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- Students can get steeped in the arts - Daily Item
SHAMOKIN — With teachers and administrators under increasing pressure these days to focus on raising student achievement levels, it’s unusual to see a new, funded program rolled out for the expressed purpose of increasing diversity and ...
- Bookworms and beatniks - Star-Gazette
Steele Memorial Library, 101 E. Church St. in Elmira, invites all high school and college students to its biweekly Tuesday evening coffee house and open mic night beginning today from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The evening will be filled with live music ...
- Outdoors calendar - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
May 31-June 1: Kayak fishing school for fly fishing with Lefty Ray Chapa, Port Aransas. $180. One day of classroom instruction, one day on the water. 210-260-6154, www.kayak4redfish.com. June 7: Free fishing day, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Texas Freshwater ...
- Marmion students garner writing awards (Daily Herald)
Eighteen Marmion Academy students were selected to have their work published in the English department's annual The Reverend Father Peter Enderlin OSB Writing Competition Literary Magazine.
- Gay, Punk and Ever the Provocateur (New York Times)
Derek Jarman, indie pioneer, iconoclast and the subject of a new documentary and DVD set, is ripe for reappraisal, years after his death.
- I'll Take the Manhattan (Las Cruces Sun-News)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- Godspeed. (The San Francisco Examiner)
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - The Nicaraguan-born poet, who will perform Friday evening at the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church , was an organizer who helped establish The City’s four cultural centers, including the Bayview Opera House, in the 1960s and ’70s.
- Bringing reading to life at Merry Hill - Birmingham Post
Bringing reading to life at Merry HillBirmingham Post, UK - 19 minutes ago"So we are embracing all forms of reading including poetry, comics, nursery rhymes, and books turned into screenplays."
- Alive to a memory of war - The Age
Alive to a memory of warThe Age, Australia - 1 hour agoLord Alfred Tennyson's poem Ulysses in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop: Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945. ...
- Poetry Workshops at Galway Arts Centre - Indymedia Ireland
In May Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, ‘The Boy With No Face’, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 ...
- Are men victims of forced abortions? - Salon
At age 20, Yi Qiang Yang married his 17-year-old wife in a traditional ceremony; they were still years away from meeting China's age requirement for legal marriage. His wife soon became pregnant, but in the middle of her third trimester, local ...
- Meet a smile in Myanmar's diaspora - Jakarta Post
NAI NAI: JP/Ati Nurbaiti Nai Nai, her friend said, "is worried sick again." The young woman is busy collecting donations to send to family and friends in Yangon, the old capital stuck in the middle of the area hardest hid by the cyclone, the ...
- BIPARTISAN BULL - New York Post
CONTRARY to nearly all received wisdom in DC, not to mention the rhetoric of the presumptive nominees of both major parties, the scariest moments in US politics are often its most bipartisan. Some would say this was demonstrated in the wake of 9/11 ...
- Mike's views on history - Bridlington Today
Mike's views on historyBridlington Today, UK - 4 hours agoMike has also published his collection of poetry, Little Tyke, which views life through the eyes of a Bridlington boy born in the 30s. ...
- 7th Costa Rica Poetry Fest Opens - Prensa Latina
7th Costa Rica Poetry Fest OpensPrensa Latina, Cuba - 3 hours agoSan Jose, May 16 (Prensa Latina) The seventh International Poetry Festival Costa Rica 2008 sessions in San Jose on May 16-23, with the participation of ...
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