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- Living La Vida Solo - Ithaca Times
Living La Vida SoloIthaca Times, NY - 2 hours ago"To the blonde in the black dress and cowboy boots at GrassRoots: I must not have been the only one to see this beauty and stop for a moment. ...
- Plenty going on in the Vale today (Saturday) - Aylesbury Today
Plenty going on in the Vale today (Saturday)Aylesbury Today, UK - 3 hours agoIf you've a talent you'd like to share with others, why not join us for an evening of music, comedy, poetry and magic. Mainly an acoustic evening - under 18 ...
- Road show: Library made accessible to elderly - Maryville Daily Times
Road show: Library made accessible to elderlyMaryville Daily Times, TN - 6 minutes agoZurl loves poetry while Baker is an avid hiker of the Smoky Mountains. Ensslin has a passion for animals and rescued a greyhound. On a recent Thursday, ...
- Look for the lit in the obits - Winnipeg Free Press
Look for the lit in the obitsWinnipeg Free Press, Canada - 3 hours agoI came to love the written word and more importantly began to understand how good poetry and superior works of prose reflecting the human condition can be a ...
- This week's gallery roundup - Cincinnati.com
This week's gallery roundupCincinnati.com, OH - Aug 1, 2008For years, Saad Ghosn has organized SOS Art, an annual exhibition and accompanying poetry anthology whose theme is peace and social justice. ...
- Sunday at the Skin Launderette, By Kathryn Simmonds (Independent)
Rather than giving in to dolefulness — the default mode of poetry past and present — Kathryn Simmonds opts for ebullience and optimism. Borrowing from Ian Dury, she lists "Reasons to Be Cheerful" in a piece entitled "Against Melancholy". Her poems are engaging, witty ideas skilfully executed in a range of forms and she has a good eye, seeing varnished floorboards split water into glassy ...
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors? (Independent)
There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an oversized book called Love Letters of Great Men, and entertains Mr Big with flowery passages from Byron and Bonaparte. It's a scene that had SATC fans rushing out to bookshops, only to discover that while the letters quoted were real, the book was never more than a Hollywood prop.
- Light on a poet's imagination, and an era - Boston Globe
Brenda Wineapple's "Hawthorne: A Life" (2003) was an incomparable portrait of the man, the writer, and his time. Now, in "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson" (Knopf, $27.95), Wineapple similarly reanimates ...
- Coulter vs. Kausfiles - Slate
Ann Coulter responds , on behalf of getdrunkandvote4mccain.com, to the argument that conservatives should consider that McCain is more likely than Obama to actually enact "comprehensive immigration reform" with its misguided semi-amnesty for illegal ...
- Updated 8/20: Western Springs library to host author Kuehnert (The Doings Western Springs)
Author Stephanie Keuhnert will read from and sign copies of her coming-of-age punk story from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs.
- Poetry: Connected to something larger than ourselves - The Evening Sun
Poetry: Connected to something larger than ourselvesThe Evening Sun, PA - 4 hours agoI also heard something curious from a close friend, who attended an in-service this week on differentiated learning, whose tenets require teachers to plan ...
- Monsters of Achievement - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Monsters of AchievementChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 4 hours agoAlthough American high schools may be bastions of mediocrity, that doesn’t prevent them from producing students who are what I like to call “monsters of ...
- October 9th sees Creative Writing Course at NUI Galway - Indymedia Ireland
Author and critic Fred Johnston kicks off his popular Adult and Continued Education Creative Wrtiting Course at NUI Galway on Thursday, October 9th. Fred Johnston (LitPix - 2008) Writer and critic Fred Johnston begins a new course of Creative Writing ...
- Historian and history maker - Guardian Unlimited
When a friend dies, a part of you dies too. When Bronislaw Geremek was killed in a car accident on Sunday, a part of Europe was lost as well. I remember him once turning to me in a corridor of the Polish parliament, which he had helped to make again ...
- Area man's videos help deaf people connect to pop culture - Detroit Free Press
Area man's videos help deaf people connect to pop cultureDetroit Free Press, United States - 4 minutes agoThe new generation of deaf kids wants to be absorbed in it." At YouTube and D-Pan.com, the videos have racked up views by the hundreds of thousands -- and ...
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