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- Claudia Gary and Tim Burrows to appear at Big Momma's (The Springfield News-Leader)
Virginia poet Claudia Gary and Ozark guitarist Tim Burrows will present an evening of poetry and music at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Back Porch room of Big Momma's Coffee House, 208 E. Commercial St.
- Tribute, to a sacked comrade (The Telegraph)
New Delhi, Aug. 11: The theme was liberalism. A communist leader, whose party has been under fire for not being tolerant, did his best to present a liberal face. But the man who has come to symbolise reforms was in no mood to spare the comrades.
- Let's play hostages - guardian.co.uk
Let's play hostagesguardian.co.uk, UK - 54 minutes agoAt home, I began to learn about art, photography, poetry, cinema; we studied things like mysticism and philosophy." At first, Hana wanted to be a painter. ...
- Celebrate bookstore Saturday - Detroit Free Press
Celebrate bookstore SaturdayDetroit Free Press, United States - 52 minutes agoBlack Star Community Bookstore opened in July 2000 as a source of information on African-American history, culture and social conditions. ...
- Feeding the Spirit and the Mind at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music (The New York Sun)
England's Coventry Cathedral is best known in the history of 20th-century music as the bombed ruin whose restoration inspired the creation of the Benjamin Britten masterpiece "War Requiem." But other pieces were commissioned for this miraculous architectural project, including the "Missa Brevis" of Sir William Walton, which was featured Sunday at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. ...
- Well-read Mad Men - National Post
Well-read Mad MenNational Post, Canada - Jul 28, 2008In Sunday night's second-season premiere of AMC's Mad Men, conflicted ad man Don Draper is introduced to Frank O'Hara's excellent collection of poetry, ...
- 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.
- Milky Bellflowers are beautiful - Times and Transcript
Milky Bellflowers are beautifulTimes and Transcript, Canada - 3 hours agoTry some yoga, tai-chi, Qigong, have a massage, take a horse-drawn wagon ride up the fields to poetry readings. Enjoy brunch on the verandah. ...
- What can be taught (The Washington Examiner)
In a recent column, I argued that good writing can be encouraged in the classroom, but not "taught." This column looks at the love for literature, which can be taught through modeling. Some of my most vivid memories of high school teaching come from students who surprised themselves (and me) by becoming inspired while reading a novel.
- Its fair week and theres plenty of excitement (The Oshkosh Northwestern)
Stacey Kunde is excited to put on her hard work on exhibit at the Winnebago County Fair, which opens its six-day run Tuesday afternoon.
- The truth about love, Barbican, London (Independent)
"Tell Me the Truth About Love": Zoë Wanamaker made the request on behalf of WH Auden at the start of this lively "journey through Mozart's operas" in the Barbican's Mostly Mozart festival. The responses were many and varied. The Auden, for instance, was met with anxious questions from Cherubino, the oversexed page-boy from The Marriage of Figaro. And speaking of raging hormones, Simon Russell ...
- Freetown-Lakeville Middle School student wins annual poetry contest (The Standard-Times)
LAKEVILLE — Last month, independent bookseller Baker Books, of Dartmouth, announced the winning poems for their 11th annual poetry-writing contest in honor of National Poetry Month. Elizabeth Garcia, a seventh grade student at the...
- OutLoud Open Mike at the Beebe Estate features local writer Tom Sheehan (Melrose Free Press)
OutLoud at The Beebe Open Mike Coffee House will feature Thomas F. Sheehan on Wednesday, July 16. Sheehan is a local and internationally published poet and writer from Saugus; author of fiction (“Death for the Phantom Receiverâ€); nonfiction (“A Collection of Friends: Memoirsâ€) and poetry (“This Rare Earth and Other Flightsâ€).
- Sonia Gordon - Baltimore Sun
Sonia GordonBaltimore Sun, United States - 31 minutes ago... watercolors and working as a fiber artist. In recent years, she began writing short stories and poetry, some of which was published in literary magazines.
- Tariq Ali's top 10 reads - guardian.co.uk
Tariq Ali's top 10 readsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoNights and Horses of the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arab Literature by Robert Irwin Satire, erotic poetry by Arab women writers and many other joys ...
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