Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- VANISHING VOICES CRUELLY-ABSENT CROAKS! (Deccan Herald)
What does a little boy do when he wakes up one morning to find that his voice has disappeared altogether? What does a little frog do when he just doesn’t seem to be able to croak? When no amount of help from his worried mother can coax anything other than a discordant ‘Cronk’ out of him.
- He's a Rainbow - Silicon Valley's Metro
Silicon Valley's MetroHe's a RainbowSilicon Valley's Metro, CA - 8 hours agoAs Black Flag progressed away from punk's cliches, Henry began to do spoken-word performances, reading his diary and poetry that could make your eyes drip ...
- Amir Khan's Former Trainer Harrison - "Rubio Is A Cuban Amateur!" (East Side Boxing)
by James Slater - Amir Khan's former trainer, Oliver Harrison, who was unexpectedly fired by Team-Khan earlier this year, has expressed his opinion on his replacement. And what Harrison has had to say about Jorge Rubio is not at all good.
- Site of the week: The Manchester Review - Guardian Unlimited
This week's star URL is a new arts journal from Manchester University, which has scored a coup by persuading Booker winner John Banville to hand over the first chapter of his yet-to-be-published novel for its launch edition. Banville's The Sinking ...
- Learning made fun: Uni camp gives taste of high school life (The Champaign News-Gazette)
URBANA – In an echoing dance studio at the University of Illinois, children are kicking and screaming. And in this case, it's a good thing. The kicking comes when the kids, mostly ages 9-11, practice their moves at University Laboratory High School's summer camp, where sessions range from a week learning how to program a robot to another week creating spoken-word poetry.
- Fringe By Numbers: Chasm Preview - Minneapolis City Pages
Fringe By Numbers: Chasm PreviewMinneapolis City Pages, MN - 6 hours agoThe play is based on the poetry of Garbiela Mistral, a famous Chilean poet. Playwright Hector Roberts has translated some of the works, but has chosen to ...
- "Amitabh's life is an open book" - Hindustan Times
After the response to the screening of Everlasting Light , the documentary on Amitabh Bachchan, at MAMI last week, Jaya Bachchan is encouraged to find a wider platform to screen the film as well as work on a follow-up project. Since filmmaker Ram ...
- Well Done -- Urbandale & Johnston (The Des Moines Register)
Manning Ding of Johnston, a 2008 graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., was a recipient of highest academic honors; a fourth-year English Prize; the Lewis Sibley Poetry, third prize; and a prize in statistics from the Academy’s mathematics department. Ding will attend Harvard University this fall.
- Pen Storming - Kolkata Newsline
Pen StormingKolkata Newsline, India - 50 minutes agoHe couldn’t walk around with sheaves of his poetry trussed into dirty jholas, he probably didn’t have to trudge from one publisher to another to get his ...
- Hip-Hop Rumors: Somebody Got "Housed," Suge Stopping "S... - allhiphop.com
I got one of the scariest rumors in a minute today. I heard that Paul Wall was dead. Let me tell you. All I could think is, “This can’t be happening.” Paul Wall is a good dude on the real. I am pleased to say that Mr. Wall is alive and well. If ...
- Thieves target Tanishq - Tribune
After failing twice to steal ornaments from a popular jewellery shop, Tanishq, in Mohali, a group of three persons, including a middle-age woman, managed to decamp with ornaments worth Rs 6 lakh from the company’s showroom in Sector 17, here, this ...
- Close to home - Guardian Unlimited
Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. She's been accorded armfuls of super-superlatives by critics in both North America and Britain, she's won many awards, and she has a devoted international readership. Among ...
- While Political Abortion Rhetoric Picks at Tender Wounds, a New Outreach Offers Hope (Christian News Wire)
NEW YORK, Oct. 9 / Christian Newswire / -- According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, approximately 1 out of 3 women in the United States will have had an abortion by age 45. It's fair to say that the majority of Americans have either had an abortion or know someone who has experienced one.
- Single Dad Overcomes Rocky Childhood to Publish First Book of Poetry (Newswise)
Eric Watts, a 30-year-old single dad living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has published his first book of poetry, "Cellar Door: Volume One," which deals with his turbulent early life. He is making sure his two daughters have a much happier childhood and will be signing copies of his book at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 14, at Borough Hall in Brooklyn.
- Wisconsin Book Festival 2008: Amitava Kumar speaks - Isthmus Daily Page
Wisconsin Book Festival 2008: Amitava Kumar speaksIsthmus Daily Page, WI - 2 hours agoPoetry can be a creative way to rewrite the rules of documentary, of straight prose or plain reportage. I am conscious of the times I let the facts ...
|
|
Mortgage Refinancing
Florida Mortgages
December 2007 Mortgage News
|