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- Yeats provides reliably glorious flourish - The Independent
If only everything in life were as reliable. Not, admittedly, the sort of observation generally prompted by a thoroughbred – except, perhaps, among those who feverishly presume that every vagary in equine performance reflects the cynical ...
- Urdu forum releases DVD of award function (Gulf Times)
MAJLIS-e-Farogh-e-Urdu Adab, a literary organisation released the DVD of its 12th Alami Farogh-e-Urdu Adab award and international poetry symposium 2008 at a function on Saturday.
- Scenes of looting, pillaging near Georgian city of Gori (Khaleej Times)
DZARDZANIS, Georgia - Scores of houses were ablaze Wednesday outside the Georgian city of Gori as local fighters and Russian soldiers looted homes in Georgian villages, an AFP reporter witnessed.
- NO civil rights icon still working to improve diversity - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
NO civil rights icon still working to improve diversityThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 53 minutes agoBridges was a guest at "Prelude to Freedom: The Ending of the International Slave Trade," an afternoon that featured readings of poetry and short stories, ...
- Local woman remembers Linco - Lafayette Journal and Courier
The Columbian Park Zoo, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, is a special place for generations of families. Lafayette's Virginia Casey, who turned 86 Sunday, said she enjoyed frequent visits to the zoo. Around 1930, she even sat on top of ...
- Sorting the Olympic professionals from the amateurs - yorkshirepost
From: Tom Whitley, Nicholson Road, Healing, Grimsby. THE arguments about whether professional sportsmen and sportswomen should be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games will go on and on, and the matter is clouded by definition of what constitutes a ...
- Mary Washington professor is named poet laureate (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, is Virginia's new poet laureate, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today. Emerson, who grew up in Chatham in Pittsylvania County, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for "Late Wife," her third book of poetry. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in English and earned a master's degree in ...
- Palestinian poet given 'state funeral' - Globe and Mail
Palestinian poet given 'state funeral'Globe and Mail, Canada - Aug 13, 2008RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — The body of Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry gave voice to Palestinian national aspirations, arrived on Wednesday in the West Bank city ...
- Community Calendar (The Houma Courier)
The Sam and Jim Acting Company presents Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 7 p.m. Sept. 3-6 and 2 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd., Houma. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $12 for senior citizens, military members or veterans
- Haley Paramore: 'I'm not depressed' - NME.com
Haley Paramore: 'I'm not depressed'NME.com, UK - 12 hours ago... fill a hundred pages of lyrics, poetry, broken thoughts and still never be understood even the slightest. it’sa good thing. i just don’t get it yet. ...
- Sweet sound of our anthem - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerSweet sound of our anthemJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 8 hours agoIn some of the other featured events, Dayron Robles of Cuba was poetry in motion as he hurdled to victory in the 110m race. Jamaicans Maurice Wignall and ...
- Jakob Dylan comes into his own - Worcester Telegram
Jakob Dylan comes into his ownWorcester Telegram, MA - 4 hours agoFrom being a premature baby to a far-from-perfect lover, Dylan examines himself through unguarded musings and intimate poetry. During one of the album’s ...
- A New Literary Taste in Town (Flathead Beacon)
A year ago, a gaggle of Whitefish ski bums launched a biannual literary journal. With their third issue hitting bookstores this past week, the Whitefish Review not only stretched its fingers around the globe, but notched itself higher into a new plane of literary culture. One story tastes like a sweet cherry, the next like a tangy orange. With its first two issues, word about the Whitefish ...
- A Beautiful Disappointment - Washington Post
It's possible. Even dull pizza somehow tastes better when it's eaten in view of ruins in Rome, and wine that you might dismiss at home becomes more intoxicating when it's sipped at a sidewalk cafe in Paris. Similarly, the same brand of hot dog you ...
- After Midwest City hit-and-run, victim's kin urge driver to give up - NewsOK.com (subscription)
NewsOK.com (subscription)After Midwest City hit-and-run, victim's kin urge driver to give upNewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 53 minutes agoGerald Lee said his sister wrote poetry and music and was an aspiring rapper and radio broadcaster. Her stage name was Proverb, he said. ...
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