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- Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida delivers a poetic solo effort ... - Hartford Courant
Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida delivers a poetic solo effort ...Hartford Courant, United States - Sep 3, 2008It got me back to writing poetry again. It gave me a new approach to making music." Working independently after years under a major label with OLP, ...
- A feast of fun for all the family - The Herald
A feast of fun for all the familyThe Herald, UK - 48 minutes agoFantasy picnics involve endless blue skies, a gingham rug overflowing with baked goods and perhaps someone reciting poetry or playing a harp in the ...
- Get a read on it - Explore Howard County
Explore Howard CountyGet a read on itExplore Howard County, MD - 7 hours agoPavilions will be designated with specific topics: history and biography, children, teens and children, fiction and mystery, home and family and poetry. ...
- Honoring composer Elliott Carter - Los Angeles Times
LENOX, Mass. -- In 1986, Elliott Carter wrote "A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes," a salute to Texas on its 150th anniversary. That may appear a lot of notes to fit into a three-minute piece, but this brash bevy of 11 fanfares all fighting for ...
- Mulvey runs on ‘No Gas’ - Daily Cardinal
Mulvey acknowledges his his mode of transportaion is unusual but hopes to use it to raise awareness for eco-issues. When Milwaukee-native folk musician Peter Mulvey rolls into Madison this Thursday night, one thing he won’t have worry about is ...
- Former US poet laureate Louise Glueck receives $100,000 prize - MetroMix
NEW YORK (AP) _ Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. Glueck, who served as ...
- Students form teams to fight cancer (The Echo)
The English department's "Works In Progress" program is returning this semester for its twelfth year, according to the UTC English department. The "Works In Progress" series offers English department faculty a place to present their unfinished projects in front of peers, students and the general public, according to Mike Jaynes, English lecturer and director of the program.
- UCLA Profs and Scientists Sued Animal-Rights Radicals. Now They're ... - Los Angeles Weekly
A blogger's African dad came here on the same airlift as Obama's dad. All similarities end there FOR UCLA, BAD NEWS COMES in lowercase, typo-plagued vulgarity and anonymous "communiqués," like this one recently sent out to dozens of local and ...
- Oates' latest novel a daring work of dark imagination - News-Leader.com
Oates' latest novel a daring work of dark imaginationNews-Leader.com, MO - Jul 27, 2008The way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that -- her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Authors grieve over apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, writer of "Infinite Jest" (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week.
- Fiesta Mexicana reunites old friends (The Salt Lake Tribune)
She didn't call it a miracle, but Rosvita Lopez was surprised to see a friend she and her husband knew more than 23 years ago in Chiapas, Mexico.    Their old friend, a music professor and marimba player, had traveled to Utah for a Mexican Independence Day celebration in Salt Lake
- Arts Blog (The New Statesman)
Armed with three complaints (two about knife crime, one about a goldfish being flushed down the toilet) Britain’s biggest exam board has removed a poem by Carol Ann Duffy from its GCSE English syllabus.
- A.S. Maulucci: Dramatic poetry still has an audience; it needs a voice - Norwich Bulletin
Poetry on stage  or poetic drama  is a natural extension of poetry on the page. The ancient Greeks wrote their great tragedies and comedies in verse, as did the Romans. Medieval morality plays such as “Everyman,†plays by Shakespeare ...
- Visitors flock to Sandburg home for poetry, goats and hiking trails - Asheville Citizen-Times
Visitors flock to Sandburg home for poetry, goats and hiking trailsAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 32 minutes agoAnd it's a perfect family hike because of the goats.†There are five miles of hiking trails, some that pass by the goat farm, and one that climbs about 600 ...
- Tall Tales - Bristol Herald Courier
Bristol Herald CourierTall TalesBristol Herald Courier, TN - 3 hours agoNames on the marquee this year include Waddie Mitchell, famous for his cowboy poetry; Carmen Agra Deedy, beloved for her razor-sharp wit; and Doug Elliott, ...
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