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- Dwight Brown Jr. explores history, lore of 'The Pawcatuck River Navy - Westerly Sun
Dwight Brown Jr. of Hopkinton holds a copy of his latest book, in front, and a copy of a previous effort, "The Whaleship Charles Phelps." Photo by Diane Hunt HOPKINTON – Westerly ship building history, still familiar family names and their stories ...
- Kenya: Top Community Organizer Empowers Youth (AllAfrica.com)
Kenyan health care advocate, activist and academic Dr. Miriam K. Were is in Japan today to receive a major new prize established by the Japanese government, the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize , in recognition of her work to promote community medical services.
- Rescue crews take over in Rangoon (Calcutta News)
Rescue operations are under way in Myanmar after cyclone Nargis killed an estimated 350 people and causing widespread damage. The country's military rulers have declared disaster areas in five regions, including the main city Rangoon.
- Dance star’s final sparkle - Wokingham Times
Dance star’s final sparkleWokingham Times, UK - 7 hours agoThey were wittily cast as showbiz rivals in The Band Waggon in which their duet Dancing In The Dark is pure screen poetry. They also struck sparks in Silk ...
- Cumming dares and bares in lively "Bacchae" revamp - Reuters
Cumming dares and bares in lively "Bacchae" revampReuters - 3 hours agoAs for Euripides' poetry -- some of the most lyrical this dramatist ever wrote -- often it goes missing in the cool, laid-back adaptation by Scots ...
- Memorable speech: An interview with David Yezzi - Enter Stage Right
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad Is Eros. His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...
- Iranian Ambassador visits Cambridge - Cambridge Network
Cambridge NetworkIranian Ambassador visits CambridgeCambridge Network, UK - 1 hour agoPeter Avery's lifelong interest in Persian poetry began when he was introduced to a translation of the poems of Omar Kayyam as a child. ...
- Elinor Lyon: Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled ... - The Independent
Author of 20 well received children's novels, Elinor Lyon ceased writing in 1975, at a time when the new emphasis on urban social realism in junior fiction had made her own stories seem increasingly out of date. But for many older readers, her ...
- Tributes to Margaret's long life caring for others (The Ham&High Network)
CROUCH End is mourning the death of a much-loved and lifelong resident. Margaret Amy Bingham, renowned for the kindness she showed to friends, neighbours and the homeless, has died, aged 95.
- Martha Wainwright Interview - CD Times
Martha Wainwright InterviewCD Times, UK - 1 hour agoThey're very personal and very intense but, at the same time, I try to keep myself protected by virtue of having strong poetry, melody and instrumentation. ...
- POWER POETRY: NH poets slam their way to national contest - New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER – YOU DON'T HAVE to be well-versed in the ways of competitive poetry to know a good slam when you hear one. You only have to be entertained. At least, that was the advice given me last week as I prepared to judge contestants during this ...
- Obama should emulate FDR - New York Daily News
Obama should emulate FDRNew York Daily News, NY - 5 hours agoAnd, remember, it is poetry, not policy, that brings voters to the polls on Election Day. Cohen, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, ...
- Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate - New York Times
New York TimesKay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet LaureateNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoMs. Ryan has carved out a life conducive to poetry writing. She has taught the same remedial English course at the College of Marin in Kentfield, Calif., ...
- Marvin's lounge new to 2nd ward (Dayton Daily News)
When you approach the new Martin's Lounge from the front, at first you might think you've arrived at a market.
- Happy first anniversary to Fire Restaurant - Walton Sun
Happy first anniversary to Fire RestaurantWalton Sun, FL - 12 hours agoSusan Alfieri has combined photos of the bottom of her pool focusing on the aqueous shadows with poetry she wrote for the Paradise Writers Society. ...
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