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- Community Briefs - The Free Lance-Star
Community BriefsThe Free Lance-Star, VA - 1 hour agoChildren between the ages of 5 and 18 are eligible to compete by singing, dancing, acting, playing an instrument, reciting poetry, etc. ...
- Closure of Eleventh Hour ends Seattle Poetry Festival (Real Change News)
The caged bird sings no more. It was a warm April day in Seattle. All the same, August Wilson stood in a suit on the stage at Richard Hugo House, reading lines not from the plays that won him two Pulitzer Prizes, but from the poetry that made his stage drama sing.
- How to read Cicero's gobbets - Times Online
How to read Cicero's gobbetsTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoThis is well known to be the case with, for example, the later speeches in the series “Against Verres”; for Verres had seen the writing on the wall and ...
- Prince of Poets II from Thursday - XPRESS
Prince of Poets II from ThursdayXPRESS, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoPrince of Poets is a classical Arabic poetry, knockout, TV competition aired live on Abu Dhabi TV and the Poetry Channel. The live shows are free for the ...
- Road Trip Radio - New West
Road Trip RadioNew West, MT - 2 hours agoThe banal poetry of commerce lulled me into a peaceful trance. “Misses’ tops, twenty nine ninety nine.” “The drive-in is open during our renovations. ...
- Down to Earthwords (The Daily Iowan)
The UI's undergraduate literary review, Earthwords, is back with this year's look into the collective consciousness of student writers and artists.
- Kenya: A Teary Farewell for Maulidi Pilgrims (AllAfrica.com)
As Muslim pilgrims departed from Lamu Island last Saturday, tears welled in the eyes of locals, who had come to bid them farewell.
- Christ, Come Quickly - America Magazine (subscription)
America Magazine (subscription)Christ, Come QuicklyAmerica Magazine (subscription), NY - 18 minutes agoIn Exiles, Hopkins needs nothing more than a Jesuit superior’s gentle prodding to inspire a return to poetry. Hansen intersperses his tale of Hopkins’s ...
- Falling into novel notion - Windsor Star
Windsor StarFalling into novel notionWindsor Star, Canada - 10 hours agoShe is best known as a poet and, in 2004, won the Griffin Prize, the country's most prestigious poetry award for her collection titled Loop. ...
- Actions Speak Louder | For what A Midsummer Night's Dream loses in dialogue, it makes up for in physical comedy (Urban Tulsa)
Theatre Tulsa's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Whitson Hanna, favors slap-stick physical comedy over Shakespeare's poetry. Though the production fails to evoke much sympathy for the characters, its over-the-top sense of humor will have the audience in stitches. This is the par... By Paul Sheckarski.
- Amitabh Bachchan plans a memorial for his father - Zee News
London, May 04: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan plans a memorial for his late father Harivansh Rai Bachchan, a distinguished hindi poet whose contribution to literature, the actor feels "cannot be ever challenged". "We want to do things in his ...
- Self-charming - the light and dark sides of Chet Baker - Times Online
Times OnlineSelf-charming - the light and dark sides of Chet BakerTimes Online, UK - 3 hours agoI remember Chet talking to his daughter about poetry and saying to her: “Not everything has to rhyme.” I think that says a lot about him. ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Sun-Journal
NEW YORK - My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle ...
- Letters: School curriculum (Independent)
Sir: Professors Scott, Coffield, Ball and Taylor (letter, 2 June) are to be congratulated on indicating that the Government's education policy is self-defeating because of frequent shifts in policy. But this is not all that is wrong. Comparative studies of educational achievement show that we are falling slowly down the international league tables.
- Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic: earthy performances that ... - Daily Telegraph
This time last year, Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic delivered four programmes of Schumann Symphonies and Brahms Concertos. Now the roles are reversed, and it's the turn of the heftier Brahms Symphonies and the slimmer Schumann Concertos ...
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