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- Melbourne to be world 'City of Literature' (The Age)
The timing could hardly have been better had it appeared in the final chapters of a best-selling thriller. Three days before the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival, UNESCO has named Melbourne as its second City of Literature. Edinburgh became the first in 2004.
- Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimism - Financial Times
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimismFinancial Times, UK - 16 minutes agoBy Kevin Goldstein-Jackson As well as writing this column, I am trying to meet the deadline for delivery of haiku for a small poetry magazine, ...
- Trivia contest highlights city knowledge (Portage Daily Register)
Susan Gorsuch of Pardeeville spent the past week researching the history of Portage in anticipation of Thursday's Portage Trivia Contest. Unfortunately for Gorsuch, no one showed up to participate.
- Pregnant Sculptures, Whirling Dervishes and the First Ever Poet Take Out Australia's Top Award for Art and Faith (Art Daily)
Peter Daverington. SYDNEY.- The Blake Prize of A$20,000 has been awarded to artist David Tucker for a sculptural work that depicts a procession of pregnant women and symbols of Egyptian, Christian and Hindu traditions.
- Michelle Kennedy - WXII 12
Meteorologist Michelle Kennedy, a native of Syracuse, N.Y., joined the WXII 12 team in the summer of 2001. Michelle is not new to the Carolinas, before moving to the Triad she spent several years forecasting in other parts of North and South Carolina ...
- Granddaddy heaven (not for the queasy) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - When i was much younger, a feature writer asked me what kind of a funeral I would like for myself. I was game enough to answer a horrible question like that so I said I fancied a burial like those of ancient Filipinos— yes, wrapped in a mat!
- Young artist collects her prize - Salisbury Journal
Young artist collects her prizeSalisbury Journal, UK - 15 hours agoThe 11-year-old, a pupil at South Wilts Grammar School, entered an art and poetry competition run by Animal Aid on the theme of factory farming. ...
- ‘Moving tributes’ to the words of national bard (The Herald)
The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be commemorated at transport hubs across the west of Scotland, while a carriage on Glasgow's Subway system will also be dedicated to the national bard.
- A man with talent out of this world - The News International
A man with talent out of this worldThe News International, Pakistan - 1 hour agoBy By Zabe Azkar Hussain Qamar Afzal Qamar, a poet, short story writer and educationist whose Urdu poetry collection titled ‘Sang Sitara’ appeared a few ...
- Cairo to Edinburgh and back again - Al-Ahram Weekly
Cairo to Edinburgh and back againAl-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - 11 minutes agoLockerbie had asked four of Scotland's most acclaimed writers -- AL Kennedy, Don Paterson, Janice Galloway and John Burnside -- to write poetry and prose to ...
- Brian Wilson, Joan Baez, Lindsey Buckingham Chill on Mellow CDs - Bloomberg
Brian Wilson, Joan Baez, Lindsey Buckingham Chill on Mellow CDsBloomberg - 2 hours agoTheir 10th-grade poetry, written by long-time Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks, romantically paints LA as a ``star-spangled city. ...
- Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiere - The Australian
Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiereThe Australian, Australia - 6 hours agoDisgrace tells the story of a self-absorbed romantic poetry professor in Cape Town who visits his daughter following his resignation over an affair with a ...
- BIG DEAL (Pioneer Press)
Opus & Olives, 5 p.m. Oct. 12, Crowne Plaza Hotel, 11 E. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul: Vince Flynn, Minnesota author of best-selling international thrillers, is master of ceremonies for the fifth annual Friends of the St. Paul Public Library fundraiser. Guest authors include Val McDermid ("Beneath the Bleeding," psychological thriller), James M. McPherson ("Tried by War," how Abraham Lincoln created ...
- Thomas Brown: I Am The Greatest - Bleacher Report
Thomas Brown: I Am The GreatestBleacher Report, CA - 3 hours agoI resort to writing poetry and the tears that drown my sorrows of not being a top writer. If only one day I wish I could be on that list. ...
- Seven years later, survivors still search for normalcy in lives (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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