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- Call of the wild: Britain's nature writers (Independent)
A couple of weeks ago, I descended on a blazing Italian afternoon into a steep wooded ravine. Gnarled old trees hid overgrown ancient ruins, while waterfalls cascaded down limestone crags into mysterious caverns. Anyone with even a nodding classroom acquaintance with Romantic poetry or painting might have smelled a highly cultivated rat. Surely, this textbook vision of the sublime landscape ...
- New Book Delivers Poems 'From the Heart of a Down Chick' - Forbes
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Born in Harlem, Sasha Bonay was only 9 years old when her mother, who had raised Sasha alone, passed away at age 27. Bonay was sent to live with an aunt in the South Bronx and there, she says, "I learned ...
- Peter rabbit and his eclectic band in the deserts of Iraq - The Age
The AgePeter rabbit and his eclectic band in the deserts of IraqThe Age, Australia - 2 hours agoTHE MARX BROTHERS DON'T USUALLY spring to mind when you talk about Australian poetry. And it wasn't JSHarry's full-bodied and frequent laugh that did it. ...
- Palestinian 'national poet' dies - BBC Middle East
He is said to have given voice to the Palestinian dreams of statehood, crafted their 1988 declaration of independence and helped to forge a Palestinian national identity. "He started out as a poet of resistance and then he became a poet of conscience ...
- Mad Men: For Those Who Think Young (season premiere) - VIDEO - Tvsquad.com
(S02E01) "There are other ways of thinking about things than the way you think of them." - Duck, to Don Pepsi had a famous ad campaign in the 1960s with the tag line For Those Who Think Young. That's the title of this episode, but it's not about the ...
- Cape Town TV starts broadcasting - South African Film News (press release)
Cape Town TV starts broadcastingSouth African Film News (press release), South Africa - 7 hours agoCTV is a free-to-air channel which means that anyone with a TV set can tune in to the station and you don’t need a decoder to receive the signal. ...
- Excavation of the Lower East Side - Guardian Unlimited
In the late 1980s, when Richard Price had started to make serious money as a novelist and screenwriter, he moved with his wife and two young daughters into a newly renovated loft apartment in rapidly gentrifying lower Manhattan. All four of his ...
- Sunday sermon - Emporia Gazette
Sunday sermonEmporia Gazette, KS - 3 hours agoJob begins the Poetry section, but belongs to a much earlier period. After the collection of Psalms, written mostly by David, the remaining three poetic ...
- Kaiser Center may see new life again - Tri Valley Herald
Kaiser Center may see new life againTri Valley Herald, CA - 6 hours agoActress Bette Davis was slated in 1960 to present Oakland with an evening of poetry by Carl Sandburg. And the center looked more like a fortified embassy in ...
- Facebook, MySpace offer 'educational potential' - Knoxville News Sentinel
Facebook, MySpace offer 'educational potential'Knoxville News Sentinel, TN - 5 hours agoThey're also sharing creative original work like poetry and film and practicing safe and responsible use of information and technology. ...
- Doing strange things with the spoken word: Dan Le Sac and ... - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukDoing strange things with the spoken word: Dan Le Sac and ...Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 27 minutes ago... time since post-punk poets such as John Cooper Clark and Joolz, audiences are ready to involve themselves in dark, narrative poetry as part of a gig. ...
- PeaceJam: Passing peace forward - Tidings
PeaceJam Foundation likes to prove that young adults do care about what older people think --- particularly adult activists who have taken great risks to change oppressive systems. So when the foundation recently brought together six Nobel Peace ...
- Art from behind closed doors - guardian.co.uk
Art from behind closed doorsguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoFor this year's Koestler awards there were over 5000 entries - covering 49 art forms from pottery to poetry - which were judged by more than 50 experts ...
- This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent lives - guardian.co.uk
This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent livesguardian.co.uk, UK - 9 hours agoThe Crown Prosecution Service was right to say that the Heathrow shop assistant Samina Malik (the "lyrical terrorist") was not tried for writing poetry, ...
- Michael Jackson turns 50 (Guardian Unlimited)
As the pop star celebrates his 50th birthday, we look back on the controversial events that have marred his otherwise successful career
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