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- First Annual Ars Nova Theatre Festival to Feature Strole, Zayas ... - Playbill.com
First Annual Ars Nova Theatre Festival to Feature Strole, Zayas ...Playbill.com, NY - 8 hours agoHalloway, who will be joined by Spring Awakening's Phoebe Strole, "shares some of his favorite unrequited love stories in this candid, auto-bio-fictional ...
- Cold snack tasty enough for poetry judges (Otago Daily Times)
The announcement was made today, Montana Poetry Day -- a nationwide celebration of events featuring some of the country's best and emerging poets. There were 26 books submitted in the poetry category of this year's awards up from 19 in 2007.
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Hayden Carruth dead at 87 - Watertown Daily Times
MUNNSVILLE (AP) — During a long, distinguished career, Hayden Carruth wrote more than 30 books, winning the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer for his 1996 book "Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey." "He loved words, and he loved to use the ...
- Nothing Romantic about environmentalists - Spiked
Nothing Romantic about environmentalistsSpiked, UK - 3 hours agoSir Philip Sidney, perhaps England’s greatest poet, could have been writing about the Romantics in his Defence of Poetry (1595). There, in what almost reads ...
- Things To Do - South Shore News and Tribune
Things To DoSouth Shore News and Tribune, FL - 3 hours agoBess will weave a tale of the Gasparilla Coast with magic, music and poetry while dressed in majestic pirate plumes and finery. There is seating for 200. ...
- Book, music festival highlights talent - Abilene Reporter-News
Book, music festival highlights talentAbilene Reporter-News, TX - 3 hours agoWe will have programs all week, starting with the West Texas Poetry Fest on Monday at noon and ending with the West Texas Gospel Hymnfest on Saturday ...
- Capitol Steps brings election jokes to Miller - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- The presidential candidates may be getting serious, but these comedians are finding humor in the upcoming election. Capitol Steps, a group of congressional staffers-turned-comedians who satirize American politics, will perform at 8 p.m ...
- Witness who took risky stand in Sacramento gangland trial works to build new life (The Sacramento Bee)
One bullet perforated his left lung and induced a bloody cough. Timothy Hurst sings in his bedroom wearing a T-shirt he designed; his brother Iam Mason sings on the bed. Hurst's testimony helped convict two gang members who tried to kill him. Now he's living in another city and trying to establish himself as an artist. Timothy Hurst looks in the mirror, where he's written "God's ...
- Diary: Meet an 8-year-old lad who can recite poetry - PGA
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- We met up with our pal Fraser Gemmell again last night. He was his normal, jovial, inviting self. We also got to meet his wife, Eileen, a blonde, motherly type who shares Fraser's love of life and warm disposition. Then -- we ...
- Veterans coping with war experiences turn to writing - Riverside Press Enterprise
MORENO VALLEY - Vietnam veteran Joe Salinas says the title of his book explains everything. "All Were Valiant." Salinas spent a year in Vietnam in 1968-69, earning two Purple Hearts for combat wounds and enough dreadful memories to last a lifetime ...
- 'Cowboys in the Schools' on Sept. 25 (The Monterey County Herald)
"Cowboys in the Schools" will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept.
- Top USC Olympic moments - Daily Trojan Online
Top USC Olympic momentsDaily Trojan Online, CA - 46 minutes agoWithout further ado - or questionable attempts at poetry - I bring you the top-10 Trojan Olympic performances from Beijing. 10. Current and former USC water ...
- Summer School: Version 2.0 - Kannapolis Independent Tribune
Summer School: Version 2.0Kannapolis Independent Tribune, NC - 4 hours agoMeanwhile, Megan McKnight introduced rising fourth- and fifth-graders to poetry with short, two-line couplets, drawing inspiration from Wednesday’s wet ...
- Native insight: Textbook guides teachers on author's racial messages (Missoulian)
Carla Hinman's freshman class at Hellgate High School began reading the Sherman Alexie book, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,†Tuesday morning in recognition of Montana's Native American Heritage Day. Authors like Alexie, a member of the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene tribes, have helped educators bring a discussion of Native life into the classroom.
- All hail Kay Ryan (Salon.com)
The newly appointed poet laureate aims to "prevent all bad poetry from being published during [her] reign."
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