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- Rediscover your Xhosa roots - Hermanus Times
Rediscover your Xhosa rootsHermanus Times, South Africa - 14 hours agoVisitors will be able to partake in traditional games such as amavili and ukuxhumaxhuma ngengxhowa, listen to poetry readings or browse through craft stalls ...
- No Age Find Eternal Youth - Exclaim!
Exclaim!No Age Find Eternal YouthExclaim!, Canada - 36 minutes ago“I write poetry,†he admits. “I basically write dumb fucking punk lyrics.†This self-directed piss-taking is a common strain with the band. ...
- Dustin in a flap as turkey is culled early - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentDustin in a flap as turkey is culled earlyIrish Independent, Ireland - 46 minutes agoA place in the final would have been a victory for art, beauty, poetry but most of all, for his bank account, he declared. The final takes place on May 24. ...
- Words of War By Bill Steigerwald - Town Hall
Words of War By Bill SteigerwaldTown Hall, DC - 1 hour agoThere are novels such as "All Quiet on the Western Front" or memoirs like Robert Graves' "Good-bye to All That," or poetry by people like Siegfried Sassoon ...
- Weekly entertainment calendar (Detroit Free Press)
This week's listings for movies, poetry, a Detroit Red Wings player signing autographs and more.
- On Poetry: Kenyon's timeless questions (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
I often read poems about war these days, maybe to figure out how to live with its horror. This poem is by Jane Kenyon, who was born in Ann Arbor and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan.
- Poetry recitation competition at FC College on May 27 - Daily Times
Poetry recitation competition at FC College on May 27Daily Times, Pakistan - 3 hours agoLAHORE: Forman Christian College University (FCCU) English Department (language and literature) will organise a poetry writing and recitation competition on ...
- Hometown homage - Guardian Unlimited
There's a wonderful line from Guy Maddin's tragicomic 2003 film The Saddest Music In The World, which states, "Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass." If Maddin were to use this to describe his latest film, the autobiographical My Winnipeg, let ...
- Fugitive Pieces a 'torture' to make - Ottawa Citizen
Fugitive Pieces a 'torture' to makeOttawa Citizen, Canada - May 14, 2008There were other challenges as well: "To find the cinematic equivalent to the pure poetry of the book and then find a way to distil the entire life of this ...
- Children Services names Child and Family Awareness Month winners (West Side Leader)
FAIRLAWN — Summit County Children Services (SCCS) has announced the names of 22 local students selected as winners in the 2008 Child and Family Awareness Month Creative Contest.
- Statehood party planning starts: Borough discusses lighting ... - Kenai Peninsula Online
Statehood party planning starts: Borough discusses lighting ...Kenai Peninsula Online, AK - 36 minutes agoSome ideas already floating about include a trivia contest, a poster contest, sled dog races, a poetry contest and talent shows. ...
- All is not well among villagers in 'Prairie Fever' (Akron Beacon Journal)
With time in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned her Ph.D. in English, Mary Biddinger would know what a prairie is. In Prairie Fever, her collection of poems, she uses bucolic imagery like ''red-wing blackbirds,'' ''Riverside, selling spring peas/and bulbs. Last year's honey/wax candles.''
- Lesbos islanders dispute gay name - BBC Europe
Is it gay women, or the 100,000 people living on Greece's third biggest island - plus another 250,000 expatriates who originate from Lesbos? The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, claims that international dominance of the word in ...
- Community calendar - May 2 (Akron Beacon Journal)
Area community events for the entire family
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Star-ecentral.com
"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 ...
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