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- Fundraiser this week will benefit new Punjabi institute at San ... - San Jose Mercury News
Fundraiser this week will benefit new Punjabi institute at San ...San Jose Mercury News, USA - 32 minutes agoExtracurricular Punjabi programming, including occasional lectures, interfaith discussions and poetry nights, also has occurred over the years. ...
- Cafés - indepedents versus the big brands - CatererSearch
Cafés - indepedents versus the big brandsCatererSearch, UK - 8 hours agoHosting events for the local community has also proved popular over the last decade; incorporating everything from open mic poetry nights, to knitting ...
- Why poetry matters, By Jay Parini - Independent
Why poetry matters, By Jay PariniIndependent, UK - 17 minutes agoIn 1989, the American poet Dana Gioia lobbed a grenade into the cosy world of the US creative-writing industry. His essay, "Can Poetry Matter? ...
- Afghan political dislocation contributes to Pashto literary revival (The Daily Star Lebannon)
Afghanistan's tumultuous history of the last three decades is behind the incredible popularity of poetry in Pashto, the language of the majority Pakhtoons in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The Pakhtoons are ethnic cousins of the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group. Both speak dialects of Pashto.
- Waiter's novel competes for prize - BBC News
Mr Raisin, who was born in Yorkshire, is one of 16 young writers competing for the fiction and poetry prize. The youngest writer on the list was Caroline Bird, 24, from Leeds, nominated for her poetry collection Trouble Came to the Turnip. Submarine ...
- Waltzing Maltida a little ditty, historians say (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
A couple of outback historians may be rewriting the story behind one of the Australia's most loved songs, Waltzing Matilda.
- Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerity - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerityRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 2 hours agoThe first-place winner, drumroll please, is Leah Warth, 10, of Brighton, who wrote her poem as part of a project in Adele Linton and Ina Sham's fourth-grade ...
- Detroit boxer prospers from poetic sensibilities - Detroit News
DETROIT -- The man they call "Batman" doesn't see very well when he's in the boxing ring. Yet, he managed to avoid enough punches to win the National Golden Gloves heavyweight title last week in Grand Rapids. But what makes Craig Lewis, 23, even more ...
- UAB Student Art Guild Works - Everything Alabama
Works by the members of Wonderland Art Guild. Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope ...
- Festival of Senior Arts coming to Lakewood - Brick Township Bulletin
Festival of Senior Arts coming to LakewoodBrick Township Bulletin, United States - 4 hours ago... 3 pm daily and features a variety-style show revue with performances in vocal, dance, musical instrument, comedy, drama, poetry, storytelling and more. ...
- Readers' tributes to their dads (Abilene Reporter-News)
Was Dad always taking the pictures?
- CELEBRATING DAD - NE Mississippi Daily Journal
One of the last things my mother asked my father before her death was to take care of her girls. That he did and continues to do. My mother, at the young age of 39, died of breast cancer in 1990 leaving my father with the sole responsibility of ...
- Happy birthday: Chipper Jones turns 36 in Braves' win 7-4 win over Marlins (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
ATLANTA - Chipper Jones had another birthday to remember, right down to teammate Brian McCann's belly flop of a slide.
- BOOK REVIEW: On the dusty road to redemption (The Charlotte Observer)
In terms of literary chutzpah, writing your sophomore novel about a sophomore novelist is the kind of thing that tends to send eyebrows arching skyward. Maybe not as much as titling it "Winner of the National Book Award," as Jincy Willett once did, but still, it's a bold step. But with one move, Leif Enger defangs impending snarkiness with the deftness of a snake handler: He makes his character, ...
- Concertgebouw Orchestra/Järvi at the Barbican - Times Online
Concertgebouw Orchestra/Järvi at the BarbicanTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoJean-Yves Thibaudet at the piano demonstrated stamina but little poetry and the general ruckus easily swamped Cynthia Millar's ondes Martenot as it did the ...
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