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- Popular poetry season kicks off Thursday - The Coloradoan
Popular poetry season kicks off ThursdayThe Coloradoan, CO - 4 minutes agoAge of readers in the open reading session go from 8 to 80 years old, with varying levels of experience in writing and reading. Everyone is welcome to read. ...
- One should strive without losing faith in man - Statesman
Sir, ~ Bishnu De was not only “an exceptional man of letters” (Notebok, 28 July), but also Bengal’s greatest poet after Tagore. De published a book of poems entitled Chitraroop matta prithivir (Potrait of a mad world) among his last ...
- Twilight zone for teens - Globe and Mail
Twilight zone for teensGlobe and Mail, Canada - 39 minutes agoZoe Whittall was born in 1976 but still dresses like a teenager. Her third poetry book, Precordial Thump, will be out in October.
- Untidy metaphors (Anchorage Daily News)
Three playwrights meet at a coffee shop and stare into space. One leans over the table on her elbows, knees on the floor, while the other two sit in chairs, hands to their chins.
- Love, death and hermit crabs (Central Michigan Life)
Poets slammed about love, death and hermit crabs at Poetry Slam on Tuesday night. As part of Hip Hop Week, professional poet Mike McGee and 10 student poets spoke to audiences at the On the Fly Productions-sponsored event as a part of Hip Hop Week. "This poem is actually about the first night I met my girlfriend," said Rochester Hills sophomore Evan Peltier.
- Clara Schatz - Dickinson Press
Clara SchatzDickinson Press, ND - 20 minutes agoClara had a great interest in reading & writing poetry and was honored by the National Library of Poetry with an Editor’s Choice award for her poem “In ...
- Poets of the laboratories - The Age
Poets of the laboratoriesThe Age, Australia - 7 hours agoAlso included is a smattering of poetry. "Science should inspire great poetry, but scientists have published disappointingly few poems," laments Dawkins. ...
- Leafing through - Al-Ahram Weekly
Leafing throughAl-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - 18 minutes agoMohamed is not interested in the literary production of Naguib Mahfouz, the poetry of Ahmed Shawki, or the history of Egypt. "This is not what I want to ...
- Kenya: Obama - Bid to Poison White Voter's Mind - AllAfrica.com
Barack Senior and I were no Damon and Pythias. I would never have put my life on the line for him. Yes, we often drank Scotch together. And - oh, yes! - the water of Scotland sometimes got the better of us. That much I must have told an American ...
- Diana Rowntree - Guardian Unlimited
Diana Rowntree, who has died aged 93, was the Guardian's first architecture writer, a key figure in the expansion of the paper's coverage of style and visual culture from the early 1960s. She was a modernist who herself embodied the values and ...
- Teaming up to give kids a special tour of the White House - ScrippsNews
Let's just say it flat-out: "Our White House" (Candlewick Press, $29.99) is a stunning gathering of children's-book stars, all with a single goal of illuminating a national treasure for young readers. In this new book, more than 100 of the best and ...
- Diverse groups gather at Multicultural Expo - The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
Diverse groups gather at Multicultural ExpoThe Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com, MI - 1 hour agoSaturday's Multicultural Expo at Armory Arts Village included ethnic poetry, African dance, singers, speakers, raffles and multicultural fashion shows all ...
- Harper never saw Atwood coming - Edmonton Sun
Harper never saw Atwood comingEdmonton Sun, Canada - 9 hours agoHe or she may have another job, or no job, but that won't deter writing, be it novels, memoirs, poetry. Not getting a grant won't stop a writer from writing ...
- As It Is (Tulane Hullabaloo)
Homecoming concert The Funky Meters will perform in the Lavin-Bernick Center Quad today from 8 - 10 p.m. The event is free of charge and is only open to members of the Tulane community. The Celebrate Tulane! concert is being hosted by Alumni Affairs and the Alumni Association.
- Mom and dad's lives -- real and imagined - MiamiHerald.com
Mom and dad's lives -- real and imaginedMiamiHerald.com, FL - 1 hour agoBY VALERIE SAYERS Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books -- novels, story collections, poetry and ...
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