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- Poetry club spreads love - The DePauw
Poetry club spreads loveThe DePauw, IN - 40 minutes agoJunior Jamie Conner would tell you that poetry is for everyone, even the fourth graders he taught Tuesday at Tzouanakis Elementary School. ...
- Carefully staged 'Journey' lingers in mind - Pioneer Press
Carefully staged 'Journey' lingers in mindPioneer Press, MN - 2 hours agoThere's poetry here, and truth and a kind of tragic nobility of mere mortals in all their magnificent weakness. Director Lynn Musgrave understands this. ...
- Suttons Bay Sunset wins award - Leelanau Enterprise
Suttons Bay Sunset wins awardLeelanau Enterprise, MI - 1 hour agoA poem by a summer visitor entitled Suttons Bay Sunset took fourth place in a national poetry contest. The piece was written by Brad Bedacht, ...
- Darwin's Garden Exhibition Opens at The New York Botanical Garden - Forbes
NEW YORK, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The untold story of Charles Darwin's lifelong fascination and work with plants, including how flowers have evolved their extreme beauty and how plants are sensitive creatures responding to the least beam of sunlight ...
- Poetry Alive! program to be presented at library (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
A special Poetry Alive! program will be presented at the Main Cabell County Library today at 10:30 a.m. and at the Milton Library at 1:30 p.m. Poetry Alive! is a high-intensity poetry performance for children of all ages that promises to be engaging and memorable. Children will get a chance to interact with the performers and maybe get on stage with them.
- Amos Lee - Rolling Stone
Though he's often labeled as a singer-songwriter, Amos Lee is a talented singer, period. On his third album, the Philadelphia native lends his stellar Al Green impression to "Won't Let Me Go," and lays a cool, Curtis Mayfield-style falsetto over the ...
- New Montreal exhibit showcases Yves Saint Laurent's legacy - CBC News
As the world celebrates the life and work of designer Yves Saint Laurent, anyone venturing into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will get to see his creations first-hand. The museum is showcasing a retrospective of the groundbreaking couturier's 40 ...
- Poetry contest open to Latinos - The State
Poetry contest open to LatinosThe State, SC - 2 hours agoThe third Amateur Latin Poetry Contest seeks entries. Participants must be Latino, amateur writers and reside in South Carolina. Winners will receive prizes ...
- Community Calendar: 06/05/08 - The Carrboro Citizen
Community Calendar: 06/05/08The Carrboro Citizen, NC - 3 hours agoBalanced Movement Studio. 304 W Weaver St, upstairs. Smoke & alcohol free. Call 968-8776 for more info. Open Mic —poetry, music & short fiction. ...
- "Ireland has become sexy" (The Easterner)
Poet and author Kevin Kiely, the Fulbright Scholar from Dublin, Ireland and resident at Boise State University, presented "Reflections on Contemporary Ireland" in what was a general overview of the state of Ireland today. An older crowd, which was composed of many faculty and community members, as well as students, took in his presentation last week at the JFK Auditorium.
- The Timeless 100 - Time
Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) was, by most accounts, a horrible bully. The Japanese nobleman lived through the country's violent transition from the Heian aristocratic era to the martial Kamakura shogunate, and was surly, severe and infamously ugly ...
- Be careful, you just might get what you don't want - St. George Daily Spectrum
Be careful, you just might get what you don't wantSt. George Daily Spectrum, UT - 7 hours agoWe can no longer afford political leaders at any level who give us platitudes, spin the answers to serious questions or spout poetry to avoid an issue. ...
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' (The New York Sun)
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get the memo. In 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of ...
- Snohomish girl gets another crack at national spelling bee - Tacoma News Tribune
WASHINGTON – At 13 years old, Elizabeth Zhang is a budding poet who draws inspiration from scenes of nature outside her home in Snohomish. “I write a lot of poetry based on natural beauty – like hills and flowers outside,†said Zhang. The ...
- BOOK REVIEW: 'National Anthem' - Centre Daily Times
BOOK REVIEW: 'National Anthem'Centre Daily Times, PA - 1 hour agoIn the last poem in the collection, "Dying Bird," the narrator gathers his poetry of images into one final story. The bird "fell into the chimney's throat ...
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