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- Students place well in WordMasters Challenge (The Journal News)
Daniel Gorman and Kathy Wang, students at Pearl River High School, won highest honors in the year-end cumulative standings of the WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of prose and poetry.
- Why Tourists Pay More at the Beach - New York Times Blogs
I’m on our annual beach week with the extended family in New Jersey and the beach patrol comes by insisting I buy beach tags for everyone 12 and over. The prices are: $6 for one day, $12 for one week, or $24 for the season (but only $19 for the ...
- Living in fear (Guardian Unlimited)
This playful and knowing first collection is fuelled throughout by a strong sense of lyricism. Take the piece "Before a Make-up Bag", a mock-hymn to the creators of cosmetics: "Praise him for the angel face / and second chance of it / the would you care to dance of it."
- Kid Rock to ride wave of success into Detroit shows - DetNews.com
Kid Rock to ride wave of success into Detroit showsDetNews.com, MI - 6 hours agoHey, it may not be poetry, but it works. And as for the question of if the song was written for any one girl in particular, Rock isn't giving up the goods. ...
- Under canvas: Camping near Uffington - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukUnder canvas: Camping near UffingtonTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoShe talks in a thick Berkshire accent – John Betjeman, who lived in Uffington for parts of his life, taught her how to recite poetry. ...
- Dolly M. Dowd -- Austin - Post-Bulletin
Dolly M. Dowd -- AustinPost-Bulletin, MN - 41 minutes agoShe gave talks at area schools about her Welsh ancestry and was known for her poetry and cake-decorating talents. Her other interests included keeping up ...
- Celebrating the gift of art - Victorville Daily Press
VICTORVILLE - Trinity Lutheran Church recently hosted a Spring Festival of Arts featuring paintings, photographs, wood and needle crafts. A highlight for many of the 150 attendees included a cupcake tree and dother culinary arts. In addition to these ...
- Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood glory - SI.com
Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood glorySI.com - 7 hours ago"There's a lot of poetry and a unique spirit to the game. There's some really beautiful writing in the movie about the game itself, and so I think on a more ...
- Welcome to Wales: Pitt nationality classroom reflects country's ... - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteWelcome to Wales: Pitt nationality classroom reflects country's ...Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 1 hour agoThe Welsh, Mr. Powell said, "love language and they love poetry and literature. When you check into a hotel, the first question they ask you is what ...
- A glimpse inside Mugabe's world - BBC News
South African writer Heidi Holland is one of the last non-Zimbabwean journalists to have interviewed Robert Mugabe. She spent two hours with him last December after pursuing the Zimbabwean president for months. This is her description of that ...
- Max Ross: Published Poet - Rake
Max Ross: Published PoetRake, MN - 1 hour agoBut let's face it: As far as poetry goes, the haiku is a fairly accessible form - concise, quick-striking, sometimes poignant. They're kind of like puns ...
- The outdoor life (Sun Star)
YOU would think that mountaineers and people interested in the outdoors would always be out trekking somewhere, climbing up a mountain or communing with nature. Well, most of the time they are, but occasionally they do hang out and have a drink or two with each other.
- I won’t be waiting for the phone to ring - ic Wales
I won’t be waiting for the phone to ringic Wales, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoWhatever he wrote – Milk Wood, poetry, short stories – he brought astonishing sensitivity to them. “The first time I really took to him was when he wrote ...
- Iraq war veteran salutes comrades - Recorder Community Newspapers
WASHINGTON TWP. – Capt. Matthew Hohmann spoke about his “his little trip to Iraq” to a large contingent of military veterans among a crowd of nearly 500 as he sent a message of freedom on Saturday, May 24, during the Memorial Day observances at ...
- Dad's poem a hit with Paisley - Belfast Newsletter
Dad's poem a hit with PaisleyBelfast Newsletter, UK - 58 minutes agoAnd the 82-year-old, renowned for his eloquent speeches and sermons, revealed that poetry had been something he took time to read and contemplate down ...
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