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- Odessa Police Honor Three Officers Killed in the Line of Duty - NewsWest9.com
Odessa Police Honor Three Officers Killed in the Line of DutyNewsWest9.com, TX - 4 hours agoOn Saturday, the Permian Basin Poetry Society presented an anthology dedicated to the three officers who lost their lives last September. ...
- Danny Abse wins Wales book of the year - News Wales
BBC NewsDanny Abse wins Wales book of the yearNews Wales, UK - 5 hours agoIn 2003 his New and Collected Poems received the Special Commendation of the Poetry Book Society, and Running Late received the Roland Mathias Prize in ...Widower’s tale wins poet Abse book prize WalesOnlineThe Presence wins a Welsh book award guardian.co.ukTribute to lost wife is the Book of the Year WalesOnlineall 10 news articles
- Kay Ryan Becomes American Poet Laureate - New York Observer
Tomorrow, a self-described "modern hermit" will assume arguably the country’s most public position for a poet. This may seem like a contradiction in terms, but ever since Kay Ryan embarked on her career as a writer, she has gradually been peeking ...
- Stadiums, grammar and silos prompt prose and poetry - MinnPost.com
Stadiums, grammar and silos prompt prose and poetryMinnPost.com, MN - 24 minutes agoFogarty's book should be mandatory in Minnesota's schools. People will learn that it is improper to say, "I seen a movie yesterday. ...
- Jerry Seinfeld - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Jerry Seinfeld claims a cookbook author is cooking up some fancy semantics by calling him an actor rather than a comedian to minimize the humor in statements she says defamed her. Lawyers for Seinfeld say Missy Chase Lapine's lawyers resorted to the ...
- Are Those Shakespeare's "Balls"? - Slate
If I can be said to have a favorite kind of column, it's one in which I can bring to your attention an exciting literary development—one whose importance has not received the notice it deserves outside the ivory tower—and then tell you what to ...
- Postcard from Zinnlandia - Brussels Journal
Brussels JournalPostcard from ZinnlandiaBrussels Journal, Belgium - 1 hour agoAmong them are public transportation, recycling, French poetry readings, yoga, coffee, artisan food and arthouse cinema. Would it that the counterscale were ...
- CD Review: The Horrors! - Film Music
CD Review: The Horrors!Film Music - 3 hours agoWhile the approach here isn’t as ferocious as the torture tools he’s scored before, Barr’s found a real poetry to Shutter that brings to life the ghost of ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan (Las Cruces Sun-News)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- BHS grads ‘broke down barriers’ at school - PNW Local News
PNW Local NewsBHS grads ‘broke down barriers’ at schoolPNW Local News, WA - 8 hours agoWith fellow club members they helped organize assemblies and poetry contests for Martin Luther King Day, crafted paper “peace cranes” for a Blakely ...
- Waits Dazzles With Glitter - Billboard
Do a quick internet search and there are more than 600 references of " Tom Waits " and the term "huckster" together. Snake oil, parodist, sly salesman, etc., a vocabulary of carnival-esque trickery have followed the man; as critic Robert Christgau ...
- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (271) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
8.21 pm. The egoist: "If I get out of the way," God will help him. He doesn't seem like the celebrity big-head we've been hearing a lot about, does he? 8.12 pm. I wonder how those who still argue that Obama is a flaming leftist react to his citing of ...
- Power of Psalms (The Tuscaloosa News)
The collection of essays by 14 contemporary poets in 'Poets on the Psalms' grapples with the magnificent poetry of the Book of Psalms as it speaks to the modern reader. Ranging from scholarly analysis to the deeply personal, the essays show the power of the Word in the creative process as revealed in the Psalms.
- Frameline celebrates 32 years with daring lineup - Examiner.com
Frameline celebrates 32 years with daring lineupExaminer.com - 2 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - A gay Egyptian attempts to live outside of the closet, women behind bars go gothic and a teen boldly comes to terms with love ...
- You lead a sad existence, Charlie Brown - Rebel Yell
I had never thought of "Peanuts" as a big social metaphor for life, love and society at large – until I realized who and what Charlie Brown actually was. No story in history has ever been more haunting or tragic or timely as the death of Charles ...
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