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- Strut your (poetry) stuff for cash! - FreeportJournal Standard
The Dubuque Area Writers Guild is giving poets a chance to strut their stuff for cash. On Oct. 18, the writers guild will host the first Dubuque Poetry Slam, with $1,350 in prizes for the evening's top performers. The slam movement started in Chicago ...
- Mauritanian poet wins Abu Dhabi’s ‘Prince of Poets’ - Middle East Online
Middle East OnlineMauritanian poet wins Abu Dhabi’s ‘Prince of Poets’Middle East Online, UK - 3 hours agoThe contest plays a significant role in promoting the Arab poetry in its cultural scene, and was able to cross the waters of the Arabian Gulf via Abu Dhabi ...
- Submit your poems to contest (Community Press & Recorder)
The Greater Cincinnati Writer's League (GCWL), a 77-year-old poetry writers group, is hosting a Poetry Contest.
- Choose Your Own Adventure: The top seven things you probably don’t ... - Pioneer Log
Choose Your Own Adventure: The top seven things you probably don’t ...Pioneer Log, OR - 14 minutes agoHe didn’t overcome this impediment until his junior year in college, when he spent long hours reciting poetry in the mirror. If Biden can overcome the ...
- Detroit Institue of Arts's latest exhibit explores 'Monet to Dali' - MLive.com
German expressionist painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff created this "Self-Portrait with Hat" in 1919. Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Rodin, Dali. They're the rock stars of the art world. Even people who know little about art are familiar with one or more of ...
- How do you define love? Submissions sought for NNU book - Idaho Statesman
The deadline to submit items for possible inclusion in " Love Among Us," published in connection with the conference, is Jan. 2. Submissions should be 3,000 words or fewer, submitted as Word or Pages files. E-mail questions and materials to Darrin ...
- ‘Uncle and maestro’: Friends remember George Garrett (The Hook)
Writers gathered at the UVA Chapel on Monday to remember George Garrett. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR At a memorial service on Monday, September 22 for writer and UVA professor George Garrett, who died after a battle with bladder cancer on May 25, UVA president John Casteen called the author of 11 novels, eight short story collections, eight [...]
- Ra Ra Riot helps define indie pop with debut - Case Western Reserve University Observer
Ra Ra Riot helps define indie pop with debutCase Western Reserve University Observer, OH - 17 hours agoThere is an element of poetry in the lyrics and the manner in which lead singer Wes Miles smoothly delivers them. If you're a fan of Ra Ra Riot or are ...
- John Burnside Profile - guardian.co.uk
John Burnside Profileguardian.co.uk, UK - 15 hours agoHis first poetry collection, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and was followed by Common Knowledge (1991). Feast Days (1992), won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial ...
- Support RABI – write a welly poem - FarmersWeekly
Support RABI – write a welly poemFarmersWeekly, UK - 1 hour ago... the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) is holding a poetry competition. All you've got to do is write a poem called Ode to a Welly. ...
- Reality TV's heavy hitters set to test 'Talent' - MLive.com
Local talent: Jessica Price impressed her audience on "America's Got Talent." In weeks to come, the reality TV wars will heat up as some of the genre's heavyweights join the fray. NBC's hit franchise "Biggest Loser" and the pioneering CBS series ...
- South Africa: Thabo Mbeki's Downfall - AllAfrica.com
The strident clamour of calls for the ANC to axe the "lame-duck" President Thabo Mbeki is far from the epithets the country's leader once enjoyed as the crown prince who became the philosopher king and was hailed as Mr Delivery. As Mbeki's comrades ...
- Harper as artist - Globe and Mail
Harper as artistGlobe and Mail, Canada - 5 hours agoToronto -- I was touched to learn the Prime Minister had tried his hand at poetry, the sort of art that nobody wants, but alarmed to learn that he ever ...
- campaign 2008 - Gawker
This campaign ad that's been making the rounds, for Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, is such a complete self-parody that it must be an intentional joke. From the John Wayne voice-over to the longtime lawyers' ridiculous cowboy outfits to the ...
- Kathleen Norris battles 'the demon of acedia' - Los Angeles Times
We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods -- "a funk," "the blues," "the doldrums." All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something elusive -- a sensation that might be a shade less ...
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