U.S. poet explores forgotten black Civil War history (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
GULFPORT, Miss. (Reuters Life) - A regiment of black soldiers who fought in the South against slavery during the U.S. Civil War might have expected to have earned a place in history....more...U.S. poet explores forgotten black Civil War history (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
GULFPORT, Miss. (Reuters Life) - A regiment of black soldiers who fought in the South against slavery during the U.S. Civil War might have expected to have earned a place in history. Instead their story was forgotten....more... A conversation with Khaled Hosseini (Portsmouth Herald)
Q: ?The Kite Runner? helped alter the world's perception of Afghanistan, by giving millions of readers their first real sense of what the Afghan people and their daily lives are actually like. Your new novel includes the main events in... ...more... Rilke's life, imagined and thus changed (The Oregonian)
R ainer Maria Rilke's poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" is about the intense feeling inspired by the fragment of an ancient sculpture he discovered in the Louvre. Great art throws down a gauntlet: "There is no piece of this that does not see you. You must change your life."...more... Tolkien's son breathes life into unfinished work (Contra Costa Times)
Six thousand years before the Fellowship of the Ring, long before anyone had even seen a hobbit, the elves and men of Middle-earth quaked at the power of the dark lord Morgoth....more... The great performer (Guardian Unlimited)
As a chronicler of British life and love, Carol Ann Duffy is one of our most respected and popular poets. Her latest collection introduces children to verse from Chaucer to Plath....more... A poet word-renowned (Boston Globe)
ESSEX -- Beneath a steel-gray sky, Erica Funkhouser seems at peace with the world in her backyard. "That's where we play softball," she says, walking toward a big open field behind her farmhouse. She stares at her garden and at the thick woods behind her home....more... ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome (Zenit News Agency)
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...more... Award-winning poet reads to Lawrence students (The Lawrentian)
This past Tuesday, Elizabeth Robinson, a visiting experimental poet whose work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the Denver Quarterly, and New American Writing, gave a poetry reading at Wriston auditorium....more... |