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- Gioia reflects on his legacy - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Gioia reflects on his legacySanta Rosa Press Democrat, CA - 33 minutes agoI’ll try to reconnect with my own creative life and try to write poetry. It’s never a given that one can sit down and write a poem. ...
- Author and book events - Los Angeles Times
Author and book eventsLos Angeles Times, CA - 4 hours agoPoetry at the Ruskin Red Hen Press editor Kate Gale and Elena Karina Byrne, poetry consultant for the LA Times Festival of Books, will host a poetry reading ...
- Wonderfully acted `Visitor' deserves a warm welcome - Grand Rapids Press
Widowed college professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) seems to lead a quiet life that's as uneventful and predictable as one of the economics classes he's been teaching for decades -- that is, until he stops in at the New York City apartment he ...
- A new report says white boys need father figures at school. But the male education crisis is far more complex and ... (Evening Standard)
Any parent will recognise Peter Smith's assessment of the boys he teaches at Hampton School in south-west London: 'Boys are like greyhounds. They love the chase and the race, and they don't care if the prize is a fake rabbit.'
- Literature has a voice at Helicon West’s public readings (Herald Journal)
The audience listens to the performer during a recent Helicon West gathering. (Meegan M. Reid/Herald Journal) Im the first to acknowledge many don’t like poetry. I do.
- Berkeley Video and Film Festival Showcases the Indie Spirit - Berkeley Daily Planet
The 17th annual Berkeley Video and Film Festival features its usual eclectic mix of independent cinema, from The Road to Bonneville, a documentary about hot rod racing in the salt flats of Utah, to George Aguilar’s virtual cinema-poems, with avatar ...
- Editorial: The legacy of Solzhenitsyn - Daily Gazette
The death of the famed Russian author and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn Sunday won’t receive the kind of attention it would have had it happened at the height of the Cold War, but it certainly is worth noting. There was a 19th century ...
- Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute (AP via Yahoo! News)
The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War.
- Straight off the shelf (Hindustan Times)
Sometimes, places are associated with writers. Dickens’ London, Roth’s New York, Rushdie’s Bombay. Ruskin Bond has his own spot on earth. In this delightful anthology, A Town Called Dehra (Penguin, Rs 200), Bond not only zones in, but also opens out Dehradun for all to see.
- : A Short History of Living Longer - guardian.co.uk
: A Short History of Living Longerguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago... Emilia Marty an object of pity rather than envy in The Makropulos Case. She complains that "no one can love for 300 years. Or hope, or write, or sing."
- Michael Jackson records pop album of Robert Burns poems - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukMichael Jackson records pop album of Robert Burns poemsTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 minutes agoMichael Jackson, the pop star, and friend David Gest have teamed up to record a bizarre pop album of Robert Burns' poems. By Daily Telegraph Reporter Gest, ...
- Lives they might have lived - Ottawa Citizen
Lives they might have livedOttawa Citizen, Canada - 3 hours agoLessing, whose body of work over a long and productive career includes more than 50 titles in fiction, science fiction, non-fiction and poetry, ...
- A classical Chinese garden - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorA classical Chinese gardenChristian Science Monitor, MA - 4 hours agoAccording to the docents, a classical Chinese garden contains five elements — architecture, plants, stone, water, and poetry. Don’t you love the idea of ...
- Crossing barrios to promote peace (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SAN DIEGO – Every Sunday, Lucky “2 Tears†Morales laces up his steel-toed boots, wraps a bandana across on his forehead and slips on his black, fingerless gloves to march the streets of southeastern San Diego alone.
- Political slogans can zing or sing for the masses - Houston Chronicle
Political slogans can zing or sing for the massesHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour agoA memorable slogan, and one with impact, represents the gist of the campaign and does so with poetry, rhythm and imagery, said Bengtson, a longtime slogan ...
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