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- 8/28: Watching And Waiting - National Journal
8/28: Watching And WaitingNational Journal, DC - 4 hours agoBowers: "Joe Biden lacked poetry, but he really, really hammered McCain. Given that is what I have hoped to hear from Democrats for so long during this ...
- Radio review - Guardian Unlimited
With the drawing in of horns clearly set to be this autumn's popular new pastime, A Good Read (Radio 4) makes an eminently sensible listening choice. Sue McGregor lists the price of each book under discussion - yesterday this was Muriel Spark's The ...
- World Leaders Who Liked to Paint (Newsweek)
What happens when world leaders get creative. Hint: it isn't always pretty.
- From Nowhere to Everywhere and beyond: Judging the first book award - Guardian Blogs
A friend who was a travel rep used to complain that it was hell working in the leisure industry because you had to work when everyone else was on holiday. After a summer grappling with 170 books - the biggest ever submission for the Guardian first ...
- Unfit for Publication: Corsi's The Obama Nation filled with falsehoods - Media Matters
Summary: In its preface, Jerome Corsi compares his new book, The Obama Nation , to his 2004 book Unfit for Command . The comparison seems apt: Just as Unfit for Command contains false attacks on Sen. John Kerry's military service, a Media Matters ...
- My brother is lost at sea - Independent
Cathy and David Ostlere in Mull in Scotland, the last time they saw each other Cathy Ostlere vividly remembers clinging to the railing on an arched bridge at Mizen Head. The year was 1996 and she was making her way along the blustery coastline to ...
- Ãlhan Berk dies at 90 - Turkish Daily News
Award-winning Turkish poet Ãlhan Berk died Thursday at Bodrum State Hospital. He was 90. Berk had been receiving treatment in the hospital for some time due to health problems arising from age. Berk's funeral ceremony will be held Saturday in Bodrum ...
- The Censor in the Mirror (The Epoch Times)
Ha Jin says it’s not what the Chinese Propaganda Department does to artists, but what it makes artists do.
- Homeless 90210: Slumming Time And The Livin's Easy (FOX 29 Lake Charles)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Authorities have raised the confirmed death toll in the Los Angeles commuter rail disaster to 24 but they don't believe they have removed the last body from the wreckage.
- Witty Repartee (Metro Weekly)
The trick of improvisational theater is taking a few ideas and stitching them together on the fly before an audience. Success can be measured in laughs, which are Washington Improv Theater's stock-in-trade.
- Pencil It In - Norwalk Hour
Through Friday, Oct. 31, teens in grades 7-12 are invited to submit original poetry which will culminate in a two-performance poetry event, "Poetry in Motion: Life's Challenges--Tell Me About It!," centered on the theme of the trials and tribulations ...
- Halifax, NS | Sun, July 27th, 2008 - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Halifax, NS | Sun, July 27th, 2008TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoThe facilitator is Jeff Davis, (Taos Summer Writers Conference; Writers Lab in Skyros, Greece; Block Island Poetry Project), author of The Journey from the ...
- City of West Hollywood to Host the Second Annual Algonquin West Hollywood Awards at the Pacific Design Center on ... (Centre Daily Times)
The Second Annual Algonquin West Hollywood Awards will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue. This year's honoree is poet, activist and author Luis Rodriguez. The purpose of the Algonquin West Hollywood Award is to connect the past and present by linking masterful literary voices from different generations. Proceeds from the event ...
- Poet Dannie Abse on how writing helped him through grief - Times Online
Times OnlinePoet Dannie Abse on how writing helped him through griefTimes Online, UK - 17 minutes agoNow it is the memory of Joan, an art historian and biographer, and his desire to celebrate their lives together in poetry that drive his creative energies. ...
- Gervase Phinn: What pupils can teach us... - Yorkshire Post
Gervase Phinn: What pupils can teach us...Yorkshire Post, UK - 39 minutes agoAfter I had left the school, he had written to me, via my publisher, with some examples of his poetry. I had replied and we became pen-friends. ...
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