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- Former Highway Superintendent Found Dead Shortly After Receiving Prison Sentence (East Aurora Advertiser)
Former Marilla Highway Superintendent David Pierce is the victim of an apparent suicide, the Erie County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed. Pierce on Monday was sentenced to seven months in prison for improper use of Highway Department equipment and personnel and the theft of town funds through a fraudulent invoice scheme. The judge also ordered him to make payments well over $20,000 in restitution.
- Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry Prize (AllAfrica.com)
Professor Niyi Osundare has won this year's Tchcaya U Tamsi Award for African Poetry. The prize, debuted in 1989, is named after Tchicaya U Tam'si, one of the continent's best poets.
- America Back on Track... for Friday, June 20th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Friday, June 20thOpEdNews, PA - 1 hour agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- The cult of Hadrian - guardian.co.uk
The cult of Hadrianguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoLover Although he was married to Vibia Sabina, a third cousin, his great lost love was the Greek youth Antinous, who drowned in suspicious circumstances in ...
- All Events for 3 Aug 2008 (My Village Balham)
Until 31 Jul 2008 Batman is back and joins forces with Gotham's new District Attorney to challenge The Joker. The dark superhero faces a new challenge when he takes on the evil Joker who is hellbent on committing a...
- Teaching peace through "Highs and Lows" - Mennonite Central Committee
Teaching peace through "Highs and Lows"Mennonite Central Committee - 1 hour agoWith the smaller children, she worked on the basic elements of creative writing, especially poetry. They did acrostic poems and list poems. ...
- August, South Pacific, In the Heights, Boeing-Boeing, LuPone Are Tony Winners (Playbill)
August: Osage County, South Pacific, Boeing-Boeing and In the Heights won top production honors at the 62nd Annual Tony Awards June 15.
- Omie Oh My: Lentil Fest and cowboy poetry on the horizon - Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Moscow-Pullman Daily NewsOmie Oh My: Lentil Fest and cowboy poetry on the horizonMoscow-Pullman Daily News, ID - 51 minutes agoThe 13th annual Cowboy Poetry and Western Music Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday at the Gladish Community Center in Pullman. ...Bringing art downtown: Pullman Gallery & Studios provides a space ... Moscow-Pullman Daily Newsall 2 news articles
- Theater Reviews: Fucking Hollywood, Educating Rita - LA Weekly
Theater Reviews: Fucking Hollywood, Educating RitaLA Weekly, CA - 11 hours agoThey're both addicts — she to cigarettes, he to booze — but she has an insatiable curiosity about poetry and literary criticism. ...
- Leading the field - guardian.co.uk
Leading the fieldguardian.co.uk, UK - 9 hours agoIn The Edge Of Love - to recap, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller in glam-boho love triangle, everyone writing poetry and having babies and crying and ...
- “I did all this in the service of a truth” - alt.muslim
alt.muslim“I did all this in the service of a truth”alt.muslim - 2 hours agoBut as I read - books by Western scholars, Islamic scholars, religious clerics, ancient Arabic poetry – what I gained from my reading was an impression of ...
- Stories from today's Northwest papers - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
The Oregonian - OregonLive.comStories from today's Northwest papersThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 1 hour agoThe poem Stafford wrote on the last morning of his life begins "Are you Mr. William Stafford?" It continues "I'm [still] here writing it down / just the way ...
- Art show message from inside - Northcote Leader
Art show message from insideNorthcote Leader, Australia - Jul 8, 2008Perkovich, who is based in Brunswick, has a fashion label called Dark Butterfly and worked for a time with colourful Melbourne art identity Vali Myers. ...
- Calgary Highland Games feature Robbie Burns recital, competition - The Canadian Press
Calgary Highland Games feature Robbie Burns recital, competitionThe Canadian Press, CALGARY - 1 hour agoA total of $3000 in prize money will be handed out in a Burns recital and competition, which will feature both poetry and song. Competitors will be split ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in 37th novel 'My Sister ... - The Canadian Press
Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in 37th novel 'My Sister ...The Canadian Press - 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 ...
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