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- 1860s-style baseball teams will play at Sauder Village (The Toledo Blade)
A Barbershop Sing and Baseball Game are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio. The Southern Gateway Chorus will harmonize, and the Cincinnati Southern Gateway Chorus will celebrate its 50th year. In the afternoon the Great Black Swamp Frogs Base Ball Club of 1860 will take on the Ohio Village Muffins. Teams will dress in period uniforms and play by the ...
- Political journalist leaves behind bilingual legacy (Montreal Gazette)
Dominique Clift was one of the country's best informed political journalists, an incisive newspaper columnist who wrote as well in English as he did in French.
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Religions should not be allowed to make ghettos - Independent
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Religions should not be allowed to make ghettosIndependent, UK - 4 hours agoMaybe science books, fiction with male and female characters falling in love, poetry? You want our children to go to hell like yours? ...
- My Story: Redefined - Jerusalem Post
My Story: RedefinedJerusalem Post, Israel - 2 hours agoA new immigrant from India in my Hebrew class tells me, when I relate my sad story, of the practice in her country of changing one's name when one passes on ...
- Henson column: The madness of creativity (Macon Telegraph)
I know few people, even the left brain, linear-thinking types who don't aspire to be creative. In today's world of fast-track innovation, creative thinking is a virtue to be revered. You can't will creative thinking. You can't manufacture it. It's a relentless, often intrusive, state of mind that cannot be denied. Studies show that musical creatives continually have tunes in their heads. ...
- Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformation (Toronto Star)
In one poem in Spirit Engine , John Donlan refers to an area of wetlands as "our vulnerable cathedral." This reverence for the natural world, which is the bedrock of the collection as a whole, also permeates Louise Bernice Halfe's The Crooked Good , though her way of expressing it is different.
- Losing his sight, teen has drive to read, succeed - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Losing his sight, teen has drive to read, succeedFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 1 hour agoIn addition to his love of reading, DeMarcus recently began writing poetry. One of his poems is titled Look in the Mirror. A portion of it reads: "When I ...
- Latitude preparations underway - Evening News Norwich
The sheep are ready to be painted, the daisies are out and the pink poodle is in position - as final preparations are made for Latitude this weekend, organisers say it should be the best one yet. The festival at Henham Park, near Southwold, kicks off ...
- Bob Hill: It's time to say goodbye - Louisville Courier-Journal
Bob Hill: It's time to say goodbyeLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 2 hours agoI want to try short stories, plays and poetry. I'm certain I can write a bad novel or two -- thousands of other people have. I want to travel, ...
- School rallies around dismissed Watts teacher deemed too 'Afro-centric.' (Los Angeles Times)
- A song of praise for the poet in peril - Independent
A song of praise for the poet in perilIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoIf Her Majesty felt the need for a soothing topic of conversation with the embattled Archbishop of Canterbury, she might have chatted about poetry. ...
- The McEwan Delusion: The Pseudo-Threat of Islamism - OpEdNews.com
As a novelist, Ian McEwan is talented to the point of self- caricature : he writes nothing that hasn't been dislocated on the rack of his talent. As the leader of today's "look-at-me-I'm-a-writer!" lolly-pop guild, he would never dream of a sentence ...
- Author Danielle Steel: I write to give people hope - Daily Journal
NEW YORK -- It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and soon ...
- Freeport High School announces its top 21 students - Brunswick Times Record
Freeport High School announces its top 21 studentsBrunswick Times Record, United States - 53 minutes agoShe won a first-place award at Teen Speak Out for Lyon's Club Speech Contest, the Wellsley Book Award, the Honors English Award, the President's Award, ...
- Brad Colerick to perform at Neville - North Platte Telegraph
Brad Colerick to perform at NevilleNorth Platte Telegraph, NE - 21 hours agoColerick's music blends Americana, folk and country to create smooth, catchy melodies, and his finely wrought, plainspoken lyrics find the poetry in ...
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