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- Readings and Writers - RedOrbit
Readings and WritersRedOrbit, TX - 4 hours agoIt accepts four or five fiction manuscripts per year for its annual magazine, which includes prose, poetry and artwork. The deadline is noon Thursday, ...
- Liwa Date Festival gets under way - GulfNews
GulfNewsLiwa Date Festival gets under wayGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 2 hours agoStarting yesterday a daily auction of dates will be organised along with other activities such as a traditional handcrafts competition, poetry evenings, ...
- BTC: Visible minority - Macleans.ca
BTC: Visible minorityMacleans.ca, Canada - Jul 2, 2008Every few weeks or so he’s joined in protest by a small group of elderly protesters who march up and down Bank Street, reciting poetry near where Dr. ...
- 'Exiles' is sure to get its claws in your brain (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about “Exiles,†a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,†after hearing of the death of five German nuns in a shipwreck on the shoals of the Thames.
- Giving the gift of literature - Monterey County Herald
With a natural storyteller's voice, author Paul Fleischman talked about the hidden depths of books. "When you look at a book, it is like an iceberg," Fleischman said.
- Summer reading lists just got longer with new books (Cape Cod Times)
"Happy Trails to You: Stories," by Julie Hecht (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 13-978-1-4165-6425-6, 209 pages, $24)
- Local News (Baltimore Jewish Times)
Community observes Israel’s day for its fallen soldiers.
- Buzz Briefs: Amy Winehouse, Kanye West (CBS News)
Amy Winehouse faints. Sara Evans gets hitched. Kanye West's delayed Bonnaroo set angers crowd. Heidi Klum no glamour mom. Simply Red goes blue.
- Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: Poetry Cocktails--Come Join The Party (HuffingtonPost)
Another way to parse the frenzy of red and blue or devastation and death is a more considered, but no less passionate reaction: reading or writing a poem.
- HJ student heads to state for poetry - Hardin County Index
HJ student heads to state for poetryHardin County Index, TX - 1 hour agoThe solo poem is "The Ballad of Pearl May Lee," by Gwendolyn Brooks and the interwoven piece consists of Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," ...
- TV's "Laugh-in'' comic Dick Martin dies in Calif - Charleston Daily Mail
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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 ...
- 'Laugh-In' host Martin, 86, dies - The Washington Times
Dick Martin (right) was probably best known for hosting "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" with Dan Rowan (left) in the late 1960s to the early '70s. Mr. Martin died Saturday night at age 86. (Associated Press) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Martin, the zany ...
- Woman With A Disabled Husband And Two Disabled Children Fights ... - Hartford Courant
Janet Catucci never planned to build a house big enough for three wheelchairs. She never imagined that the ramp in front, built when her son grew too big to carry up and down the front steps, would also become a gangway for her daughter — and then ...
- West Student News - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
West Student NewsPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - May 29, 2008Crafton Elementary School sixth-grader Elleanna Meyer has captured first place in the Ligonier Valley Poetry Writers' Student Poetry Contest. ...
- Dante's infernal crimes forgiven - Daily Telegraph
Florence's city council has approved a motion revoking a sentence on Dante from 1302 which stated that he would be executed if he stepped foot in the city again. The sentence forced Dante into exile and he spent the last 20 years of his life ...
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