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- Tempted by the illusion of greatness (Asbury Park Press)
In a previous life, I remember wondering out loud about Mark McGwire's assault on one of our cultural treasures, baseball's single-season home-run record. Something didn't feel right to me. I wasn't alone, either. But the skeptical voices of 1998 were drowned out by an unrestrained celebration that was enthusiastically endorsed by Major League Baseball.
- Neighborhoods: Word on the street - Cambridge Chronicle
Neighborhoods: Word on the streetCambridge Chronicle, MA - 1 hour agoNew England Poetry Club is hosting the Golden Rose Reading with Carolyn Forche Sunday, June 29, at 4 pm on the east lawn of the Longfellow House at 105 ...
- Poetry in the park - West Online
Films like To Die For, Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester might have put director Gus Van Sant’s name on the Hollywood map but it’s early grunge films, like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, and more recent Cannes favourites like ...
- Related Coverage (Gazette.Net)
Justin Davis died on June 25, 2006, at 19 in a faraway land in a war that many don’t want to think about and that she fears is forgotten. On Memorial Day, she hopes his death in Afghanistan is remembered.
- Literary Prize Adds Epilogue to College Career - Washington Post
The elation of winning one of the nation's largest literary prizes for undergraduate students perhaps can be summed up best by the winner, Emma Sovich, 22, who described the moment in a breathless post-award interview. "It was amazing. I was sitting ...
- Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London - Independent
Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, LondonIndependent, UK - 4 hours ago... suavity and ease are at odds with the dreary clowning. Next season, one hopes, the Open Air will get back to basics – they are poetry, poetry, and poetry.
- Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming - Slashdot
Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere BoomingSlashdot - 2 hours agoI'd like the shouting part. by Yetihehe (971185) I will write poetry, I'm really bad at this :D "Ode to extinctions: O thy, which is extinct, ...
- Freehold student's poem takes top honors home - News Transcript
Freehold student's poem takes top honors homeNews Transcript, NJ - 1 hour agoDana Corn, daughter of Rita and Steve Corn of Freehold, was recently recognized for her entry in a poetry contest for young poets sponsored by Creative ...
- Parting Glances: Self meets self at 6 - Pride Source
It's been over 50 years since I last saw the young man who now sits across from me. He has at 19 what a friend calls "the poetry of youth" - an eager freshness that's a joy at my age to see. He hasn't changed much. (Still thin as a rail. Tall as ever ...
- Shared post-storm moments packaged in poetry (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
In the fall of 2005, MREs were everywhere in New Orleans, those little packets of processed food designed to feed the military, handed out to civilians in distress. I still have one in my pantry, a weird souvenir of that terrible time.
- What's Happening - Tahoe Daily Tribune
Writing club having party for its annual publication The Lake Tahoe Writing Club will hold a publication release party and wine reception for its annual publication, "Edge," from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Valhalla Grand Hall. "Edge" is a ...
- Nicci Gerrard: The ogre above and the frightened family below (The New Zealand Herald)
Behind all the words, the turning over of facts, the analysis, the frantic speculation (did the wife know?) and the tormented search for meanings (how could this happen?), lies a central image: a woman and her three children buried alive, toothless, hunchbacked, pale-skinned, talking in their own mumbling language, just beneath the surface of everyday life for 24 years.
- Join our Olympic poetry contest (Radio Netherlands)
Are you a budding poet and a keen traveller? Then join the special Olympic competition, launched by Radio Netherlands Worldwide and Henan People's Radio in China.
- Nature poetry contest to benefit state park - Banner-Graphic
Local writers are welcome to create poems for the Indiana Nature Poetry Contest that runs until Sept. 30. The contest was organized by Hoosier poet Stacy Smith. The winning poems will be published in a small chapbook called "Poetic Nature in the ...
- Looking back - Sun-Journal
• Notice has been received at police headquarters from the Pinkerton detective agency at Philadelphia in which $100 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of one Francis M. Bloom who is wanted for embezzlement. Bloom is 48 years of ...
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