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- Louise Glueck wins $100,000 poetry prize - CBC News
Louise Glueck, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Glueck, a New York-born poet who has authored 11 books of poetry, was named winner on Tuesday of the ...
- On life, literature and Palestine, a tribute to Abdelwahab Elmessiri - Electronic Intifada
Electronic IntifadaOn life, literature and Palestine, a tribute to Abdelwahab ElmessiriElectronic Intifada, IL - 37 minutes agoWhen death came knocking he was putting the finishing touches to his study on the history of English poetry and was planning to write a book on Egyptian ...
- Last word - Simon Barnes - Times Online
Last word - Simon BarnesTimes Online, UK - 8 hours agoColeridge said that poetry was about the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, but he added that the poetry stuff comes about when these emotions are ...
- Errol Morris profile appreciated (San Francisco Chronicle)
Editor - It's a tribute to Errol Morris, I guess, that Walter Addiego didn't have room to mention his brilliant "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" in his April 27 Pink story. It's also a tribute to Addiego that Morris' work could be so keenly crystallized by...
- Citrin’s essay takes first - Gulf Coast Newspapers
Citrin’s essay takes firstGulf Coast Newspapers, AL - 3 hours agoRebecca Pober Citrin won The Holocaust Essay/Poetry Contest’s first-place award for her essay, “The Holocaust.†She read the piece at The Holocaust Memorial ...
- McCain charges are absurd - La Crosse Tribune
John McCain’s campaign has been running a television ad blaming Barack Obama for for high gas prices. The absurdity of this commercial is revealed by the facts. A 2005 amendment to raise CAFE standards for cars, SUVs, and minivans to 40 mpg by 2015 ...
- The Boss kicks birthday off on the right note - The Tennessean
The Boss kicks birthday off on the right noteThe Tennessean, TN - 42 minutes agobut the music is still sweeping and the lyrics, poetry. Lots changed from 1981 until 2008: Then, Springsteen was lit by a few colored spots hung far back. ...
- Veteran Seattle Symphony violinist, composer dies - TheNewsTribune.com
Veteran Seattle Symphony violinist, composer diesTheNewsTribune.com, WA - 14 hours ago“It was a very unusual combination,†said his son, Ralph Heino Jr. Heino Sr. also enjoyed writing poetry, working on wood sculptures and painting. ...
- Veep Sheet: Obama camp going to Ind.? - Yahoo News
BREAKING: In an encouraging sign for Bayh-for-veep supporters, the Nashville (Tenn.) Post is reporting that “senior campaign officials from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign are being dispatched from various locations around the country and ...
- Arts fest ups ante with its offerings (Tacoma News Tribune)
Tacoma sees a lot of arts festivals during the summer.
- ‘Cut a flower, build a room’ (Malta Today)
Cut flowers. Uproot trees. Destroy fields to make room for more houses, villas and high towers. After all you have only wasted some earth. Let your boathouses devour more of our coast. Catch whatever moves in the sea even if few fish remain.
- A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy world (The Olympian)
World too noisy for you?
- Night Owl: Talking About Africa - Hartford Advocate
Hartford AdvocateNight Owl: Talking About AfricaHartford Advocate, CT - 1 hour agoThe Shashamane Foundation showcases beautiful African garments, providing a vast array of Jamaican and Rastafarian cuisines, and for entertainment poetry, ...
- Arts & Leisure: Murder mystery bags Palanca English novel prize (BusinessWorld Online)
"When the author's life of literature and exile reached its unscheduled terminus that anonymous February morning, he had been completing a controversial book. His was an apt end, considering the circumstances, for he'd long been drowning in renewed obscurity." -- Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
- Christian Fine Arts Society sponsoring poetry contest - Peoria Journal Star
A $1,000 grand prize will be awarded in a poetry contest sponsored by the Christian Fine Arts Society. Poems of no more than 21 lines can be sent to the society by Aug. 18. In all, 50 prizes valued together at $4,000 are being offered. Send a poem ...
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