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- Widower’s tale wins poet Abse book prize - WalesOnline
Widower’s tale wins poet Abse book prizeWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoMr Abse’s wife died in June 2005 after the couple’s Nissan Sunny was in collision with a Mini Cooper on the M4 as they drove home from a poetry reading. ...Tribute to lost wife is the Book of the Year WalesOnlineDannie Abse: The Presence Hutchinson, hardback £15.99 WalesOnlineall 7 news articles
- Why William Shatner Can Save Gaelic - Cape Breton
Although I have a Scottish name, I do not claim to have any of the Gaelic in me. If I also profess no desire to learn Gaelic, it is not because it is not a poetically expressive tongue with a rich, long history (which it is), it's only because I ...
- Local kids learn How to Haiku - Antrim Times
Local kids learn How to HaikuAntrim Times, UK - 21 hours agoBy Lorna McKay IN a series of How to Haiku Poetry workshops that ran during June at Greystone Library, professional poet Chelley McLear helped local young ...
- How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone - San Francisco Gate
"A good story," writes Sasa Stanisic in his first novel, "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone," "is like our river Drina: never calm, it doesn't trickle along, it is rough and broad, tributaries flow in to enrich it, it rises above its banks, it ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - Boston Globe
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president who took power in a high-altitude coup and later dragged a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror, submitted his resignation Monday after a turbulent nine years in ...
- That Friday feeling... - Q4Music
Q4MusicThat Friday feeling...Q4Music, UK - 17 hours agoIn the Cabaret Marquee, poetry collective Aisle 16 – friends of Miss Nash, in fact – delivered some (relatively) early morning missives to a relaxed crowd, ...
- Trails through time bind us together - Blue Springs Examiner
My name is Molly, and I’m a cultural anthropologist from California. Last month I inadvertently followed the Pony Express trail from my home in Placerville (about 40 miles east of Sacramento) to your fair city of Independence. One morning during my ...
- Prince George poet wins prestigious national award (Prince George Citizen Online)
Prince George poet Gillian Wigmore has won the eighth annual 2008 ReLit Award for her collection of poetry, Soft Geography (Caitlin Press), says Rob Budde, professor of creative writing at UNBC.The ReLit Award is, according to The Globe and Mail, “the country’s pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses,†Budde said.Winners receive the ReLit Ring, designed by Christopher Kearney ...
- The hard job of picking your own best poetry - DAWN Group
Name and fame of the kind many lesser poets have enjoyed through hard PR work, presence, availability, appearance in TV `mushaeras’ or shear good luck has not been our good friend Parto Rohilla’s lot, now in the eighth decade of a life well lived ...
- From Skowhegan,Ozioma Onuzulike recounts his experience... - Vanguard
From Skowhegan,Ozioma Onuzulike recounts his experience...Vanguard, Nigeria - 4 hours ago2 at the Cummings dorm, also located at the lakeside, providing a quiet environment and inspiration for my art and poetry. Cottages are equipped with ...
- Pencil This In: Tuesday (LAist)
You think the photo's pretty trippy? Then check out the film on the schedule at the Silent Movie Theatre tonight. / Photo by Lord Jim via Laist's flickr pool. MUSICAL FILM : You love movie musicals? Especially ones that would be deemed oh-so-politically incorrect today? Then head over to the ArcLight Hollywood tonight for a special anniversary screening of Rogers and Hammerstein’s ...
- At home with the past - Boston Globe
LEXINGTON - People make stuff. That much we know. Why they make stuff is much harder to say. The kind of "culture" that routinely gets written up in newspapers and is taught in school - I'm talking about fiction and poetry, fine art, the movies ...
- Homeless girl's poem is put to song, for benefit - Boston Globe
For pianist Andrea Surova of Bedford, songwriting developed as a natural extension of the poetry she began writing at age 10. As a result, she has an even more special appreciation for the poem written by a 12-year-old homeless girl and the ...
- Meet a living relic of bohemian New Orleans - South Coast Today
Every morning in Slidell, La., a Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots. The acts of rebellion take place in the ...
- Nashville's newest star: Texas mom - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
A Texas mother of five is the new “Nashville Star.†Melissa Lawson beat finalist Gabe Garcia on Monday for the title on the country music reality series. Upon winning, Lawson, 32, performed her single “What If It All Goes Right,†which was ...
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