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- Californian chosen as U.S. poet laureate - AZCentral.com
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared with ...
- Gadsden native keeps promise, returns home to live (The Gadsden Times)
He s just a down home, feet on the ground kind of person, said Annie Guyton about her brother. When he left home, he made a promise to our mother that he would return.
- Father's anger as murder accused goes free - Scotsman
THE father of a man stabbed to death outside a pub described the inquiry into his son's murder as a "disaster" after the teenager branded a killer in a poem was cleared of any wrongdoing. Nathan Dixon, 18, was named in poems displayed on lampposts ...
- Vicious Sir Vidia: Out-Snitting the Chilly Brits - New York Observer
Trinidad’s island beauty. If the Nobel Prize is the ticket to one’s own funeral, as T. S. Eliot once quipped, then V. S. Naipaul is taking the scenic route. His authorized (but unsupervised) biography has just appeared in the United Kingdom ...
- News Articles (The Daily Barometer)
Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, spoke at Lincoln Elementary School in the back of a Ford F350 in south Corvallis Monday evening.
- Sample Walt Whitman (Rocky Mountain News)
If all you know about American poet Walt Whitman is that he wrote Leaves of Grass, you know a lot, but in examining his life, PBS looks into why one poetry book is still so popular.
- Nothing like the Fringe Festival before Dreams and nightmares - Henley Standard
Henley StandardNothing like the Fringe Festival before Dreams and nightmaresHenley Standard, UK - 1 hour agoIt will be a tough ask for several members of both casts: Rasputin author Andrew Hobbs will be reciting some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful poetry as king ...
- Positive Outcome to a Long Campaign - OpEdNews.com
Though the past few weeks have been difficult for the Obama campaign with the re-emerging Jeremiah Wright issue, both Democratic candidates set a positive tone in fund raising speeches in North Carolina and Indiana, reaching a significant milestone ...
- New releases - Boston Globe
New releasesBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoGorgeously filmed, the movie's impassioned reportage masquerading as poetry. (93 min., unrated) (Ty Burr) "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" If this isn't the ...
- Young Ripley poets showcase free verse - Jamestown Post Journal
Young Ripley poets showcase free verseJamestown Post Journal, NY - 1 hour ago"And thanks for letting me win," ended Garret Einfeldt's poem entitled "Ode to my PS2." The talented participants of the poetry showcase were: Kalishia ...
- RUGGIERO: Late drama made Open incredible (Niagara Gazette)
This past Monday, I woke up earlier than I am accustomed and started my day by shooting even par (see “Silky smooth“ below) at Beaver Island, then rushed home by noon to focus on the U.S. Open contest linking Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate.
- VISI pays tribute to North Shore composer - North Shore News
VISI pays tribute to North Shore composerNorth Shore News, Canada - 3 hours ago"She picks poetry that is very close to the West Coast mentality. If you're feeling homesick sing some Jean Coulthard," says Duncan. ...
- Not on our watch - Buffalo News
Andrew Beiter remembers his teenage years, with post-school afternoons of lolling in front of “Gilligan’s Island.” Days when he believed that “what we do won’t make a difference.” That’s hard to imagine given his current life of ...
- A philosophical approach to a mouse in the house - Christian Science Monitor
Baltimore - It's the little things that annoy us most, someone once said. Right now I am more than annoyed by little things – brownish gray, swift-as-a-blink-of-the-eye things. My wife shivers and shakes, and I feel a bit scattered. We are beset by ...
- Diaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison - Times Daily
Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein reacts in court in this 2006 file photo in Baghdad, Iraq. Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his ...
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