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- Greeks from the island of Lesbos take gay rights group to court to ... - Chicago Tribune
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between gay women and the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos. Three islanders from Lesbos -- home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women -- have taken a gay ...
- Barack Obama rally draws 75000 in Portland, Oregon - Courier Mail
Barack Obama rally draws 75000 in Portland, OregonCourier Mail, Australia - 2 hours agoThis is the poetry and prose coming together. It would be a wonderful solution," said Mr Cuomo, who is a Clinton supporter. Former vice-presidential nominee ...
- Literary fair draws crowd (Register-Star)
One of Hudson's newest traditions took place again Saturday, the Literary Magazine and Small Press Fair at the Hudson Opera House.
- Readers' favorite neighborhood joints - San Francisco Chronicle
Readers' favorite neighborhood jointsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 12 hours agoHere's a selection: "We have a new Italian restaurant in the Castro called Poesia Osteria Italiana and Poetry Lounge. It has definitely become a local ...
- Victoria writer wins top prize - Times Colonist
Victoria writer wins top prizeTimes Colonist, Canada - 6 hours agoHis latest book Falsework (2007) recounts through poetry the impact of the 1958 Second Narrows Bridge disaster. Currently, he is preparing Serving Ginger, ...Poet Gary Geddes wins BC literary award Globe and MailPoet Gary Geddes gets BC literary prize CBC.caall 5 news articles
- Omigod, what's gone wrong in our edumacation system? - Irish Independent
Omigod, what's gone wrong in our edumacation system?Irish Independent, Ireland - 4 hours agoThey've each got 40000 points, in Persian grammar, Aztec architecture, nuclear fission, Arabic poetry, ancient Chinese navigation and early Irish! ...
- Expanded Wing Luke Asian Museum's treasures are its stories - Seattle Times
Wing Luke's sisters — from left, Bettie Luke, Ruby Luke and Marge Young — with a photograph of Luke, Seattle's first Asian-American city councilmember. After seeing some Chinese slippers that a local shop owner had found in his basement, Luke ...
- Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective at Queensland Art Gallery (Art Daily)
Sidney Nolan, Death of Sergeant Kennedy at Stringybark Creek 1946. Ripolin enamel on hardboard. 91 x 121.7 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1972 © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
- Maurice Manning to speak at May meeting of Knoxville Writers' Guild - Oak Ridger
Poet Maurice Manning, author of three acclaimed collections, one of which was selected for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets, will read from his work at the Knoxville Writers' Guild meeting at 7 p.m., May 1, at Laurel Theatre in Knoxville. The ...
- Students recite poetry at Elmhurst Library contest (The Doings Elmhurst)
Caitlin McManus stood at the front of the room behind a microphone reciting an original poem titled, "You Are." "You are my whispered word, my shadow on the wall," the Churchville Middle School eighth-grader read. She seemed nervous, and Phyllis Carroll, president of the Friends of the Library, stopped her multiple times, just to work on her enunciation of that phrase alone.
- Ryan Kost, fellow former intern at The Oregonian - U-Wire.com
I hired Kate Linthicum to be an intern at the Los Angeles Times this summer. Let me tell you what impressed me immediately about her application: the writing. It was vivid and punchy, the words skillfully chosen, the sentences carefully crafted ...
- Review: 'Port Authority' ... what might have been (AP via Yahoo! News)
NEW YORK (AP) — Is there anything more heartbreaking than what might have been? Recollections of regret are the soul of "Port Authority," a series of three superb, interlocking monologues by Conor McPherson that offers ample evidence why the Irish playwright is one of the finest writers for the stage today.
- A native's guide to San Jose - CNN
(Budget Travel) -- A century ago, what's now Silicon Valley, California, was called the Valley of Heart's Delight because of the region's mineral-rich soil and temperate climate (San Jose gets 300 days of sunshine a year). By the time I left for ...
- Cheung stepping up to Altoona podium - Evansville Courier-Press
In addition to leading the ensembles here, she took the chorus to Italy and England and the youth orchestra to Japan, all the while maintaining apartments in Evansville and New York City. Cheung left Evansville three years ago to live in New York and ...
- Immigrant Songs - Cleveland Free Times
Immigrant SongsCleveland Free Times, OH - May 6, 2008Neither are the poetry skills that give the written word its staying power, the infusion of music with images and metaphors. Rather than explore either of ...
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