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- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of ’people’s poet ... - Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
TORONTO - Eurithe Purdy sat at the feet of her late husband, renowned poet Al Purdy, on Tuesday as a statue of him was unveiled at Queen’s Park. "His pose to me looks so natural, as if he could almost walk away from where he’s reclining," she ...
- Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor (Independent)
Books At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky's The Idiot because I'm working on a multimedia adaptation of it on stage at the National Theatre. I first read it when I was 18 or 19. I couldn't have understood much of it but it stirred my imagination.
- Foregoing black tie for white formal fetches plenty (Vancouver Sun)
BLANC CHEQUES: Chairing the Heart & Stroke Foundation's Heart of Gold gala recently, Jackie Bevis and Janice Ketcham urged 400 attendees to deep-six their ubiquitous black ensembles and "dress formal white." So-coloured couture can challenge some figures, but the bottom line that counted was pure green. The do took in a reported $410,000, bringing Bevis and Ketcham's three-year delivery to H&SF ...
- Campus mourns Chinese quake victims during candlelight vigil - Yale Daily News
Campus mourns Chinese quake victims during candlelight vigilYale Daily News, CT - 1 hour agoIn front of Sterling Memorial Library, the mourners formed a circle to protect the flames from the blustery winds as poetry was read in both English and ...
- 'Ginsberg loved Calcutta, the city of poets' (rediff.com)
Arthur J Pais writes on a fascinating book that limns Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's attempt to find, in Indian mysticism, an antidote to Western materialism
- My mother questions my social life and what I wear to work - Globe and Mail
My mother questions my social life and what I wear to workGlobe and Mail, Canada - May 22, 2008She made me pay for my phone and TV when I was a teen living in her house, so I think it's fair to ask her to do the same. The problem is, how do I do that ...
- UConn program gives 7th-graders an early start (Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD - Try solving this on an empty stomach: If there are six people in a room, how many different ways can they be lined up against a wall?
- Great Jazz Is Neither Too Near, Too Far (or Too French) at the AQ ... - Jazz Police
Jazz PoliceGreat Jazz Is Neither Too Near, Too Far (or Too French) at the AQ ...Jazz Police, MN - 1 hour agoFollowing their sets, open mic poetry reading gets underway at 9 pm. No cover! First Mondays feature the monthly Poetry Slam—following an hour of Green, ...
- The Garden of Love - Montreal Mirror
Montreal MirrorThe Garden of LoveMontreal Mirror, Canada - 33 minutes agoIn Bollywood, you have music, songs, poetry, dances, also the lyrics and music are written usually from great authors at the time, people really in the arts ...
- Katherine Cloninger, Alexandra Kaye of Palm Beach tap creativity for Do the Write Thing Challenge (Palm Beach Daily News)
Two Palm Beach girls were among students countywide who addressed teen violence in the Do the Write Thing contest, expressing themselves through poetry, prose and song.
- Leonard Cohen - LiveDaily
One of the most fascinating and enigmatic -- if not the most successful -- singer/songwriters of the late '60s, Leonard Cohen has retained an audience across four decades of music-making interrupted by various digressions into personal and creative ...
- Jamestown Settlement celebrates African heritage Saturday - Hampton Roads Daily Press
JAMES CITY - — Nationally known African-American storytellers Dylan Pritchett and Onawumi Jean Moss will be among the attractions Saturday when Jamestown Settlement celebrates African-American Heritage Day. Presented in partnership with the ...
- Hubbard scholarships awarded at USU - USU The Utah Statesman (subscription)
Hubbard scholarships awarded at USUUSU The Utah Statesman (subscription), UT - 7 hours ago"This project, in addition to my poetry, has helped me to understand the importance of rural life and the natural landscape in my own experience," he said. ...
- Oz Without GPS - Washington Post Blog
Here's my piece in Slate about giving up on GPS devices (written on vacation in Australia as you will see). The nut grafs: '...the GPS device robs the traveler of a human skill that has emerged from Deep Time. We are generally quite good at reading ...
- Profile - Pierre Salvadori - The List
Profile - Pierre SalvadoriThe List, UK - 11 hours agoI would love to do a burlesque comedy without any dialogue: it would be movement, ellipsis, poetry, montage, rhythm, irony and pure situation, ...
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