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- PA teacher wins ‘Best of Texas’ - Port Arthur News
Mary Lathan is not exaggerating when she said she has spent her entire life at Lincoln High School, now Memorial 9th Grade Center. “My mother was pregnant with me when she taught here. I’ve been at Lincoln all my life. The students would baby-sit ...
- Poetry that you can chew over - Stuff
POCKETFUL OF POESY: Chris Morris and Alex Tylee of Havelock North hope their Poesy range of pizza breads makes them a lot of dough. Well, sort of. Poesy sells thin, oval, pizza-base-like breads with a poem in each packet. The idea occurred to owners ...
- Yada Yada Yada Write Out Loud - Velocity
Yada Yada Yada Write Out LoudVelocity, KY - 1 hour agoHer poetry, fiction and feminist essays have inspired a generation. Her most lauded work, "The Color Purple," is considered pure genius by most. ...
- Blazing 'Speaking in Tongues' at Calabash - Jamaica Gleaner
Left: Jamaican poet Kei Miller tickles the crowd as he recites two of his poems laced with expletives, imitating a Jamaican woman living in Britain. He was one of the featured acts on Sunday. Right: US-based poet Aracelis Girmay shares some of her ...
- 'Better Mus' Come' filled with drama, action - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica Gleaner'Better Mus' Come' filled with drama, actionJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 4 hours agoHe simply thinks too much for a cardboard cut-out of a thug, writing poetry, which Kamala later discovers, and when Flames tells him that he has changed ...
- Junior scholar to discuss history, teach poetry lesson - Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
Fourth graders at Sherman Elementary School will host a video conference with a child literary scholar Monday and Tuesday at 11 a.m. to discuss poetry. Adora, 10, started to read chapter books at age 3 1/2. According to her Web site, www.adorasvitak ...
- Fritz Reiner - Chicago Tribune
Pianist Leonard Pennario, a best-selling recording artist who made his concert debut with the Dallas Symphony at age 12 after learning Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in a week so he could play it from memory, has died. He was 83. Mr. Pennario died ...
- A 'slam' dunk for poetry - KSC The Equinox (subscription)
A 'slam' dunk for poetryKSC The Equinox (subscription), NH - 1 hour agoBut it was "College Life" that resonated the strongest with the crowd, drawing laughter after lines like "…Who walks into the Dining Commons and wonders: ...
- Andras Mezei: Many-sided poet and editor - The Independent
András Mezei was a many-sided and accomplished Hungarian writer and poet. One of the defining experiences of his life was the period of Nazi terror in German-occupied Hungary during 1944. His father perished in Auschwitz and although Mezei himself ...
- United Nations Organization Destroyed Thousands of Books (The New York Sun)
PAriS — For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored to produce the first six volumes of the general History of Latin America, an exhaustive work financed by UneSCO, the United nations organization created to preserve global culture and heritage. Then, over the course of two years, UneSCO paid to destroy many of those books and nearly 100,000 others by turning them to pulp, ...
- Friday Night Fights: Elijah Snow vs. a Table! - LubbockOnline.com
LubbockOnline.comFriday Night Fights: Elijah Snow vs. a Table!LubbockOnline.com, TX - Jun 13, 2008A story about LA’s gangs, lead by a teen girl, taking on the LAPD sounds like something that’d have something to say about racial politics, cop culture, ...
- NORM: Elvis fan club will have star its way - Las Vegas Review Journal
A local Elvis fan club isn't feeling a whole lot of love from the Elvis Presley Estate. The cold shoulder includes efforts to obtain a donation for Elvis' celebrity star on Las Vegas Boulevard and silence as far as offering input on where to install ...
- Mixed Media (The Reader)
* One of the great asides of business travel is the free evenings that leave time for solo exploration. Last week, I found myself in Pittsburgh and thanks to my friend Julie Wright (formerly of Omaha’s Bemis Center) I got to the city’s best neighborhoods and coolest art spots during my five-day trip.
- Female Poet Laureate contenders rule themselves out - Daily Telegraph
Wendy Cope, Fleur Adcock and Ruth Padel said the post of poet to the Queen was "archaic", "terribly hard work for very little pay" and could stifle their writing. The incumbent, Andrew Motion, is due to relinquish the post next year. Although being ...
- Warehouse District restaurants offering special "Date Night' dining ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Roasted beet, goat cheese, arugula salad at Crop Bistro & Bar. "Date Night In the District" is the special promotion that's running in Cleveland's historic Warehouse District every Friday night, now through August. Restaurants -- including Blue Point ...
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