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- Michael McCarthy: A summer this wet and windy just isn't natural (Independent)
I once arrived in Finland on May Day. As I walked into my Helsinki hotel, a big Finnish bloke attacked me. Luckily, it was with a balloon. However, the fear flashed through my panicking brain that even though he was not a gunman or a knifeman, merely a balloonman, he still meant to do me harm, and it was with some difficulty that I extricated myself – only to find that everyone in the whole ...
- Teachers’ union backs decision to drop poem from syllabus - Herald
A leading teachers' union in Scotland has backed a controversial bid to remove a Scottish poem featuring a blade-wielding killer from a school syllabus amid fears over teenage knife crime. The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) said the ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Centre Daily
Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The Niagara River," "Say Uncle" and "Elephant Rocks ...
- Love and War Interpreted By Teenagers in "Lysistrata's Children" - NewsBlaze
NewsBlazeLove and War Interpreted By Teenagers in "Lysistrata's Children"NewsBlaze, CA - 1 hour agoTickets are $15 for adults; $5 for seniors, teachers and students. Ticketing and information are available online at www.theaterforthenewcity.net.
- Review: Carla Bruni's new album - Daily Telegraph
The Premiere Dame may have a colourful past, but her music has always been as classically chic and subtly sexy as her Christian Dior wardrobe. The supermodel-turned-chanteuse has been worried that her left-leaning fanbase might desert her now she's ...
- Palestinian poet Darwish dies - Gulf Times
WASHINGTON: Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest Palestinian poets, died yesterday in a Texas hospital following open-heart surgery. The 67-year-old writer was placed on life support two days ago following complications arising from ...
- A Few Words About Religion - American Chronicle
A Few Words About ReligionAmerican Chronicle, CA - 1 hour agoAmerica is on the verge of electing the first African American to the White House, but it may be generations before we have our first atheist or agnostic ...
- Father, daughter co-authors win book award - Canadian Jewish News
Father, daughter co-authors win book awardCanadian Jewish News, Canada - 1 hour ago... Jewish family life against the backdrop of a drab, often hypocritical and sometimes overtly anti-Semitic Communist society.” The prize for poetry went ...
- Calendar of Events (Princeton Times Leader)
June 14…A FATHER’S DAY BREAK FAST is planned Saturday from 6 to 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of St. James CP Church on North Donnivan Street. The event is hosted by the Community Disciples. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the door or in advance from Com munity Disciples members.
- Book is dream come true for family of Nipawin author - Nipawin Journal
"Not everyone sees a dream come true during his own time. I am one of the fortunate ones who did." So pens Olaf Hanson, the man who gave his name to the Hanson Lake Road, in a quote from the recently published book, Northern Rover: The Life Story of ...
- Cleburne poet releases first book, holds plans for future (Cleburne Times-Review)
Twenty-eight-year-old Kandice Jacobs-Armstrong has tried her hand and succeeded at many creative endeavors — singing, writing, entrepreneurship, poetry ...
- Detroit Slam Team heading to nationals in Wisconsin - Model D
Model DDetroit Slam Team heading to nationals in WisconsinModel D, MI - 3 hours agoOur 2008 Detroit Slam Team will represent Detroit, the Java Exchange and the EchoVerse Poetry Series in national competition this year in Madison, ...
- 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 ...
- A trip to pesto paradise - Thecalifornian.com
When cookbook author and radio host Lynn Rossetto Kaspar writes about pesto in her new book, "The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper" (2008, Clarkson Potter, $35), a two-paragraph description of pesto morphs into culinary romance bordering on ...
- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests - San Jose Mercury News
Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guestsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 6 hours agoThat afternoon, there would be a discussion of the mystical, reverent 13th-century poetry of Rumi, a key figure in Sufism. Whatever your tradition ...
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