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- Vote for the Winner of the Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Contest (Kansas City InfoZine)
The U.S. EPA Aging Initiative, in partnership with Generations United and the Rachel Carson Council Inc., invites the public to vote for their favorite submissions for the Second Annual Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Intergenerational Poetry, Essay and Photography Contest.
- He's a bad poet, and everybody knows it (Winston-Salem Journal)
The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid $12,840 yesterday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet to assault the English language.
- Stephen Moss travels on the sleeper service (Guardian Unlimited)
The announcement that strangers can no longer share a berth led Stephen Moss to wonder just what people get up to on the sleeper service
- Al Zarqawi’s Notes Reveal Softer Side - CBS News
Numerous handwritten notes by the former al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musaab al Zarqawi and obtained by CBS News reveal a softer side of the famous terror leader. The notes were written by al Zarqawi while in the Balqaa prison in Jordan , in 1998 and ...
- Boy, 6, hailed a hero after saving drowning friend - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Focusing on price fires up Wal-Mart's results Fayetteville, Ark. —- Wal-Mart executives said Friday that a reinvigorated focus on price has allowed the world's largest retailer to beat out competitors in a challenging economic environment... Wal ...
- Palminteri brings "A Bronx Tale" to Denver in 2009 (Denver Post)
John Moore's column: Chazz Palminteri has announced he'll be performing his signature one-man play, "A Bronx Tale" at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. In his one-man play, Palminteri uses 18 characters to bring the actor's rough childhood to life.
- Taking stock of Tao Lin - guardian.co.uk
Taking stock of Tao Linguardian.co.uk, UK - 14 minutes agoTao - who has already published a novel, a short story anthology and two poetry collections - thinks the offer will push up sales once the book is out; ...
- Katie Couric's Notebook - CBS News
Notebook: Ted Kennedy | Â 05/20/2008 Sen. Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and will seek the best treatment possible. Something that he would want for every cancer patient, says Katie Couric. Notebook: Coins | Â 05/19/2008 The ...
- BHS's literary magazine continues to be well-received - Bloomington Pantagraph
BHS's literary magazine continues to be well-receivedBloomington Pantagraph, USA - 4 hours agoShe had six items in the magazine including prose, poetry, song lyrics and two forms of art. She plans to study automotive engineering next year with a ...
- Bards of a feather rhyme together (Forbes Advocate)
IT WAS poetry in motion. The words of eight bards, fastened to the legs of eight, elite homing birds, were carried aloft yesterday in a unique flight of imagination along the South Coast.
- Whitechapel At War: Isaac Rosenberg And His Circle, Ben Uri ... - Independent
Whitechapel At War: Isaac Rosenberg And His Circle, Ben Uri ...Independent, UK - 1 hour agoUnlike Sassoon and Owen, Rosenberg was an infantryman, and his poetry is an infantryman's poetry, choked with mud, misery, lice, rats. ...
- Editor confronts genocide in 'Senselessness' - San Francisco Gate
One approach to discovering exciting new Latin American writers is to scout for contemporary authors whom Roberto Bolaño counted among his favorites. Another approach is to just wait for New Directions to publish them. Either method will eventually ...
- An affair with Sufiana art - Times of India
An affair with Sufiana artTimes of India, India - 55 minutes agoOne can observe Rumi poetry in many of his paintings. He had beautifully portrayed the whirling 'dervishes' in ecstasy. The most prominent painting of an ...
- Fairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate (KRXI-TV Reno)
FAIRFAX, Calif. -- Kay Ryan, a 62-year-old Fairfax resident, was appointed today by the Library of Congress as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
- OSUM recognizes 2008 academic achievers (The Marion Star)
MARION - The Ohio State University at Marion welcomed a large contingent of academically gifted students, family and guests, faculty, staff, university trustees and friends of the campus to the Palace Theatre on May 29 as part of the 37th annual Academic Recognition Program.
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