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- Marina Hyde: There's nothing worse than a politician playing parent (Guardian Unlimited)
Marina Hyde: Attempts by our leaders to find common ground with the average Joe are so reductive as to be meaningless
- Dropping out didn't derail dreams (Post-Tribune)
When Jeffery Beal told his high school English teacher he was dropping out to care for his partially paralyzed mother, the teacher told him he would never accomplish anything.
- STRAIGHT TO THE HEART (The Monterey County Herald)
We talk about it in a thousand ways — big-hearted, broken-hearted, all heart. It's celebrated in poetry and song as the center of passion and of pain and compassion, its cartoonish image doodled on notes, Valentine's candies cast in its idealized likeness.
- Pete Doherty Released From Jail 70 Days Early - hecklerspray
Pete Doherty Released From Jail 70 Days Earlyhecklerspray, Los Angeles - 5 hours ago... caught him writing more rubbish prison poetry and chucked him out before he had enough to turn it into an actual book - but Pete knows one thing, ...
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Goodbye to Berlin (Independent)
Paul Verhaeghen has won this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel Omega Minor, published by Dalkey Archive Press. His victory with this exuberant, pyrotechnic, toweringly ambitious epic is a suitably mould-breaking event. To begin with, the Belgian-born cognitive psychologist translated his own work into English from the Dutch. (He has taught in the US since 1997, and is ...
- Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytelling - EurekAlert (press release)
Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytellingEurekAlert (press release), DC - 1 hour ago... in poetry in his essay, published on bestofneworleans.com. Codrescu also recommended Freund's book in the online journal Exquisite Corpse (corpse.org). ...
- John Lundberg: Jack White's Poetic Apology (HuffingtonPost)
This wasn't your everyday means of damage control -- trying to appease angry denizens of Detroit with a poem seems doomed to failure -- but it earned White Stripes rocker Jack White a lot of local press.
- It's Happening - Parkdale-Liberty Village (Etobicoke Guardian)
SOUTH ASIAN CULTURAL Festival, Masala! Mehndi! Masti!, features traditional and contemporary music, dance, film, theatre, literature and poetry, cuisine, arts and crafts. Exhibition Place, Better Living Centre, 200 Princes Blvd., free admission. Visit www.masalamehndimasti.com for more information.
- Posted -47 sec ago - Welland Tribune
Posted -47 sec agoWelland Tribune, Canada - 1 hour agoDavid was passionate about his Lord Jesus Christ music and poetry. Friends will be received at the DONALD V. BROWN FUNERAL HOME (36 Lake Ave, Dr., ...
- Steel’s themes stress hope - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Occasionally, I have to stick my nose out the door. Otherwise, people are going to think I’m 100 years old and dead. “This is so not me,” she says. “I hate having the spotlight on me. I hate being the focus of attention. I like being the ...
- Thomas Disch, Novelist, Dies at 68 - New York Times
Thomas M. Disch, an author, poet and critic who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in new, disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God, died on Friday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 68. His ...
- John & Abigail Adams come alive at Tales of Cape Cod - Barnstable Patriot
Barnstable PatriotJohn & Abigail Adams come alive at Tales of Cape CodBarnstable Patriot, MA - 1 hour agoAlso to be showcased in the Tales of Cape Cod program will be the Adams’s relationship with the Otis family of West Barnstable, and in particular Abigail’s ...
- Big Bend Poets meet Tuesday (May 13) - Tallahassee Democrat
The Big Bend Poets will meet from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at Books A Million, Thomasvile Road at Capital Circle Overpass. Big Bend Poets is a Chapter of the Florida State Poets Association and is affilaited with the National Federation of State Poetry ...
- Inspirational Youth Encourage You to Show Your Real Face - Market Wire
Editors Note: Photos are included with this press release. Do you show your real face? Find out by visiting ShowYourRealFace.com . The recently-launched website hosts an interactive online community that encourages individuality and self-expression ...
- NOTES AROUND TOWN - Atlanticville
NOTES AROUND TOWNAtlanticville, NJ - 1 hour agoThe Christian Fine Arts Society, Indiana, is seeking entries for a poetry contest; deadline to enter is Aug. 18. There are 50 prizes, including a $1000 ...
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