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- NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list is arrested (Boston Globe)
An FBI most-wanted fugitive who writes poetry, plays the piano and speaks several languages has been arrested in Mexico nine years after he allegedly molested the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him, authorities said Friday.
- Pride of Place Heritage questions answered - Inquirer.net
Pride of Place Heritage questions answeredInquirer.net, Philippines - 15 hours agoSome of the things pointed out by this book are: what first steps should be taken in the conservation of a building; how to fully document a structure; ...
- Sami Al-Arian: From Exoneration to Criminal Indictment - Bay Area Indymedia
Sami Al-Arian: From Exoneration to Criminal IndictmentBay Area Indymedia, CA - 4 hours agoOn the web site maintained for him (yassinaref.com), Aref responded to the Appeals Court decision in prose and poetry. Below are extended excerpts. ...
- The 'lighght' of conceptual poetry (The Daily Utah Chronicle)
In 1965, 22-year-old Aram Saroyan shifted the gaze of poetry with his one word poem, "Lighght." "Lighght," written in the middle of a white sheet of typing paper, altered and even removed the conventional reading procedures of official verse culture: gone were rhyme, meter and versification.
- Galgut delivers the goods (Mail and Guardian)
The Impostor Damon Galgut (Penguin) Jane Rosenthal Damon Galgut's last novel, The Good Doctor , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize.His new novel, easily as good, is set in some nameless dorp within easy reach of Port Elizabeth, which conforms to the usual pattern of such places with a farmer's co-op and a coloured/black woongebied (location).
- Spoken-word artists ready for National Poetry Slam - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Spoken-word artists ready for National Poetry SlamMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 6 hours agoHow much: $5 to $25 single event, $50 to $125 event passes; at www.poetry slam.com and at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St. "This is more than ...
- Symphony at the Shore a high note of weekend activities - Courier Mail
Symphony at the Shore a high note of weekend activitiesCourier Mail, Australia - 34 minutes agoQueensland Poetry Festival's Words and Water Dragons runs 11am-1pm in the Japanese Garden. BYO haiku, or tanka to read. Free. ...
- Parma's Jigsaw Saloon marks 30 eclectic years - Cleveland Plain Dealer
PLAIN DEALER FILES THE WALLS HAVE MORE THAN EARS: The Jigsaw Saloon is a puzzle of unlikely things that add up to homey bar. Friday, the Parma bar celebrated 30 years of eclectic additions -- all kinds, to the walls, bar, menu and music -- with a ...
- 500 mourners pack pews for crash victim's funeral - National Post
500 mourners pack pews for crash victim's funeralNational Post, Canada - 21 hours agoMourners, many of them in their teens and twenties, sat very still and occasionally wiped their eyes. The organ and chorus led them in The King of Love my ...
- Sun Times Adds Poetry Web Page; - Owen Sound Sun Times
Sun Times Adds Poetry Web Page;Owen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 1 hour agoNow we're giving poetry prominence on our web page. Check out the new Grey-Bruce Poetry Project, under arts/life at www.owensoundsuntimes.com In conjunction ...
- Novel approach to music-making - Portsmouth News
Novel approach to music-makingPortsmouth News, UK - 21 minutes agoClearly a gifted mimic, he recited a poem he'd written about the people he grew up with, and another about falling in love late in life. ...
- Stone Circle turns 25 this summer - Traverse City Record-Eagle
ELK RAPIDS -- Terry Wooten has long recognized there's something inherently captivating about storytelling around a bonfire. That's why every summer for the past 25 years Wooten, an accomplished poet-bard, has hosted Stone Circle, now considered the ...
- Review: Strange Music by Laura Fish - Daily Telegraph
The last time most people saw Elizabeth Barrett Browning's name in print was probably at a wedding. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" is always a safe choice of nuptial verse. It's easy to forget that the doe-eyed and spaniel-ringletted ...
- bulletin Board, June 9 - Norwich Bulletin
bulletin Board, June 9Norwich Bulletin, CT - 20 minutes agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, July 5, East Lyme High School, EAST LYME. All area poets are invited to attend. Bring a work in progress or your ...
- Letters (Washington Post)
In two of her recent Poet's Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. In the June 8 issue of Book World, she states that "William Matthews beat brain cancer" before submitting to a heart attack in 1997. It was Matthews's wife, Patricia, who beat brain cancer. Two of...
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