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- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (Boston Globe)
After more than two dozen young people trashed a former residence of poet Robert Frost during a drinking party, the dilemma was how to punish them.
- Okyeame Kwame Back To School - GhanaBase Music News
Okyeame Kwame Back To SchoolGhanaBase Music News, Ghana - 4 hours agoKwame has been consistent with his positive lyrics for the past 11 years and his latest work M’awensem , literally translated as My Poetry, on which he has ...
- Historic event goes Saturday - Times Record News
Historic event goes SaturdayTimes Record News, TX - 1 hour agoEntertainment will include a silent auction, piano music by Curtis Sims, cowboy poetry and music by Lanny Joe Burnett and friends of Bonham, Ed Henderson of ...
- 'Laugh-In' comic Dick Martin dies - Miami Herald
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as ''Sock it to me!'' has died. He was 86 ...
- Fidel's daughter among authors on final day - The Gazette (Montreal)
Fidel's daughter among authors on final dayThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 6 hours ago... night as four top authors who write travel-informed books talked to CBC's Paul Kennedy about the effect of globe-hopping on their prose - and poetry. ...
- Children celebrate Eid birthday - Spenborough Guardian
Children celebrate Eid birthdaySpenborough Guardian, UK - 12 hours ago"The Koran and Islamic poetry is read, and the women also get very active and organise their own Eid-Milad celebrations. "This year, we also decided to use ...
- Rank and File - New York Times Blogs
Rank and FileNew York Times Blogs, NY - 3 hours agoA list of “Poetry and Literature in French and English,” by a lister named Helene Cardona, includes “The Misanthrope,” by Molière, “The Flowers of Evil,” by ...
- 56 (CPJ Press Freedom Online)
CPJ research indicates that the following individuals have been killed in 2006 because of their work as journalists. They either died in the line of duty or were deliberately targeted for assassination because of their reporting or their affiliation with a news organization.
- The Natchez Democrat (The Natchez Democrat)
NATCHEZ — The Judge Armstrong Library hosted its first annual Poetry Slam this past April in celebration of National Library Week and National Poetry Month.
- Our view: A weekend to reflect - Duluth News Tribune
Our view: A weekend to reflectDuluth News Tribune, MN - 6 hours agoDuluth’s annual Day of Remembrance — with poetry, music and reflection — is at noon Monday at the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial. ...
- CELEBRATING DAD - NE Mississippi Daily Journal
One of the last things my mother asked my father before her death was to take care of her girls. That he did and continues to do. My mother, at the young age of 39, died of breast cancer in 1990 leaving my father with the sole responsibility of ...
- Elizabeth Edwards - Chicago Tribune
Give props to Gil Scott-Heron for the cutting-edge topicality of his best street poetry and jazz-inflected R&B over the last four decades, and the activist performer will accept the compliment graciously, albeit with reservations.
- Jacques HĂ©tu: The Joy of Composing - La Scena Musicale
Jacques Hétu: The Joy of ComposingLa Scena Musicale, Canada - 2 hours agoNelligan’s poetry touches him. He isn’t indifferent to the poet’s pain, which he feels almost as if it were his own. The painful and troubled world of ...
- Isabella de'Medici, By Caroline P Murphy - The Independent
The spirited Renaissance beauty Isabella de' Medici (1542-1576) was the daughter of Cosimo, who established the Medicis as the pre-eminent political family in 16th-century Florence. She became the city's "First Lady" on her mother's death in 1562 ...
- She sets the scene for poetry (Sakonnet Times)
In a hospital emergency waiting room two years ago on a night before Thanksgiving, Shari Alvanas watches as a woman hobbles in on a broken ankle that's bent at such an extreme angle "she looks like a Barbie doll," and then later, as people carry in a man with a knife stuck in his head; Shari knows she'll use some of this in her poems one day.
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