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- 'Poetry Out Loud' comes to town (The Huntsville Times)
A poem has to be heard to be fully appreciated. That's the idea behind Poetry Out Loud, a national program that encourages high school students to study great poetry and then take part in a recitation competition.
- Local students, staff compete in National Poetry Slam Festival (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Hundreds of spoken-word performers will be in Madison Aug. 3-9 for National Poetry Slam 2008 . The poet-performers are members of some 75 teams that will compete at several downtown venues for a chance to advance to the finals showcase and competition at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St.
- Disney Makes Reading Cool (The Tampa Tribune)
The newspaper industry is constantly bewailing its need for a new economic model, as the Internet upends the old one. Maybe it could take a page from the Club Penguin Times.
- New Book Exposes Anti-Christian and Anti-Semitic Bias in U.S. K-12 ... - PR Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR) today announces the release of The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion by Dr. Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra. The five-year ...
- The Bangla Novel lives on - The Daily Star
The Daily StarThe Bangla Novel lives onThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 3 hours agoThe odor of dust harbingers death for Sobed Ali. He smelled dust before the deaths of his father and daughter. But dust also denotes the dry season -- when ...
- Poetry contest announced - Baxter Bulletin
Poetry contest announcedBaxter Bulletin, AR - 10 hours agoThe deadline to enter the Baxter County Poets Association annual poetry contest is Sept. 26. The contest is open to youth and adutls in the Twin Lakes Area, ...
- Michael Coren: G.K. Chesterton, an icon to too few - Nationalpost.com
The New Yorker magazine recently got into all sorts of trouble for its satirical front cover cartoon depicting Barack Obama as an orthodox Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist. Some people, it seems, simply can't take a joke. G.K. Chesterton ...
- E-town kicks off the fall fair season - Lancaster Newspapers
E-town kicks off the fall fair seasonLancaster Newspapers, PA - 5 hours agoRoser, an honors student who has had poetry published in her school literary magazine, hopes to study cosmetology and then perhaps do mission work. ...
- Will the Anti-Locavorism Never End? - New York Times Blogs
A blog post from a few months ago — titled “ Do We Really Need a Few Billion Locavores ?” — upset many eat-local fans. Among the many sins I committed were: 1. Using food coloring to make sherbet. (Hey, sorry, but I was just following the ...
- Look for the lit in the obits - Winnipeg Free Press
Look for the lit in the obitsWinnipeg Free Press, Canada - 3 hours agoI came to love the written word and more importantly began to understand how good poetry and superior works of prose reflecting the human condition can be a ...
- Audiences adopt 'Chihuahua' with $29M weekend - MLive.com
Courtesy of Walt Disney In this photo provided by Walt Disney, A chihuahua is served dinner in a scene from the movie, "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." The little dog brought in big audiences this weekend, making "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" the top box ...
- Hitting the high notes with Vasily Petrenko - Metro
MetroHitting the high notes with Vasily PetrenkoMetro, UK - 8 hours agoWith his boy-band looks and deep, dark reserves of poetry, Lewis is almost the keyboardist equivalent of Petrenko himself. But it's just as great to see the ...
- Premier League: Portsmouth v Manchester United minute-by-minute report (Guardian Unlimited)
Minute-by-minute report: Featuring bizarre Fifa rituals, the A-Team and a Darren Fletcher winner
- Professor to survey Scandinavian crime novels - Ventura County Star
Professor to survey Scandinavian crime novelsVentura County Star, CA - 7 hours agoPoetry reading 8 pm Monday. Village Jester Restaurant, 139 Ojai Ave., Ojai. 640-8001. Poetry workshop 7 pm Wednesday. Peet's Coffee, 1171 S. Victoria Ave., ...
- Oakland Opera Theater to Stage Stravinsky's Masterpieces - Broadway World
Oakland Opera Theater to Stage Stravinsky's MasterpiecesBroadway World, NY - 3 hours agoA former National Teen Poetry Slam Champion, she has been featured at Robert Redford’s Sundance Summit, the Living Word Festival, and the Stern Grove ...
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