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- 'Defying Dixie' sheds light on South - Island Packet Online
Many of us think the civil rights movement began when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus or when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial to deliver his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. But the fight for social ...
- Darwish, poet of the Palestinian cause, dies after surgery (Independent)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, is to get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank following his death this weekend – an honour only previously accorded to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
- What happened to ‘straight talk?’ - La Crosse Tribune
The lust for power has corrupted many people. This may be the reason John McCain has gone from being a man of “straight talk” and honor to using lies and deliberate distortions of the truth in order to advance his candidacy. The McCain/Palin ...
- Pick Your Own Apples In The Region - The Bulletin
Outside, the air is changing to a slight chill, leaves are turning deep red and speckled gold, and children are rising earlier to wave goodbye to their parents as they climb onto school buses. Weekends are filled with sports, fundraisers, school ...
- Oh, for a poet laureate - The Kingston Whig-Standard
Oh, for a poet laureateThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 1 hour agoA pastoral, full of all its rural rustic charms, is precisely the type of poetry that could bring the Wolfe Island windmill project to life. ...
- Poet 'unpacks the boxes' at PSU gathering - The Union Leader
Poet 'unpacks the boxes' at PSU gatheringThe Union Leader, NH - 2 hours agoLast night, the US poet laureate in 2006 read at Plymouth State University from "Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of Life in Poetry" published Sept. ...
- Poetry in Stop Motion - Broadcast Newsroom
Poetry in Stop MotionBroadcast Newsroom, CA - 3 hours agoBy John Virata A work of art demands to be beautifully framed, and for that most modern of artworks, the car, what more appropriate frame could there be ...
- A real Republican platform - WorldNetDaily
We recall the words of the old popular song, "What a Difference a Day Makes; 24 Little Hours." In this political year, it was actually 38 hours, but the poetry is the same. That's the time-spread between the locking up of the 2008 Republican platform ...
- Literature Event - MetroMix
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Author Jolie du Pre ("Iridescence") guest-hosts readings by L.A. erotica writer Fiona Zedde ("A Taste of Sin") and Miami humor essayist Andrea Askowitz ("My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy") Kathie Bergquist (author of "A ...
- Prison Break at Johnson's Island - Archaeology
Prison Break at Johnson's IslandArchaeology, NY - 11 hours agoThere was a guy, most prisoners knew him as "Asa Harts," who was really George McKnight, he was a poet and a songwriter and he wrote a lot of poetry here ...
- Tamblyn, the poet, stars in Litquake opener (San Francisco Chronicle)
Amber Tamblyn totally gets why people are suspicious of her writing abilities. "There's this underlying belief that actors are really shallow," she says with obvious exasperation. "And I think that is catastrophically bull-. It's incredibly unfair because...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - Jackson News-Tribune
Today in History - Aug. 4Jackson News-Tribune, WY - 19 hours agoThought for Today: "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
- Nothing but vile verse? Do your worst (Jacksonville Daily News)
36676 Dreadful verse keeping you down? Need to share a few deplorable stanza's with loved ones? Suppress the poor prose no more - today you're free to write all the bad poetry you, and others, can stand.
- Poetic injustice? Teaching intern claims she was barred from Noble ... - Fosters Daily Democrat
NORTH BERWICK, Maine — A Noble High School teaching intern says she was barred from the school Tuesday after hosting an in-class poetry slam contest where profanity was used. Wren Hayes, 26, who had been teaching at the school for nearly a year as ...
- Publishers: Get Your Books in Don Draper’s Hands - New York Times Blogs
Publishers: Get Your Books in Don Draper’s HandsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 2 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
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