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- Rochester poets show poetry is not for sissies - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester poets show poetry is not for sissiesRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 42 minutes agoThat's one lesson I learned from going though the 180 or so poems submitted to the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. As announced last week, ...
- When She Was Searching - Scoop
Why does the mind turn sentimental while I am walking? The word failure is such a gulf of life from where I constantly try to escape to an endless journey. I began the journey maybe, in order to keep my days safe from death, or perhaps for a possible ...
- Time for Media and Feminists to Penetrate Prostitution: On The Issues Magazine Challenges Stale Stereotypes (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Prostitution penetrated the news in a major way in recent months -- from ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of New York and his paid binges with women to the suicide of DC madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey and the Showtime fluff of Secret Diary of A Call Girl.
- Death of Wimal Abhayasundara (Daily News)
Kalakeerthi Panditha Vimal Abhayasundara, a veteran poet of the Colombo era and a leading art critic, researcher and author died yesterday. He was also an intellectual skilled in the composition of songs.
- Institute to offer 'The Poetry of Robert Frost' at the Bennington Museum (Bennington Banner)
BENNINGTON — On Wednesdays Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 8 and 15, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Berkshire Community College will offer a course on the poetry of Robert Frost.
- Another Monsoon Wedding - Newindpress
Another Monsoon WeddingNewindpress, India - 6 hours ago“Bangalore is new to the Kannada experience, therefore, even-though you will find a rich Kannada tradition in writing, theatre, cinema and poetry until very ...
- Breathing literary life into 1950s Cuba - Los Angeles Times
Breathing literary life into 1950s CubaLos Angeles Times, CA - 26 minutes agoKushner -- who was raised in San Francisco's Haight district by poetry-loving scientist parents and moved to LA in 2003 -- made three long visits to Cuba ...
- Things to do today (Baxter Bulletin)
CALICO ROCK -- The Calico Rock Music Hall poker run is Saturday. Participants will leave the Calico Rock Music Hall for a 102-mile ride at 10 a.m. The entry fee is $5, with a 50/50 split prize.
- Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate - Philadelphia Inquirer
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to ...
- Journalist's writings survive tragic life (The Pantagraph)
BLOOMINGTON -- One of the hidden treasures of the McLean County Museum of History is a collection of newspaper-styled journals written more than 100 years ago. | From Our Past page
- Darwen mum raising money in memory of young son - Lancashire Telegraph
Darwen mum raising money in memory of young sonLancashire Telegraph, UK - 8 hours ago... guided tour of a local brewery, while raffle prizes include home-made teddy bears, tickets for a children’s paly event, customised poetry and art work. ...
- Alasdair Gray - guardian.co.uk
Alasdair Grayguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe has also published short stories, poetry (always written, he claims, after the loss of a loved one), essays and polemic (including a book on Scottish ...
- Meet Dianna Nicolai - Globe Gazette
Dianna Nicolai thought she started writing creatively while in high school. Not long ago her mother found some writing Dianna had done as a youngster, confirming she’d had the bug all along. It’s all-consuming now. Nicolai freelances for Evans ...
- Like a beggar showing off his amputated limbs - Haaretz.com
It was yet another grotesque, if not macabre, scene: Barack Obama taking in a Qassam rocket exhibit in Sderot, holding a piece of rusting scrap metal in his hand after visiting with Osher Twito, the young boy whose leg had been amputated after he was ...
- School remembers 'gifted' teenager - St. Albans Observer
HUNDREDS of students today paid their respects to a teenager who died unexpectedly at the weekend. Fourteen-year-old Rupert Marson died at his home in Boundary Road in St Albans on Sunday morning. The 'popular and bright' boy was remembered at a ...
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