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- CLASSROOM NOTES - Herald News
Michelle Paulsen , a dental Hygienist at Essington Family Dental Care in Joliet, shared healthy snacks with students at a class at N.B. Galloway in Channahon. During Paulsen's visit to the class, she also instructed the children on proper brushing ...
- Paperbacks: The Sonnet Lover, by Carol Goodman (Independent)
In an entertaining summer read, American thriller writer Carol Goodman attempts to reveal the identity of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady". Investigative heroine Dr Rose Asher is a lecturer in Renaissance poetry at a modish New York College.
- All-star cast of artists, writers headed to Chautauqua (The Buffalo News)
Before you settle in to your beach reading list, get in touch with your inner writer at the Chautauqua Institution's weeklong celebration of wordsmiths talking about their craft.
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - Boston Globe
Michael Norton -- who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press -- died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Norton chronicled the turmoil that followed former dictator Jean ...
- Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other' - San Francisco Chronicle
Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoBoth poetry and nature "are occasions for introspection, but not necessarily for happiness," Guterson's narrator observes. Like the author, Neil is deeply ...
- Star treatment for hometown guy (Boston Globe)
Michael Chiklis, the Andover native best known for his role as detective Vic Mackey on "The Shield," was honored in his hometown on June 27. The 44-year-old Andover High School graduate was recognized for his career accomplishments, which include an Emmy and a Golden Globe, awards he won for his work on the popular cable television series. In a ...
- An Apocalyptic State of Mind - New York Sun
The apocalypse and its aftermath have been a recurring theme in art for thousands of years. There is something satisfyingly narcissistic, hopeful even, in believing that our time has been chosen for the End of Days. And the New Museum's pseudo ...
- Crowded 2008 Festival of the Arts Opens at the Bliss - Channel 7 Daily News
Channel 7 Daily NewsCrowded 2008 Festival of the Arts Opens at the BlissChannel 7 Daily News, Belize - 7 hours ago“We have four key aspects that will be presented during this festival of arts and those are poetry, music, dance, and drama. The events which follow the ...
- Newark's exclusive latte is running out of steam - Bridgeton News
The Starbucks on Broad Street, a meeting place for business people and poets, is among the stores the coffee chain plans to close. Shaliele Hunt, a regular who favors iced coffee with skim milk and caramel syrup, grumbled Thursday night in reaction ...
- Al-Jazeera makes waves in Vermont - OpEdNews
Al-Jazeera makes waves in VermontOpEdNews, PA - 5 hours agoHe's also author of the collection of essays "Art and Machine: 95 theses" (2004) discussing his poetry vending machine project of the late 1990s. ...
- Literary Happenings: Cavalcade of authors set to visit TO bookstore - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: Cavalcade of authors set to visit TO bookstoreVentura County Star, CA - 2 hours agoPoetry reading at 856 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura. 642-1146. Computer workshop 10 am Monday. Prueter Library, 510 Park Ave., Port Hueneme. 486-5460. ...
- It’s one of the greatest survival stories - The Times
It’s one of the greatest survival storiesThe Times, South Africa - 8 hours agoI have no scruples and don’t feel guilty about what I did. I accept it. Life — that is, poetry, invention, intelligence — is more important than death. ...
- Valley provides inspiring setting for arts festival (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
A renowned poet and award-winning quartet join the lineup in the White Pine Festival's second year.
- Gongs galore as the Queen honours the great and good - Scotsman
Gongs galore as the Queen honours the great and goodScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHis first collection of poetry was Nil Nil, published in 1993, and his latest collection was Landing Light, published in 2003. Another book of his poems is ...
- Serenity prayer stirs up doubt: Who wrote it? - International Herald Tribune
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change." Now ...
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