| Alcona hosting 'love your library' month activities | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:03:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | For the third year, Alcona County residents can show appreciation for their librarys role in the community through different events taking place in February for Love Your Library Month. According to Carol Luck, director of the Alcona County Library, this is a time for people to recognize the role libraries play in the cultural and economic success of local communities and nationwide. Library patrons can write letters, notes or poems about what the library means to them. Every person who submits a note to the library will have their name entered in a drawing for one of two gift baskets containing items donated by the Friends of the Library and area merchants. The items range from sparkling juice and note cards to a calendar. The drawing will take place at 1 p.m.... | |
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| | | Playhouse to Hold Love Poem Fund-Raiser | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:13:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Westport Country Playhouse will feature Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Eartha Kitt, Charles Grodin and others to be announced reading classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in "Come Be My Love. . .Love Spoken Here," on Saturday Feb. 10 at 8 p.m.Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman: reciting love poems. Photo by Miggs Burroughs The performance will support the playhouse's educational programing, and a reception of champagne and desserts will follow the performance. Tickets are $300, of which $225 is tax deductible, and $175, of which $100 is tax deductible. The group will read poems from authors that include Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams and Noel Coward.... | |
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| | | Read this book: 'Love Is a Mix Tape' | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:05:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | I've been a longtime fan of Rob Sheffield's writing, so when I heard the Rolling Stone contributor had penned a memoir, I was very eager to read it. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song as a Time traces Sheffield's relationship with the love of his life through stacks of revealing, worn-out cassettes. I've included an excerpt below the "Read more" tab, and I highly suggest you sample it. If you want to learn more about the book, head to its official website, where you can hear clips read by the author and enter a contest to win an iPod. Love Is a Mix Tape is in stores now. Along with a little mix CD, it just might make the perfect Valentine's Day present. Update: I just noticed that a major plot point has been revealed in the comments and is angering some people who want to read the book! So FYI, you may want to ignore the comments section unless you want to write a little review.... | |
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| | | Man's death leaves bittersweet legacy | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:03:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dennis W. Brown was the kind of dad who woke up his five kids at dawn for a surprise trip to an amusement park, wrote love poems to his wife and would give his last dollar to a friend. Although he died almost a year ago, his 3-year-old son still talks about him every day. While many are comforted by memories of the man who lived to make loved ones smile, others remember him differently. The fact of the matter is Dennis W. Brown, who was 38 when he died, made a bad mistake the night of his death in late January 2006. He drove drunk into the path of an ambulance on Route 12A that was answering an emergency call for a rolled-over snowplow. His vehicle was slammed on the driver's side and Brown died at the scene. That accident made headlines, compounding the family's grief with a stigma that lasts until today.... | |
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| | | Zimbabwe: Anthology Tackles Social Issues, Inculcates Hope | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:05:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Title: Nhetembo - Inkondlo. Translated by Chirikure Chirikure and Pathisa Nyathi. Published for the Czech Embassy in Zimbabwe. WHAT do Zimbabwe and the Czech Republic share in common? Although they are poles apart, the two countries have a lot in common in terms of a wealthy literary background. The most telling example is the recent translation of a slim collection of poems from the Czech language into the local vernacular languages of Shona and Ndebele by two of Zimbabwe's leading writers. .... | |
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| | | Bloodflowers - Dark Love Poems (cd Silverdust) | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:12:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | 4 years after their debut Diabolic Angel and 2 years after their 2nd album 7 Benedictions / 7 Maledictions, the melodic gothic metal band Bloodflowers leaded by sensual voice of Kirsten Zahn, returns with this excellent Dark Love Poems. To introduce the album, Sajidas Song, a classic melodic metal piece, stirring and promising. The 2nd track is a potential hit. Damaged Promises should be the metal response of Tatu hits, and this track turns constantly in my car. In these conditions, the rest of the album savour itself with delectation. No weak moment, just pleasure to hear track after track the sensual voice of Kirsten, the furious guitars of Jochen Laser and implacable rhythmic of the duo Jan Beckmann, Tim Schwarz. Im converted! (PF:7/8)PF. at music non stop Send article to a friend Bookmark at Del.icio.us Digg it Add to Reddit .... | |
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| | | Harpist Joanna Newsom makes beautiful musical poems on new CD 'Ys': review | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:04:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | (AP) - It's called psych-folk, a blend of acoustic folk and psychedelic rock with its strange, atmospheric sounds, but it's really much more complicated than that. "Ys" (pronounced "ees") is the second release from harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom. Yes, harpist. On "Ys," Newsom - who makes the ancient, stringed instrument sound wonderfully modern - is perfectly accompanied here by a full orchestra. The 55-minute CD is made up of just five songs that are more like long, rambling, romantic poems, really. The 24-year-old studied music and writing at Oakland's Mills College and her voice is chirpy and delicate - a less grating Bjork. You'll immediately either love it or hate it. "Ys," is a beautiful and intriguing listen, impossible to classify or, unfortunately, market to the masses.... | |
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| | | Love for writing helps Bronx native find niche at SIUC | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:11:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | The written word: It's a mechanism for people to reveal their innermost thoughts and is a tool of self-expression almost everyone has the natural instinct to gravitate toward. Just ask Allison Joseph - poet, creative writing professor and co-editor of the Crab Orchard Review literary journal at Southern Illinois University Carbondale."If you think about when a major tragedy strikes this country ¿ people want something that speaks to their experiences. They'll turn to poetry. That's one of the few times they'll turn to poetry," Joseph said. "The impulse in human beings will never die. People always want to reach for utterance in expression." .... | |
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| | | Favourite poems of eminent Indians for a cause | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:08:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | New Delhi, Nov 11: The favourite poems of several noted Indian personalities, including Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and actor Shah Rukh Khan, are now available in a single book brought out by well-known NGO Child Rights and You (CRY)."A Poem For CRY" includes some of the best works of renowned poets like Rabindranath Tagore, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Kaifi Azmi, William Wordsworth and T.S. Elliot. Among the 91 luminaries who have contributed their favourite poem are Bollywood stars, sportsmen, artists, politicians and dancers.The book, compiled by Avanti Maluste and Sudeep Joshi and published by Penguin Books India, was released by Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit here Friday evening."I think CRY has done a historic piece of work by bringing out this book. It is organisations like these that can actually make a difference to the lives of children, and I'm glad that a new law banning child labour has been brought out," said Dikshit at the book launch.Among other contributors are President A.P.J Abdul Kalam, cricketer Rahul Dravid, actor Aamir Khan, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and the Dalai Lama.Present at the function were three contributors - former attorney general of India Soli Sorabjee, Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia and noted artist Anjolie Ela Menon.Scindia read out his favourite poem "Footprints in the Sand" by Mary Stevenson, which he said is on his table all the time."During the time of despair, the poem tells you that if you are on the right path, then god's spirit will always guide you," said Scindia.Sorabjee said a contrast in the condition of children in India and elsewhere always struck him whenever he went abroad.... | |
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| | | Faith clubs and organizations | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:17:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | BUCYRUS -- Members of the missions committee met Nov. 1 to evaluate the missions conference that took place the week before with Evan Evans of Senegal, Africa, and Rick and Beth Drummond, missionaries to Cambodia. Three exchange students -- Brigi from Romania, Finja from Germany and Mariana from Brazil -- were in the congregation, and Evans played the harmonica. .... | |
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