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- Meet Miss Popcorn contestants before this Saturday's pageant - Marion Star
MARION - Twelve young women will vie for the honor of representing Marion as Miss Marion Popcorn Festival Queen this weekend. The pre-show begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9 at Marion Harding High School, and the pageant at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are ...
- Download of the week: Ra Ra Riot is triumphant even in face of tragedy - Green Bay Press-Gazette
Underappreciated American poet e.e. cummings — whose name and eccentric poetry often appears in lower case — takes center stage thanks to the title and chorus of Ra Ra Riot's superb single, "Dying is Fine." Lumped with Vampire Weekend in terms of ...
- Former US Poet Laureate Charles Simic Reads Work - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
Former US Poet Laureate Charles Simic Reads WorkCornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, NY - 2 hours agoHe stands for many things — former US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer-Prize winning author, immigrant, American, New England man and professor. ...
- TOP OF THE NEWS - News-Democrat
I bought a gallon of paint recently. If this current trend in naming paints continues, hardware stores will need to bring in upholstered chairs and designer coffee bars. You can't be sure if you're reading paint chips or free verse
- Poetry Walk - Centralia Chronicle
Centralia ChroniclePoetry WalkCentralia Chronicle, WA - 2 hours agoBy The Chronicle It was a combination of verse and the great outdoors Saturday when residents took part in the Poetry Walk at the Seminary Hill Natural Area ...
- Arboretum honors founder - Times Union
ESPERANCE -- The Landis Arboretum will celebrate its founder's legacy Saturday with a day of family-friendly activities and a night of music by starlight. A renaissance man of his day, Arboretum founder Fred Lape was a poet, musician, English ...
- Making It Mainstream: The True Story of LDV - MarketWatch
Making It Mainstream: The True Story of LDVMarketWatch - 1 hour agoA Canadian songwriter and executive music producer with East Indian cultural roots, Bettencourt has won multiple awards for her poetry. ...
- Brown, Dixon, and Swallow Added to 'Romantic Poetry' Cast - Broadway World
Manhattan Theatre Club ( Lynne Meadow , Artistic Director; Barry Grove , Executive Producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger. The show ...
- Soul of the Boot: In Southern Italy, little-visited Puglia offers ... - Miami Herald
One of the many trulli houses dotting the olive fields. Travelers -- even Italians -- may tell you that the heel of the Italian boot is remote and unhospitable. They haven't been here. Those in-the-know might mention medieval towns spilling from ...
- Ghosts & Gangsters kayak tour has its share of thrills - Chicago Tribune
The toughest hurdle, this time of year, when the sun is lower but not quite low and the dusk is not quite full of grain, when the cement corners of downtown Chicago seem to soften in the middle of the day and autumn sneaks one leaf closer—the ...
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Carruth dead (Jam! Showbiz)
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. - Hayden Carruth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87.
- A novel campus - EducationGuardian.co.uk
A novel campusEducationGuardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoDue to the size of the student body, smaller tutorial classes were something of a luxury, but there was something about being taught modern poetry by a ...
- To Hook Up, Be Hooked Up, and Hook Up With - Columbia Spectator
Young folk seem to love to hook-up. They certainly use the phrase often, perhaps more often than they perform the act. Weekly? Perhaps bi-monthly. Well, it’s often enough that the term describing the act merits discussion. Years ago, when nascent ...
- America's Muslim problem - guardian.co.uk
America's Muslim problemguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoThose discoveries, along with advances in architecture, poetry and leadership, weren't products of Islam alone, but of diverse, tolerant societies where ...
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors? - The Independent
The latest collection of historical love letters shows that authors were a romantic lot, finds Emma Hagestadt. But are today's writers as handy with a pen? There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an ...
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