Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Robert Greacen: Ulster poet of considerable gifts - The Independent
In the years just before and after the Second World War, the north of Ireland was thought of, if at all, as a province culturally in the doldrums and religiously on the boil. "There was an almost complete blank in poetic utterance and in drama ...
- WiFi in rural areas by next year (The Borneo Post)
KUCHING: WiFi (wide fidelity) Internet penetration into the rural areas in Sarawak may even start next year with support from the federal government.
- Forward.com (Forward)
This September, residents of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the cradle of Yiddish culture in America, will be able to choose between not one but two Yiddish-speaking candidates for political office.
- Writing, trouble-free, in Baguio (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - There are rites of passage typical for the Filipino writer: having your work first published in a magazine, enjoying your first fellowship in a national writers workshop (Dumaguete, Iligan, Bacolod), winning your first Palanca, putting out your first book.
- Two new board members elected for Sheikh Zayed Book Award - Middle East Online
Middle East OnlineTwo new board members elected for Sheikh Zayed Book AwardMiddle East Online, UK - 57 minutes agoHe is the former Minister of Education and Higher Education, and nd he has published many studies including “Studies in contemporary Arabic poetry in the ...
- Artist fellowships available through the Virginia Commission for the ... - HamptonRoads.com
RICHMOND, VA – The Virginia Commission for Arts invites Virginia‑based artists and writers to apply for the 2008‑2009 Artist Fellowships in Crafts and Playwriting due August 1, 2008. Artist Fellowships of $5,000 are awarded annually by the ...
- Local songwriter a finalist in Calgary Folk Festival competition - Encore
Local songwriter a finalist in Calgary Folk Festival competitionEncore, Canada - May 8, 2008Wells composed “A Farmer’s Life in the Balance†for a Grande Prairie-based show, “The Power of the Land.†The show combined music and poetry composed by ...
- Don't Ever Heckle: Richard Sandling - Londonist
LondonistDon't Ever Heckle: Richard SandlingLondonist, UK - 12 hours agoI talk about movies, I do poetry, play the guitar, or talk about giant squid, and there are loads of clubs around the place where I can just turn up and do ...
- Obituary: He gave CSUS classes wide view of Italian culture (The Sacramento Bee)
Mario P. Pietralunga, a distinguished Italian scholar and writer who explored the warm, pastoral beauty and coldblooded Mafia culture of his native land as a poet, journalist and professor at Sacramento State, died Sunday. He was 81. Mario P. Pietralunga Born: May 19, 1927 Died: June 1, 2008 Remembered for: Renowned Italian scholar and longtime professor at Sacramento State; ...
- PeaceSmiths to hold "Making Music Together" (Babylon Beacon)
On Friday, June 6 at 8 p.m., the PeaceSmiths Monthly, Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse will hold its last coffeehouse of the season, with a drum circle to cap off the evening. The Coffeehouse is held at the First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway/Rt. 110 (southmost end near Merrick Road Montauk Highway) in Amityville.
- situs & queers: "The Social Plague" (1972-1974) - Centre des Médias Alternatifs du Québec
The philosophy of the Situationist International[1] has been the philosophy of one of the most dynamic groups in the contemporary homosexual movement: Group 5 of the Homosexual Revolutionary Front (HFRA), which drew its thinking and language from the ...
- Corporate honcho, management student give in to impulse, pen books (Calcutta News)
Vivek Kumar Aggarwal and Zaheer Ahmed, one a corporate executive and the other a management student, have given a break to the structured thinking they are trained in and delved into the literary world with their debut books to get in touch with their 'spontaneity'.
- STARGAZING | Lopez show is re-explained, Electra finds another guy ... - Kansas City Star
STARGAZING | Lopez show is re-explained, Electra finds another guy ...Kansas City Star, MO - 15 minutes agoPoet and educator Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is holding an open poetry writing workshop called “Writing the River and the Road†from 1 to 4 pm today at the ...
- 'World's worst poet' goes under hammer - AFP
AFP'World's worst poet' goes under hammerAFP - 2 hours ago... it would be in the same league as first edition copies of Harry Potter books signed by author JK Rowling, according to The Daily Telegraph newspaper. ...
- WFB, RIP (Dartmouth Review)
Who blends the serious and the entertaining as beautifully, now that he’s left?
|
|
Get a better Mortgage Rate today and save!
Home Mortgage
|