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- VMI receives grant to enhance Arabic program (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Selected cadets at Virginia Military Institute will benefit from a more robust Arabic language program, and the college will become a model for how other schools can teach the language, thanks to a grant award announced last week.
- Sculpture attack decried - The Union Leader
Sculpture attack decriedThe Union Leader, NH - 9 hours agoLeigh said she watched as the ant was installed May 12, and has even written poetry about it. "To decapitate it is very mean-spirited. ...
- Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from Pushkin Press) (Blogcritics.org)
This new edition is a good reminder of the still-intimate relationship between literature and physical objects. When it comes to music and literature, the digital age has reduced the need for physical objects of art, but not their appeal. The surge in demand for new vinyl records demonstrates the persistence of the physical.So does the thriving business of self-publishing. At a time when anyone ...
- Snacking on Actors - Richmond Style Weekly
Richmond Style WeeklySnacking on ActorsRichmond Style Weekly, VA - May 6, 2008Director Scott Wichmann and music director Ryan Corbitt put together a delightful banquet of entertainment — a variety show of music, short plays and poetry ...
- Literary prize worth $67,481 (The Capital)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A 22-year-old English major at Washington College who has used new media to reflect on her experiences with old-fashioned printing won one of the nation's largest undergraduate literary awards yesterday.
- Poetic Icon Returns for Reading - Harvard Crimson
Poetic Icon Returns for ReadingHarvard Crimson, MA - 4 hours ago“Poetry itself is an act of translation, and perhaps language itself,†said Rich, who has been involved in various poetry translation projects over the ...
- Why Zimbabwe Will Not Resist - The Zimbabwean
Why Zimbabwe Will Not ResistThe Zimbabwean, Africa - 46 minutes agoYes the poetry of politics articulates the problem as inflation, the rise of the parallel market, the loss of democratic practices, human rights abuses. ...
- In the frame - Financial Times
Even we who have experienced these techniques for years – in my case 35 – cannot quite get used to them. Each May, we are flown to a remote French fishing port and subjected to ruthless disorientation methods. Night becomes day; day night. We are ...
- Oregon Book Awards author tour to stop in Newport (Newport News-Times)
Literary Arts has announced the next events of the 2008 Oregon Book Awards Author Tour, featuring recent Oregon Book Awards honorees. Readings will take place at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 24, at Newport Public Library (35 NW Nye Street). Conversation, book sales and a signing follow each reading.
- Editorial comment May 26 2008 - The Ashburton Guardian
Editorial comment May 26 2008The Ashburton Guardian, New Zealand - 1 hour agoIt might have been the right story 20 years earlier, but coming out when it did it was like calling a wedding a funeral. There were all these special ...
- Publicize Your Love - TheStranger.com
TheStranger.comPublicize Your LoveTheStranger.com, WA - 42 minutes agoIt's been a while since I read an entire book of poetry in rapture. After finishing Rising, Falling, Hovering, I was reminded of why I love the medium, ...
- Retired Army Colonel, Foreign Diplomat to Speak on Peace, Dissent ... - Media Newswire (press release)
Retired Army Colonel, Foreign Diplomat to Speak on Peace, Dissent ...Media Newswire (press release), NY - 4 hours agoActivities include poetry readings, lectures, films, cultural tributes, culinary events, and an awards presentation. “The aim of this celebration is both to ...
- A Defence of Religion - OpEdNews.com
Certain western thinkers use irrationality as a ground for the superiority of western civilisation, a ground that gives them the moral authority to look down upon, and manipulate, the irrational. It may come as a shock to them to learn that we are ...
- Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' (CNET)
New research suggests that social-networking sites build valuable technological and communication skills, and that low-income students are picking up those skills too.
- Poetry.com - a Place Where Everyone is a Poet (PR.com)
A up-to-date explanation and offering of everything new at Poetry.com. [PR.com - July 03, 2008]
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