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- Survivor recalls bridge collapse 50 years later - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunSurvivor recalls bridge collapse 50 years laterVancouver Sun, Canada - 12 hours ago"It was a fascinating image I had of him dangling from his umbilical cord of oxygen," said Geddes, who will read from Falsework, his book of poetry about ...
- Utah Phillips: radical US folksinger and pacifist - Times Online
Utah Phillips was an American folk singer, story-teller and political activist of the old school who kept alive the freewheeling hobo spirit of Woody Guthrie. He was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were both labour ...
- : Nazand Begikhani in the “Poets at the Summit” festival in the Alps : (Kurdish Media)
London (KurdishMedia.com) 31 July 2008: Kurdish poet Nazand Begikhani participated in the “Poets at the Summit” festival which took place between the 19th and 25th of July 2008 in the French Alps. The festival is an initiative by a group of French poets and writers, including notable figures from UNESCO, Marie Robert and Fredrico Mayor.
- Haiku contest returns — think ozone - Kansas City Star
Haiku contest returns — think ozoneKansas City Star, MO - 1 hour agoThe Mid-America Regional Council’s annual haiku poetry contest is back, and it’s all about reducing ozone. The contest requires writing a three-line poem ...
- THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS—Christopher Isherwood—Morrow ($2.50). - Time
Up-to-date readers of up-to-date English poetry know the names, though they may not have the numbers, of Poets Wyant Hugh Auden and Stephen Spender (TIME, Oct. 1). The first books of both Auden and Spender were dedicated to one Christopher Isherwood ...
- Sunny disposition (Greater Milwaukee Today)
Ever since my childhood, growing up in the Chicago suburbs, I was interested in weather as a hobby," says 52-year-old Fox 6 meteorologist Bart Adrian.
- Counting the Dead - New York Times
New York TimesCounting the DeadNew York Times, United States - 42 minutes agoBut the fragmentary forms and skittering attention of her poems suggest that 21st-century activist poetry may face some novel challenges, ...
- Mary Wells' New Novel, 'Forbidden Destiny: Contemporary Poetry and ... - Forbes
HOUSTON, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- What happens when a young adult has the audacity to search for a twin, unscrupulous conglomerates eagerly seize a city, and avaricious dominance of life spans is more powerful than human rights to life, liberty ...
- LOYAL FRIEND HELPS WOMAN COPE WITH AFTERMATH OF ABUSE - Yahoo News
DEAR ABBY: I'm writing to praise all those friends and family who support their loved ones through and after abusive relationships . A year ago, I ended a 2 1/2-year relationship with a controlling, emotionally abusive man. During those years, I ...
- ISO, Ice T excite crowd with newly orchestrated 'Langston Hughes ... - indy.com
ISO, Ice T excite crowd with newly orchestrated 'Langston Hughes ...indy.com, IN - 1 hour ago"Ask Your Mama" is not just any poem by Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes. It's an epic, late-life work consisting of 12 inter-related pieces ...
- Polling, and how people pick their party - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Today's poll story showing Barack Obama with a 12-point lead over John McCain drew almost as much reaction from readers for what it had to say about voters' party affiliation as for what it said about the candidates' popularity. The questions ...
- Outside Edge (Independent)
England footballers are sulking at the Fifa/World Anti-Doping Agency suggestion that as from January next year they will have to make their whereabouts known to drug-testers for one hour a day. Doping's just not an issue in this country, they insist, but the Continent may be a different matter. Two ghostwriters working on Zinedine Zidane's autobiography have had laptops containing the French ...
- Video game reviews: 'Battlefield: Bad Company,' 'Wall-E,' 'Hellboy ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Media on the subject of war tend to fall into one of three categories: groundbreaking entertainment, historical commentary or unintentional comedy. For every "Flag of Our Fathers" or "Saving Private Ryan" there is "The Green Berets," not John Wayne's ...
- Video game reviews: 'Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots,' 'Space ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
When I think of "Metal Gear Solid," I think of Mom. She worked countless hours of overtime to get me a Nintendo Entertainment System for my birthday. The game she bought with it was "Metal Gear Solid." I spent so many days that winter playing the ...
- Kenya: 'We Have Had Enough of Foreign Plays' (AllAfrica.com)
For a very long time, plays that dominated Kenya's theatre scene were all foreign adaptations. Theatre powerhouses such as Mbalamwezi, Phoenix Players and Heartstrings Ensemble barely had a Kenyan production worth writing home about.
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