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- ANDREA GIBSON / A POEM FOR OUR TIME OF NATIONAL APATHY - OpEdNews.com
She recited her short but powerful poem, "For Eli," at the Peace Isn't Quiet Festival at Hobart and William Smith College two weeks ago . A poem dedicated to Eli ~ who recently joined the ranks of the 18 Iraq Veterans who commit suicide every week ...
- Community Calendar: 05/28/08 - The Carrboro Citizen
Community Calendar: 05/28/08The Carrboro Citizen, NC - 1 hour agoOpen Mic —poetry, music & short fiction. Tuesdays, 7pm, Market Street Books & Maps, Southern Village. 933-5111, www.marketstreetbooks.com Not a Drop to ...
- Poetry in motion: over London by airship - Guardian Unlimited
There are certainly much cheaper ways to see London, but few can be as serene as to glide over the capital 1,000 feet above the ground at 30mph in an airship. Laid out below you are the great landmarks: the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and ...
- Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: the shortlist - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: the shortlistguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoOf the six, Mark Cocker's Crow Country is the shortest and, like poetry, it repays rereading in short bursts, so you can savour the lyricism of the writing. ...
- Scenery by Soprano hosts new landscapes by well-known local artist ... - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)Scenery by Soprano hosts new landscapes by well-known local artist ...PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 7 hours agoHer work has been called 'scenic poetry', with landscape scenes including barns, trees, and other picturesque views. She also implements unique but clever ...
- The Behaviour of Moths - Financial Times
If you were to slice open a cocoon in midwinter, all you’d find is a creamy liquid. What was once the caterpillar will eventually reconstitute itself, come spring, as the moth. Clive Stone, one of the characters in Poppy Adams’ striking debut ...
- KOLO Featured Events - KOLO TV Reno
The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted for the last time by music director Barry Jekowsky, will perform with Utah balladeer, Brenn Hill and cowboy poet Rodney Nelson, at the sixth annual Wells Fargo Rhythm & Rawhide Benefit Concert. The event ...
- We don't need a Poet Laureate - Guardian Blogs
Rumoured to have been ruled out in 1999 by Tony Blair, but would Carol Ann Duffy have said yes? Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Chloe Garner's campaign for the appointment of a female Poet Laureate is no doubt well intentioned. I've nothing against ...
- 'Twelfth Night': a multicultural, lively romp (San Jose Mercury News)
"Namaste!" biddeth the fool in the opening moments of "Twelfth Night" but, fear not, there is a method to his madness.
- Fiction from Wales translated to meet demand in Asia - ic Wales
Fiction from Wales translated to meet demand in Asiaic Wales, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoAnother difficulty is that no Arabic translators can work directly from Welsh-language texts, so books or poetry in Welsh must be translated into English ...
- South Plains high schoolers take awards at UIL state competition - LubbockOnline.com
South Plains high schoolers take awards at UIL state competitionLubbockOnline.com, TX - 1 hour agoBy Bobwilson | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A Frenship High School student earned first place in the poetry interpretation contest at the University Interscholastic ...
- Gay and lesbian film fest has several Bay Area connections - Oakland Tribune
A Concord man emotionally recounts how he felt when his son became his daughter. A former Albany woman digs through numerous photos and letters while trying to figure out if her great-grandmother had a lesbian lover. A Hayward teen passionately ...
- Festival to celebrate RS Thomas - BBC News
BBC NewsFestival to celebrate RS ThomasBBC News, UK - 3 hours agoA church where the late RS Thomas once preached is holding a poetry festival in his honour. As part of the event at St Michael's Church, Eglwysfach, ...
- AP Top News at 7:44 a.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Change is coming, that much Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama agree on as they plunge into a five-month campaign for the White House. The primaries behind them, the presidential rivals were wasting no time drawing the battle line for a fall fight that will make history with the election of either the oldest first-term president in McCain or the first black leader in Obama. In ...
- The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper - Times Online
How the publishers of this remarkable volume must have hugged themselves when Wendy Alexander, the leader of the Scottish Labour party, recently thrust her hand into the hornets' nest of Scottish independence. On the face of it, a book on the history ...
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