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- Writing festival spots still open - Iowa City Press Citizen
Writing festival spots still openIowa City Press CitizenWeeklong and weekend workshops include fiction, poetry and nonfiction and playwriting and will run from June 13 through July 30. A brochure is available at ...
- All hail the printed word: Best books of 2009 - Bellingham Herald
All hail the printed word: Best books of 2009Bellingham HeraldBaker does something quite unique: manages to write a completely successful novel about poetry. The anthologist of the title struggles with completing an ...
- Local events for week of Jan. 1-7 - Fresno Bee
Fresno Filmworks presents an evening of poetry, music, and film discussion exploring the life of Romantic-era poet John Keats. The event will be hosted by Lee Herrick and will include an all-star lineup of readers including Philip Levine, C.G ...
- FRIGID New York Presents NO TRAVELER - Broadway World
FRIGID New York Presents NO TRAVELERBroadway WorldShe has won awards for her writing as well as been featured in a number of readings in NYC. Samantha Jones (Director/Co-Creator) is an award winning actress ...and more »
- Auschwitz remembered in Amsterdam - Expatica
Amsterdam’s Mayor Job Cohen and the chairman of the Auschwitz Committee Jacques Grishaver made speeches, and there were poetry readings on behalf of a Sinti and Roma delegation. Wreaths were laid by the Auschwitz committee and four survivors of the ...
- Homer Revisited - Wall Street Journal
Homer RevisitedWall Street JournalHis Iliad and Odyssey were the culmination of an oral-poetry form whose practitioners, using a toolkit of narrative patterns and metrically convenient ...
- At Caramoor, a Focus on Songs of the Belle Époque - New York Times
New York TimesAt Caramoor, a Focus on Songs of the Belle ÉpoqueNew York TimesLast year's show, which offered plenty of opportunity for the singers to capitalize on the loose and lovely framework of Irish poetry, was received as a ...
- Classics Professor Requires Latin Students to Play Ancient Roman Roles Online - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
Classics Professor Requires Latin Students to Play Ancient Roman Roles OnlineChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)... the cultural references in their poetry. So now the professor, Roger Mr. Travis Jr., requires students to do weekly role-playing exercises online to put ...
- Guess what Roni Horn's up to at the ICA - Taunton Daily Gazette
Guess what Roni Horn's up to at the ICATaunton Daily GazetteMolesworth reasonably suggested Horn was fusing commonplace building materials and Dickinson's poetry. "She's making language physical. ...
- Foundry arts space set to make way for 18-storey hotel - The Guardian
The Foundry pub and art venue, run by Tracey and Jonathan Moberly, is to be demolished and replaced with a hotel and shopping complex. Photograph: Sarah Lee Pete Doherty used to host its poetry nights, the band Hot Chip formed there, and artists from ...
- Abandon all poetry, but enter ‘Inferno’ with attitude - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
There’s a new edition of Dante’s “Inferno†that’s recently begun appearing in bookstores. Same words. Different cover. It’s got a big picture of a muscular fellow in a spiky crown and an overline that says, “The literary classic that ...
- Greenwood Terrace Has Black History Month Event Tuesday - Chattanoogan
A local civil rights icon and an R&B singer with a ‘60s group will help families at Greenwood Terrace commemorate Black History Month. James Mapp, former president of the Chattanooga branch of the NAACP, and Arthur Brooks, a founding member of the ...
- Nicole Holofcener's edgy, delicate "Please Give" and Gaspar Noe's ... - Salon
SalonNicole Holofcener's edgy, delicate "Please Give" and Gaspar Noe's ...SalonFrench visionary director Gaspar Noé's "Enter the Void" is also obsessed with mortality, and expresses the ephemeral beauty of family life with even more ...and more »
- Interview : Shabana Azmi - Glamsham
Shabana Azmi is one actor, who is synonymous with good cinema. Our correspondent caught up with the actor-cum-social activist during her breezy visit to Kolkata on films, family and the communist upbringing. You recently launched the English version ...
- GOING GREEN: ALL KINDS OF EVENTS ARE UNDER WAY TO CELEBRATE ST. PADDY'S DAY ... - The Free Lance-Star
The Free Lance-StarGOING GREEN: ALL KINDS OF EVENTS ARE UNDER WAY TO CELEBRATE ST. PADDY'S DAY ...The Free Lance-StarPoetry Reading: "You're Beautiful No Matter What," UMW, Combs Hall, Room 139. By faculty, students and community members. 5-5:30 pm Free. 540/654-2124. ...
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