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- Yosemite offers Earth Day weekend (Madera Tribune)
YOSEMITE - Yosemite National Park will celebrate National Park Week and Earth Day Weekend (today through Tuesday) with poetry reading, walks, family activities, volunteer opportunities, special evening programs that include films linked to the EarthDance Film Festival, and more.
- All is not well among villagers in 'Prairie Fever' - Akron Beacon Journal
With time in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned her Ph.D. in English, Mary Biddinger would know what a prairie is. In Prairie Fever , her collection of poems, she uses bucolic imagery like ''red-wing blackbirds ...
- 'The Writing Class' by Jincy Willett is a killer murder mystery - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 326 pp., $24.95. Jincy Willett, author of the comic, and bravely titled, "Winner of the National Book Award," has written a murder mystery involving a writing class and has pulled it off brilliantly. The teacher is ...
- Acadie is everywhere - Telegraph-Journal
Acadie is everywhereTelegraph-Journal, Canada - 1 hour agoIn art, music, dance, poetry and gastronomy, Acadian culture thrives, and it is this diversity that visitors will gather to enjoy at Caraquet. ...
- Ladyfest Cork 08 - hotpress.com (subscription)
hotpress.com (subscription)Ladyfest Cork 08hotpress.com (subscription), Ireland - 19 hours agoAs if those performances weren’t enough to keep even a dour chauvinist happy, there’s more poetry, drama, workshops and comedy than you can shake your eggs ...
- One old friend, a lifetime of memories - Norman Transcript
One old friend, a lifetime of memoriesNorman Transcript, OK - 3 hours agoI shared sappy, sentimental poetry that always involved the tides and the sea, which were nowhere around Montgomery, Ala. Patsy's father Jimmy Porter was ...
- Your life, in just six words - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"To be or not to be." That's Shakespeare -- you might know him. "Britney Spears goes off the rails." That's on the cover of tabloids. "I love you" holds such power. A few words can distill lifetimes. We're proving that to you here. This story's in ...
- David Berman Finds Comfort In His Own Head (The New York Sun)
There are no simple conversations with David Berman. The singer-songwriter, whom indie-rock historians always will remember as the guy who started the 1990s hipster favorite Pavement as a side project, has an acutely analytical mind that can find multiple layers of meaning in everything. Chatting over bistro fare in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn during a recent visit to New York, ...
- Dnepropetrovsk Machon Bids Farewell to Graduates - Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS
Federation of Jewish Communities of the CISDnepropetrovsk Machon Bids Farewell to GraduatesFederation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, Russia - 13 hours agoThe graduates thanked their teachers, mentors and parents for their guidance over the years and, following a poetry reading, presented them with flowers and ...
- Ode to Recovery - New Haven Register
Editor's note: This is part of an occasional series about local people dealing with addiction. WEST HAVEN - The simple pleasures of coffee in the kitchen, recipes taped to the refrigerator and chairs on a shady front porch are not lost on Brandon ...
- Author retains the poetic in her fiction (South Bend Tribune)
The founding editor of an online literary magazine and press that publishes "hybrid forms," Joyelle McSweeney has jumped if not combined forms with her two most recent books, from poetry to fiction.
- the POWER of CULTURE vs the CULTURE of POWER - Palestine News Network
the POWER of CULTURE vs the CULTURE of POWERPalestine News Network, Palestinian Territories - 5 minutes agoOther works include Collected Works (1997), and A Small Sun (2003) his first poetry book in English translation. He was awarded the Palestine Award for ...
- Author muses on love and poltics - San Jose Mercury News
Author muses on love and polticsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour agoA: I love Willa Cather, but "My Antonia" is that one for me." Q: Since it's National Poetry Month, we have to ask "... do you ever read poetry? A: I do. ...
- I'm Happiest Dressed In My Birthday Suit - Newsweek
I'm Happiest Dressed In My Birthday SuitNewsweek - 1 hour agoWe have had several functions, including nude dinners at local restaurants, poetry reading in the nude, a nude high tea and a night at a nude comedy club ...
- Interview: War Child Emmanuel Jal - Village Voice
Village VoiceInterview: War Child Emmanuel JalVillage Voice, NY - 19 minutes agoThere’s poetry. There’s all kind of different, different sound. And sound vary from different village, from different place. But there’s also the music that ...
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