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- Dove chosen for lifetime award (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Rita Dove, a former U.S. and Virginia poet laureate and a professor of poetry at the University of Virginia, has been chosen to receive the Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Young writers inspired by island culture - Virgin Islands Daily News
ST. JOHN - Tales of mocko jumbies, speaking trees and reflections on freedom take center stage in "Words Dancing in the Wind," a 60-page kallaloo of poetry and prose produced by 13 students after three weeks in the Virgin Islands Young Writers Camp.
- Area briefs (Stamford Advocate)
Nuns to host Octoberfest WILTON - The 20th annual Octoberfest sponsored by the School Sisters of Notre Dame will be held from 10 a.
- A Conversation with Steve Earle (Pittsburgh City Paper)
"I am definitely the result of everything I was exposed to, so it's kind of hard to regret the influence of almost any idea." By Margaret Welsh.
- Not your average poet: Award-winning writer/recycling coordinator is ... - St. Cloud Times
ST. JOSEPH — Larry Schug always has something to write about. It’s how he knows he’s alive. “People say, ‘I don’t know what to write about,’ and I say, ‘What, did you wake up dead this morning?’ †he said. “Turn off the TV every ...
- Downtown's 'Third Thursday Art Walk' is growing - Northern Virginia Daily
On the sidewalk downtown in front of the gift shop, Delilah's, artist Kelly Walker cautions several onlookers to step back as she swirls her brush in a container of acrylic paint. She raises the brush above her head and brings it down quickly ...
- 47th Struga Poetry Nights - MRT online
47th Struga Poetry NightsMRT online, Macedonia - 6 hours agoThis year's laureate of the traditional "Golden Wreath" prize is the Albanian poet Fatos Arapi, who has published 25 poetry books translated to several ...
- Joyce Carol Oates examines 'tabloid hell' in novel inspired by ... - Baltimore Sun
Joyce Carol Oates examines 'tabloid hell' in novel inspired by ...Baltimore Sun, United States - 32 minutes agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Slice of our history hidden from view - This is the Sentinel
Slice of our history hidden from viewThis is the Sentinel, UK - 2 hours agoI play the trombone, the cello, violin; I sing - not so often now - with the Bedford Singers among other choirs - and I write poetry. ...
- Our Language Stigma (The Jamaica Observer)
The public debate surrounding the proposed translation of the Bible into Jamaican dialect continues unabated.
- Latrobe native enchants diners at Ivy Cafe in Ligonier - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Latrobe native enchants diners at Ivy Cafe in LigonierPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 2 hours agoMost recently, they have begun hosting mid-week poetry readings upstairs. And their intimate dining rooms -- one upstairs, the other on the ground floor ...
- 'Bomb Engineer' In Dimona Attacks Killed - The Bulletin
Jerusalem - Immediately after the Feb. 4 Palestinian terror attack in Dimona, Israeli intelligence made a concerted effort, in Hebron, to discover and dislodge those in Hamas who were responsible. The attack killed one woman and injured 11 others. On ...
- Witness who took risky stand in Sacramento gangland trial works to build new life (The Sacramento Bee)
One bullet perforated his left lung and induced a bloody cough. Timothy Hurst sings in his bedroom wearing a T-shirt he designed; his brother Iam Mason sings on the bed. Hurst's testimony helped convict two gang members who tried to kill him. Now he's living in another city and trying to establish himself as an artist. Timothy Hurst looks in the mirror, where he's written "God's ...
- PM MATTI VANHANEN: THE ARCHITECT - Agenda Magazine
PM MATTI VANHANEN: THE ARCHITECTAgenda Magazine, Finland - 37 minutes agoThere can be poetry in suburbia; there can be poetry even in concrete blocks, but there is little poetry in the above-mentioned sleeping and shopping ...
- Chams resurrects the theatre Muson Centre - Daily Sun
Daily SunChams resurrects the theatre Muson CentreDaily Sun, Nigeria - 4 hours agoInterpersed with song and dance, poetry and proverbs, Adventures into the Forest is a masterful production that professional Thespians like Prof. ...
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