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- Poetry isn't in the cards - Denver Post
For more than a century, nothing but nothing has brought out the shameless sentiment in writers like baseball. Everyone from George Bernard Shaw to Red Smith has taken a swing at distilling the romantic essence of the game into words.
- Poets on the Psalms - GoErie.com
Poets on the PsalmsGoErie.com, PA - 3 hours agoThis collection of essays by 14 contemporary poets grapples with the magnificent poetry of the Book of Psalms as it speaks to the modern reader. ...
- Our Daily Bleg: What Are the Best Corporate Mottoes? - New York Times Blogs
Our Daily Bleg: What Are the Best Corporate Mottoes?New York Times Blogs, NY - 2 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Today in local history - North Adams Transcript
SAVOY -- Stanley Desmond, 13, son of Stanley Desmond of Savoy, has been selected by the Savoy 4-H Leaders Group as the town's outstanding 4-H Club member this year. His award is a full campership to Camp Howe, the 4-H camp in Goshen. Desmond was ...
- RPT-Palestinian poet Darwish to be buried in Ramallah (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (Removes extraneous word from slug) By Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians are expected to bid farewell to Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated ...
- Visiting Doctor Quynh’s temple (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – More and more visitors are coming to a temple where Doctor Quynh is worshiped to offer incense and commemorate the famous scholar in the old days, according to the Vietnam News Agency.
- Ellington teen’s song wins national contest - Journal Inquirer
ELLINGTON — A local teen’s song about togetherness bested entrants from all over the country to win the American Postal Workers Union’s “Make it a Family Affair” contest. The song, “Together We Stand,” written by 15-year-old Amanda ...
- Virgil through modern eyes - Daily Telegraph
There have been three very striking translations of Virgil's Aeneid just recently, all from Americans. I have extravagantly bought them all, but which of them would I recommend if forced to choose but one? They are, in turn, by Robert Fagles of ...
- Transcending contradictions - Hindu
HinduTranscending contradictionsHindu, India - 2 hours agoFrom Ghalib: The Man, The Times, to Krishna’s life, translating Kaifi Azmi, Gulzar, working on Atal Bihari Vajpeyi’s poetry, and going to the streets of ...
- Stranded traveler's letter to airline takes wing (Pioneer Press)
Talk about timing: In April, American Airlines grounded more than 1,000 flights, many of them out of Chicago, to check electrical connections on its fleet of MD-80s.
- Lesbos Island once more, with feeling - Sophia Echo
To be or not to be called a “lesbian?” These days, this is the question that galvanises residents of the famous Greek island Lesbos, who campaign against the term being used to refer to gay women. The issue was taken to court by three Lesbos ...
- The book of revelation - National Post
The book of revelationNational Post, Canada - 20 minutes agoIt's a compelling idea that we seem to have lost. z Anne Simpson is the author of Falling, Canterbury Beach and three books of poetry. ...
- And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it - MySanAntonio
The best writers are those that give you a sense of who they are — as men and women, as fathers and mothers, as warriors and peacemakers. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was that kind of writer. No matter how lean or clinical the prose, his nobility ...
- Nightlife Calendar: 08/22/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Nightlife Calendar: 08/22/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour ago30; Open-Mic Poetry 7 pm third Mon., (Sept.-May), followed by open mic, bring poems to read and share, writing exercises available, bring eight copies of a ...
- Cultural Hot Spots (The Gleaner)
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