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- Howard Zinn (The Progressive): Election Madness
Scoop - And sad to say, the Presidential contest has mesmerized liberals and radicals alike. ... set, as the candidates preen and smile and bring forth a shower of clichés with a solemnity appropriate for epic poetry.
- Diaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prison - The Associated Press
The Associated PressDiaries show Saddam feared getting AIDS in prisonThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoAl-Hayat also published excerpts from what it described as poetry written by Saddam in prison. In April 2004, the world had the first glimpses of Saddam's ...
- Ann Arbor braces for overflow of pilgrims (The Toledo Blade)
ANN ARBOR - Tickets have been sold out for weeks. Hollywood star Richard Gere and Grammy-winning singer Bobby "Don't Worry Be Happy" McFerrin are in town. A group of Chinese students is planning a protest. Scores of people from northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, both Buddhist and otherwise, are making the pilgrimage to Crisler Arena.
- The Lovely Bones: Poems of the Late T'ang (The New York Sun)
In the year 755 common era, when the T'ang dynasty was shaken by violent rebellion, many of its leading citizens — courtiers as well as poets — took to the roads. The dynasty was weakened but would endure for another century and a half, until it would be overthrown in 907. For the exiles, no return seemed possible. One of these was the poet Tu Fu (or Du Fu, as his name is now romanized), ...
- Clamdigging Around Rowayton
Darien News-Review - The library is sponsoring a Haiku Contest, March 15 through April 15, to celebrate "April as Poetry Month." Haiku is a three-line, 17-syllable poem structured with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line.
- Creative spirit, sustaining power - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Creative spirit, sustaining powerAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 1 hour agoIn a nation whose founding documents reduced African-Americans to three-fifths of a person and where African-American women possessed even less ...
- Namibia: Three Births of Gordimer's Writings (AllAfrica.com)
ONE can outline Nadine Gordimer's life structuring around, what I would like to call, her three births: her natural birth into South Africa's colonial situation, ie the first birth, her awakening from the colour bar, ie the second birth, and the embrace of her new status as a postcolonial agent, ie her third birth.
- Monumentum aere prennius - Princeton University The Daily Princetonian
Monumentum aere prenniusPrinceton University The Daily Princetonian, United States - 3 hours agoLearning the classical languages, however, will not make one a Wordsworth or a Milton: Poetry is a bird of a different feather. Robert Frost famously said ...
- Gallery X poetry reading packs the house (The Standard-Times)
Alas, National Poetry Months rolls to an end.
- Jose Gonzalez to head Mountain Stage
Daily Anaeum - In “Killing For Love,” off of his latest album, he sings: “What’s the point if you hate, die and kill for love? ... music “transforms our species’ dilemmas, follies and misery into cathartic beauty” like William Butler Yeats’ poetry.
- Cover story: Graffiti artists are central part of Trimania on Saturday (The Buffalo News)
Call him a public menace or civic servant. Any way you look at it, TRON is a criminal.
- SUNDAY ARTS CALENDAR - The Wichita Eagle
SUNDAY ARTS CALENDARThe Wichita Eagle, KS - Feb 23, 2008Poetry Aloud, poetry reading, 7-9 pm Tue., Zoomdweebie's Tea Bar, 3010 E. Central. Free. Information, 316-440-4202. Senior Wednesday, "Proudfoot and Bird, ...
- Column: Imitating Life - News Record
Column: Imitating LifeNews Record, OH - 3 hours agoI can't help but wonder, are lyrics the modern young person's poetry? Now, as a poet and occasional lyricist, I know the power of words. ...
- The Antidote—Classic Poetry for Modern Life - Epoch Times
Epoch TimesThe Antidote—Classic Poetry for Modern LifeEpoch Times, NY - 2 hours agoIn this English translation of the Persian original, the language deliberately evokes the Biblical story from which we derive the phrase "to see the writing ...
- YES AWARDS POETRY COMPETITION WINNERS - LoveFM
YES AWARDS POETRY COMPETITION WINNERSLoveFM, Belize - 2 hours ago“Well you know, mothers love their children so much; so I tell them to tell their mother not to trust every one especially their brothers, uncles and dad ...
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