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- Tom Hammick: Holding, Eagle Gallery, London - Independent
Tom Hammick: Holding, Eagle Gallery, LondonIndependent, UK - 5 hours agoThere is a quiet poetry in Hammick's work that stands in opposition to much of the noise and brouhaha of the current art scene. He begins with what is local ...
- Senior citizens pursuing education from home (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature.
- UVM prof to be featured at Black Poetry Day (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
PLATTSBURGH -- Though he averages three reading/workshop/festival gigs a month, things are slowing down for poet Major Jackson. At the University of Vermont, he is Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor. He is also a core faculty member at the Bennington Writing Seminars.
- Suffrage movement recalled in wake of Nov. 4 election - Niles Daily Star
Suffrage movement recalled in wake of Nov. 4 electionNiles Daily Star, USA - 4 hours agoJudging from a number of printed sources published in the late 1800s in advice columns, poetry, sermons, literature and medical text, "Americans in general ...
- IWP writers from Italy and Macedonia read Oct. 5 in Prairie Lights - Media Newswire (press release)
IWP writers from Italy and Macedonia read Oct. 5 in Prairie LightsMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 3 hours agoA poet, essayist and translator, Madzirov is the author of five collections of poetry and has won both the Hubert Burda Poetry Award and the Miladinov ...
- Young Western Saharan refugees build for the future in Cuba - Reuters AlertNet
Young Western Saharan refugees build for the future in CubaReuters AlertNet, UK - 13 hours agoHafdala, whose particular loves are the theatre and writing poetry and short stories, has also won several awards in national environmental contests. ...
- An Undecided Black Republican Weighs His Options (The New York Observer)
Derrick Wilson, a 41-year old black Republican from Kingsbridge, in the Bronx, isn’t sure who to vote for. “My problem with McCain is Sarah Palin,†Wilson said. He was sitting at the Starbucks on 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem, with stacks of poetry books (“Corner Stores in the Middle of the Blockâ€) piled neatly on the floor. He writes and performs under the name ...
- Remembering legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray - Hindustan Times
"Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon." These words by legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurasawa best describes the man, who is considered to be have changed the face of Indian ...
- Wartime friendship takes centre stage - Selkirk Today
Wartime friendship takes centre stageSelkirk Today, UK - 5 hours ago“This is not a play about poetry; it is a poetic play about two men.†Not About Heroes features Border actors Oliver Bisset (Sassoon) and Matthew Burgess ...
- Beth Crossley: Methley teenager wins top poetry prize - Garforth Today
Beth Crossley: Methley teenager wins top poetry prizeGarforth Today, UK - 55 minutes agoThe award is the only poetry prize which looks globally for young poetry talent. The 15-17 year-olds win a place on a week long Arvon writing centre ...
- Maya Angelou sees poetry in Obama (Chicago Tribune)
Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton—affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president—asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama 's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- 'We need to take the Bible back from the bigots' - The Independent
It's not every day that journalists are presented with a "style guide" to interpret the most enduring international bestseller on the planet. But the Bible is no ordinary book, and these are not conventional times, as religion hits the headlines like ...
- Milwaukee Choristers, Brazeal Dennard Chorale to perform together - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Choristers, Brazeal Dennard Chorale to perform togetherMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 3 hours agoThe Brazeal Dennard Chorale, a small, elite, African-American group based in Detroit, will be the Choristers’ special guest. James B. Kinchen Jr. leads the ...
- Celebrating poetry's young - The Bookseller (subscription)
Celebrating poetry's youngThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 3 minutes agoThe Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2008 will be announced on National Poetry Day, 9th October, when 100 young poets will be coming to London to receive ...
- Botswana: Book Review (AllAfrica.com)
People in Botswana are beginning to reflect on their and the nation's past as the country rapidly approaches it's 50th anniversary.
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