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- Prom 16: Hallé/Elder at the Albert Hall/Radio 3 - Times Online
Prom 16: Hallé/Elder at the Albert Hall/Radio 3Times Online, UK - 6 hours agoThespians tend not to be the best verse readers; but the poetry from clarinet, cor anglais and bass clarinet more than made up for it. ...
- Centuries-old Shakespeare volume recovered - Independent Online
London - It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of pounds after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it ...
- Sunday is libraries' new fun day (The San Francisco Examiner)
The prayers of San Francisco's library advocates have finally been answered.
- Cirque du So Gay! - Queensland Pride
Cirque du So Gay!Queensland Pride, Australia - 21 hours agoThe gay Circus website claims that "expressiveness, sensuality and poetry will fuse … achieving an up-to-date, modern and attractive aesthetic. ...
- Burns’s legacy to be given £17m revamp (The Herald)
In life he may have been a humble "lad o' pairts", but Robert Burns's legacy is to receive a multi-million pound makeover after the Heritage Lottery Fund yesterday pledged £5.8m to help pay for a restoration of the Bard's home in Alloway.
- Datebook - Baltimore Sun
DatebookBaltimore Sun, United States - 1 hour agoThe theme is "Childhood" and includes an interview with and poetry by National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton; fiction by Tom Nugent and Rafael Alvarez; ...
- Shaw to read at Yeats event - RTE.ie
RTE.ieShaw to read at Yeats eventRTE.ie, Ireland - 36 minutes agoOther events include a one-day immersion course for lovers of poetry on Thursday, 26 June and family activities including tours, trails and stories for ...
- City receives $1 million in art for its birthday - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteCity receives $1 million in art for its birthdayPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 49 minutes agoIt was written by poet Wendy Walters of the African-American poetry collective Cave Canem. Another project, modeled on President Franklin Roosevelt's 1930s ...
- T3: a cathedral to modernity - Spiked
Arriving in Beijing – nine hours and 5,071 miles after taking off from Heathrow – I feel like I have travelled forward in time. With weary, aching limbs (‘knowing my luck, I’ve probably got DVT’, complains one British woman), we stagger ...
- A lesson from history - Gulf News
Dubai: Dubai's first school, Al Ahmadiya, was built in 1912 using coral bricks, but even though building materials have changed some some things inside remain exactly the same as at any modern school. "Education is a must, so seek it without laziness ...
- Poetry comes to the street in Howick - Scoop
Howick Library is bringing poetry to the street in celebration of Montana New Zealand Poetry Week this month. Poetry Chalk Walk and Readings is just one of the events aimed at taking poetry off the page and to the people. On Friday 18 July, from 10 ...
- New Today: Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone - January magazine
New Today: Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher CicconeJanuary magazine - 30 minutes ago... baggy, white cowboy-print sweats, sucking Hot Tamales, her favorite cinnamon-flavored candies, and reading poetry -- often Anne Sexton whose lines ...
- Academics unearth UK's oldest joke - Economic Times
Academics unearth UK's oldest jokeEconomic Times, India - 8 minutes agoThey found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads: "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants ...
- José Garcia Villa’s poetry now part of Penguin Classics - Inquirer.net
José Garcia Villa’s poetry now part of Penguin ClassicsInquirer.net, Philippines - 55 minutes agoStill, he yearned to be more, moving on to meditating on the very nature of writing as expressed by the Xocerisms such as: “The meaning of a poem is danced ...
- Books at home create readers for life - Indianapolis Star
Books at home create readers for lifeIndianapolis Star, United States - 52 minutes agoNor did his mother, of Mexican heritage, though she did read periodicals and recited poetry to him while he was young. He grew up speaking Italian in a ...
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