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- South River Class of 2008 said to be 'mellow,' very talented (The Capital)
Asked to describe this year's senior class at South River High School, Principal William Myers said: "Mellow, just a nice bunch of kids." The Class of 2008 has left its mark on the Blue Ribbon School.
- Noche Flamenca - VoiceofDance.com
Noche FlamencaVoiceofDance.com, CA - 8 minutes agoHe hovers in a dark corner, eyes steadfastly glued to Barrio, come to claim her, apparently, because they are destined for each other. ...
- Poets show 'verse-atility' onstage - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerPoets show 'verse-atility' onstageJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 5 hours agoWhen Nobel laureate Derek Walcott pointed out the natural relationship between film and poetry at the 2008 Calabash International Literary Festival, ...
- At readings, we hear more than writer's words - Boston Globe
Almost any night of the week, authors are reading to audiences. Poetry or prose, fiction or non-, in cavernous ballrooms or crammed into corners behind bookstore shelves, if they read it, we will come. I have an image of us huddling like our distant ...
- Griffin rewards elder statesmen (Toronto Star)
It was a night for honouring octogenarian legends at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards. Jointly, John Ashbery and Robin Blaser have spent more than a century publishing poetry.
- Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notes - Tampabay.com
Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notesTampabay.com, FL - 3 hours agoThe tortured poetry of Cash and Haggard, for example, deftly chronicled the lives of those behind bars. America's love-hate relationship with the bottle and ...
- The paintings from Sadr City - Houston Chronicle
The paintings from Sadr CityHouston Chronicle, United States - 20 minutes agoIn Lebanon, Saib had grown up reading Iraqi poetry, and he hated seeing what had happened to a country that was once at the leading edge of progressive Arab ...
- Something about Mary - Sydney Morning Herald
Intrigued by the journeys of Australia's saint-in-waiting, Dugald Jellie sets off in the footsteps of Mary MacKillop. Holy sites ... (from top) inside the memorial chapel in North Sydney; the school she opened in Penola, South Australia; Mary's tomb ...
- Ryan’s hope - Washington Blade
Ryan’s hopeWashington Blade, DC - 33 minutes agoRyan’s spare, elegant poetry is often compared to that of Emily Dickinson, a poet also known for her sometimes humorous reflections on everyday life. ...
- Poem of the week - Guardian Blogs
'Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry' ... Ben Jonson. Photograph: Hulton archive Yesterday having been Fathers' day, it seems the right moment to fulfil a long-held plan of posting the poignant ...
- Becoming Richard Rorty - Inside Higher Ed
Becoming Richard RortyInside Higher Ed, DC - 9 hours agoNeil Gross’s book Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, to be published next month by University of Chicago Press, is not exactly a ...
- Last night's TV: A very British rocket launch (Guardian Unlimited)
Michelle Hodgson: A very British rocket launch
- From Adlestrop to Arras - a poet's life (Guardian Unlimited)
'For the last hundred years,' Edward Thomas wrote in 1913, 'ideas and the material of ideas have come to the reading classes mainly through books and bookish conversation. Their ideas are in advance of their experience, their vocabulary in advance of their ideas.'
- Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we want - Independent
Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we wantIndependent, UK - 46 minutes agoThat, of course, was an ice-age ago, when the market value of a private life was more on a par with poetry and less on a par with a Damien Hirst. ...
- Comic Dick Martin dies at 86 (NBC 10 Providence)
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, passes away.
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