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- Playwrights discuss Thornton Wilder's underappreciated genius (The Times of Trenton)
EWING -- Thornton Wilder was a playwright's playwright, though his most famous work, "Our Town," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938, is often misinterpreted as warm and sentimental.
- Area in Brief - Gallup Independent
Area in Brief Poet Ken Moore sits at a table in his home in the Zuni Mountains where he writes many of his works. Moore has written over 825 poems with hundreds memorized.
- Wofford students have Novel time with SC author - Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Sheri Reynolds' novel was the summer reading for Wofford's first-year students, and on Thursday Reynolds was on campus for a special convocation in Leonard Auditorium and to give an evening poetry reading.
- Downtown district business fees, taxes up for renewal - Baker City Herald
Downtown district business fees, taxes up for renewalBaker City Herald, OR - 2 hours ago"If we lose HBC, we lose the Fall Festival, the Cowboy Poetry Contest, the Taste of Baker, the Victorian Home Tour and Miners Jubilee," Bryan said. ...
- Poetry harder than it looks - Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Poetry harder than it looksArkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 6 hours agoReciting poetry takes practice. These tips are from former US poet laureate Billy Collins: Read the poem slowly so it can be understood. Read in a normal, ...
- Life at the Buxton Festival (with audio) - This is Derbyshire
IT'S Friday morning and perched on pouffes in the Moroccan Corner of the Project X cafe a pair of goatee-bearded musos are musing on the merits of a new comic opera over mugs of detox tea. A Chair in Love charts the bizarre love triangle between a ...
- Sometimes Garbage Art Is Just Garbage - Blackbookmag.com
Maybe that one guy in American Beauty was right when he was trying to get into Thora Birch's pants with talk of finding poetry in the desultory flight of plastic bags caught in an updraft. And if that's the case, we could probably make a case for ...
- Fringe: That Dorothy Parker: A Medley of Extemporanea - Broadway World
Broadway WorldFringe: That Dorothy Parker: A Medley of ExtemporaneaBroadway World, NY - 5 hours agoFrom time to time she comes downstage to deliver a stanza or two of her poetry. Lempert is a fine and versatile actress. Her Dotty sparkles, full of life ...
- Hundreds mourn at seven-year-old Toronto girl's funeral - Canada.com
Canada.comHundreds mourn at seven-year-old Toronto girl's funeralCanada.com, Canada - Aug 12, 2008It's very sad." Katelynn had been living with Irving since May 2007. Katelynn's lifeless body was found on Aug. 3. The girl's legal guardian, Donna Irving, ...
- All the King's Horses - Gather.com
She was falling from the moment she woke up that morning. Falling into some unexplored space. The old Victorian is crumbling. Nature has reclaimed the front steps for Herself and chunks of plaster lie in the long grass. The bubbling of the creek is ...
- Fashion critic Roberts pokes fun in book (The West Australian)
Fashion critic and illustrator Michael Roberts pokes fun at the industry in a new book that he says is as much a satire as it is an homage. Fashion Victims features 26 poems with accompanying illustr
- Goosed (Metro Santa Cruz)
Once upon a time ..." the story begins, triggering a response imprinted in childhood: Sit back, settle in and prepare for a yarn that might have monsters, heroes or magical charms, might be scary or fantastical, but will probably turn out all right in the end.
- Rereading: Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? (Guardian Unlimited)
Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues
- Review: D.V. - Diana Vreeland (ThirdAge)
Prepare to be dazzled. You know all about "pink is the navy blue of India" and "wash your blond child's hair with dead champagne" and "the bikini is the most important invention since the H-bomb", but you may have been busy elsewhere when Diana Vreeland's memoir appeared.
- Carling Cup Third Round - Guardian Unlimited
Juande Ramos must have felt last night's trip to Tyneside was far more therapeutic than two weeks at a health farm. Tottenham's manager spoke enthusiastically of the "tranquillity" this Carling Cup win had engendered among his previously troubled ...
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