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- The Larkin Principle at work - Daily Telegraph
There was a time, less than a generation ago, when family secrets, especially about sex, were kept under wraps, and writers addressed them, if at all, obliquely, through poetry or fiction. Since then, first biography, then autobiography, have opened ...
- Writers retreat steams full speed ahead, despite flooding - Evansville Courier-Press
The show must go on — even if it takes "an army of golf carts" to shuttle people attending the 20th annual RopeWalk Writers Retreat to facilities in New Harmony, Ind. The Wabash River at New Harmony was at 22.4 feet Sunday, more than seven feet ...
- Beloved poet, prof, playwright 'an artistic giant' (London Free Press)
James Reaney, a national literary icon who stayed close to his Southwestern Ontario roots during a celebrated, 50-year career as a playwright, poet and professor, has died.
- Thursday 5/29 (Sag Harbor Express)
Sag Harbor UFSD Board of Education special meeting. Public session to award bids for high school roof and elementary school gym floor. 6 p.m. Pierson High School library, Sag Harbor. 725-5300.
- New U.S. poet laureate, Kay Ryan, is a lesbian - Oregonian
Arguably more interesting than her sexual orientation is the tidbit that when newly crowned U.S. poet Laureate Kay Ryan was rejected from the Poetry Club as an undergraduate at UCLA. While the New York Times article profiling the newly recognized ...
- Ozark Profile : Age doesn’t have to mean limitations - Northwest Arkansas News
One cannot look around Ree Mills house without getting a story. Painted plates adorn the wall. (She made them herself. ) Awards and photos fill bulletin boards and scrapbooks. On a rainy spring afternoon, Mills sat down and told her story several ...
- In defence of the mother tongue - Tonight
In defence of the mother tongueTonight, South Africa - 8 hours agoTell me about Raisibe - is there a specific theme that the poetry follows? I wrote Raisibe when I was 17 and 18, a time when I was discovering the ...
- Instant Message: Local Teens Speak Out - Ithaca Journal
One of the things I participate in is an organization called 4-H. It's a national organization for youth empowerment founded in 1902. It started out as an organization for kids in the county so they could show off their farm animals at a yearly fair ...
- Cherish your mangled song lyrics - Otago Daily Times
Cherish your mangled song lyricsOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 29 minutes agoFor more than a decade, it's been easy and free. Tap a few keystrokes into one of the many lyric sites on the Internet, and the words become as clear as ...
- Phoebe Snow is back, and playing in Peekskill - Lower Hudson Journal news
Phoebe Snow is back, and playing in PeekskillLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 14 minutes agoCelebrated for her powerful voice and vocal phrasing, she had a hit single with "Poetry Man," from her eponymous 1974 debut, which went gold on the strength ...
- Blunt–and brave, and brilliant (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Promoter Vince del Rosario of Viva Concerts said he was a bit sad about the low audience turnout. But the lucky ones who got to watch James Blunt’s live performance Monday night at the Araneta Coliseum walked away in high spirits.
- Tom Hanks endorses Obama (Honolulu Advertiser)
NEW YORK — Tom Hanks is supporting presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
- Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book ... - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book ...Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 3 hours ago... the festival will be presentations by school-age poets and artists who are winners of the library's River of Words environmental art and poetry contest.
- Rotary celebrates successful year - Walcha News
Rotary celebrates successful yearWalcha News, Australia - 1 hour ago“The McCoys co-ordinated a successful bush poetry night at the Golf Course which raised money for ARHRF and RAM. “Pauline Marchant was presented with a ...
- ReeceSociety to honor poet’s memory at annual meeting - Daily Citizen-News
“Remembering Reece” is the topic of this year’s program for the Byron Herbert Reece Society’s fifth annual meeting. Members and friends of the Society will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the poet/novelist’s death. Reece was teaching at ...
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