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- Thieves ransack Richey's flat while former Death Row Scot is in prison - Edinburgh News
FORMER Death Row inmate Kenny Richey has had his flat raided by thieves who broke in while he sat in prison awaiting trial for an alleged assault. The 44-year-old claimed his home in Polwarth was ransacked after police who broke down the door to ...
- Rupert Graves accused of stealing lover’s work - First Post
First PostRupert Graves accused of stealing lover’s workFirst Post, UK - 10 hours agoRobert Graves, one of Britain's foremost First World War poets, has been accused of stealing ideas, literary criticism and poetry from his one-time American ...
- Looking back at the Booker: JM Coetzee - Guardian Blogs
The book that won JM Coetzee his second Booker prize is, according to Time magazine: "A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland...Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form." OK ...
- 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 ...
- Ashanti added to fall concert line-up at Fallsview Casino - MarketWatch
Ashanti added to fall concert line-up at Fallsview CasinoMarketWatch - 18 hours agoShe has also published her first book of poetry, Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love, which is currently in its sixth edition. ...
- Gender-bending, role-switching keep Savoyards cast lively - Press & Sun-Bulletin
Gender-bending, role-switching keep Savoyards cast livelyPress & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 4 hours agoJoe Petrolowicz, this year's director, believes some of the reticence is because the dialogue is in blank verse -- a tricky non-rhyming poetry that other ...
- Police search for mystery dad and daughter - United Press International
Police search for mystery dad and daughterUnited Press International - 3 hours agoOn the Web site of Cafe Society, a Boston literary group, someone said that his reading of Scottish poetry "will send chills down your spine. ...
- Web extra: Books calendar (The Naperville Sun)
A listing of local author appearances and book-signings
- Jeffrey Ross: Rules the roast - Punchline Magazine
Punchline MagazineJeffrey Ross: Rules the roastPunchline Magazine, NJ - 22 hours agoThere’s one thing that happens - and you’ll know this from my Lounge Lizards show - at the end of my show I do love poems and I do a whole bunch of them for ...
- Above all, "Wire" is about transcendence (Denver Post)
The young man walks across a wire stretched between two platforms in a grassy field in France. A woman with dark hair rides his back.
- Farewell to Faraz - The News - International
Farewell to FarazThe News - International, Pakistan - Aug 26, 2008Faraz had, through his life as a poet of romance and of protest, kept alive the sub-continental tradition of deploying poetry as a weapon of protest. ...
- The problem with common scents - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The problem with common scentsMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 7 hours ago... Department after a dinner at D'Amico that lasted for hours. The two discussed essential oils, Shiozawa's passion for German poetry and all things French.
- CD: Seastories (RainbowNetwork.com)
Minnie Driver – you know her – the one who played Benny in Circle of Friends , Matt Damon’s main squeeze Skylar in Good Will Hunting , Dahlia in the recent FX series The Riches , and Karen Walker’s daddy’s little princess nemesis in Will and Grace . Well, the actress can sing, too.
- Hendrix photographer captures diversity of Islamic culture - Earthtimes
One of the world’s most celebrated rock photographers has launched a collection of work showcasing the diversity and beauty of the Islamic world. Peter Sanders, who made his name photographing famous rock and roll icons of the 1960s, has launched ...
- Palestinian ‘Poet of Conscience’ Dies at 67 (St. Petersburg Times)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people’s experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67.
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