Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Bible is sacred, important, but do you know what it says? - Register-Herald
Millions of people around the world own it. They profess to read it and follow its dictates. Many say they study it daily. But according to one recent survey, nine out of 10 Americans own a Bible, but fewer than half ever read it. Why? For many folks ...
- Kenny Leon to Direct Two Shows in True Colors' 2008-2009 Season - TheaterMania.com
TheaterMania.comKenny Leon to Direct Two Shows in True Colors' 2008-2009 SeasonTheaterMania.com, NY - 40 minutes agoSet in the summer of 1918, a young African-American woman's long-standing love affair with a white man is discovered, threatening to explode tensions in a ...
- Big human questions in 'Rock 'n' Roll' - Philadelphia Inquirer
Big human questions in 'Rock 'n' Roll'Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 6 hours ago... it's about cancer and Sappho's poetry and newspapers; it's about the differences between freedom and liberty, between the mind and the brain, ...
- Black Businesses Organize - Herndon Connection
Black Businesses OrganizeHerndon Connection, VA - 2 hours agoA new group seeks to increase networking among the region’s African American business owners. By David Schultz/The Connection BILLY CALDWELL is an African ...
- George Will Join Junior at Lit.Com ; Preparations Are Almost ... - RedOrbit
George Will Join Junior at Lit.Com ; Preparations Are Almost ...RedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoLaunching on National Poetry Day, the festival will open with local group, the Driftnet Poets and guest Clare Pollard, who has been named one of The ...
- Religion As Poetry - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
James Carse, who directed the Religious Studies Program at NYU for 30 years, has a new book out called The Religious Case Against Belief . Here's his definition of a belief system, which he differentiates from religion: A belief system is meant to be ...
- The Invention of Scotland - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalThe Invention of ScotlandWall Street Journal - 2 hours agoOssian's poetry caused a sensation across Europe and was devoured by everyone from Goethe to Napoleon -- though Trevor-Roper himself dismisses Ossian's ...
- Things to Go and Do - like join the Hoot (Hampton Union)
The 2008-2009 Poetry Hoot season with the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Café Espresso, 738 Islington St., (Plaza 800) Portsmouth. Featured readers will be Kate Aset and Hugh Hennedy. At 8 p.m. an open mic will be...
- On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part III - Vanity Fair
Vanity FairOn the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part IIIVanity Fair, NY - 2 hours agoSo I am grateful to my colleagues at Vanity Fair for the witty “tough love†initiative that began this process. I quite understand that their main motive ...
- Canadian book lovers take to the streets Sunday - CBC News
Children's author Budge Wilson will read from her prequel to Anne of Green Gables. (CBC) In Halifax, Budge Wilson will read from Before Green Gables ; in Toronto, Giller Prize nominee Austin Clarke will read from More ; and in Vancouver, Ian Ferguson ...
- Award-winning columnist to visit Saipan next month (Saipan Tribune)
As part of the Domestic Violence Awareness Month Activities for October 2008, the Family Violence Task Force is sponsoring several special presentations on Saipan by renowned columnist Renee Mitchell.
- Life, Reinvented - Wired
In January, students at M.I.T. are let off the leash to follow their fancies. The annual monthlong Independent Activities Period is a playground for the mind, offering courses, seminars, and special events devoted to everything from energy-dispersive ...
- Jane Ciabattari on Emily Dickinson’s Friendship With Abolitionist - Truthdig
TruthdigJane Ciabattari on Emily Dickinson’s Friendship With AbolitionistTruthdig, United States - 53 minutes agoHigginson later called it “poetry torn up by the roots that took his breath away.†Born into the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, ...
- POETRY BOOK MAY BE ON ITS WAY BACK HOME - Mearns Today
POETRY BOOK MAY BE ON ITS WAY BACK HOMEMearns Today, UK - 19 minutes agoThe writer was declared free of debt in 1908 and died at his daughter's home in the city in 1937, aged 84. Mr Moorhouse said he now hoped to return the ...
- Music notes: Evening full of Wunder at Wasatch Presbyterian Church - Salt Lake Tribune
The Wasatch Presbyterian Church will host "The Music of Dick Wunder: A 55-Year Retrospective," music inspired by Bible passages, hiking, poetry and "Lord of the Rings," performed by a 30-member chorus with Ken Udy on organ and Jeannette Swent on ...
|
|
Get a better Mortgage Rate today and save!
California Mortgages
|