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- Fundraiser for The Writers Place is a Night of Poetry and Jazz (Kansas City InfoZine)
This fundraiser for The Writers Place features poetry by Phyllis Becker and Dan Jaffe, and music by local jazz greats.
- Where love is in the air - Haaretz.com
"Thank you Sderot, ahla" said Knesiyat Hasekhel vocalist Yoram Hazan when the last chord of the song "Nothing will harm us" died out, ending the performance. "You've done a wonderful thing." After enjoying the three-hour concert, the audience stood ...
- His scattered dreams (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Scribbles and smears, hearts and hieroglyphs - what are Cy Twombly's paintings trying to tell us? Adrian Searle visits the Tate's new show
- Overland Trail Museum offers kids trip through time (Sterling Journal-Advocate)
During the months of April and May, approximately 800 school children visited the Overland Trail Museum and experienced what life might have been like for a pioneer child out here on the Colorado prairie.
- Indexed: Shocking Moments - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsIndexed: Shocking MomentsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 7 hours agoForgive me for bringing up the TV show Mad Men again but — well, I do love it. I blogged recently about a book of Frank O’Hara’s poetry that appeared on the ...
- Poetry (The New York Sun)
CREATIVE MINDS The Academy of American Poets hosts its fourth annual Poetry & the Creative Mind benefit gala. Celebrities including Meryl Streep, Wynton Marsalis, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Mike Wallace read their favorite poems by America's best-loved writers. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway at 65th Street, 212-721-6500, $35-$75...
- Arts in brief (Midland Daily News)
Four nights of poetry this month    In celebration of the centennial of Saginaw-born poet Theodore Roethke's birth, poetry readings are scheduled throughout the Tri-Cities July 21-24 as part of a week-long writers conference.
- 9-year-old Arnold girl publishes first book of stories (The Capital)
Alli Henderson, 9, of Arnold recently published a book of stroies, "Alli's Book of Read-aloud Stroies for Kids." Allison Jane Henderson loved to write before she could even read. Filling journal after journal with scribbles, she'd ask her mother to read it back to her.
- ALABAMA ENTERTAINMENT - Everything Alabama
Presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain sent in videos to appear on WWE's " Monday Night Raw ." In the videos , Clinton likens the race to the WWE event King of the Ring, and says, "The last man standing just may be a ...
- Hookah cafe gets approvals (The Republican)
NORTHAMPTON - Like a genie from a lamp, a bit of Middle Eastern culture is about to appear in Northampton in a wisp of smoke. Pending approval by the state Department of Revenue, a hookah bar called The Den is set to open at 122 Main St. in August.
- Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens Dies - MyFox Chattanooga
Author Carrie Allen McCray Nickens DiesMyFox Chattanooga, TN - 17 minutes agoThe Virginia native's first poetry book was published in 1993. Nickens may be best known for her book "Freedom's Child," which told the story of her ...
- An Insatiable Lover - Rake
An Insatiable LoverRake, MN - 3 hours ago... in poetry-meter and rhyme and assonance and the other kinds of tropes or effects-are really meant to give the ear pleasure in a way that prose does not. ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, world's best-known Palestinian poet, dies at 67 after ... - Daily Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) _ Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- Casa residents to launch zine - NRToday.com
Casa residents to launch zineNRToday.com, OR - 1 hour agoInside the yellow cover, stories, images and poems of fear, love and life formed Flight to Freedom, a zine born from creative efforts of the residents of ...
- Football is Chiefs tackle Tyler’s job, but music is his passion - Kentucky.com
Football is Chiefs tackle Tyler’s job, but music is his passionKentucky.com, KY - 6 hours agoLocking himself away from reality was what compelled Tyler to begin writing poetry 12 years ago. His mother worked three jobs in Fayetteville, NC, ...
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