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- Bibliofiles: Plenty of activity for poetry lovers this week (The Kansas City Star)
A first-glance look at this week’s literary calendar reveals only a few events, but glances can be deceiving. Quite a few Kansas City poets, actually, will be stepping up to the podium in the next few days.
- 'Essential Self-Defense': An indie 'Babes in Toyland' (Boston Herald)
It's best to think of "Essential Self-Defense" as a fairy tale. It's your classic boy-meets-girl story, only with raw meat, kung fu roller-skating, Russian...
- School News: SW area towns - Democrat and Chronicle
The following are the winners of the Penfield Public Library's annual Teen Poetry Contest: Sixth Grade Division: 1. Rebecca Markajani, Bay Trail Middle School, Footprints in the Sand ; 2. Aamir Zain, Allendale Columbia School, Excitement ; 3. Alex ...
- Key dates in Karadzic's life (Las Cruces Sun-News)
June 19, 1945: Born in Savnik, Yugoslavia, in what is now the Republic of Montenegro. July 12, 1990: Is a founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- Veronica Patterson's "Marry Me" - Seattle Times
I don't often talk about poetic forms in this column, thinking that most of my readers aren't interested in how the clock works and would... I don't often talk about poetic forms in this column, thinking that most of my readers aren't interested in ...
- Late Benazir’s 55th birthday celebrations (The Pakistan Link)
KARACHI: As a mark of respect and in recognition of her unparalleled services for the country, the government is celebrating the 55th birth anniversary of Benazir Bhutto with simplicity at official level across the country today (Saturday).
- Glenn Perry - Australian Stage Online
Glenn PerryAustralian Stage Online, Australia - 56 minutes agoWith libretti you're not necessarily dealing with long sentences - its more like the phrasing of poetry. Also, in the libretto you are structuring scenes ...
- Blame the liberals, not the president - La Crosse Tribune
President Bush is the whipping boy for the no-action Congress and the liberals of this country. After 15 years, Congress has still not given us an energy policy to protect our country and we are too dependent on foreign countries. For 70 years our ...
- Brendan Gleeson - Hartford Courant
Persepolis Sony, $29.95; Blu-ray, $38.96 Marjane Satrapi’s graphic-novel memoir “Persepolis” depicts her girlhood, from struggling with her secular family in post-shah Iran to jetting off to school in Vienna, where she faced a... Here are ...
- Library has a lot planned this summer - Community Press & Recorder
Library has a lot planned this summerCommunity Press & Recorder, KY - 1 hour agoFrom June 1 through July 31, we'll jump-start the minds of kids and teens with a brain-boosting line-up of poetry slams, readers' theater, storytelling, ...
- Waldorf Scores Well In French Poetry Contest (Garden City News)
At the recent French Poetry Contest at Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, N.Y., students from the Waldorf School of Garden City gave an outstanding performance.
- Gadsden native keeps promise, returns home to live - 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.” And Buster Porch, 65, has returned to Gadsden and kept his promise ...
- Poetic friendship blossomed from a shared love of words (Baltimore Sun)
New book celebrates the late poet Josephine Jacobsen and her 'gift for happiness' The poet Josephine Jacobsen, in an essay she wrote for The Sun almost 30 years ago, decried how hard it was to get inside things that should be easy to open (milk cartons, aspirin bottles), yet how quickly Americans seemed to expect personal intimacy.
- 'Laugh-In' partner a pioneer in TV - Akron Beacon Journal
LOS ANGELES: Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as ''Sock it to me!'' has died at ...
- UK quashes ‘lyrical terrorist’ conviction - Financial Times
A former Heathrow airport worker who wrote poems about beheading non-Muslims as the self-styled “lyrical terrorist” had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on Tuesday. Samina Malik, 24, was the first woman to be convicted under ...
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