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- Obituary: Pat West - Guardian Unlimited
During the 1970s, my friend, Pat West, who has died of cancer aged 69, blossomed in Sistershow, as a poet, performance artist and feminist. For at least 15 years from the early 1990s she organised and hosted the poetry and words tent at the ...
- Children's Poet Jack Prelutsky Gives Reading at The Huntington - Pasadena Now
Pasadena NowChildren's Poet Jack Prelutsky Gives Reading at The HuntingtonPasadena Now, CA - 35 minutes agoHe also spearheaded the "Make Poetry Happen" contest, designed to encourage educators to develop creative ways promote poetry in the classroom. ...
- Historians, poet feted - Nelson Mail
Nelson MailHistorians, poet fetedNelson Mail, New Zealand - 7 hours agoMs Le Bas won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay prize for the best first book of poetry, for Incognito. She received $2500. ...
- Profile: Hamid Karzai - Guardian Unlimited
Tomorrow, there will be no presidential hopefuls, no hordes of advisers and staff, no senior TV anchors, none of the razzmatazz of an American election campaign. The routine lack of routine that is life in Kabul will have been restored. President ...
- 'The Men in My Life' by Vivian Gornick - Los Angeles Times
'The Men in My Life' by Vivian GornickLos Angeles Times, CA - 6 hours agoEvery woman who ever immersed herself in Beat poetry and grew up mimicking Philip Roth has had to struggle with a culture that regarded her as at least ...
- Class holds reunion in nursing home - The Salem News
Class holds reunion in nursing homeThe Salem News, MA - 11 hours agoYesterday, Pinault greeted classmates in a function room at Grosvenor Park, wearing a Salem High jersey and a black-and-red Salem High 1998 Super Bowl hat. ...
- All Courant Blog Feed - Hartford Courant
Some people disapprove of Las Vegas, and they'll let you know about it. That's not going to stop me from going there. I like Las Vegas for the same reason I like Disney World. It's fun. Just as Sarah Palin has excited the Republican base, so has it ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale (The Charlotte Observer)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin questionable tales of the emperor playing hide-and-seek with his beautiful queens. And here, within the parched landscape of the ghost city, author Salman Rushdie stood ...
- Finding her strength - Berkshire Eagle
Finding her strengthBerkshire Eagle, MA - 6 hours agoHer struggles with self-esteem began as a child growing up in Brooklyn, NY Both her grandfather, the first African-American elected to public office in ...
- The hunt for Radovan Karadzic and Serbia's real destiny - CBC.ca
CBC.caThe hunt for Radovan Karadzic and Serbia's real destinyCBC.ca, Canada - 11 hours agoDespite Radovan's university degrees, his published poetry and his command of rhetoric, the doctor's birthplace best sums up his paranoid worldview — that ...Video: Karadzic faces Hague tribunal ReutersVideoWITNESS-An encounter with Karadzic in the snow Reutersall 4,619 news articles
- “A less rushed, more reverent way of praying” - California Catholic Daily
California Catholic Daily“A less rushed, more reverent way of praying”California Catholic Daily, CA - 6 hours agoAccording to Serratelli, “Liturgical language should border on the poetic. Prose bumps along the ground. Poetry soars to the heavens. ...
- Things to do Tuesday July 15 - Tampabay.com
Things to do Tuesday July 15Tampabay.com, FL - 1 hour agoBy Sharon Kennedy Wynne, tbt* staff writer Black on Black Rhyme It's a night of spoken-word poetry at Club 813 (formerly the Harbor Club) with host LIFE at ...
- Poetry legend Faraz passes away - Pakistan Daily Mail
Poetry legend Faraz passes awayPakistan Daily Mail, Pakistan - 9 hours agoHe said the decision to allow him to return to Pakistan was made at the request of members of his family who believe that his recovery might pick up in his ...
- Laureate bemoans 'thankless' job - BBC News
BBC NewsLaureate bemoans 'thankless' jobBBC News, UK - Sep 10, 2008Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has said that the job of writing verse for the Royal Family is "thankless" and gave him a case of writer's block. ...Queen Elizabeth's thankless poet Monsters and Critics.comAndrew Motion moans about the Queen First Postall 14 news articles
- Schools remember Sept. 11 (The Monterey County Herald)
Most Americans don't need a history lesson on Sept. 11. After watching the spectacle play out on TV for days and weeks afterward, Americans came to have a general understanding of who was responsible and why they did it.
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