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- Mercury (and centipedes) rising Two from same High Plain Elementary ... - Andover Townsman
Third-graders Rohan Sinha and Kara Hayward have poetry down to a science. The two creative High Plain Elementary students penned poems that took top honors for their grade in the 2008 Massachusetts Science Poetry competition this spring. The contest ...
- Goodbye Mr. Disch and Mr. Budrys - January magazine
Goodbye Mr. Disch and Mr. BudrysJanuary magazine - 2 hours agoHe was well-regarded for his poetry (which he wrote as Tom Disch) by many who had no idea that he wrote genre fiction. The Telegraph obituary is here. ...
- Wergeland hailed on 200th birthday - Aftenposten
Wergeland hailed on 200th birthdayAftenposten, Norway - 38 minutes agoSpecial outdoor theatrical performances honoured Wergeland's work, bakeries and cafés around town offered free treats to children, his poetry was read aloud ...
- Hoyt Street woman flees from would-be robbers - Buffalo News
A Hoyt Street woman averted a robbery in front of her home this morning when she pulled her arm away from the robbers and ran away, police said. The woman was sitting in her vehicle at her home at about 2 a.m. when she was confronted by two men ...
- Remember When: I get chills when I hear "God Bless America" (Fort Pierce Tribune)
I was watching Lawrence Welk present a medley of patriotic songs on TV. One of the tunes was "God Bless America," and it brought back memories of my 1985 trip to Europe. That was the year of the bombing in Greece, and everyone said we should not travel to Europe.
- Oxygen for dying scripts - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphOxygen for dying scriptsCalcutta Telegraph, India - 6 hours agoEven if the scripts survive, the songs and poetry will be extinct in less than a decade, linguists feel. To save these language communities from extinction, ...
- Independence Day , Equality Day - Times and Democrat
July 4, 1776/ Independence Day and Nov. 19, 1863/Equality Day. “I’m going to try to link our glorious Declaration of Independence (1776) with Lincoln’s spectacular Gettysburg Address (1863) — an odd thing to do. The two are separated by 87 ...
- Salman Rushdie: Knight of the Tall Tale - New York Sun
'The Enchantress of Florence" (Random House, 368 pages, $26) is a "Harry Potter"-ish restoration project of great intelligence and remarkable egoism, both of which are characteristic of its author. Although he sets his novel in the Florence of the ...
- Event of the Week: Viggo Mortensen Exhibition - IcelandReview
IcelandReviewEvent of the Week: Viggo Mortensen ExhibitionIcelandReview, Iceland - 11 hours ago... whole as for many years he has been active with photography in which he has earned himself a good reputation, and also with painting, poetry and music.
- Army Wives: Unchartered Territory - TV Squad
Army Wives: Unchartered TerritoryTV Squad, CA - 1 hour agoGhetti reading poetry by James Dickey. In addition to poetry, he's best known for writing the novel that became the movie Deliverance. ...
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in California - Chicago Tribune
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- 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. ...
- Finding the sacred in the mundane (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
My grandparents were not big readers. Their English was slightly accented but fluent -- they both left Poland in their early teens and came to America in the 1920s.
- Poetry and music outside of the box - Tonight South Africa
If you think Afrikaans music is way out there on the edge, think Afrikaans poetry set to music and know that performer Laurinda Hofmeyr had to make very specific choices. She knew from a young age that with such beautiful poetry around, she didn't ...
- Dave Matthews Band - Rolling Stone
Dave Matthews BandRolling Stone - 1 hour agoI always have ambitions to read 30 books but rarely do. Between a bottle of whiskey and a book of poetry, I'll find time to relax.
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