Using a trinity of unconventional drama, haunting score and poetry, S.F. Opera confronts our age's most terrif
San Francisco Chronicle - At the end of Act 1 of John Adams' 'Doctor Atomic,' the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer stands alone onstage with the murderous bomb he helped create.

Nobel: the prizes and the man
Reuters - Oct 3 (Reuters) - Swedish businessman Alfred Nobel, a millionaire who invented dynamite, set up the prizes awarded each year in his name in his will, signed in 1895. ... As well as being an inventor and businessman, Nobel dabbled in writing plays and poetry. ...

Playwright August Wilson dies
New York Daily News - ... a dishwasher, short-order cook and porter, he started banging out poetry on a $20 typewriter and found his true calling ...

Readings spotlight: Poetry of protest
Star Tribune - SUNDAY-TUESDAY: Poet Sam Hamill is a seasoned protester; the fire in his belly still rivals that on his tongue. ... to First Lady Laura Bush's invitation to a poetry symposium at the White House by organizing Poets Against ... to spend more time as an 'ambassador of poetry.' ( 7 p.m ...

If you ask nicely, he can help you write your own story
SignOn San Diego - Ross Talarico's book 'Spreading the Word: Poetry and the Survival of Community in America' won the Modern Language Association's Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for the outstanding book of year on literature and writing. ... Talarico's first three books were poetry, and his poems have appeared in ...

Countdown to the Eve of Destruction
New York Times - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. ... participants, history books, conversation transcripts, declassified documents and poetry. His cut-and-paste job has ...

Twist to Malay poetry recital
thestar.com.my - ... KUALA LUMPUR: It was poetry in motion when young Lim Fheng Fheng recited her poem to the ... Angkasapuri 2005, the country's foremost poetry event carried live over TV2, caught ...

History - Part 1
Arizona Republic - ... They wrote poetry inspired by classical example and tried to reimagine classical painting ... They wrote poetry inspired by classical example and tried to reimagine classical painting. ...

Autumn Poetry Contests
BellaOnline - Autumn is contest season in the poetry and fiction writing world, and as has been noted before on this site, contests can be an entre into publication. Below is a list of just a few of the poetry contests open right now.

Benson Farms' poetry reading raises money for Mourning Hope
Daily Nebraskan - ... to spend a Friday night, an evening of poetry readings, roasted marshmallows, a campfire and a giant corn ... could still relate to his poetry even though there was such a ...

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