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- Contest: Poetry prize offered (Marion Chronicle-Tribune)
A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a special poetry contest sponsored by Golden Poets Guild, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes, totaling $5,000.
- New Album Releases 07/08/08: Beck, Patti Smith/Kevin Shields, Albert Hammond, Jr., Billy Joel, Maroon 5, Melvins, & More (Blogcritics.org)
Saleski's back, plus Josh Hathaway on the new Beck. Did we mention Saleski's back? Although we have before us another rather short list of new album releases this week, there are quite a few interesting ones to consider. The biggie this week is of course the new one from Beck -- produced by Danger Mouse no less. Our own Josh "Meet Him At Mary's Place" Hathaway will be along shortly to talk ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power - Boston Globe
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president who took power in a high-altitude coup and later dragged a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror, submitted his resignation Monday after a turbulent nine years in ...
- UMBC professor's best seller examines a mother's love (Baltimore Sun)
Maryland resident Manil Suri's best-selling 'The Age of Shiva' examines how — and how much — a mother can love her son Shiva kept refusing his wife, Parvati's, pleas to give her a child, so she went by herself into the forest. She mixed together sandalwood paste and bath oil and flakes from her own body, and fashioned them into a baby, a son, and she made him just the way she wanted him to ...
- Standing Witness: Horacio Moya's 'Senselessness' - New York Sun
Standing Witness: Horacio Moya's 'Senselessness'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoIn many ways a black comedy, "Senselessness" is still a political book. Its angry confessional could be the work of an American writer in the vein of Philip ...
- 'Unforgettable' in New York -- The Bachchan North American Finale - IBOS
IBOS'Unforgettable' in New York -- The Bachchan North American FinaleIBOS, India - 9 hours agoThe evening's true peak was hit when Amitabh Bachchan recited poetry and dialogues from his films. It was a spellbinding bit. ...
- No idle hands here (Burlington Times-News)
The two highest-ranked members of Graham High School's Class of 2008 have each had four busy years of high school. Tyler Cook is valedictorian of the Class of 2008 and Burton Peebles is salutatorian.
- Hudson is genteel but not too fancy (The Record)
The little city of Hudson, N.Y. — 110 miles up its namesake river from North Jersey — was an unlikely whaling port in the 18th and 19th centuries and has been an unlikely focal point for antiques enthusiasts in the 20th and 21st.
- Learning to approach writing as an imperfect process - The Free Lance-Star
Learning to approach writing as an imperfect processThe Free Lance-Star, VA - 6 hours agoBukowski's method for writing poetry has been great for getting over this. What is his method, you ask? After--in Bukowski's case--drinking a ton of beer, ...
- The Page That`s Bemoaning Everything Coming At Once (Football365)
"I would like to play for Real Madrid but only if it is true they are ready to pay what Manchester United ask of them. However, it does not depend on me."
- Wali Haider Zakir: employing both words and paint - The News - International
Wali Haider Zakir: employing both words and paintThe News - International, Pakistan - 3 hours ago... get the Urdu readers educated about the art, artists and their role and the relation of art with the literature. One of the books discusses the poetry ...
- Old 97's Murry Hammond Releases First Solo Album (Kansas City InfoZine)
Seventeen tracks, produced by Mark Neill, are self-released by Hammond on the "Hammond family label," Humminbird Records.
- Crowd of 2000 for Juneteenth today - Tracy Press
Crowd of 2000 for Juneteenth todayTracy Press, CA - 2 hours agoSpoken word artist and Delta College student Elisa Johnson, 20, performed original poetry, including one called “Lady X,†about a girl with AIDS and another ...
- In Iraq, The Love Stories Are Gone - Common Dreams
BAGHDAD - As statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have been. This is the land of the ...
- Chinese may put money on ancient poet - Times Online
In with the old and out with the new. That is the cry of a group of Chinese scholars and lawyers who are demanding that Chinese heroes and literary giants be added to banknotes. The appeal by 12 intellectuals from across China has been issued to ...
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