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Art, poetry coming to PHS May 24 and 25
The show will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 24 and May 25, in the media center at Pittsfield High School.
Los Angeles Poetry Examiner's Friday Pick: Suzanne Lummis knows the perfect man
Behind the podium, onstage and off, she is easy and full of the lighter take on most things.
I saw the weakest minds of my occupation destroyed by blog comments, hate-eating hysterical shivering, dragging themselves through message boards at dawn looking for a troll to fight.
City names children's poet laureate
Ex-city dock worker Matt West was plucked from scores of entrants in a Daily Echobacked campaign to find Southampton's first children's poet laureate.
Toucher & Rich: Rick Reilly Is At It Again
His jokes often lack jokes and the guys have grabbed Reilly's most recent article about the New York Jets in which Reilly takes a stab at poetry.
This year's Redwood Coast Peace Poetry & Art contest, sponsored by Veterans For Peace, will culminate in a celebration from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Fellowship Hall, 23 Fellowship Way in Bayside.
Poetry finally joining e-book revolution
Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes and Wallace Stevens have been among the poets whose work recently became available in electronic format.
Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the keynote speaker Wednesday at the annual induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was explaining his undiminished passion for rock music and confiding that he had become obsessed by the opening line to Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom." "How many hours I had devoted to ... that midnight had ... (more)
Tow Books Lauched by Vaughan Rapatahana
FRIDAY 26 JULY. 2013 @ Unhinged Productions, 65 Cobden St, GISBORNE. 7 PM. Following the book launch there will be a mix of open mic.
Memoir details a path toward destruction, turned around
God, science and the natural world infuse the poetry of Lucille Lang Day, whose memoir, "Married at Fourteen," is a finalist for a Northern California Book Award in creative nonfiction.
NEWS RELEASE LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY ****************************** LSSU English professor Eric Gadzinski is U.P. Poet Laureate finalist SAULT STE.
Boys' poetry anything but delinquent
Byron Boys Ranch Librarian Nadia Bagdasar chooses books she thinks will speak to the residents' experiences and appeal to their interests.
A Newfoundland poet and words of love
Last year about this time Michael Crummey appeared at the Charles W. Stockey Centre to read from his novel Galore, a rich fantastical epic of life in the Newfoundland outports.
WHEN U.S. POET Laureate Natasha Trethewey visited my day job at historically black Kentucky State University, she cleared up a couple of things about the honors and duties of her position.
Poet Colleen McElroy On "Crossing Oceans"
One of the most persistent stories about America - that it was made by immigrants fleeing "the old country" - is also one of the most incomplete.
Yorkton This Week & Enterprise
Dust Bowl Howe Gelb 8-out-of-10 I think the purpose of music is often lost with us.
FANWOOD, NJ The Carriage House Poetry Series will present distinguished poets Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Leslie Heywood reading their works onTuesday, May 21st at 8 pm in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall.
Top poet is on the cycle judges panel
Canal Poet Laureate Jo Bell has agreed to join the judging panel for a children's poetry competition organised in conjunction with a cycling event in Devizes.
Our guest poet this week is Charles Coe. Charles has a new collection of poetry out All Sins Forgiven.
Reed Farrel Coleman: Peeling back the layers of 'Onion Street'
Coleman is the author of fifteen novels , including the popular and highly acclaimed series featuring Moe Prager; his latest, Onion Street , will be published tomorrow.