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- Where's Weldon? - Los Angeles Times
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge ...
- Author, poet awarded for Western fiction - Reno Gazette Journal
Author, poet awarded for Western fictionReno Gazette Journal, NV - 1 hour agoFisher said it was the first year the award committee included other types of western literature along with cowboy poetry. More information about the award ...
- Aberystwyth student wins National Eisteddfod crown - Daily Post
Aberystwyth student wins National Eisteddfod crownDaily Post, UK - 2 hours agoHe learned the strict metre poetry at school in Carmarthen with his friend, Eurig Salisbury, who has also won major awards at the Urdd National Eisteddfod. ...
- Bostonist Books: Edna St. Vincent Millay (Bostonist)
With the recent events of economic crisis, feminist derision and political collision, globalization and every other celebrity being carted off to rehab, whose voice from the past can guide us through the darkness, help us find solace and inspiration in this time of terror and turpitude? How about a jazz-age poet from New England with lesbian tendencies and a pretty serious drug habit? Kind ...
- New research: Jews, Israel suffer unfair hits in U.S. textbooks - Jewish News Weekly
If your child brought home a history book that said Jesus was a Palestinian, or that Jews contributed little to the arts and sciences aside from Old Testament poetry, how would you react? Would you rush to the principal’s office, tear out the pages ...
- Photos worth a thousand words (London Free Press)
The power and beauty of the photograph have new meaning for me after a visit to Museum London last week. I would have expected Sketches in Black and White, a selection of photographic portraits from the museum's permanent collection to impress, even move deeply.
- Palisade High senior mixes music into everything - Grand Junction Sentinel
Palisade High senior mixes music into everythingGrand Junction Sentinel, CO - 11 hours agoHe recites poetry to himself when he reads it. And when he practices viola, he does so in the bathroom to hear the echo. “I love hearing how sounds come ...
- EVENTS: Looking for something to do today? Check out this list - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
EVENTS: Looking for something to do today? Check out this listMid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - 14 minutes agoPoetry reading, featuring Bart Baxter, Lorraine Healy and Jim Bertolino with music by Tony Woods at Bookwalter Winery, on Tulip Lane in Richland. ...
- If you want to write, read, author tells students - Ludington Daily News
If you want to write, read, author tells studentsLudington Daily News, MI - 46 minutes agoThe workshop, scheduled to run from 1 to 3 pm, ran nearly an hour over to allow everyone a chance to read something — poetry, fiction, the start of a novel, ...
- Hispanic Heritage Month parade moved to Oct. 18 (The Victoria Advocate)
The Victoria Alliance for Latino Education rescheduled its parade and fiesta celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month to Oct. 18, a spokesperson with University of Houston-Victoria said Monday.
- 'The Wall of America,' by Thomas M. Disch - Los Angeles Times
'The Wall of America,' by Thomas M. DischLos Angeles Times, CA - 7 minutes agoHe is wooed by a cooing Nereid at night and, like the "beautiful pea green boat" in Lear's poem, she appears by day as a girl in a pea-green swimsuit. ...
- The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes - The Independent
The phrase "Romantic Chemistry" did not always mean the sexual spark between two people. At the birth of English Romanticism, chemistry and other sciences, notably astronomy and the physics of electricity, were exciting components of the new mood ...
- Teen Prostitute Describes Life On The Streets - KTVU.com
Teen Prostitute Describes Life On The StreetsKTVU.com, CA - 1 hour agoShe told KTVU that she will turn 18 next week, but her life on the streets started when she was only eleven years old. Tajanik was a student with a 4.0 ...
- Comedy overrules romance in off Broadway "Tempest" - Reuters
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Star Mandy Patinkin makes an aggressive, angry Prospero in the Classic Stage Company's vivid new production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." For this is a determinedly anti-romantic "Tempest" that CSC artistic director ...
- Dan Fainaru in Locarno - Screendaily.com (subscription)
Dan Fainaru in LocarnoScreendaily.com (subscription), UK - 3 hours agoAmong them is a French student preparing his Ph.D. thesis on Anna's poetry, a rap singer working on his very own weed commercial, a surgeon on his way to ...
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