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Stagnating Temperatures: Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 21, 2009 (05:22:08)
In the Traditional News: Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years.
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Hundreds cheer Palin in Mich. for book tour
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 21, 2009 (05:16:05)
In the Traditional News: College students ditched class, employees skipped work and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband Wednesday that would let them meet Sarah Palin.
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Theatre for Today presents play readings of local playwright
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:17:47)
Poetry News: Howard Scott lived in Deming for nine years. His book "Then He Said," a collection of poetry, essays and plays was published in 2008.
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NPR programs to feature Holland poet Jack Ridl
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (12:12:35)
Poetry News: National Public Radio has discovered Holland area poet Jack Ridl , whose latest anthology "The Losing Season" in September cracked The Poetry Foundation's bestseller list.
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MFA program ranked 42nd in the country
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (07:26:19)
The Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program here at UNH was recently ranked 42nd in Poets and Writers magazine with its nonfiction program in seventh place, a rare accomplishment for a program that is just shy of four years old....
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Racial slurs interrupt poetry reading
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (07:22:21)
Poetry News: Approximately 85 people gathered on Lanier County property Sunday night to hear words of poetry.
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A festival to revive poetic ties
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:43:58)
Poetry News: KOLKATA: An evening of poetry that began with the lilting tunes from an Irish poet's flute and ended in the resonant vocals of a Baul singer here on Wednesday flagged off a 10-day festival that attempts to revive a culture of exchange between Irish and Indian poets.
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Mxolisi Nyezwa: Winner of the Thomas Pringle National Award for Poetry, South Af
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:41:20)
Poetry News: The Thomas Pringle National Award for Poetry is given by the English Academy, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Dannie Abse Recipient Of 2009 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:40:09)
Poetry News: The Wilfred Owen Association presents a biennial Poetry Award to honour a poet for a sustained body of work that includes memorable war poems.
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Best poets' society
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:39:59)
Poetry News: "I don't like the idea of characterizing my own poetry. I like sitting in the middle of it and thinking of it as being incomprehensibly vast and various." Professor Albert Moritz speaks slowly, searching with determination for the perfect combination of words in conversation.
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Brown professor wins national poetry award
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:25:02)
Poetry News: Professor Keith Waldrop skipped his Thursday class, but he had a good excuse. The night before he won the National Book Award for poetry for his experimental work, "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," published by University of California Press.
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Dyslexic girl wins poetry prize
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:23:36)
Poetry News: A DYSLEXIC youngster has won first prize in a national poetry competition. Brigid Davidson, from Chipping Norton, won first place in the Charley Boorman Poetry Competition, organised by Dyslexia Action as part of Dyslexia Awareness Week.
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Cover of the latest issue of Sight & Sound.
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (17:22:01)
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winner The White Ribbon is a tale of cruelty set in a north German village in 1913. Despite its monochrome austerity, Catherine Wheatley sees hints of a new softness in the director’s work ...
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Free admission to studio open day
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (17:14:34)
Also on display will be a selection of puppets from her private collection which she uses as inspiration for the characters in her poetry and as models for her illustrations....
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Spoken word artist Sarah Kay coming to Rowan
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (07:11:59)
She said that she no longer does slam anymore because she is “not a very angry person,” and she was tired of the “repeated themes” in slam poetry. She explained that after she left, she could “discover new themes that no one was talking about.” Kay said she also stopped doing slam because she was more excited to educate people as part of Project V.O.I.C.E....
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Local blogger Jason Preu publishes poetry collection
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (04:59:11)
Poetry News: Local blogger Jason Preu has published swallow , a new poetry collection described as "a collection of thirty-two poems that feature surreal humor and imaginative speculations.
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Going berserk over 'Going Rogue;' Democrats' reaction to Sarah Palin book and pu
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (17:08:43)
In the Traditional News: Wow, for somebody who's supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything except maybe a stay-at-home hockey mom, Sarah Palin is sure drawing an awful lot of attention from Democrats and eager critics.
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Celebrated writer explains creative process to students
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (09:26:31)
Celebrated writer Janet Burroway read passages from her new novel and shared the secrets of her writing process with students Tuesday evening in the Bone Student Center. The evening began with an introduction from Ricardo Cortez Cruz, professor of English and director of the creative writing program. ...
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Katonah Museum of Art hosts Walt Whitman and American Art
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (08:56:04)
With Whitman’s literary art along with the work of artists such as Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Frederic Church, and John Frederick Kensett trace the emotional and political themes of the fratricidal war—secession, death, emancipation, and an uncertain future for a young country. ...
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Beethoven sonatas a monumental collection
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (04:37:37)
But - particularly when the sonatas are played in chronological order - it tends to change the focus from poetry to story: The individual sonatas lose a touch of their individuality and become chapters in an artistic biography. ...
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Walt Whitman and American Art on View at Katonah Museum of Art
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 (11:16:36)
A champion of America and the individual, Whitman contributed to the war through his literary talents and by nursing wounded soldiers. Although he published no poetry during the Civil War, he wrote many poems about his war experiences for later editions of his legendary "Leaves of Grass". His poetic language and his celebration of the individual paralleled the changes taking hold in American art during and after the Civil War. Highlighting Whitman’s poems such as “Drum Taps,” the literature of "Bold, Cautious, True" helps viewers read the exhibition and the period as a whole. ...
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