Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- What's Happening (Arizona Range News)
Willcox Band and Orchestra parents and community supporters: It is that wonderful time of year again, when students flock to school, carefully toting their chosen instrument, may it be a shiny new trumpet or a beautifully carved violin.
- Child Online Protection Act Ruled Unconstitutional, Again - The Bulletin
A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. The law, which has not taken effect, would bar Web sites from ...
- Fair talent winners sing way to top (The Batavia Sun)
Winners of this year's Kane County Fair Talent Contest included a duet and an opera singer.
- Metrical feet: poetry on the move - Guardian Unlimited
I feel like a total failure. Actually, make that a partial failure. On New Year's Day, I said I was going to venture into a diet of audio books , novice that I was. Said diet involved cancelling my gym membership (a resolution I have kept so far ...
- University of New Orleans - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
University of New OrleansThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 1 hour ago... Laureate of the Tchicaya U'Tamsi Award for African Poetry, will read his 50th anniversary poem. UNO will release its 50th-anniversary commemorative book ...
- Fair is 99 times better than the first time (Daily Herald)
"I have been all over the world but never to La Ronge," says the Prince Albert man who says he's been attending the fair for 99 years.
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters UK
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- Glencairn Balfour Paul - Daily Telegraph
GLENCAIRN BALFOUR PAUL, the former diplomat and Arabist who has died aged 90, was Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia between 1969 and 1977; before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1955 he was a member of the Sudan Political Service. After the ...
- Arts: Glass creations inspire project blending art, poetry (The State)
Two visual artists and two poets have collaborated for “Fire and Transformation,†a project inspired by the glass art of Dale Chihuly. It’s a joint effort by the Columbia Museum of Art and the USC Arts Institute. The project started with art student Natalie Askew, whose artwork is influenced by Asian imagery. She worked with Dawn Hunter, an assistant art professor at USC, to make connections ...
- A paean to books and those who love them (Concord Monitor)
Though it deals with a dark period in history, this first novel is an essentially sunny work. It affirms the power of books to nourish people enduring hard times - not so surprising, since Mary Ann Shaffer, who died earlier this year, had a long career as a librarian, bookseller and editor.
- 'Slow' moves in revelatory ways - Boston Globe
BECKET - At first, the floor-to-ceiling image projected on the back wall of Jacob's Pillow's Doris Duke Studio Theatre appears to be a still photograph. Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa, regal in a traditional peach silk gown, stands legs bent ...
- A true original, Kowalski molded during Golden Age (The Post and Courier)
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.†— Robert Frost It takes a different breed to become a professional wrestler. But one could hardly imagine Killer Kowalski as anything but.
- Search: Salon The Web - Salon
Search: Salon The WebSalon - 3 hours ago... Oberst was my guilty pleasure for years. But now that he has changed from angsty teen to Johnny Cash wannabe, why can't I enjoy his music? By Judy Berman.
- Herring 'n' butterflies: Rick Jones remembers his tutor, WG Sebald - The Independent
The inaugural WG Sebald conference took place under heavy skies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The 100 international delegates slept in student residences designed to resemble ziggurat pyramids by the architect Denys Lasdun in the 1960s ...
- Taj Mahal harvests blues from around the world (The Toledo Blade)
Back in the late '50s, when he was a teenager, Taj Mahal was torn between a career in music and a life on the farm. With his passion and intelligence, he would have been successful at either one, but his fans can be thankful that he chose the guitar over the plow. Throughout his career, the 65-year-old Mahal has gotten his share of tail feathers shaking with his effusive Afro-Caribbean ...
|
|
Thinking about Refinancing Mortgage?
Get your Online Degree today!
November 2007 Mortgage News
|