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- Poetic passion: A biographer explores the friendship of a poet and a critic (Miami Herald)
WHITE HEAT: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Brenda Wineapple. Knopf. 432 pages. $27.95. On April 17, 1862, noted literary critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson received a packet of poems from a woman in Amherst, Mass. ''Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?'' was how Emily Dickinson opened the first of many letters to him.
- Birthplace a ‘complete spectrum’ of Sandburg’s life (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
Sometimes, an interesting tourist attraction can be found in your own backyard. The Carl Sandburg Historic Site, 313 E. Third St., birthplace of the world-famous journalist and poet, is located right here in Galesburg, offering a lot of history collected under one roof. Maintained by the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association, the exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through ...
- Upcoming Cherry Hill Library events (Courier-Post)
Check out these upcoming Cherry Hill Library events. Contact wrhodes@gannett.com if you'd like your library's events featured on the Courier-Post website.
- CD Review: Jamey Johnson's 'That Lonesome Song' gutty, gritty thrill (Tucson Citizen)
Jamey Johnson's "That Lonesome Song" delivers a salt-of-the-earth antidote for those who consider contemporary country music too slick and sentimental.
- Raymond Weckstein - Concord Monitor
Raymond WecksteinConcord Monitor, NH - 1 hour agoHe loved poetry, classical music and learning. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Estella (Friedman) Weckstein of Bow; four sons, Kenneth of Great ...
- Dance that fulfils - The West Australian
Dance that fulfilsThe West Australian, Australia - 2 hours agoVisual poetry gave way to parody in Zuska’s dance Maria’s Dream (the choreographer is clearly influenced by his associations with the Netherlands Dance ...
- Something about Mary - Stuff
This story begins at its end, in the nook of a North Sydney chapel where an elderly woman in black kneels on a cushion crocheted with Sturt desert peas, crosses herself and prays with one hand on a white marble tomb. "Trust in God," it says on the ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 - BBC News
He spent the next eight years in the Soviet prison system, or Gulag, before being internally exiled to Kazakhstan, where he was successfully treated for stomach cancer. Publication in 1962 of the novella Denisovich, an account of a day in a Gulag ...
- Martha Wainwright - Billboard
Martha WainwrightBillboard, NY - 9 minutes agoShe joked that what made it a war song was the “flowery poetry and imagery.†Wainwright’s offbeat wit shined between songs when she coyly mentioned that her ...
- Discovery Channel's 'When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions' - Los Angeles Times
Discovery Channel's 'When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions'Los Angeles Times, CA - 10 hours agoThe NASA cameramen, including the astronauts themselves, didn't just point and shoot; they worked with style and sensitivity, and there is a poetry in the ...
- New plan for site of ‘purple house’ - Cumberland News
Cumberland NewsNew plan for site of ‘purple house’Cumberland News, UK - 2 hours ago... who brought up a large family there. The property provided lodgings for several leading personalities in the theatre, poetry and mountaineering worlds. ...
- Things to do today - Aug. 14 - Akron Beacon Journal
Things to do today - Aug. 14Akron Beacon Journal, OH - 1 hour agoPoetry in Motion — Salsa classes 7:30-8:30 tonight, 9-10 pm Saturday and 8:30-9-30 pm Tuesday, hand-dance class 7:30-8:30 Tuesday at Rosarita Cantina, ...
- Exiles from heaven - National Catholic Reporter
National Catholic ReporterExiles from heavenNational Catholic Reporter, Missouri - 18 minutes agoOnce a promising poetry student at Oxford University, Hopkins forsook poetry when he entered the Jesuits. But his rector convinced Hopkins to write the poem ...
- A Different Nevada (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Location: Elko, in northeast Nevada, about 427 miles from Las Vegas. Directions: From Las Vegas take Interstate 15 north for 21 miles, exiting onto U.S. 93 north, the Great Basin Highway.
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? (WorldNet Daily)
For years, I had a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging on my living room wall. I had painted it while in high school in New York at a salon overseen by Helen Farr Sloan, the widow of famed American painter John Sloan and herself a painter of no small talent.
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