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- 'She's as good as it gets' - Roanoke Times
'She's as good as it gets'Roanoke Times, VA - 23 minutes agoAnd Donna Alvis-Banks, who started out writing poetry in an apple tree as a little girl, wowed this elite group. "She's so real," said Dr. Frank Ochberg of ...
- Children's books: Old and new - Nashua Telegraph
"My Bent Tree" by Kathy Brodsky, illustrated by Cameron Bennett; Helpingwords: cloth, 44 pages, $19.95. "The Little Fisherman" by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Dahlov Ipcar; Islandport Press: cloth, 32 pages, $16.95. One day, as Kathy Brodsky ...
- Author was 'one of the finest writers Canada has produced' - Globe and Mail
Imagine a totally creative person - poet, playwright, short-story writer, painter, pianist. That was James Reaney, one of our most diverse and prolific artists, a man whose virtuosity extended from theatrical workshops with children to literary ...
- Western Sahara: Poetry and Spanish - The Permanent Link - Global Voices Online
Western Sahara: Poetry and Spanish - The Permanent LinkGlobal Voices Online, MA - Jul 14, 2008If you suddenly ask a Sahrawi about poetry, he or she may not be able to tell you the title of a book or the title of a poem. But it is highly possible that ...
- We've got our wires crossed: The bizarre stories of people whose brains have rewired themselves (Daily Mail)
Imagine waking up with a foreign accent. Or discovering you can taste the 'flavour' of any word spoken to you. These strange things have happened to ordinary people: here they tell their extraordinary stories.
- Open minds, open hearts, open house (Nuvo)
Indianapolis Peace House residents, who are making contributions to Indianapolis’ culture this summer at various peace-building organizations, will host an open house Wednesday, July 30.
- Urgent bonding sparks everything - Louisiana Weekly
Except for a few cynics and recluses, all people crave intimate ties to at least someone. In defining us as "social animals," philosophers and sociologists invariably start from the standpoint of the family. Where it is absent, even gangs become ...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - Forbes
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some ...
- Family stories They mess you up - Economist
Family stories They mess you upEconomist, UK - 27 minutes agoIt had been a close shave, but what saved her in the end came from her father at his best: a love of writing, language, learning poetry, telling stories, ...
- Speaking with two tongues: the Welsh book awards - guardian.co.uk
Speaking with two tongues: the Welsh book awardsguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoThe runners-up were Tony Bianchi for the novel Pryfeta (Bugging) and Ceri Wyn Jones for Dauwynebog, a volume of poetry, much of it written in the ancient ...
- Fundraiser for The Writers Place is a Night of Poetry and Jazz (Kansas City InfoZine)
This fundraiser for The Writers Place features poetry by Phyllis Becker and Dan Jaffe, and music by local jazz greats.
- Nightlife Events: June 20-27 - Canton Repository (subscription)
Nightlife Events: June 20-27Canton Repository (subscription), OH - 1 hour agoMuggswigz: Poetry open mic with Poet's Haven, 7 pm Saturday; poetry/comedy/spoken word open mic night, 8-11 pm Monday; open mic, 7:30 pm Tuesday; ...
- On TV, Democrats borrow from the Olympics - Kansas City Star
On TV, Democrats borrow from the OlympicsKansas City Star, MO - 6 hours agoBut he did make the bridge not only between generations, but between the poetry of politics and the power of television. "I know she's watching tonight," he ...
- Faith files: 'Embrace Wilmington' this week - Delaware Online
A new church festival will offer games, music and food in Rodney Square from 1 to 8 p.m. Thursday. It's called the Embrace Wilmington Festival and is being organized by Southern Baptist evangelist Cody Whittaker. He's arranged the festival to ...
- Doggerel Days - Washington City Paper
Doggerel DaysWashington City Paper, DC - 1 hour ago“There are a bunch of corny, brilliant, heartbreaking poems about dogs getting old and dying, which touches one one of the two great themes of poetry: Death ...
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