Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Close to home - Guardian Unlimited
Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. She's been accorded armfuls of super-superlatives by critics in both North America and Britain, she's won many awards, and she has a devoted international readership. Among ...
- Words to cringe by -- and laugh about (The News & Observer)
Sarah Brown's parents were cleaning out her old bedroom back in Oklahoma, so they called the transplanted New Yorker home to retrieve some sweater boxes filled to the brim with old composition notebooks. They were her diaries, with years of adolescent drama scrawled in book after book.
- The BBC refuses to turn the other cheek - guardian.co.uk
The BBC refuses to turn the other cheekguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 26, 2008Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, stands accused of trying to bankrupt a Christian campaigning group. It has been seven months since Christian ...
- The closing ceremony of Tay Son - Binh ÄÂinh Festival - Nhan Dan
Nhan DanThe closing ceremony of Tay Son - Binh ÄÂinh FestivalNhan Dan, Vietnam - 7 hours agoPoems of late renowned poets Han Mac Tu and Xian were honoured during a poetry recital night at Ghent Rang place of interest. Tay Son- Binh Dinh Festival ...
- Literary journeys lead back to childhood for 2 women (Daily Record)
While at Rocking Horse Ranch Resort recently, Marcia Ivans of Chatham Township asked her son for batting pointers so she could hit better in her next game with the Chatham Adult Women's Softball League. She's 68. He's 44.
- 2008 Olympics gilded with less than gold - Augusta Daily Gazette
2008 Olympics gilded with less than goldAugusta Daily Gazette, KS - Aug 7, 2008... Journalists Detained; China 'Guarantees' safe Games; 300000 surveillance cameras; Smog worries athletes; and American cyclists arrive in black masks. ...
- Pupils are the write stuff (EveningTimes Online)
THESE youngsters may all still be at primary school - but they're already published poets. Inspired by one of their teachers, the pupils have put their own experiences of life into verse.
- Story too hard on funeral homes - La Crosse Tribune
A story on the front page of the July 4 Tribune told what I believe was a completely one-sided and biased story concerning a local funeral home owner and funeral home director being involved in fraud. The article read as if these men knowingly and ...
- For the love of Mexico - Mosman Daily
For the love of MexicoMosman Daily, Australia - 3 hours agoBut his real passion is poetry and next week he will add some Mexican flavour to the meeting of the Live Poets at Don Bank at North Sydney. ...
- Arthur Miller, Stephen King, Amy Tan and…Regie Cabico? - Local IQ
Arthur Miller, Stephen King, Amy Tan and…Regie Cabico?Local IQ, NM - 2 hours agoBY HAKIM BELLAMY Who is Regie Cabico other than a featured performer at STIR, the poetry festival that is descending upon the Duke City on September 12-14? ...
- In Downtown Brooklyn, a Sort of Circus in Celebration of Everything Literary (New York Times)
The third Brooklyn Book Festival drew a crowd of 20,000, and 150 authors, on Sunday.
- Something about Mary (Stuff)
This story begins at its end, in the nook of a North Sydney chapel where an elderly woman in black kneels on a cushion crocheted with Sturt desert peas, crosses herself and prays with one hand on a white marble tomb.
- NSU will host retrospective photography exhibit of alumna's work - Alexandria Town Talk
NSU will host retrospective photography exhibit of alumna's workAlexandria Town Talk, LA - 5 hours agoWhether it is photography, pottery, watercolors, oils, jewelry and poetry, Cohen consistently creates works that reflected her environment, Cane River. ...
- Cyberspace Casts Light on the Lives of Death Row Inmates - Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Jul 29 (IPS) - "Can governments solve urgent social or political problems by executing a few or even hundreds of their prisoners?" asks Benjamin Mawaya, sweltering on death row in Zambia’s Mukobeko high security prison in Kabwe, 150 ...
- At Tanglewood, a modernist oasis - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeAt Tanglewood, a modernist oasisBoston Globe, United States - 8 hours agoOne relatively new and gorgeous vocal work was "In the Distances of Sleep," a 2006 setting of Wallace Stevens poetry, cogently led on Tuesday by Jeffrey ...
|
|
Thinking about Refinancing Mortgage?
Second Mortgages
November 2007 Mortgage News
|