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- Could she save the short story? - Times Online
Could she save the short story?Times Online, UK - 2 hours agoThere is, of course, a downside to this new system, as shown by what has happened to poetry in America, where cushily subsidised poets have lost nearly all ...
- A deluge of haiku in our political poetry contest (Contra Costa Times)
"Dirt, slime, mud and muck. National election time. Everybody duck." Hundreds of haiku pour in from politically-inspired poets and readers.
- King Leaves for 10th Festival of Pacific Arts (Scoop.co.nz)
King Tuheitia leaves today to attend the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in Pago Pago, America Samoa as the traditional head of the 120-strong New Zealand delegation and will then fly to Tonga to attend the Tongan King’s coronation King George Tupou V.
- Galgut delivers the goods (Mail and Guardian)
The Impostor Damon Galgut (Penguin) Jane Rosenthal Damon Galgut's last novel, The Good Doctor , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize.His new novel, easily as good, is set in some nameless dorp within easy reach of Port Elizabeth, which conforms to the usual pattern of such places with a farmer's co-op and a coloured/black woongebied (location).
- News Briefs - Amherst Bulletin
News BriefsAmherst Bulletin, MA - 19 hours agoThe event includes musical performances, poetry open mike, harvest Olympics, lulav shakes, folk dancing, family art projects, Sukkot memory interviews, ...
- Free reading Sunday at Prairie Lights (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Fiction writer Brian Falkner from New Zealand and poet/fiction writer/translator/playwright Yael Globerman from Israel, participants in the University of Iowa International Writing Program, will be joined by Tom Macher, a fiction writer in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, in a free reading at 5 p.m. Sunday, in Prairie Lights Books.
- New Arab poetry award in memory of Palestine's Darwish (New Kerala)
Dubai, Aug 15 : A new Arabic poetry competition has been launched in the memory of departed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
- art Till October 7 at Gallery 79, 79 Raja Basanta Roy Road, 1st floor; 4 pm - 7 pm: (The Telegraph)
A solo exhibition of collage by Indrani Sen. Till October 12 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275, 2461 8812; 3 pm - 8 pm: Chitrakoot Art Gallery presents Puja Celebration of Art . Featuring prints, photographs, paintings and sculptures, both old and new.
- Sekolah Sinaran Mas Holds Poetry Competition (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - Sekolah Sinaran Mas recently held a poetry competition, which was one of the annual activities organised by the school. The winner in the Primary Two category was Chu Sae Chau while Izzah `Atirah Abdullah Kilfi came second followed by Kelvin Lai Chien Hong in third place.
- What makes Phelps so special? - bbc
Michael Phelps showed no sign of letting up in his pursuit of breaking Mark Spitz's record for the most amount of medals won in one Olympic Games . First he romped home in the 200m butterfly in a new world-record time. He gave all swimmers around the ...
- The spa gondala of Venice - Times Online
Times OnlineThe spa gondala of VeniceTimes Online, UK - 6 hours agoViggo Mortensen, portrayer of all things dark and broody in films such as A History of Violence and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a dab hand with a ...
- Dicey times bring Andrew Dice Clay to Westbury - Newsday
Unbelievable. A new Dice Age could be dawning. It's not due to climate change, though. The return of Andrew Dice Clay is more due to the economy. "Because of the times we're living in, the state of the world, gas prices, the recession - people are ...
- cold snack wins 2008 Montana Poetry Award - Scoop
cold snack wins 2008 Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry Janet Charman’s cold snack , published by Auckland University Press , has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and $5,000. "The team at Auckland University Press are enormously ...
- Everyone's a critic - San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay GuardianEveryone's a criticSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 11 hours agoThat's a twist the songwriter, who published his poetry to much praise in 1999's Actual Air (Open City), freely acknowledged. Of course, before he started ...
- TEN MIL THE HARD WAY - ESPN Magazine
ESPN MagazineTEN MIL THE HARD WAYESPN Magazine - 17 minutes agoInstead, he wrote poetry, rap lyrics, filled "a thousand" notebooks with his thoughts. Florida's "Mr. Football" in his senior year, Graham got picked on by ...
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