EVENTS CALENDAR for Week Starting May 11 New Haven Register St. Vincent's Medical Center, Stroke Survivors and Caregivers Support Group meeting, 5:30-7 pm May 16, free, 203-576-5361, Seton Room on Level C, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport; 203-576-6000. Westbrook Public Library, Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore CT ... |
Songwritings: New Recordings From Jeremy Siskind and Tessa Souter Jazz Police (blog) On Finger Songwriter (BJU Records), Siskind adapts existing texts from poetry and prose into new lyrics supported by his original compositions; he enlists New York newbie Nancy Harms to give voice to these works, with additional support from young ... |
Chris Elsberry: Kristin Appelberg's gone, but her theme -- "Love Life" -- lives on Ct Post BRIDGEPORT -- Kelly Csizmadia was looking for a poem, a memory of Kristin Appelberg, a student who had just passed away earlier that day. Csizmadia, an eighth-grade teacher at Hillcrest Middle School in Trumbull, was searching for "Invisible," written ... |
Devils players focused on playoffs, not finances The Province Booker also wrote a pretty terrible poem about the experience, which may have been the low point so far. But inside the Devils dressing room, wedged under the stands and next to the Zamboni hole, the storm has not reached the players, yet. |
Is poetry always Lost in Translation? Russia Beyond The Headlines Drawn to cemeteries, where she honors dead poets like Anna Akhmatova, Barskova is fascinated and repelled by suffering: homeless people, concentration camps, war. There is an element of self-consciousness in her intimate poetic discussions of these ... |
The Least Important Man by Alex Boyd Quill & Quire The first few poems rarely zoom in on individuals in the cityscape – to their detriment. People are repeatedly labelled with casting-couch identifiers like “the old woman,” “the old man,” “the homeless man,” and “the businessman.” As these figures are ... |
 Sydney Morning Herald | These splendid nightmares Sydney Morning Herald A posthumous picture book, My Brother's Book - a poem written and illustrated by Sendak and inspired by his love for his late brother, Jack - is scheduled to be published next February. Sendak's work was the subject of critical studies and major ... |
Your Students, Your Schools -- Des Moines south DesMoinesRegister.com In April students collected essential items for the Iowa Youth Homeless Shelter. These items included deodorant, bug spray, shampoo, lotion and flip-flops. Nine- to 11-year-olds from Teri Arbogast and Tracey Donovan's learning group organized the ... |
Spoken words ring out in Fairhope: Awards ceremony and workshops bring written ... Gulf Coast News Today After all these questions are answered, the poem goes through a series of edits, condensing each choice and word down to perfection. Then, another of poetry's unique aspects comes into play, for poetry is one of few art forms that's still recited, ... |
 The Guardian | A life in writing: Jackie Kay The Guardian In "The Pink House", 41-year-old Elizabeth Ellen is broke and homeless, massively in debt, and consoled by her pregnancy: "I feel like I could fly. I could. When my baby arrives, we will live from hand to mouth, from her tiny hand to my full mouth. |
 Library Journal | Poetry May-September 2012: 56 Works from Trethewey, Plumly, Shaughnessy, & More Library Journal $15), former National Endowment for the Arts chair Dana Gioia reflects on our limits (“Blessed is the road that keeps us homeless./ Blessed is the mountain that blocks our way”). Polish poet Jacek Gutorow's bilingual The Folding Star: And Other Poems ... |
