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- "Honus" cliched. but a home run to audiences (Denver Post)
For more than a century, nothing but nothing has brought out the shameless sentiment in writers like baseball. Most have missed.
- Top 5: Posthumous legends - Washington Times
Washington TimesTop 5: Posthumous legendsWashington Times, DC - 44 minutes agoMiss Plath was the first posthumous recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 3. Vincent van Gogh — The ultimate "sufferer for art," Van Gogh sold only ...
- Physician's poem gets AMA nod for publication - Everything Alabama
After a stressful day at his Huntsville medical practice, Dr. Scott Williams heads home and writes poetry. After years of penning verse mostly for himself, the 40-year-old family physician will soon have a national audience. The Journal of the ...
- Poetry collaboration across the Irish Sea - Journal Live
Poetry collaboration across the Irish SeaJournal Live, UK - 49 minutes agoThen this evening, at 7pm at Newcastle’s Bridge Hotel, all are welcome to the free birthday bash with readings by poets from both sides of the Irish Sea. ...
- A Cabinet of Soviet Curiosities (The New York Sun)
Sometimes the smallest of things can illuminate the largest. A fossil tells the story of massive planetary change, a line or two of poetry does more to explain trench warfare than a dozen history books, and the miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard bring Gloriana's long vanished England back to iridescent, dangerous life. In writing "Lenin's Brain" (Hoover Institution Press, 163 pages, $15), Houston ...
- Letters to the Editor - June 8 - Daily Camera
Upon learning that George "Bud" Peterson, new (and Republican) Chancellor of the University of Colorado, is creating an endowed chair of conservative thought, I was floored. He says he doesn't necessarily want a political conservative -- only an ...
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Favorites Reading List - La Jolla
Summertime Favorites, a list of recommended readings, represents the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) long-standing effort to highlight classic literature for young people from kindergarten through high school. Thousands of parents and ...
- The quality of writing can vary, but we all agree on the subject - Daily Reflector
A friend recently shared a poem her teenage daughter had written for her birthday. The poem is lovely as it recognizes and honors the way the mother focuses on what's important. Here are a few lines: A beautiful woman puts others before her always ...
- Writing workshop set (Babylon Beacon)
East Islip Senior Center will presÂent a creative writing, poetry and memoir workshop given by Barbara Donovan, published poet, English teacher and director of the Live Poets Society for 20 years. The workshopÂwill be held from June 25 to Aug. 13 on Wednesdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. the fee is $35 for eight sessions.
- God’s Red Poet had local roots - Pictou Country Nova Scotia News
God’s Red Poet had local rootsPictou Country Nova Scotia News, Canada - 4 hours agoHe then went on to publish several acclaimed volumes of poetry, earning him the Governor General's Award in 1938. He was also founder of the Protestant ...
- A PIECE OF MY MIND: Annie Mac, DJ - Sunday Herald
A PIECE OF MY MIND: Annie Mac, DJSunday Herald, UK - 1 hour agoTHE DAYS RUN AWAY Like Wild Horses Over The Hills is a book of poetry by Charles Bukowski which means a lot to me. I've also got a copy of Dubliners by ...
- Latitude in 25000 weekend sell-out - Norwich Evening News
Latitude in 25000 weekend sell-outNorwich Evening News, UK - 4 hours agoThe festival, which has expanded year on year with the capacity this year almost double that of Latitude's debut in 2006, also includes comedy, poetry, ...
- Safe roads for everybody - La Crosse Tribune
A brief history of paved roads in America: In 1890, the League of American Wheelmen lobbied to have roads paved; until this time roads were an impassable quagmire of mud and ruts. The Wheelmen were a powerful organization with 102,000 members ...
- Chemical imbalance - Colorado Springs Independent
Colorado Springs IndependentChemical imbalanceColorado Springs Independent, CO - 4 hours agoInstead, she discovered a folder, filled with poetry. "Oh! You need to have this," she told me and pulled out a photocopy of a poem, which is frequently ...
- Cold feet at the gates of Hades - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukCold feet at the gates of HadesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIn a suggestive sub-chapter on "Roman gothic", he compares the hags who haunt Latin poetry with the reputed witches encountered by Carlo Levi in the ...
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