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- Royal attends creative writing program (The Journal News)
From July 6 through 10, Kate Royal, a senior at Tappan Zee High School, attended the Creative Writing Summer Institute at Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y. The program provided an introduction to a variety of genres ranging from poetry to nonfiction and drama.
- City Of Raleigh Awards Six Arts Medals - The Raleigh Telegram
The Raleigh TelegramCity Of Raleigh Awards Six Arts MedalsThe Raleigh Telegram, NC - 2 hours agoHe is a writer of more than 20 forms of poetry, drama, essays and literary criticism. In 2008, he became the first Southerner and the first African-American ...
- Post rodeo becomes big draw - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Post gets back to its roots this weekend. In doing so it is expected to draw thousands of visitors from across the country. More than 300 competitors will saddle up for the 68th Annual Post Stampede Rodeo. The rodeo, which began Thursday night and ...
- Mahmoud Darwish "free from Palestine" at last (Radio Netherlands)
Palestinians have been mourning the death of their national poet Mahmoud Darwish, seen by most in the Arab world as the greatest poet in modern Arab culture.
- DiScover: Lykke Li - Drowned In Sound
It’s a chilly February afternoon at Oslo’s riverside, and Norway’s by:Larm festival is in full flow. Last night DiS stood on as Swedish chanteuse Lykke Li played a barnstorming set in a nearby warehouse, and after emerging bleary-eyed from ...
- VA: Civil Rights Memorial Unveiled (ABC 2 Baltimore)
For the first time Monday, statues of black children and civil rights leaders were placed alongside statues of some men who had worked to deny racial equality on the lawn...
- J’Ouvert Parade is prelude to carnival - Queens Courier
J’Ouvert Parade is prelude to carnivalQueens Courier, NY - 17 minutes ago... the anticipated family event, which returns to Prospect Park’s Nethermead section on September 13 featuring music, food, dance, poetry and much more. ...
- Poet reads in his native German (Brown Daily Herald)
The latest installment in the Contemporary Writers Reading Series featured poetry that charms in two languages. Last night, in the McCormack Family Theater, poet Jan Wagner read a selection of his works in the original German. He shared the stage with Forrest Gander, professor of literary arts and interim director of the program, who read English versions of the same poems by a number of ...
- Jan not a-verse to success as a poet - WalesOnline
Jan not a-verse to success as a poetWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 18 minutes agoJan Price, 69, has had her new poetry book, called A Better Class of Doggerel, published – and it is already selling like hot cakes. ...
- Asia's Biggest Film Festival Tries to Lighten Financial Gloom - Bloomberg
Asia's Biggest Film Festival Tries to Lighten Financial GloomBloomberg - 20 hours agoAlso on the red carpet will be Asian-American actor Russell Wong of ``The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' and Korean- American actors Aaron Yoo from ...
- Stalin, the poet and life’s choices (Online Journal)
“I regard class differences as contrary to Justice.†(Albert Einstein in a personal statement of his credo.) “The Russians have proved that their only aim is really the improvement of the lot of the Russian people.â€
- Film review: The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Guardian Unlimited)
If this is arriverderci Rohmer, the 88-year-old director is going out on a high
- 'Fake Sarah Palin' and the campaign Twitter wars - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
Last year, when the cool kids talked about politics and the Internet, it was all about Facebook, YouTube and MySpace. Well, move over, fellas. There's a new pimply kid in the spin room. And its name is Twitter . You know a social site has made it big ...
- Line from T.S. Eliot poem intrigues literature buffs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The stilted letters have a childish quality about them, but the words they compose -- "I wish I were a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas" -- are anything but ...
- Literaturkalender für Berlin / August 2008 - Berliner Literaturkritik
Literaturkalender für Berlin / August 2008Berliner Literaturkritik, Germany - Jul 31, 2008Café Linus Poetry Slam. „Rixdorfer Poetry Slam“. Es dürfen nur selbstgeschriebene Texte vorgetragen werden. Jeder Vortragende hat 7 Minuten Zeit. ...
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