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- A Brooklyn Assemblyman's Earmarks Are Political Surrealism (The Village Voice)
A local pol gets singed for his attempt at pork for Aesthetic Realism (By Maria Luisa Tucker)
- Kaleidoscope poetry - LoHo 10002
Kaleidoscope poetryLoHo 10002, NY - 2 hours agoOn Saturday, starting at 4 pm, there is a wild collaboration of poets and musicians going down at The Bowery Poetry Club. ...
- 'Saddam's jail diaries' published - BBC Middle East
An Arab newspaper has published what it says are excerpts from diaries written by the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein while in captivity. The extracts printed in Al-Hayat portray a man who never seems to have stopped believing in himself as a ...
- DMC: Poet entertains, impresses students - KIII TV3
DMC: Poet entertains, impresses studentsKIII TV3, TX - 4 hours ago... poet to receive two National Book Critics Circle Awards. As one of the most published poets among his generation, his work frequently appears in Poetry, ...
- Life at the Buxton Festival (With Audio) ; The Buxton Festival ... - RedOrbit
Life at the Buxton Festival (With Audio) ; The Buxton Festival ...RedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoOpera, literature, comedy, poetry, theatre, dance and photography - this is art with broad brush strokes on a canvas stretching over three July weeks. ...
- Teens put their lives in verse for poetry contest (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Read the poems in the P-I's 16-and-younger poetry competition.
- New translation of 'Aeneid' restores Virgil's wordplay, in original meter (Cornell News Service)
The Roman poet Virgil spent the last 11 years of his life writing "Aeneid," an epic poem of a hero's journey from Troy to Italy, styled on Homer's "Odyssey" and "Iliad."
- Lynn English holds annual poetry contest (The Daily Item)
LYNN - Lynn English High School sponsored its annual poetry contest Wednesday under the guidance of poetry chairs Shannon Gardner and Carol Conway.
- Sonics' lawyers don't want author Sherman Alexie testifying - Seattle Times
Prize-winning author, poet and humorist Sherman Alexie shouldn't be allowed to testify at an upcoming trial to block the Seattle SuperSonics from moving to Oklahoma City because he has nothing relevant to say and is known for his "profanity-laced ...
- Community news &bull... (Akron Beacon Journal)
Community news • Akron-Canton area winners of the Kids Speak Out essay contest sponsored by WVIZ/PBS ideastream and Time Warner Cable Northeast Ohio were: Whitney Porter of Akron's St. Vincent-St. Mary High School and Jenna Baisden of Perry High School. Honorable mention awards went to Alexandra Horning of St. Vincent-St. Mary, Alex Marzullo of Hudson High and LaTesia Conley of Massillon ...
- NLR High Team Wins Poetry Competition (KARK Little Rock)
A team of students representing North Little Rock High School East Campus has won highest honors in year-end standings of this year's Word Masters Challenge.
- At 99, New Hampshire man becomes a first-time author - Boston Globe
For someone else, it might have just been a moment to indulge in some nostalgia. But something clicked when John Archer, at the age of 92, came across some poems he had written in 1930. And he began to write. "I started writing just to amuse myself ...
- Bridging the Gap (Modesto Bee)
TURLOCK -- Prisma Lisbeth Soria's high school friends didn't like that she wanted to take honors classes. They ignored her on campus for months and accused her of leaving them behind. So, the 17-year-old threw away her poetry collection and hunkered down in her basic classes to be accepted again.
- Webb examines the major issues facing the U.S. - MSNBC
“Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will call the roll.†These final words calling for a vote on the Senate floor have been uttered by the presiding officer, from a ...
- Grandson treasures his grandmother's work - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Grandson treasures his grandmother's workAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 1 hour agoMcRae's grandmother knew Hughes, often read his poetry and made a bust of him, which McRae also has. Why he likes it: "I grew up listening to Langston ...
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