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- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (Boston Globe)
After more than two dozen young people trashed a former residence of poet Robert Frost during a drinking party, the dilemma was how to punish them.
- Seeking more freedom, Russians and others in region flock to Ukraine (International Herald Tribune)
The influx vividly illustrates how far Ukraine's path has diverged from that of Russia, which by the time of the Orange Revolution had already begun rolling back democratic reform.
- Counting the Dead - New York Times
New York TimesCounting the DeadNew York Times, United States - 42 minutes agoBut the fragmentary forms and skittering attention of her poems suggest that 21st-century activist poetry may face some novel challenges, ...
- Max Mendelsohn's "Ode to Marbles" (Seattle Times)
I have always enjoyed poems that celebrate the small pleasures of life. Here Max Mendelsohn, 12, of Weston, Mass., tells us of the joy he...
- Weightlifter pushing toward 358 pounds - Ponte Vedra Recorder
Weightlifter pushing toward 358 poundsPonte Vedra Recorder, FL - 6 hours ago"It’s like poetry in motion," Reynolds said. "You appreciate all the nuances that go into maintaining identical form and technique rep after rep. ...
- Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns! - Wired News
Online Jihadists: Give Us Lightning Guns!Wired News - 5 hours agoOther recent tidbits include a mortar-making manual, militants' new web video push, and the poetry of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (“If it wasn’t for defending the ...
- Paul Willis Publishes New Book of Poems - The Santa Barbara Independent
Paul Willis Publishes New Book of PoemsThe Santa Barbara Independent, CA - 6 hours agoBy Beth Taylor-Schott (Contact) Santa Barbara poet Paul Willis’s long awaited book of poetry, Visiting Home, came out this spring. ...
- Newburyport: An array of artwork on exhibit in Room 118 - The Daily News of Newburyport
Newburyport: An array of artwork on exhibit in Room 118The Daily News of Newburyport, MA - 3 hours agoPhotography, paintings, poetry and even quilts hung in the space, suspended from professional hangings, as the local band Crown for King played in the ...
- Meaning of Dragon Boat day lost but not forgotten - China Post
China PostMeaning of Dragon Boat day lost but not forgottenChina Post, Taiwan - 16 hours agoAs head of a non-governmental organization in the area of literature, Yu Hsi, president of the Chinese Poetry Society, said that although the cultural ...
- Burning is too good for them - Times Online
For many years, in my youth, I refused to read Anthony Powell, simply on account of the way he pronounced his name. “That’s as in Pole, dear boy,” I imagined the Old Etonian saying chidingly. You cannot be a good proto-commie and enjoy Anthony ...
- Dan Stryk's poetry collection, Solace of the Aging Mare, dares to gaze steadily into the challenges of aging (The Kansas City Star)
Dan Stryk’s Solace of the Aging Mare is a subtle meditation on growing old. The questions these poems ask are ones that can never be answered with any finality. The pastoral settings of most of the verses here give us that needed moment of respite when we can begin to look more deeply into ourselves, knowing that ultimately we walk away empty-handed no matter what path we may have chosen to ...
- The Sazerac: The cocktail of choice, for some, in New Orleans - International Herald Tribune
I've been leafing through a bunch of cocktail manuals recently. Aside from the vicarious pleasure, I've been trying to figure out the logic of the Louisiana legislature, which, apparently having finished its work with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup ...
- Creating portraits with poetry - Manchester Evening News
MANCHESTER Art Gallery has been uplifting visitors for generations - and now Linda Chase will use it to inspire her poetry. Linda, from Didsbury, has already started to scrutinise the collections . . . as well as the visitors to Mosley Street. In ...
- Celebrate Children's Book Week, May 12-18 - School Library Journal
Celebrate Children's Book Week, May 12-18School Library Journal - 6 hours agoWritopia Lab’s writers (ages 9-17) will read from their own award-winning short stories, memoirs, poetry, and scripts.
- TV's "Laugh-in'' comic Dick Martin dies in Calif - Charleston Daily Mail
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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 ...
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