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- Facebook is "educational", says US uni - Silicon.com
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial technological, creative and ...
- Searching for a quiet, enlightening getaway? - MSNBC
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. - At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- A musical salute to the written word (Austin American-Statesman)
Jazz vocalist Tina Marsh has always loved poetry — Mary Oliver, Rumi, Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Marshall Stewart Ball — and she clearly admires the musical aspects of literature. "So why not?" she said to herself this spring.
- A Weekend Of Arts And Entertainment (The Falmouth Enterprise)
FALMOUTH - Arts Alive Festival begins this afternoon.
- GCC Poetry Forum (Apache Moccasin)
Gila Community College will be hosting a poetry forum at vida e caffe on Saturday August 9th at 7:00 in the evening. This is an open mic format and all poets are invited to come read.
- A prize worth cracking a beer over (Toronto Star)
An Ottawa artist who uses beer caps, auto parts and old toys to create works has won a Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Ron Noganosh will receive $35,000 and be asked to identify an emerging artist of the year, who will get $15,000. Publishing house Coach House Books gets $50,000 as the winner in the arts organization category.
- Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity (New York Times)
A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Tacoma’s Illuminati Literati - Weekly Volcano
Weekly VolcanoTacoma’s Illuminati LiteratiWeekly Volcano, WA - 3 hours ago... poetry workshop: Illumination and the Literary Imagination, presented by Urban Grace and the Tacoma Art Museum Thursday, July 24. This writing workshop ...
- The Best Way Out Is Through - New York Times
The Best Way Out Is ThroughNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoFor years, Jay Parini, the Robert Frost biographer and literature professor, had been writing — wrestling with, he says — a book titled “Why Poetry Matters. ...
- Feel stirring beat of national anthem, poetry in its lyrics - Inquirer.net
Feel stirring beat of national anthem, poetry in its lyricsInquirer.net, Philippines - 1 hour ago... with the musical arrangement and composition of (the late Julian Felipe),†Malaya told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net). ...
- CAG unveils new exhibits - Daily Citizen
CAG unveils new exhibitsDaily Citizen, GA - 4 hours agoThere, in addition to keeping a 24-hour call schedule, Dr. Stewart managed to win awards for short fiction and poetry, and successfully published his first ...
- Hometown homage - Guardian Unlimited
There's a wonderful line from Guy Maddin's tragicomic 2003 film The Saddest Music In The World, which states, "Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass." If Maddin were to use this to describe his latest film, the autobiographical My Winnipeg, let ...
- Grimshaw wins Montana honours - Stuff
Charlotte Grimshaw is following in her father's literary footsteps, winning the Montana Medal for her book of short stories, Opportunity. Grimshaw, daughter of CK Stead, scooped the $5000 fiction category and the $10,000 overall award. The Aucklander ...
- Book lovers crowd Newberry Library fair featuring rare first editions - Medill Reports
Book lovers crowd Newberry Library fair featuring rare first editionsMedill Reports, IL - 1 hour agoBryce Parsons-Twesten, a college junior, was fifth in line to get into the fair, planning to browse the poetry books. "If I could get some Frank O'Hara, ...
- Poet Al Mahmud - The New Nation
The New NationPoet Al MahmudThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 2 hours agoPastoral lives, rivers, villages, shoals centered lives, man and woman's love affairs and their biophysical urges are dominant in his poetry as subjects and ...
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