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- Haiku and gentle fun (Centre Daily Times)
Jon J Muth's cleverness emerges gradually in "Zen Ties," a glowing companion to his Caldecott Honor book, "Zen Shorts." Stillwater, the gentle giant of a panda, greets his nephew at the train station with "Hi, Koo!" His welcome includes a gift of helium-filled balloons.
- Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern ... - The GC Advocate
Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern ...The GC Advocate, NY - 1 hour agoFrom the early 1900s to the 1930s, there was a significant overlap between Modernist experiment and Communist experiment in poetry. ...
- Report finds racial gap in student suspensions - West Central Tribune
Keenan Hooper likes to joke around and admits he has a motormouth. He also admits to getting into trouble again and again with teachers weary of his antics. School officials have sent him home more times than Keenan or his mom can count. So often, in ...
- State board approves standards for Bible course - KXAN-TV
State board approves standards for Bible courseKXAN-TV, TX - 3 hours agoThe elective Bible course is intended to teach Biblical content in the context of literature and history, talking about the characters, poetry and literary ...
- Entertainment Highlights: June 26-July 2 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26 TOM WAITS 8 p.m. at the Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard. $70-$102.50. 314-534-1111 or www.metrotix.com.
- Kennedy brings discretion to VP search - USA Today
BOSTON (AP) — Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, the daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy must ...
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - FOX News
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-Claude ...
- On Poetry: Pausing for Mother's Day - Traverse City Record Eagle
On Poetry: Pausing for Mother's DayTraverse City Record Eagle, MI - 21 hours ago... take over her poetry workshop at the University of Delaware while she gave birth to Jack, the late-life infant recalled in the poem I've selected below. ...
- Tribune critics provide a road map - Chicago Tribune
To help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": 8 p.m. Nov. 3 and 7 p.m. Nov. 4, Museum of Contemporary Art (there's a panel discussion of the work 5 p.m ...
- Making tradition - guardian.co.uk
Making traditionguardian.co.uk, UK - May 2, 2008Nor was it possible, given the restrictive practices of copyright, for a publisher to do for English poetry what Manutius or the Elzevirs had done for the ...
- New press rolls out new venture for editors - Las Cruces Sun-News
New press rolls out new venture for editorsLas Cruces Sun-News, NM - 1 hour agoDick Thomas, poet and co-poetry editor of Sin Fronteras Journal, will head up book layout, design, and publication. "Learning computer software programs has ...
- Hindu scholar arrives for 9-day spiritual program - Cincinnati.com
Morari Bapu sits cross-legged on a makeshift white bed in the middle of a black stage, dressed in starched white robes. It's a simple elegant scene with the imposing image of the Hindu deity Hanuman overshadowing the stage behind him. Bapu is one of ...
- Actresses have stick-to-itiveness (Contra Costa Times)
Who was the first actress on a U.S. postage stamp? Strictly speaking, it was Ethel Barrymore, on a 1982 stamp with her brothers Lionel and John. In 1990, Judy Garland appeared on a stamp honoring "The Wizard of Oz" with Toto, as did Vivien Leigh on a "Gone With the Wind" stamp with Clark Gable.
- Spoleto scores with Heaney's searing Antigone - Globe and Mail
There is always at least one production at Spoleto Festival USA that is so powerful it remains embedded in my brain forever. Such a one is the Nottingham Playhouse's The Burial at Thebes . In an inspired decision, Nottingham's artistic director ...
- Rod Stewart - Morning Call
Melissa Etheridge, 8 p.m. July 4, Borgata Event Center, Atlantic City, 866-900-4849. Rush, 7:30 p.m. July 4, Taj Mahal-Mark G. Etess Arena, Atlantic City, 609-449-6059. The Black Crowes, 8 p.m. July 6, Penn's Peak, Jim Thorpe, 866-605-7325. Black ...
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