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- Poetry feast: Begins Oct. 4 in Northfield (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
NORTHFIELD -- Four organizations have come together to plan a feast of poetry projects in Northfield and Roxbury during the month of October. The Friends of the Brown Public Library, Paine Mountain Arts Council, Roxbury Free Library and the Vermont Council on the Humanities will sponsor a series of activities for all ages that will include book discussions, workshops and readings. ...
- Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100 - Des Moines Register
Legend has it that Jeannette Eyerly started writing young adult novels when her daughters remarked that fiction for teenagers was lackluster. Her daughters don't remember making the comment, but they do remember the clickety-clack of their mother's ...
- Rachael Worby and Pasadena Pops had America singing - Pasadena Star-News
Rachael Worby and Pasadena Pops had America singingPasadena Star-News, CA - 4 hours agoThe poetry, from Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, was welcome and all too brief. The jazz was wonderful, pieces that deserve to be heard more often and ...
- In 'My Sister, My Love,' Oates fictionalizes JonBenet Ramsey (Boulder Daily Camera)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates. Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Ritual to clean Kaaba takes place twice a year - Owen Sound Sun Times
Ritual to clean Kaaba takes place twice a yearOwen Sound Sun Times, Canada - Aug 8, 2008Embedded in one side of the structure is an ancient, sacred black stone, which, according to tradition, was white when it came to Earth and turned black ...
- Discussing 'Writing for Social Change' - IdahoStatesman.com
Discussing 'Writing for Social Change'IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 15 minutes agoThe 30 southern Idaho educators visited the Anne Frank Memorial, took part in a slam poetry workshop led by poet/teacher/Rep. Nicole LeFavour, D-Boise, ...
- Madison hosts National Poetry Slam - Wisconsin State Journal
Eighteen has been good to Danez Smith. It's the age that he's come into his own, he says. And the age he was named Madison's Grand Slam Poetry Champion. It gets even better: Later this week, Smith (still 18), will perform his poetry in the national ...
- Day two scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
The second night of preliminary competition in the National Poetry Slam kept downtown Madison stages and clubs busy as the first round of bouts wrapped up and the second opened on Wednesday night. The bout winners were: Soap Boxing from St. Paul; Southflavas from Austin; Slamtopia from New Paltz, New York; H-Town Slam from Houston, Oakland Poetry Slam, Silver City Slam from New Mexico; ...
- Budding Blackpool poet wins animal charity praise - Blackpool Citizen
Budding Blackpool poet wins animal charity praiseBlackpool Citizen, UK - 4 hours agoJack’s poem was shortlisted in its age category (11-13) for its imagination, technique and understanding of the issue. Animal Aid’s Competition Organiser, ...
- Priyatosh Bhattacharjee Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive ... - 24-7PressRelease.com
The Cambridge mission is to deliver its members the recognition and competitive edge needed to network and do business effectively. Coral Springs, FL, September 26, 2008 /Cambridge Who's Who/ --Priyatosh Bhattacharjee, International Secretary for Sri ...
- 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 ...
- Can You Gig It?: Derek Meins, Josh Weller, La Shark @ The Old Blue ... - My Chemical Toilet
My Chemical ToiletCan You Gig It?: Derek Meins, Josh Weller, La Shark @ The Old Blue ...My Chemical Toilet, UK - 9 hours agoThis is boozy, humorous Scottish poetry. I'm always going to have a soft spot for such things thanks to my Scottish Grandpa, see. Other folk might find such ...
- Homeschool Blues - Teen Ink
Teen InkHomeschool BluesTeen Ink - 12 hours agoI write poetry. I hate algebra. I have a MySpace. My toenails are lime-green, my hair is shoulder-length, and I want dreadlocks. ...
- The Language of Hurricanes - OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat MagazineThe Language of HurricanesOffBeat Magazine, LA - 44 minutes agoIn Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, he writes of the townspeople “trying to give order to the chain of many chance events that [have] ...
- Prince Shows Off a Different Side for '21 Nights' - ABC News
Downstairs in a dimly lighted screening room crowded with sofas, Prince leafs through the first authorized book of his career. Prince, now a Jehovah's Witness, is featured in a new coffee-table book "21 Nights," which chronicled in pictures and ...
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