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- AP Top News at 7:44 a.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Change is coming, that much Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama agree on as they plunge into a five-month campaign for the White House. The primaries behind them, the presidential rivals were wasting no time drawing the battle line for a fall fight that will make history with the election of either the oldest first-term president in McCain or the first black leader in Obama. In ...
- A poet dwelling in the shadows - Daily Telegraph
The narrator of Robert Edric's In Zodiac Light is a young psychiatrist at Dartford Asylum, in south-east London, in 1923. The novel opens as he takes a party of inmates to see a beached whale in the Thames estuary. The corpse is disappointing: "There ...
- Light on a poet's imagination, and an era - Boston Globe
Brenda Wineapple's "Hawthorne: A Life" (2003) was an incomparable portrait of the man, the writer, and his time. Now, in "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson" (Knopf, $27.95), Wineapple similarly reanimates ...
- The Truth About Love - A romantic journey through Mozart's operas - Seven Magazine
The Truth About Love - A romantic journey through Mozart's operasSeven Magazine, UK - 1 hour agoHaving two very renowned public figures reading poetry on stage automatically upped the excitement somewhat – sometimes a thirty-one piece orchestra alone ...
- Stolen Shakespeare Folio Found - Washington Post
LONDON -- A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued $30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated. Police in Durham, northeast England, said ...
- Rilke and the question of self-identity - Daily Telegraph
Poetry is language compressed. It is many other things, too, but try expounding any favourite poem and your prose will be double or triple the number of words used by the poet. This is perhaps what makes the prose works of poets quite difficult to ...
- The problem is ... it’s out of this world - Times Online
The problem is ... it’s out of this worldTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoI know every shape and every crease serves an aerodynamic purpose but it’s like free-form poetry. It’s like it was conceived by Bartok. ...
- Kashmir: a history of revolt - Indian Express
Kashmir: a history of revoltIndian Express, India - 1 hour agoThe memory of loss and pain by the Mughal invasion has, in fact, been imortalised by the poetry of Kashmir's last queen Habba Khatoon, which still is alive ...
- shirley reese - OpEdNews.com
I am a college graduate, a loyal patriot of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, a person whose convictions and pessimism drive my thought invoking others to think, and enjoy some politcal debate. I like truth even if it doesn't set you "free" in ...
- Hannon in search of seventh heaven (Irish Examiner)
PENNY’S GIFT dominates the market for today’s Weatherbys Super Sprint as trainer Richard Hannon goes in search of a seventh victory in the race.
- Bastille Day In Media? Mais Oui - The Bulletin
Media - With France's Bastille Day following on the heels of our nation's own independence celebration, Philadelphia Francophiles can dust off their black berets for extended festivities right here in the 'burbs. Supporting a flourishing cultural ...
- Events added for Juneteenth in Fort Pierce - Fort Pierce Tribune
FORT PIERCE — The St. Lucie County Cultural Affairs Council has extended its Juneteenth celebration by adding an additional day of events on Saturday. The celebration includes storytellers, drumming, lectures, poetry reading, interpretive dancing ...
- Pizarro: Ex-Smash Mouth guitarist ignites an explosive weekend - San Jose Mercury News
It feels topsy-turvy to have fireworks on the first night of the San Jose America Festival, which kicks off Friday, but there should be plenty of fun activities to last the weekend. It'll be a treat to see Greg Camp , the Santa Cruz guitarist and ...
- Filipinos hold expo at the MÅ¡venpick - Gulf Daily News
Filipinos hold expo at the MÅ¡venpickGulf Daily News, Bahrain - Aug 21, 2008The festival will conclude with a gala dinner from 7pm to 9pm and entertainment will include an inspirational talk, a music showdown, poetry recitals with ...
- Claudia Gary and Tim Burrows to appear at Big Momma's (The Springfield News-Leader)
Virginia poet Claudia Gary and Ozark guitarist Tim Burrows will present an evening of poetry and music at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Back Porch room of Big Momma's Coffee House, 208 E. Commercial St.
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