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- Holocaust's lesson lives - Akron Beacon Journal
The need to be vigilant, to be constantly aware of the world around us, was the message that 17-year-old Sara Schnable said she was attempting to convey with her poem, A Legacy of Innocence, which was given the Best of the Best award during Akron's ...
- The heart song of Jahida Wehbe - Gulf News
I express myself better through music. I can be myself. My musical beginnings. My family encouraged me in music since my childhood. I am originally from Bekaa, Lebanon; when I am not touring, I consider Beirut my home. My late father Jean Wehbe was a ...
- Cumming dares, bares in lively "Bacchae" revamp (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
He is a rock star, an exhibitionist and a vengeful god. He is Dionysus as played by stage and film star Alan Cumming in a vibrant production of Euripides' "The Bacchae," courtesy of the National Theatre of Scotland.
- Narrow Minded (The Tuscaloosa News)
A disturbing genre of Web video flaunts extreme thinness. Is it art or dangerous propaganda?
- McGrath retires after 27 years - Lemoore Advance
McGrath retires after 27 yearsLemoore Advance, CA - 5 hours agoMcGrath also recently resigned as "Poet Laureate for Life" in the city of Lemoore, a position that required him to write and recite poems for numerous city ...
- Secretary-General celebrates writings and influence of renowned ... - UN News Centre
Secretary-General celebrates writings and influence of renowned ...UN News Centre - 3 hours ago“He took poetry from the realm of the abstract into contemporary life. And, in the process, he shed new philosophical light on society. ...
- High school students join in WordMasters (The Journal News)
Daniel Gorman, Mallory Avery, Matthew Burke and Evan O'Brien, students at Pearl River High School, participated in the third meet of the WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of prose and poetry.
- Allan Ahlberg: 'The fun thing is still making the book' - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukAllan Ahlberg: 'The fun thing is still making the book'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThis, he points out, is his most remarkable sales statistic, since it is poetry - not the fact that the Jolly Postman picturebook and its two sequels sold ...
- Maktoum Foundation to publish Arabic Narrative Encyclopaedia (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI - The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation on Wednesday announced it will publish the world's first comprehensive 'Arabic Narrative Encyclopaedia', exploring, analysing and documenting the Arabic literary genre.
- Bruce Anderson: Ray Lewis and Lord Phillips are both grappling with society's alienated groups (Independent)
There are no easy answers to the question of the other within. Even without his wig and robes, even in a Muslim centre on Whitechapel Road, Nicholas Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, might seem to have little in common with Ray Lewis, who has been obliged to resign as Deputy Mayor of London. Yet both men are wrestling with related difficulties. Both are addressing the vital issue of alienated ...
- Doughnut-ology: Will Bush-Wah convert? (WorldNetDaily)
I'm trying to wrap my mind around the possibility of our putative Presi-Dunce as a later-life convert to Catholicism , perhaps following the example of his diplomatic mentor/erstwhile poodle Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, but it doesn't quite compute.
- Weintraub: Gritty Iraq drama gives HBO a worthy successor to 'Wire' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Cynical, violent, unsentimental, gloriously literate and brilliantly executed, “Generation Kill†is the best HBO series since “The Wire.†David Simon and Ed Burns, the primary players behind that late, great urban drama, have adapted ...
- Norwich Bulletin - Norwich Bulletin
Norwich BulletinNorwich Bulletin, CT - 1 hour agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, Waterford Library, EAST LYME. All area poets are invited to attend. Bring a poem in progress or finished poems to ...
- Stony Brook Southampton adds on to successful witers conference - Southampton Press
Southampton PressStony Brook Southampton adds on to successful witers conferenceSouthampton Press, NY - 4 hours ago... debut new work because it is such a comfortable and welcoming forum.†Mr. Collins added that he plans to “trot out†work from his newest book of poetry, ...
- Big Bend Poets meet Tuesday (May 13) - Tallahassee Democrat
The Big Bend Poets will meet from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at Books A Million, Thomasvile Road at Capital Circle Overpass. Big Bend Poets is a Chapter of the Florida State Poets Association and is affilaited with the National Federation of State Poetry ...
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