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- Bypass summer traffic headaches and hop the ferry - Anchorage Daily News (subscription)
Bypass summer traffic headaches and hop the ferryAnchorage Daily News (subscription), AK - 7 hours agoSee Jack London's cabin and listen to nightly recitations of Robert Service's poetry. You also can take a boat tour on the Yukon River aboard the Yukon ...
- Travelogue: Pay homage to the Good Gray Poet - Norwood Bulletin
Travelogue: Pay homage to the Good Gray PoetNorwood Bulletin, USA - 5 hours agoHe continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, NJ, where his health further ...
- Urban arts districts take center stage at CSU conference - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Artists see themselves as devoted to creativity. City planners now look at artists and see something else: a highly valuable form of urban fertilizer. Sprinkle some galleries on a dying main street. Change the zoning to allow live-work loft space ...
- Sameer Mathur, 19 (WestportNow)
Sameer Mathur, beloved son of Aparajita and Alok Mathur of Westport, lost his battle against an infection of the brain Wednesday, April 30, 2008 and took his leave of us to go to a much better place. Sameer was a brilliant young man who has been torn from us at the early age of 19.
- UNT professor publishes new poetry collection (Denton Record-Chronicle)
University of North Texas English professor Bruce Bond’s Blind Rain, a book of poetry, was recently released by Louisiana State University Press. The book includes several elegies, many concerning last days and death of his father.
- Teenage poet sharing her work: Widdifield grad wins young authors contest (The North Bay Nugget)
Susie Gooch didn’t think her poem Infinitely was an award-winning piece when she first wrote it. “I was on the bus on the way from my sister’s graduation in Guelph and I didn’t really have anything with me so I started writing on Post-it Notes,” said the 17-year-old. [...]
- Commission to Analyze State Mandates (R News)
Monroe County's Republican administration continues to blame unfunded state mandates for high taxes and cuts to services. Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks announced Tuesday her county will try to do something about it.
- Expressions in Motion - Ashtabula Star-Beacon
Shirley McElhaney has always been interested in art, from ballet to painting, from going to concerts to writing poetry. However, raising four children and working 31 years for the Trumbull County Children’s Services Board didn’t allow much time ...
- TheStar.com | GTA | Teens sought in student's stabbing - Toronto Star
In what may have begun as a dispute over a new cellphone, police say, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed at his high school locker this afternoon while his girlfriend stood next to him. Luke Thomas was found by ambulance paramedics bleeding from a knife ...
- Pak Youth Society celebrates jubilee - Gulf Times
Pak Youth Society celebrates jubileeGulf Times, Qatar - 20 minutes agoPakistani envoy Mohamed Asghar Afridi presided over the function that included the launch of the silver jubilee magazine, a poetry book and a poetic session ...
- Leeds Latitude festival kicks off: July 18-20 - Yorkshire Evening Post
Leeds Latitude festival kicks off: July 18-20Yorkshire Evening Post, UK - 3 hours ago"Last year we only played one day but stayed for three – saw poetry, comedy. It's a lot different from the big mash-up festivals. ...
- Smears, Scribbles, and Scratches: Twombly at the Tate Modern (The New York Sun)
The magnificent retrospective of veteran American artist Cy Twombly at London's Tate Modern is a reminder that, above all else, painting is smearing and drawing is scribble. In his handling, with its extremes of slightness and scatter, informality can border on the infantile. This show, which is curated by the Tate's director, Sir Nicholas Serota, travels to the Bilbao Guggenheim in the fall, ...
- Bad Business on the Border - Newspaper Tree
Bad Business on the BorderNewspaper Tree, TX - 37 minutes agoIf you’re interested in this evolution, read my poetry. The import of all this is that we’ve been watching the border and El Paso change since we’ve been ...
- Community news - Daily Reflector
The Pitt County chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its annual meeting from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Paramore Clubhouse. Board members will be elected and volunteers and partners will be recognized. Refreshments will be served. For more ...
- Returning to the Past and Finding the Bogeyman Is Still There - New York Times
New York TimesReturning to the Past and Finding the Bogeyman Is Still ThereNew York Times, United States - 2 hours agoSometimes the book reduces the child to cartoon-character indignation. (“My hatred for him nearly caused my skin to steam, and I was constantly plotting ...
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