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- Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in work (Hattiesburg American)
Home for poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey is complicated. "I love this place. Yet this place has made an outsider of me," she said. Trethewey's latest collection of poetry "Native Guard," published in 2006, confronts this conflicting sense of displacement and what she calls "nostos," the Greek word for homecoming. The book takes its name from the first regiments of Louisiana Native ...
- Area artists mix media to create ‘Image Word' exhibit (Gazette.Net)
"To go across, you have to crawl on your hands and knees," a poet chants to meditative flute and percussion. Four dancers painstakingly creep across the floor in front of eight consecutive panels of poetry and photography floating on spacious white paper.
- To Be Wordless (Express India)
Kunwar Narain's verse conveys what prose may not
- SELANGOR INCULCATES READING HABIT THROUGH BOOK FEST (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
SHAH ALAM, July 30 (Bernama) -- Realising that good reading habit is an innate feature of a knowledge society, the 2008 Selangor Book Fair was launched on last Saturday to promote reading habit in the society.
- Delaware poet laureate to lead writing workshop Oct. 23-26 (Cape Gazette)
The Delaware Division of the Arts is sponsoring a poetry and fiction writers retreat led by Delaware’s Poet Laureate, Dr. JoAnn Balingit, and Dr. Cruce Stark, novelist and retired University of Delaware professor.
- There's nothing to stop Brits moving abroad - so why not? - guardian.co.uk
There's nothing to stop Brits moving abroad - so why not?guardian.co.uk, UK - 6 minutes agoYou'd get tax breaks for having kids, free childcare from the age of three months and a first lady who writes her own three-chord pop songs. ...
- The Financial Crisis Is Good News for the Next President - Slate
Ice Time: When Joe Lieberman became the first Jewish vice-presidential nominee, Clyde Haberman of the New York Times summed up the American Jewish reaction as one of initial pride, followed immediately by the question, "Is it good for the Jews?" When ...
- An Influx of Poets - Central Maine Morning Sentinel
An Influx of PoetsCentral Maine Morning Sentinel, ME - 35 minutes agoA two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Lowell has been called the greatest American lyrical poet of the 20th century. Stafford, who won the Pulitzer Prize for ...
- Poet finds a sensual new voice - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldPoet finds a sensual new voiceSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoBrooks has been called one of Australia's "quiet masters" of poetry. He has also been called "a dark horse" of Australian literature. ...
- Hot-ticket item: Mac the Chip Cookie - Kalamazoo Gazette
Before I tasted the Mac the Chip Cookie, I'd look at vegan pastries and say, "No butter? What's the point?" What a surprise -- a vegan cookie that actually tastes good. A friend recently shared a Mac the Chip Cookie from Something's Brewing . It didn ...
- History vs. Nature - The Weekly Standard
History vs. NatureThe Weekly Standard - 38 minutes agoSpanning the decades from Victorian to modern, his poems took on every question: love, sexuality, transience, age, death, local place and legend, ...
- A New Take On Text Messages - Jewish Week
After immersing herself in the language and storyline of Genesis, poet Carly Sachs — who had never connected her work to her heritage — is now writing a series of poems about Adam and Eve. “At this point in my life, I’m thinking about ...
- Georgian exiled poet finds asylum in Ithaca - Ithaca Journal
Georgian exiled poet finds asylum in IthacaIthaca Journal, NY - 53 minutes ago“It was very expressive in a manner that was mixing totally different styles that overlap the music — it was almost hard to separate performance and poetry ...
- Was the 'Japanese Renaissance' lost at sea? (The Japan Times)
Last week, Japan celebrated Umi no Hi (Marine Day). First observed as a national holiday in 1996, Marine Day marks the anniversary of the return of Emperor Meiji from a boat trip to Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido on July 20, 1876. It is intended, as current Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura has said, "to thank the sea for its benefits and hope for the prosperity of Japan as an ...
- Drama lures Angela Bassett to new doctor role on 'ER' (TCPalm.com)
Angela Bassett will join “ER’s” swan song season, featuring appearances from past stars such as Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle, amid a faint hope George Clooney might revisit County General later this year.
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