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- Students To Have Their Words Made Into Smash Song (Scoop.co.nz)
Talented young poets, songwriters and lyricists have just three weeks to enter their best work into the New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards.
- A clear-eyed look (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Almost from the start, American literature has exhibited a prophetic streak. For Emerson, Thoreau and the other transcendentalists, literature was no mere entertainment, but a means of changing minds, hearts and behavior.
- Write on! - Concord Monitor
Write on!Concord Monitor, NH - 2 hours agoThe Summer Youth Writing Project offers programs like nature writing, poetry and prose, creative writing and others throughout the summer. ...
- Movie review: 'Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man' - Chicago Tribune
As tools of seduction go, Leonard Cohen 's voice--a rumble, as U2's Bono says in "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man," that seems "to come from the subway"--ranks with the Marlene Dietrich growl and Johnny Hartman's lion purr. "I was born like this, I had ...
- A journey of faith (Wise County Messenger)
"The emphasis of this is not on me - the emphasis is on the Lord and what he does for his people," said Gregory Kuehmichel on Friday as he set out on Farm Road 51 toward Gainesville, on foot, with two mules in tow.
- Post new comment (all posts will enter a queue for approval) (Cape May County Herald)
North Wildwood’s sixth annual Beach Writers Conference was held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 4 and 5, at the Wildwoods Convention Center.
- George Bush Sings! - Top40-Charts.com
George Bush Sings!Top40-Charts.com, NY - 2 hours ago... but sending young men and women to their death for Exxon is perfectly ok" states Hartmann. "This material seems to be poetry set to grooves...the lines ...
- The Miracle of the Blue Tree - Huffingtonpost.com
I have a huge blue maple tree in my front yard. As I explain why it is blue, I will ask you to keep an open mind. The story of the blue tree involves faith. And the belief in the power each of us has to heal. If you've read anything about the so ...
- Delivering the news from Henley-on-Thames and South Oxfordshire ... - Henley Standard
Henley StandardDelivering the news from Henley-on-Thames and South Oxfordshire ...Henley Standard, UK - 8 hours agoAfter she graduated she worked in the Estate’s Duty Office in Cardiff, where she enjoyed being known as ‘Miss Lewis the Death’. ...
- Outdoors events, 6/8 - Lincoln Journal Star
Shooting event, Big Bore Gong (Black Powder), sunrise-?, Lincoln Izaak Walton League, half-mile south of 134th Street and Nebraska 2. Contact: Ray Rowen, 477-6449 or fdhdj@earthlink.co. Rock Creek Trail Days, Rock Creek Station State Historical Park ...
- Column: ‘Absurd blurbs’ offer hope to hopeless - U-Wire.com
The beginnings of almost any lifetime passion are defined by the confidence it offers you as a child. The kids in my neighborhood couldn’t afford a real musical instrument, let alone lessons. The local schools touted paltry art budgets that had us ...
- Event honors kids' art skills - Herald News
FRANKFORT -- It can be a few lines of poetry scribbled on a restaurant placemat, or it could be a couple of eighth notes beaten casually on a drum set. It could even be a coffee mug made out of clay or a meticulously drawn self portrait in colored ...
- Fairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate - BayInsider
FAIRFAX, Calif. -- Kay Ryan, a 62-year-old Fairfax resident, was appointed today by the Library of Congress as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09. Ryan will assume her duties as the nation's poet laureate in the fall, opening the ...
- 'Drash: Northwest Mosaic' provides a venue for writers, poets ... - Bellingham Herald
MEET THE AUTHOR Wendy Marcus "Drash: Northwest Mosaic" 4 p.m. today Village Books 1210 11th St. 671-2626 Wendy Marcus, a 1972 Sehome High School graduate, will entertain people with descriptions of her launching of the Seattle literary review "Drash ...
- Patti Smith and Philip Glass Front Melbourne International Arts Festival (Undercover)
The return of Patti Smith to Australian shores has been announced as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Smith’s tour is hot on the heels of a new film about her life by Stephen Serbing called ‘Dream of Life’.
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