription), MD - 19 minutes agoHe also writes poetry, which can be found on his website, and sends an essay each month via email to subscribed fans. "People thrive on stories," he ...
- Nocturnal van Gogh, illuminating the darkness - International Herald Tribune
Devoting an exhibition to Vincent van Gogh, among the world's most beloved artists, may not seem like much of a reach for the Museum of Modern Art. On paper, at least, "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" reads like an obvious play for big box ...
- Portrait of a lady (Guardian Unlimited)
Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues
- Saturday Question - Spokane Spokesman-Review
DFO : I can't imagine a scenario that would put me any where near a Bloomsday race. I'm not saying the experience is overrated. But I don't like crowds, races or exercising with 45,000 of my closest friends. Sorry, Bloomies; this one ain't for me ...
- Screen test: Parental guidance on this week's movies, including 'Traveling Pants 2' and 'Pineapple Express' (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By JANE HORWITZ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (PG-13, 1 hr., 51 min.) The four brainy gal pals in this sequel (the first film came out in 2005, rated PG) have separate summer adventures after they start college and find it tough to keep their friendship on track. The sharing via airmail of those magical one-size-fits-all jeans doesn’t keep them as close as it did before. This ...
- Media Diary (Guardian Unlimited)
Davies in line to net new job | Sun raises eyebrows | A bit of a boob | What are the odds? | On the couch | Did I mention the advert? | TV loses its fizz
|
|
Get better Mortgage Rates today and save!
California Mortgage
|