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- Q&A with Valerie Rebellato - Greenville News
Q&A with Valerie RebellatoGreenville News, SC - 8 hours agoI taught myself poetry and painting. Maybe modeling. But in my heart I knew it was the cooking." A: Pasta. "But it's one of the things we're supposed to ...
- Being the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total Pain - Gawker
Being the poet laureate is the highest honor a poet can receive in this country. You get $35,000 and a beautiful office in the Library of Congress. ( Kay Ryan just became the newest laureate, tasked with "bringing poetry to the forefront of the ...
- Events for May 25, 2008 (Las Vegas Sun)
IMAX Theatre: Luxor's over-digitized 3D film theatre. at Luxor , 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. ($9.99 - $12)
- Writing, trouble-free, in Baguio (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - There are rites of passage typical for the Filipino writer: having your work first published in a magazine, enjoying your first fellowship in a national writers workshop (Dumaguete, Iligan, Bacolod), winning your first Palanca, putting out your first book.
- Park held steady to become the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Open (Sports Illustrated)
You know something about all those Parks and Swedes and teenagers playing in the U.S. Women's Open last week? Each of them took a remarkable journey to get into the field at Interlachen, in suburban Minneapolis. One Swede (Annika Sorenstam) bade farewell to the Open in high style. Another (Helen Alfredsson) finished second and on Monday morning was schlepping around her bags by herself at ...
- Intimacy of festival appeals to all - Moose Jaw Times-Herald
Intimacy of festival appeals to allMoose Jaw Times-Herald, Canada - 39 minutes agoWe try to make sure we have a balance of poetry, fiction, non-fiction . . . we really just focus on all aspects of the word.” Howes also has authors calling ...
- A native's guide to San Jose (CNN.com)
A century ago, what's now Silicon Valley, California, was called the Valley of Heart's Delight because of the region's mineral-rich soil and temperate climate (San Jose gets 300 days of sunshine a year). By the time I left for college in 1997, however, most of the cherry orchards had been gobbled up by office complexes. San Jose was in the hopeful early stages of the Internet boom, and although ...
- THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS—Christopher Isherwood—Morrow ($2.50). - Time
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 both Auden and Spender were dedicated to one Christopher Isherwood ...
- Chicago Weather - Hartford Courant
By Katie Peterson A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems By Mary Jo Salter Knopf, 222 pages, $26.95 'A Phone Call to the Future" combines selections from five earlier books and a generous helping of new works by Formalist poet Mary Jo ...
- A page-turner on every corner - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldA page-turner on every cornerSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 32 minutes agoThe late American poet and critic Randall Jarrell once wrote that "people in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks". ...
- Seventh-day Adventist School salutes 'extraordinary' seniors - Virgin Islands Daily News
ST. CROIX - Twenty-seven seniors bid farewell to St. Croix Seventh-day Adventist School on Sunday during commencement exercises at Island Center. Commencement speakers praised the school for not only exposing them to a challenging academic schedule ...
- August, South Pacific, In the Heights, Boeing, LuPone Are Tony Winners - Playbill
The awards celebrate the best of Broadway's 2007-08 season. Whoopi Goldberg hosted the 8-11 PM portion of the ceremony, which was broadcast on CBS TV. The ceremony began shortly after 7 PM with the presentation of the Creative Arts Awards, which ...
- Richard Herring (The New Statesman)
I am working my way through my old diaries and schoolbooks and folders full of childhood memorabilia as preparation for my new Edinburgh show, “The Headmaster’s Son”. My dad was the headmaster at the secondary school I went to and I am hoping to prove that this fact caused the psychological damage that explains why I am such a fuck up as an adult - unable to commit to anyone, making my living ...
- Moorhead center features 'Capturing Memories' exhibit - Sioux City Journal
MOORHEAD, Iowa -- The 14th annual Capturing Memories exhibit, now at the Moorhead Cultural Center, has the theme "The World as Seen from My Point of View." Entrants in the exhibit range in age from 16 to senior citizens in their 80's. "There is truly ...
- The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson - Explorer News
The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest TucsonExplorer News, AZ - 12 hours agoDetails: 9 am-3 pm; Lew Sorensen Community Center, 11100 E. Tanque Verde Road; free; 232-1201. • Listen to nature’s muses during “Poetry Goes for a Hike: ...
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