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- AP Top News at 3:36 a.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Cheered by a roaring crowd, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is our ...
- Young poets find a forum - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Words are not rhetorical for the Inland Empire Youth Slam Poetry Team, an aggregation of teen and 20-something poets. They are seeking solutions in poetic form, using their voices to convey personal thoughts and opinions and expecting evocative ...
- How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory - Medical News Today (press release)
How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And MemoryMedical News Today (press release), UK - 3 hours ago... State University had participants read works of poetry and prose with alliterative sentences to show the importance of repetitive consonants on memory. ...
- A steady stream of consciousness (Honolulu Advertiser)
Jon Hamblin chooses to work on weathered, corrugated roofing metal that has been discarded. On the wavy, dented and often punctured surfaces he paints figures, animals and flora in bright oil enamel colors.
- Muslim students launch Princeton magazine (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Muslim culture features many prominent achievements in architecture, literature and science. Yet awareness of these accomplishments, according to a group of Princeton University students, is low.
- Karadzic: Behind the beard hid the angel of death - Scotsman
Times OnlineKaradzic: Behind the beard hid the angel of deathScotsman, United Kingdom - 7 hours agoHis privileged education, poetry and introduction of group therapy earned him a degree of celebrity. But his political career only really began in 1990 when ...Video: War Crimes Suspect to Fight Move to UN Tribunal AssociatedPressRadovan Karadzic: from small-time swindler to war criminal Telegraph.co.ukBosnia's butcher poet The AustralianTransitions Online - Independentall 4,278 news articles
- Do we protest too much about where we write? - Guardian Blogs
In a city bereft of a location with equivalent bookish cache to the British Library, entrepreneurs in Manhattan have provided New York's literati (as in anyone, published or not, who can afford to pay a hefty annual fee) with an opportunity to get ...
- Andrew Motion (EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press)
A festival audience shared an intimate and delightful evening in the company of Andrew Motion, who has been the country's Poet Laureate since 1999.
- Estremera: Conversation among brain cells (Sun Star)
THERE seems to be a growing number of kidnappings and major robberies out there in the national capital, and even more dead people being tagged as the robbers of this and kidnappers of that. And it's half a year before 2008 ends.
- Goodbye high school, hello college, and feeling torn - Stamford Advocate
DARIEN - It is three days until my high school graduation and to be honest, I really don't know what I am feeling. I'm torn between being ready to move on while at the same time having to say goodbye to the people I've made strong bonds with in the ...
- Need a Dickens expert? He's the man (Mankato Free Press)
What started out as a nudge from mom turned into a full-scale passion to studying and understanding Charles Dickens.
- Book reading by Norman Fischer - Canada.com
Book reading by Norman FischerCanada.com, Canada - 6 hours agoThe second Tuesday of every month, 7 pm ? pandorascollective.com Open mic, poetry, comedy and more, with hosts Wanda-Sue Nowicki and Bill McNamara. ...
- Poetry night (Bridlington Today)
POETS in Bridlington are invited to Yogi's Cafe Bar in Promenade tomorrow at 7.15pm. (11/06/2008 13:33:15)
- Michel Houellebecq - guardian.co.uk
Michel Houellebecqguardian.co.uk, UK - 59 minutes agoWhatever (L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte) was made into a film in 2000. Houellebecq has recorded a CD of his poetry, Presence Humaine (Tricatel ...
- Reviews roundup: Afterlife - Guardian Unlimited
'Excellent', 'engaging' but 'reduced to actor laddie bluster' ... Roger Allam as Max Reinhardt in Afterlife at the National Theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton As the man who put the cheque into Chekhov (that's Alan Bennett's jab at the writer's ...
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