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- Kashan to hold seminar on birth anniversary of Sohrab Sepehri - MehrNews.com
Kashan to hold seminar on birth anniversary of Sohrab SepehriMehrNews.com, Iran - 2 hours agoThe third and fourth days will also follow with several poetry workshops and talks. On Friday the fifth day of the seminar, cinematic figures Mohammadreza ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week.
- Dorothy M. Gadbaw Steria, 87, Beaver Falls - WWNY TV
Dorothy M. Gadbaw Steria, 87, Beaver FallsWWNY TV, NY - Jul 18, 2008She enjoyed flower gardening, cooking and writing poetry. Surviving are eight daughters and six sons-in-law. Verna and Carl Schack, Betty and Ceyril Bush, ...
- Yasmine Blanding & Travis Staten - New York Daily News
Yasmine Blanding and Travis Staten first met in college through Echoes of Brown, a young writers' group focused on the historic case of Brown v. Board of Education. When Travis dropped out of the group in 2004, Yasmine contacted him. "I thought he ...
- Austin's oldest community radio station celebrates - News 8 Austin
KAZI 88.7 FM celebrated its 26th anniversary of providing community radio to Austin with Summer Fest 2008. The event featured live music, spoken word poetry, vendors and panel discussions. The station's program director said the station's success is ...
- Michael Symmons Roberts's workshop - Guardian Unlimited
Michael Symmons Roberts has won the Whitbread Poetry award,and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry prize, the Forward prize, and twice for the TS Eliot prize. His continuing collaboration with composer James MacMillan has led to two ...
- FACTBOX: A glimpse of Chinese ancient literature - Xinhua
FACTBOX: A glimpse of Chinese ancient literatureXinhua, China - 1 hour agoSHI: A kind of poetry that usually has five or seven characters in a line. The form peaked in the Tang Dynasty (581-907 AD). ...
- The north-south divide is glaring - Tribune
There are two faces of Chandigarh — the one representing the north of Dakshin Marg and the other south. The north-south divide is glaring. While the north has bigger houses, fewer residents, higher literacy, the south is crowded, less beautiful and ...
- Letters: War crimes (Independent)
The media circus over the capture of Radovan Karadzic has little to do with any notion of "justice" for his victims. Rather it is a continuation of the simplistic myth, peddled by Western leaders and the media through the Nineties, that the disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of ancient ethnic hatreds and that the Serbs were the chief aggressors in the break-up.
- Sharp Teeth, By Toby Barlow - The Independent
A novel in verse – about werewolves. Hmm. It's a great elevator pitch, but would anyone actually want to read it? Well, they ought to. The verse is free verse of the loosest kind, often recognisable as verse only by the typography, but the ...
- Woman of many talents authors novel - Connecticut Post
MILFORD — Marie Dallas likes to keep busy. So none of her friends and family was surprised when she announced that her first novel is being published. Dallas has already produced three books of photographs and poetry, painted two murals, teaches a ...
- A Conversation with Tan Twan Eng (Far Eastern Economic Review)
Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian author whose 2007 debut novel, The Gift of Rain, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The book, which focuses on the Malaysian experience during World War II, unflinchingly examines this oft-neglected period of Malaysian history.
- UK Welcomes Students to Campus - UK News
UK Welcomes Students to CampusUK News, KY - 3 hours agoThis outdoor festival will include a variety of free food from Kentucky and around the world, and live performances ranging from hip hop to country, poetry ...
- Miki Budge has gone quirky - Burnett County Sentinel
Mary Mack aka Miki Budge brings her original quirky comedy act to audiences all around the nation. Mikki Budge, known professionally as Mary Mack. They call her Mary Mack — maybe the funniest young lady around. "But we know here as Miki Budge ...
- Dad spreads daughter's message - Myrtle Beach Online
On the Web For a link to more information on the Rachel's Challenge foundation, see the Online Extras page at MyrtleBeachOnline.com. The Columbine shooting in Colorado went down in history as one of the worst school shooting in the U.S., but amidst ...
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