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- Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor (Independent)
Books At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky's The Idiot because I'm working on a multimedia adaptation of it on stage at the National Theatre. I first read it when I was 18 or 19. I couldn't have understood much of it but it stirred my imagination.
- Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With Poetry - NPR News
“Words are just words without action. But I think what we're seeing here today with these poets is the beginning of action.” Talk of the Nation , July 16, 2008 · Robert Redford has been fighting on behalf of the environment for more than 30 ...
- Somalis and Oromos Misrepresented by British Colonial Empire´s ... - American Chronicle
Somalis and Oromos Misrepresented by British Colonial Empire´s ...American Chronicle, CA - 52 minutes agoIt is strange that a dialect which has no written character should so abound in poetry and eloquence. There are thousands of songs, some local, ...
- Summer Fun in Humboldt Co - Humboldt Beacon
Summer Fun in Humboldt CoHumboldt Beacon, CA - 11 minutes agoWeekly themes include poetry, song writing, plays and scripts, iIlustrating, cartooning, and lettering. The academy is for students in grades 4 to 9. ...
- Artists to honour Tuwhare - Otago Daily Times
Artists to honour TuwhareOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 1 hour agoGallery public programmes officer Sarah Amazinnia said the performance would be a mixture of poetry readings, music and "eclectic" poetry performances. ...
- Jeremy Paxman ridicules Robert Burns as king of doggerel - Times Online
Jeremy Paxman, for whom teasing the Scots is an irresistible temptation, has crossed what many will see as the final barrier of good taste by mocking the national bard. The Newsnight presenter, who once complained that Britain was run by “a sort of ...
- Lit Beat (Honolulu Advertiser)
PUPPET TIMES with Christy Lipps Ah Sing for ages 3-6; 10:30-11:15 a.m. July 15; Mililani Public Library; free; 627-7470.
- Hoops gold as easy as 'U-S-A!' (Morgan Hill Times)
The end of the headline above was the chant taking place at Cigar Bar & Grill in San Francisco last Saturday. I was there for a friend's bachelor party when before I knew what was happening, I was huddling with several hundred strangers.
- The Beckett list: Liam Neeson joins others in reading his works - New York Daily News
New York Daily NewsThe Beckett list: Liam Neeson joins others in reading his worksNew York Daily News, NY - 1 hour agoBut tomorrow and Sunday, Neeson gets to drop the haunted, silent act to perform hour-long readings from Beckett's novels, plays and poetry. ...
- Eileen Regan, 81, artist and beach-lover - Philadelphia Daily News
A TRIP TO THE SHORE for the family of Eileen McKenna Regan was both an adventure and a challenge. Pack nine kids and a dog into a Volkswagen beetle. Sometimes in all that crowd, the dog, Emily, would disappear and a search had to be made among bodies ...
- Contenders unveiled for $120K, under-30 literary honour (CBC)
A long list of 16 titles has been unveiled for the lucrative Dylan Thomas literary prize, a fledgling, international award aimed at honouring talented writers under the age of 30.
- Meet the new city manager - Palo Alto Online
Meet the new city managerPalo Alto Online, CA - 11 hours agoIn the past Keene, who loves poetry and quotes liberally from a variety of sources during conversations and speeches, once brought in a poet to lead a ...
- Catskills Getaways for the Mind, Body & Spirit (ABC News)
Religious retreats in NY's Catskills allow visitors to find inner peace.
- Female contenders rule out 'archaic' post of Poet Laureate - The Independent
Three of the leading contenders to be Britain's first female Poet Laureate have ruled themselves out of contention for the post. The ancient role, currently held by Andrew Motion and remunerated by 630 bottles of Spanish sherry, is due to be ...
- Poets group to hold stage show - Peterborough Today
Poets group to hold stage showPeterborough Today, UK - 6 hours agoBy Paul Grinnell A POETS group in Peterborough is to stage a special performance to celebrate National Poetry Day. Members of Poets United (the Peterborough ...
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