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- Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington.
- Remarks by the First Lady During a Visit to the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
FLAT ROCK, N.C.----Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site 4:20 P.M. EDT
- After much anticipation, critic's 'Waits' is finally over (The Post and Courier)
There are very few acts good enough to cause me to willingly get into a car and drive several hours to see them. Bonnaroo doesn't count, because the annual music festival features so many great possibilities to see bands that driving to Tennessee is a no-brainer. But to pack up the car and drive to, say, Atlanta from Charleston, requires something truly special. I'd made the trip twice before, ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' - International Herald Tribune
Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Karadzic - 'murderous megalomaniac' - News.com.au
Karadzic accused of campaign of ethnic cleansing Still remains a hero for many Serbs Radovan Karadzic arrested by Serbian security officers RADOVAN Karadzic, arrested in Serbia overnight, is seen widely as a murderous megalomaniac with a twisted view ...
- Out There this week (Denver Post)
Cowboy cartoons, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, Aurora History Museum, 15051 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora; 303-739-6666; auroramuseum.org Home on the risible range.
- Q&A with Ice T, participant in the ISO's Langston Hughes Project - indy.com
Q&A with Ice T, participant in the ISO's Langston Hughes Projectindy.com, IN - 14 hours agoMy manager called me up, and said a symphony was getting ready to do this, and that they would like me to read the poetry. I said, "Yeah, that sounds dope. ...
- ‘No matter where I went, he was there behind me’ - Irish Independent
Irish Independent‘No matter where I went, he was there behind me’Irish Independent, Ireland - 10 hours agoHe thinks it's romantic.'' That delusion may be the common thread, but unlike Thurman's experience, or that of Emily Maitlis, Vanessa Mae, David Walliams ...
- A Hundred Million Blogs - MediaChannel.org
China leads the world in numbers of web users, with the government claiming more than 253 million (ahead of the US, with 223 million), a lead that will increase, given that only 19 per cent of China’s population is online (compared to 70 per cent ...
- Where Are Those Edwards Photos? - Slate
Timing is everything in the TV business . ... [ via American Thinker ] 12:11 P.M. Waiting for Fotot: I missed the solid item on the John Edwards "Two Families" scandal that the Charlotte Observer published last Thursday. (Typical of the MSM--even ...
- Baker to celebrate Homestead Days - Billings Gazette
BAKER - The Baker Centennial Homestead Days/All Class Reunion is Thursday through Sunday and is presented by the O'Fallon Historical Society and Museum. All events are being held at the Fallon County Fairgrounds south of Baker on Highway 7. The ...
- Three Pioneers - Publishers Weekly
Publishers WeeklyThree PioneersPublishers Weekly, NY - 5 hours agoThe Pulitzer Prizes were launched at Columbia University in 1917 as annual awards for excellence in journalism, fiction, poetry and other cultural pursuits. ...
- Getting caught up on the Web (Boston Globe)
Once upon a time, you could count on a film festival to take place at, you know, a theater of some kind. People got out of their houses and got together to see interesting works, maybe talk with a filmmaker afterward.
- Commerce City Beacon - Commerce City Beacon
Commerce City BeaconCommerce City Beacon, CO - 1 hour agoHis anecdotes are witty as his columns always are and his poetry is unique and clever. In the forward he says, “I don’t have to make this stuff up! ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - PR Inside
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pervez Musharraf dominated Pakistan after taking power in a high-altitude coup nearly nine years ago and led a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror _ a step that earned him plaudits in the West but ...
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