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- Down to the well (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - In Hanoi’s Phu Thuong quarter, I spot three men covering the old village well with slabs of concrete. It is the end of the road for this old servant.
- For their fans, these are definitely keepers - Birmingham News
Happy Banned Books Week! And it is a time of celebration for us in America because we have the freedom to read, discuss and debate our literary treasures. For more on the observance and for a list of regularly challenged books, check out www.ala.org ...
- Hitting the high notes with Vasily Petrenko - Metro
MetroHitting the high notes with Vasily PetrenkoMetro, UK - 8 hours agoWith his boy-band looks and deep, dark reserves of poetry, Lewis is almost the keyboardist equivalent of Petrenko himself. But it's just as great to see the ...
- 2008 Maine Literary Festival to Focus on the Environment - MarketWatch
2008 Maine Literary Festival to Focus on the EnvironmentMarketWatch - 3 hours agoThe Festival explores the roles of writing, poetry, nature, and science in shaping the way we treat the planet and live our lives. ...
- 3 year old Mid-Southerner the youngest member of Mensa (WMCTV Memphis)
She can point out any country on a globe, memorize a poem in minutes, and has dreams of becoming a doctor. She sounds normal enough for a child, but Avery Yarbro is just three years old, and one of the youngest members of Mensa.
- Class pictures by Dawoud Bey - goTriad.com
Class pictures by Dawoud BeygoTriad.com, NC - 2 hours agoBey spent part of his adolescence playing drums for different local bands and writing poetry. He became interested in photography at 15 when he got his ...
- Cartagena: Love in the Time of Cholera - Daily Telegraph
News of the city's wealth spread around the world, and one day a fleet of 100 ships carrying 8,000 soldiers and 12,000 sailors came to attack it. The defenders numbered just 3,000 men, led by a sailor called Blas de Lezo who had one eye, one arm and ...
- To submit - News-Star
We ask that they be as true as you can make them, although we understand contents may have settled some over the years. The memories can be third person, first person, prose, poetry. There is no restriction on length, although one memory at a time is ...
- A special feast - Inquirer.net
A special feastInquirer.net, Philippines - 2 hours agoRonald Baytan is a poet and critic. “The Queen Sings the Blues,†published by Anvil, is his first poetry book.
- Can poetry in translation ever be as poetic in its new language? (The Japan Times)
A friend who was visiting recently from Germany posed me a difficult question: How can poetry be translated? I have often read that poetry is untranslatable, that "nothing is lost in translation except the poetry." Yet, if this were true, we would hardly be able to read, let alone appreciate, poets writing in other languages than our own. Read the full story
- Poster poems: Toil and trouble - guardian.co.uk
Poster poems: Toil and troubleguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoThis is an attitude that can be traced back to the Greek poet Hesiod, whose long poem Works and Days is both an exhortation to an industrious life of ...
- The reel Emily Dickinson: New DVD explores the life and environs ... - Amherst Bulletin
The reel Emily Dickinson: New DVD explores the life and environs ...Amherst Bulletin, MA - 2 hours agoWe see a bureau, and a small writing table, both of which belonged to the family, though it's not known if they were actually in Dickinson's room. ...
- From Russia with gold (NBC Olympics)
Nastia Liukin, a Russian-born American gymnast of exquisite grace and beauty,won the women's all-around, a triumph that served as an emphatic reminder that the sport is formally called artistic gymnastics.
- All's fair in this poetry – even the livestock potty - Sacramento Bee
All's fair in this poetry – even the livestock pottySacramento Bee, USA - 3 hours agoBy Carlos Alcalá - calcala@sacbee.com The State Fair, we like to say, is a fair to remember. Poets and versifiers from around the area gave us dozens of ...
- Annie Proulx's prairie poetry - Times Online
Annie Proulx's prairie poetryTimes Online, UK - 23 minutes agoWhat Proulx’s prose comes to embody is a philosophy that John Steinbeck called “is thinkingâ€, the virtue of being matter-of-fact in fiction. ...
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