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- Events include Grammy winners, AIDS fundraiser - News On 6
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Here is a roundup of weekend activities throughout the state of Oklahoma. Because of weather conditions, call ahead: Ongoing events: OKLAHOMA CITY - "Another Hot Oklahoma Night," an exhibit featuring the rock 'n roll artists ...
- Whisky, Cock-a-Leekie, and Men in Kilts - NBC Los Angeles
Not many poets are remembered on their birthdays. Not many people, gone some two hundred years, are remembered, we should say. But then there is Scottish poet Robert Burns . If you know that the Bard of Ayrshire , who penned his famous works in the ...
- Love and Death - a Night in the Cemetery - Huffington Post (blog)
Huffington Post (blog)Love and Death - a Night in the CemeteryHuffington Post (blog)Visiting cemeteries had also sparked an interested in poetry, and the words of the dead. I admired the great thinkers who composed poetry that could stand ...
- Plenty of Poetry, But Can Lawmakers Make it Happen? - Reporters Notebook - WOKV (blog)
WOKV (blog)Plenty of Poetry, But Can Lawmakers Make it Happen? - Reporters NotebookWOKV (blog)Hyperbole, poetry and even some Shakespeare. ...and more »
- James Caldwell High School falls short of goals - Caldwell Progress
Caldwell ProgressJames Caldwell High School falls short of goalsCaldwell ProgressThis year's featured work will be based on the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Activities will include a performance by the Longfellow Chorus from ...
- Rutgers University in Camden to be closed on Wednesday - NJ.com
Rutgers University in Camden to be closed on WednesdayNJ.com10: The Southern Region 1 Poetry Out Loud competition for high school students scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 10, has been rescheduled to 10 am to noon ...Rutgers-Camden's MFA in Creative Writing Program Hosts Reading Series this SpringNews from Rutgersall 2 news articles »
- China discovers tomb of ancient ruler - ninemsn
The tomb is located in central Henan province, not far from the Yellow River and near the city of Anyang, where Cao Cao ruled the Kingdom of Wei from 208 to 220, when he died at age 65, the state China Daily reported Monday. "Excavation has been ...
- Retired professor plans poetry reading - Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
Retired professor plans poetry readingHillsboro Argus - OregonLive.comThe reading is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by Friends of Nicholson Library and Linfield English Department. For more information, contact ...
- Dylan Thomas' old home up for sale in Laugharne - WalesOnline
Dylan Thomas' old home up for sale in LaugharneWalesOnlineThomas went on to publish his acclaimed poetry and prose collections, The Map of Love and The World I Breathe, between August and December the same year. ...
- Piedmont laureate works to promote literature - Raleigh News & Observer
DURHAM -- Novelist Zelda Lockhart has jumped right into her new role as the second Piedmont laureate - a position several regional arts organizations created to promote literature. The Mississippi-born, St. Louis-raised Lockhart now splits her time ...
- North Pinellas entertainment calendar - St. Petersburg Times
Dinner and show: Attend a dinner and theater presentation of Doubt at 6:30 p.m. at First Lutheran Church Christian Life Center, 1644 Nursery Road, Clearwater. Dinner only, $7; play only, $10; both are $17. Not recommended for children. RSVP by ...
- Oregon's looking for a new poet laureate - OregonLive.com
Oregon's looking for a new poet laureateOregonLive.comOne goal of the project must be to bring poetry to people or to a region of the state that might otherwise have little opportunity to study and enjoy it. ...and more »
- Archives > Plano Star-courier > Plano Insider - Plano Star Courier
Archives > Plano Star-courier > Plano InsiderPlano Star CourierBrown has been writing poetry since the age of 12 and now travels the country inspiring mass audiences with her powerful inspirational spoken word. ...and more »
- Review: One-man show dives into the world of Edgar Allan Poe - Naples Daily News
Something Else: On Thursdays, Jan. 14, and 21 you can buy one ticket at full price and get the second at half price. FORT MYERS — Edgar Allan Poe was a drunk, a cradle-robber (she was 13 - and his own first cousin!) and usually broke. He was also a ...
- Classic restored (Tribune Chronicle)
Visitors to the African-American Achievers Association annual festival will get the chance to try out a rare, vintage amusement park ride. Bill Sams, owner of Sams Amusements, was busy Thursday morning setting up what he said was a 1922 Herschell-Spillman carousel in Warren's Courthouse Square. The ride features the original horses. "It's all original.
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