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- Michael Rosen’s favourite children’s books - Socialist Worker
Adults become attached to children’s books in three overlapping ways – as memories of when they were children, as moments when reading books with children in their care and as pleasurable reads in themselves. So, when we come to recommend ...
- Translation captures irony of original - Daily Item
This superb new English version of Flaubert’s masterpiece at last makes it possible to understand how Flaubert could say of his heroine, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi!” The mystery here for many readers has been how Flaubert managed to make his ...
- Space rockers reunite on Earth - The Independent
Daevid Allen with Gong in 1971. In 1966, Daevid Allen, who had left Australia in search of "the hot spots of culture", had a spiritual vision in Mallorca. "It was Easter Sunday, 1966. A friend of mine came through with some particularly strong acid ...
- Sometimes, it's all in who you know (Gloucester County Times)
It's funny how one's life can be built around connections that often help give it some meaning, some broader sense of accomplishment. And you get to say, wow, I knew somebody important.
- Freelancing for Pleasure and Profit - Gather.com
Gather.comFreelancing for Pleasure and ProfitGather.com, MA - 6 hours agoAre writing contests scams? Sadly, some writing contests are in fact scams. Don't ever enter anything sponsored by Poetry.com. They have scammed writers for ...
- Poetic justice retires from bench (London Free Press)
To remove the judicial gown.
- No Parking Anytime: Cottages house writers' aspirations - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Summer has brought a little melancholy to Todd Faulkner, because when it goes, so will he -- leaving the tiny, wooden, century-old cottage nestled in the bright flowers of the Belltown P-patch. When he moves out, the bittersweet memoir of record ...
- Bad poetry from 1890s brings $12K at auction (Arizona Daily Star)
EDINBURGH, Scotland — The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language.
- 5. Poetry Everywhere - On Milwaukee
All Categories All Bars and Clubs - 18 and over - All ages - Billiards - Blues - Brew pub - Cigar bar - College - Comedy - Dance - country - Dance - DJ - Dance - electronica - Dance - Hip Hop - Dance - house - Dance - Latin/salsa - Dance - retro ...
- Fourth of July celebration: Take your pick - TriVallyCentral
These four visitors from the Valley were among many thousands of parade-goers at the Show Low Fourth of July Parade last year. The parade annually draws White Mountain VIPĂ•s, state and local officials, and a bounty of colorful floats produced by ...
- NORM: Steve Wynn goes for mega-yacht - Las Vegas Review Journal
Casino developer Steve Wynn has put dueling pirate ships and a faux volcano on the Strip. Now the Disney of the Desert is pursuing another passion: a mega-yacht. Several sources confirmed that Wynn recently purchased the 183-foot Allegro, which was ...
- Islanders work like beavers to stay afloat - MLive.com
Islanders work like beavers to stay afloatMLive.com, MI - 2 hours agoHe includes cutting and stacking firewood as one of his favorite activities -- not surprisingly, he heats the family home primarily with a wood stove. ...
- First UK Hammershoi Retrospective Might Be His Last - ARTINFO
ARTINFOFirst UK Hammershoi Retrospective Might Be His LastARTINFO, NY - 12 hours agoBy Oliver Basciano LONDON—The first UK retrospective of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864–1916), titled Vilhem Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence, ...
- A year after raid, lives still on hold (Portland Tribune)
Abdias Cortéz and others snared by the June 2007 immigration raid at Portland’s Fresh Del Monte produce plant call themselves “women of the bracelet,” after the electronic monitoring devices they wore during their subsequent house arrest. A year later, they are women in ...
- Book Review: All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John McWhorter (Blogcritics.org)
The author argues that hip-hop is metaphysical at best, mystical at the least, but a political tour de force? Not yet, and maybe never. On one side I hear John McWhorter, and on the other side I hear Michael Eric Dyson. In this book their voices come together because McWhorter has put forth his hip-hop apolitical argument in sharp contrast to the many political ones. In fact, Dyson provided the ...
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