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- Obama's rise proves America's greatness - The Daily Voice
Obama's rise proves America's greatnessThe Daily Voice, NY - 20 hours agoThroughout this campaign, people I greatly admire have advanced the ridiculous notion that Black Americans, a group that have been nothing more than a piece ...
- Sharif S. Elmusa: Poet and Environmental Scholar - Institute for Middle East Understanding
Institute for Middle East UnderstandingSharif S. Elmusa: Poet and Environmental ScholarInstitute for Middle East Understanding, CA - 4 hours agoFor Palestinian-American poet and environmental scholar Sharif S. Elmusa, writing poetry is not just an art. It is what he describes as the "continuous ...
- Pulitzer Prize winner lends voice to American poetry - Middlebury Campus (subscription)
Pulitzer Prize winner lends voice to American poetryMiddlebury Campus (subscription), VT - 55 minutes agoBut it's always a pleasure to welcome a wonderful poet to our campus, and I personally love his poetry…I've gotten so many lovely comments from people who ...
- Blue Mouse turns 85 - Weekly Volcano
Weekly VolcanoBlue Mouse turns 85Weekly Volcano, WA - 49 minutes ago... I will be throwing down more happiness when the Blue Mouse Theatre — the oldest operating movie theater in the Northwest — celebrates its 85th birthday. ...
- Week of varied, fun music - Nevada Appeal
There certainly was music in the air around Carson City last week. It started Tuesday night when the Mile High Jazz Band was joined by local poets at the outdoor patio of Comma Coffee. The band was swinging as usual (right word for big band music ...
- Heinz Awards Honor Five Eminent Americans with 14th Annual Human Achievement Prize (Centre Daily Times)
Celebrating the unbridled human spirit to change the world around us in ways great and small, in the here and now, and for generations to come, the Heinz Family Foundation today announced the recipients of the 14th annual Heinz Awards, among the largest individual achievement prizes in the world.
- Falling bookish - Sacramento News & Review
Falling bookishSacramento News & Review, CA - 18 minutes agoHe is to poetry what Raymond Carver was to the short story, what Pete Rose was to the bunt. In fact, John Ashbery’s influence is so broad, it’s impossible ...
- Musica Viva series kicks off Sunday at Tech - Roanoke Times
The Perlman, Schmidt, Bailey Piano Trio is made up of Giora Schmidt (from left) on violin, Navah Perlman on piano and Zuill Bailey on cello. CHRISTIANSBURG -- Sunday's Musica Viva concert, the first performance by the Perlman, Schmidt, Bailey Piano ...
- Plant Closes in '09: Elma Hopes for a New Buyer (East Aurora Advertiser)
In fall 2006, the German-based company Continental AG announced that it would close its Jamison Road, Elma, manufacturing plant within three years. Continental had purchased the electronics facility from Motorola just a few months earlier, and the chairman of the company's board said at the time of the acquisition that few jobs would be lost in the transition.
- Acedia & Me - San Francisco Gate
What prompts a professor on sabbatical to waste precious time by hosing down his house rather than work on his book? Why would a teen girl resolve not to make her bed in the mornings because she knows she'll be sleeping in it later that night ...
- Old Rapscallion - Time
THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS—Christopher Isherwood—Morrow ($2.50). Up-to-date readers of up-to-date English poetry know the names, though they may not have the numbers, of Poets Wyant Hugh Auden and Stephen Spender (TIME, Oct. 1). The first books of ...
- Here, tell these people something they don't know about me. - Globe and Mail
Barack Obama has already referenced Jay-Z by brushing off his shoulders. Last night, I got the distinct impression that the Democratic candidate for president has been watching the Eminem movie 8 Mile . Remember the last battle scene, when Rabbit ...
- Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the Cycle - New York Times
Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the CycleNew York Times, United States - 36 minutes agoBut he doesn’t stylize a trade language into transporting theatrical poetry the way that, say, David Mamet does with the movie-industry-speak of ...
- Hendrix to stage reading of alum's work (The Log Cabin Democrat)
Hendrix College hopes to continue a lasting literary tradition Friday, opening its doors to the public for a free dramatic reading by one of its own.
- holiday gifts for $20 - Washington Blade
Washington Bladeholiday gifts for $20Washington Blade, DC - 16 hours agoSummer blockbusters like “The Dark Knight” or “Wall-E” on DVD will also be available and could make great stocking stuffers. And Best Buy is the only place ...
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