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- Scott Griffin, the founder of the influential Griffin Poetry Prize ... - CBC News
This year’s Griffin Poetry Prize winners will be announced on June 4, with a Canadian and an international poet each receiving $50,000. The other day I was asked why I like poetry, as if liking poetry was some strange aberration that required ...
- String quartet performs New College compositions - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
String quartet performs New College compositionsSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 24 minutes agoOberlander's Lamentation with Mirror took up the themes of loneliness and self-weariness, and was inspired by and includes excerpts from the poetry of ...
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- Students win national championship awards (The Daily Sentinel)
Two Nettie Marshall Elementary School first-grade students received national championship awards in the Daughters of the American Revolution Junior American Citizen competition.
- Rock on, in Malayalam... - Livemint.com
It has all the elements of a classic rock video. Strapping young man running in the rain. Check. Dark washed out background. Check. A pretty girl trapped in a dingy room. Check. Yet, despite the requisite cast of characters, and a catchy chorus (a ...
- Go! (Salem Statesman Journal)
Conscious Overdose
- Carver Elementary teacher retires after 36 years - MiamiHerald.com
Carver Elementary teacher retires after 36 yearsMiamiHerald.com, FL - May 12, 2008``I'm sure he was in love with her.'' The Miami Herald is pleased to provide this opportunity to share information, experiences and observations about ...
- A joyless marriage ends - Hindu Business Line
Hindu Business LineA joyless marriage endsHindu Business Line, India - 4 hours agoHad he, with his penchant for Urdu poetry, the luxury of expressing his sentiments in public, he might have quoted the saying: roz key marney sey tau ek din ...
- Author has Frost down cold in novelized biography - Daily Press
Author has Frost down cold in novelized biographyDaily Press, VA - 12 minutes agoThe poet is seen as a neurotic, difficult man, who deeply loved his wife and children and was tormented by what he termed the "family curse. ...
- Briefs, June 11 - Times Record News
Briefs, June 11Times Record News, TX - 1 hour agoVolunteers are admitted free to the park for the day and are also invited to enjoy the Cowboy Poetry at 8:30 pm Volunteers are asked to furnish their own ...
- Potty patrol: We review the best restrooms on the Cleveland nightlife scene (The Plain Dealer)
Guys don't care. The bar is low when it comes to what they find acceptable in bathroom accommodations. There's nothing a guy likes better than avoiding using a toilet at all. Hydrating a brick wall behind the bar is fun. Making a puddle in a parking lot is cool.
- REVIEW: 'Patience' pleasing to theatergoers of all types (Ralston Recorder)
Once every five years, the Bellevue Little Theatre puts on an operetta. This is one of those years and 'Patience' is not to be missed.
- Religion Calendar: 05/31/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com . Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- The young library: Haiku and gentle fun - Sacramento Bee
The young library: Haiku and gentle funSacramento Bee, USA - 1 hour agoresponds young Koo in haiku, the Japanese poetry form of three lines and 17 syllables. It launches Muth's wordplay. But Muth's story is much more. ...
- 1958: The War of the Intellectuals (New York Times)
Fifty years ago, American critics worried about the collapsing distinction among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow.
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