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- A lesson in history (Pensacola News Journal)
Juneteenth is the oldest Black holiday celebrated in the United States and in some parts of the world
- Festival builds a bridge between art and entertainment - The Age
Festival builds a bridge between art and entertainmentThe Age, Australia - 4 hours ago"It's culturally threatening in a way, not a lot of poetry in it. But you're sitting in a culture that is one of the most travelled," she says. ...
- Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate - Philadelphia Inquirer
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to ...
- Dr. Abdul-Wahab El-Messiri: leading intellectual light of Islam and ... - Yemen Observer
Dr. Abdul-Wahab el-Messiri, the ‘Arab human thinker’ as he called himself, writer of Jews, Judaism and Zionism Encyclopedia, coordinator of the Kafia movement in Egypt that opposes the regime’s violations of democracy, died of a heart attack at ...
- Edwin Morgan wins 2008 Sundial prize - Times Online
Edwin Morgan wins 2008 Sundial prizeTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoThe book opens with a poem to the inauguration of the Scottish Parliament. “What do the people want of the place? /They want it to be filled with thinking ...
- Tents of Hope Project raises awareness about genocide in Darfur - York Weekly
Tents of Hope Project raises awareness about genocide in DarfurYork Weekly, NH - 1 hour agoThe CMS students are also creating a book that will reflect readings, writings, poetry, photographs and more from students and their families. ...
- Local Starbucks will close - Plainview Daily Herald
Coffee lovers in Plainview received a slight shock this week when they learned Starbucks here will be closing down. “I’m so sad. I just found out an hour ago,” Amanda Murray said Wednesday night. “I’m heartbroken.” Starbucks announced ...
- TRUTH AND FICTIONLocal writers awarded - Village Voice.com.au
TRUTH AND FICTIONLocal writers awardedVillage Voice.com.au, Australia - 1 hour ago... author of the now discredited book Forbidden Love. Feather Man is Ms McMasters first novel and comes after a lifetime of writing poetry. ...
- The 3-minute interview: Joan Deacon (The Washington Examiner)
Joan Deacon, senior librarian at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, has worked in libraries since 1972 - leaving the public library system for the prison library system in 1994. Last year, the American Jail Association named her the national Civilian Employee of the Year and Montgomery County named her a "Woman of Distinction" for her work encouraging inmates to read.
- US Rep. Sam Farr Hosts NEA Chairman Dana Gioia - 7thSpace Interactive (press release)
US Rep. Sam Farr Hosts NEA Chairman Dana Gioia7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - 18 hours agoFarr and NEA Chairman Dana Gioia announced grants to three California organizations as part of the NEA's Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, ...
- 'There's no other option' - Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen'There's no other option'Ottawa Citizen, Canada - 1 hour agoI love to turn that one up very loud and dance around. Leonard Cohen's The Night Comes On is one I love to play to get inside the poetry. ...
- Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other' - San Francisco Chronicle
Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoBoth poetry and nature "are occasions for introspection, but not necessarily for happiness," Guterson's narrator observes. Like the author, Neil is deeply ...
- Latitude festival under way - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Latitude festival under wayNorfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK - 4 hours agoYesterday Just A Minute and Stories With Latitude were recorded, with another episode of both to come over the weekend, as well as Poetry Please and Loose ...
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s biography published - Daily Times
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s biography publishedDaily Times, Pakistan - 9 hours agoLate Nusrat was coined as the “Qawwali Emperor” while his unique voice with rich lyrics of poetry brought ecstatic celebrations. French Ambassador Regis de ...
- Free parking isn’t the answer - La Crosse Tribune
I agree that La Crosse has a wonderful downtown, and I welcome LHI headquarters and all the jobs that are in its forecast. But to suggest, as one recent letter writer did, that all we need downtown is more free parking is incorrect. We do not need to ...
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