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- Effort on to restore Ga. poet Byron Herbert Reece's farm - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Effort on to restore Ga. poet Byron Herbert Reece's farmAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 2 hours agoReece was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, but he stayed close to home to care for his parents, who were both stricken by tuberculosis, ...
- Dick Martin, zany half of 'Laugh-In' duo, dies at 86 - Baltimore Sun
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In took television by storm in the late 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has ...
- AP Top News at 6:12 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois sealed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. A defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket. Obama's victory set up a five-month campaign with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a race ...
- The 'Bluestocking Circle' and the fight for women's rights in literary ... - International Herald Tribune
LONDON : They dazzled 18th-century London, or at least their closest friends, with their fine art of conversation which was to redeem "Society" from its mortal addiction to playing cards and dancing. Failing that, it made them famous, but fame is a ...
- Tales of fathers sail on in `The Boat' - Miami Herald
Father's Day is a Sunday. Nam Le has time to go out and buy his dad a card or a gift, but he really needn't bother. "The Boat," his debut book, serves as both. Several of the seven masterful short stories here deal with that old generational bugaboo ...
- British company launches poetry download site - Silicon Valley
Addressing one of the biggest complaints about the iPhone - the high price tag - Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Monday celebrated the device's one-year birthday by unveiling a cheaper and faster version. In one of its biggest product launches in recent ...
- Julie Vik will lead workshop on lyric writing for writers’ fest - Bowen Island Undercurrent
Bowen Island UndercurrentJulie Vik will lead workshop on lyric writing for writers’ festBowen Island Undercurrent, Canada - 1 hour agoThree free Saturday panels explore writing poetry, freelance writing, and the process of taking a book from manuscript to publication. ...
- Equal opportunity unemployment (Salon.com)
For the first time since the women's movement began, an economic recovery has not led to a higher percentage of women in the workforce.
- First Wednesday Poets - Sierra Mountain Times
First Wednesday PoetsSierra Mountain Times, CA - 1 hour agoBy Jerome Peterson Peter Guissi, a former Sonora High School student, reads contemporary “rap†poetry during open mic night at Legends Books and Antiques in ...
- Premier supports tax aid for racy film (Toronto Star)
The controversial new Canadian movie Young People F---ing has an improbable champion in Premier Dalton McGuinty.
- Looking at Presidential pastimes - Athens Banner-Herald
During this election year, we will get to know quite a bit about the candidates - sometimes much more than we would like to know. I've long had a fascination with presidential politics and with the lives of those who have occupied the land's highest ...
- Author fills gap in Hugo-ology - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Author fills gap in Hugo-ologyTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 39 minutes agoOn one occasion, the "Lion" invited Hugo and another writer to compete to please it with poetry. Then, it left during the recital by Hugo’s rival. ...
- At 70 is the Wessex Scene old news? (The Wessex Scene Online)
In celebrating the Wessex Scene’s ‘70th anniversary’, it made a great deal of sense to look back at where we had come from. With seventy [seventy two –Ed.]
- Cirque du Life - Jewish Exponent
Jewish ExponentCirque du LifeJewish Exponent, PA - 45 minutes agoAnd, tellingly, Verkhovsky's tales are poetry in motion -- and jumping and juggling -- that turn heads and spin somersault sunshines into the hearts of ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan - Washington Post
Washington PostI'll Take the ManhattanWashington Post, United States - 3 hours agoWhich is just as well, since almost no one reads poetry anymore. I've been tasting a lot of silly drinks lately, and I believe we have entered the age of ...
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