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- Jane Krakowski is Poetry in Motion - New York Post
Jane Krakowski is Poetry in MotionNew York Post, NY - 28 minutes agoIn an era when the American public hears the word “blonde†and immediately conjures up rehabbing starlets and the waifish, lifeless cast of The Hills, ...
- Topping off a dream - Bennington Banner
Topping off a dreamBennington Banner, VT - 3 hours agoSeeing those little trees waving in the Harwood Hill winds, when the American flag that was also flying at the peak was destroyed in a recent storm, ...
- Still ringing in our ears (The Star)
Words have power and none more so than those spoken by great orators and statesmen in the name of freedom and democracy. StarMag recalls some of these memorable speeches made through the ages on the nation’s 51st birthday today.
- Pop songs banned from funerals - BBC News
BBC NewsPop songs banned from funeralsBBC News, UK - 53 minutes agoLeaflets handed out on its behalf at Saint Mary's Church in Castleblayney on Sunday said pop music and poetry had no place in funeral ceremonies. ...
- FESTIVAL: At Adur - Shoreham Today
FESTIVAL: At AdurShoreham Today, UK - 3 minutes agoChoral music, songs and poetry will be performed free of charge to visitors both inside and outside the church. Organised by the Adur Arts Forum, ...
- Actor Khosro Shakibaii dies at 64 - Tehran Times
Actor Khosro Shakibaii dies at 64Tehran Times, Iran - Jul 18, 2008He possessed a unique tone of voice and released a number of tapes in which he recited the poetry of several contemporary poets including Sohrab Sepehri. ...
- Valley Native Has Small but Huge Role in Shepard Play - RedOrbit
Valley Native Has Small but Huge Role in Shepard PlayRedOrbit, TX - Jul 27, 2008The Bethlehem native stands silent for four to five minutes in nothing but a slip and a cowboy hat. Her only act is to hand the hat to the man who tossed it ...
- Texas City to hold Juneteenth Celebration - Daily News - Galveston County
Texas City to hold Juneteenth CelebrationDaily News - Galveston County, TX - 2 hours agoOn Thursday, the celebration will feature a poetry slam and social. The event will be held at the Charles T. Doyle Convention Center starting at 6 pm The ...
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant-and-rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Cerveris, DeHaas, Pinsky, Woods Set for Lyrics by W. Shakespeare - TheaterMania.com
TheaterMania.comCerveris, DeHaas, Pinsky, Woods Set for Lyrics by W. ShakespeareTheaterMania.com, NY - 19 hours agoHe was that poetry editor for the online magazine Slate for seven years, and is a contributor for the Washington Post and The New Yorker among others. ...
- John Lundberg: The Poetry Of A Political Speech (HuffingtonPost)
Presidential nomination acceptance speeches surely aim to create great quotes, not to repeat them. So I should have figured that when I went digging around...
- Last summer Scouting For Girls played Glastonbury's smallest stage ... - Daily Mail
Daily MailLast summer Scouting For Girls played Glastonbury's smallest stage ...Daily Mail, UK - 1 hour ago'I was a Britpop kid, so I know all about a good tune. My melodies are simple and direct on purpose. I'm not trying to write poetry or dress anything up. ...
- Ed Reinke/AP - New York Sun
Ed Reinke/APNew York Sun, United States - 17 minutes agoTIPPLING MONKS The New York Choral Society performs Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," a cantata based on a medieval poetry collection of the same name. ...
- Show your support. - Huffingtonpost.com
Hot on the heels of California's legalizing of gay marriage comes a new social study on healthy marriages. The New York Times reports that "same-sex couples have a great deal to teach everyone else about marriage and relationships." After Vermont ...
- Chris Matthews, former supervisor who owned Poet and Patriot pub, dead at 61 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
SANTA CRUZ -- Chris Matthews, a former county supervisor for the Pajaro Valley who founded the landmark Poet and Patriot Irish Pub, died Saturday after a bout with lung cancer.
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