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- Pulitzer Prize winner named Va.'s poet laureate - WTOP Radio
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Tim Kaine appoints University of Mary Washington professor Claudia Emerson as Virginia 's new poet laureate. Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called "Late Wife." The book uses a collection of ...
- Coastal Post Online - Coastal Post News
Smiley's Hotel in downtown Bolinas, California offers some of the best rooms in West Marin at the most reasonable prices. Garden settings and only a 5 minute walk to some beautiful beaches. 30 miles north of San Francisco, it is the best kept secret ...
- Retirement is Perfect Time to Write and Reinvent Oneself - Emediawire (press release)
Retirement is Perfect Time to Write and Reinvent OneselfEmediawire (press release), WA - 45 minutes agoShe recently published a small book of poetry, "Elder Expectations: My Life in Rictameters" (Lulu 2008). Styne also writes two blogs, "Never too Late! ...
- Poetry: A Classic and Effective Approach to Combating Stress (Christian News Wire)
ENUMCLAW, Wash., June 30 / Christian Newswire / -- Growing up can be stressful. The teen years, in particular, are renowned for their socially and physically imposed triggers for anxiety.
- Band takes creative, complex approach to metal - Tacoma Weekly
Band takes creative, complex approach to metalTacoma Weekly, WA - 3 hours agoThe singer discusses spiritual concepts and reads books of poetry. Their style is intense and complex. And they are all in their late teens and early ...
- Truly, madly, deeply - The Australian
The AustralianTruly, madly, deeplyThe Australian, Australia - 13 minutes agoI firmly believe my life would be infinitely poorer without poetry, its music, its deep wisdom. One tends to forget that poetry is wisdom. ...
- Check it Out: Bed and Breakfasts for the Booklover - TransWorldNews (press release)
Check it Out: Bed and Breakfasts for the BookloverTransWorldNews (press release), GA - 1 hour agoOther guest suites are named for literary themes: Romance, Modern Classics, Inspiration, Poetry and the Writer's Suite. Perched on a bluff overlooking the ...
- The man ‘Black’ with many parts - The Statesman Online
The man ‘Black’ with many partsThe Statesman Online, Ghana - 23 minutes agoAt his annual solo exhibition earlier this year, Quaye Kojo Benedict (more commonly known as "Black") recited poetry from inside a coffin. ...
- Five questions for Magdalena Retlikowska - Metro
Five questions for Magdalena RetlikowskaMetro, UK - 11 hours ago... trying to make blockbuster productions, I think Polish cinema focuses on everyday life, using the potential in actors, beautiful scenery and poetry. ...
- Death Penalty - New York Times Blogs
Death PenaltyNew York Times Blogs, NY - 13 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Music: Silver Jews' latest album mostly loses its way (Chicago Tribune)
Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City)
- Poetry and rehabilitation - International Herald Tribune
For years, Jay Parini, the Robert Frost biographer and literature professor, had been writing - wrestling with, he says - a book titled "Why Poetry Matters." No sooner was it published than the writer was confronted with a slice-of-life demand to ...
- Summer books to refresh your spirit - Billings Gazette
Summer often brings vacation days, trips to flee the routine and extra "me" time. It can be a season to rest the body. It also can be a time to renew the mind and refresh the spirit - through reading. But where to start? To help you, we asked people ...
- Adjusting the Theory of Just War: Gary Bass's 'Freedom's Battle' (The New York Sun)
From the Vietnam War until the end of the Cold War, it was almost axiomatic that liberals would oppose every use of American military power. Defecting from that position was what qualified a former liberal as a neoconservative. But in the last 20 years, as the post-Holocaust promise "never again" was betrayed in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur, parts of the left began to reconsider the virtues of ...
- Key dates in Radovan Karadzic's life - Salon
— June 19, 1945: Born in Savnik, Yugoslavia, in what is now the Republic of Montenegro. — July 12, 1990: A founding member of the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia-Herzegovina. — March 27, 1992: Becomes president of Serbia's National Security ...
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