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- Passing the Mic to the Next Generation: Spoken Word in Madison - Madison Magazine
Passing the Mic to the Next Generation: Spoken Word in MadisonMadison Magazine, WI - 1 hour agoAt Memorial High School, two First Wave students lead a group of teens in performance poetry. Their Spoken Word Club meets twice a week, on Wednesday and ...
- Body of Missing Kayaker Found - Fox 12 Boise
Body of Missing Kayaker FoundFox 12 Boise, ID - 2 hours agoStudebaker is the author of about a dozen books of poetry and nonfiction, including "Short of a Good Promise," a 1999 reminiscence of growing up in the ...
- After 4 decades, 4,000 columns it is time to retire - Louisville Courier-Journal
One of my oft-used throwaway lines -- with all due credit to John Lennon -- is "Life is what happens while you're making other plans." The line, however, never gets thrown too far; it contains too much truth. Which makes it one of the reasons that ...
- Civil War soldiers, civilians focus of program - Richmond Times Dispatch
Civil War soldiers, civilians focus of programRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 1 hour agoSouthern soldiers and citizens found encouragement through uplifting speeches and poetry, and these, too, will be included in this special event. The free ...
- Shaikh Mohammed orders launch of Dubai International Poetry Festival (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI — His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday directed the launch of 'Dubai International Poetry Festival' as an annual calendar event celebrating Arabic poetry and promoting international understanding through one of the most enduring literary genres.
- Poet's Idaho home is reborn - Seattle Times
SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS Ezra Pound's childhood home in Hailey, Idaho, was gifted to The Sun Valley Center for the Arts. The organization recently opened the house to the public as a cultural center. DAVID SEELIG / ASSOCIATED PRESS Sally ...
- Translation captures irony of original (The Daily Item)
This superb new English version of Flaubert’s masterpiece at last makes it possible to understand how Flaubert could say of his heroine, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi!â€
- Brid Arts Festival guide - Bridlington Today
Brid Arts Festival guideBridlington Today, UK - 3 hours agoThe festival runs until Monday, May 26 with something for everyone – music, theatre, dance, poetry, painting, sculpture and to cap it off a big street ...
- The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s Othello doesn’t flinch from the obvious race issue (The Pitch)
The story of a black man tricked into strangling his white wife because she's careless with her hanky, Othello isn't bring-the-kids-and-pack-a-basket fare, but I applaud director Sidonie Garrett and the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for daring it. The sex and murder probably upset nobody the ...
- You don't want to lose to (bleeping) Purdue (The Beacon News)
I guess the reason I empathize with Bobby Knight in his famous practice rant is because losing to Purdue really does stink, no matter who you are.
- Bonnaroo 2008: Attendees endured show delays, hot weather and rain showers (Independent Florida Alligator)
One after another, cars poured out of the Wal–Mart parking lot in the quaint town of Manchester, Tenn. Thursday morning. Some of their inhabitants had been sleeping there all night while others stayed awake with anticipation playing the tunes of this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
- No, it's apparently not That '70s Show with wife-swapping thrown in - Globe and Mail
NEW YORK -- Relax, everybody. Despite its racy come-on, the new CBS drama Swingtown isn't pushing recreational drugs and mate swapping, any more than it endorses smoking on airplanes or drinking Harvey Wallbangers, which are also part of the 1970s ...
- Confluence, Pittsburgh's 20th Annual Science Fiction Convention - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Confluence, Pittsburgh's 20th Annual Science Fiction ConventionPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 3 hours agoPoetry readings, filk concerts, a video room and other entertaining fare. A taste-testing consuite, a boffo art show, and a book-crammed dealers room. ...
- Spotsylvania calendar (The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)
Spotsylvania calendar
- Rare performance brings a piece of old New Orleans - Springfield State Journal Register
Springfield State Journal RegisterRare performance brings a piece of old New OrleansSpringfield State Journal Register, IL - 1 hour ago... Free People of Color,†and also wrote “Gumbo People,†a 1981 collection of poetry, music and essays written in Louisiana French Creole language. ...
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