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- Northwest students sweep poetry contest - Iowa City Press Citizen
Northwest students sweep poetry contestIowa City Press Citizen, IA - 1 hour agoStudents from Northwest Junior High swept all three places in this year's Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival Poetry Contest. The $75 first-place prize ...
- Op-ed column: A Wild West mentality - Daily Gazette
In Schenectady, there is a problem: Too many people are shooting at each other. Mayor Brian Stratton and Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett have responded sensibly, increasing city police patrols and getting help from the state police. They ...
- DOING BUSYNESS - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphDOING BUSYNESSCalcutta Telegraph, India - 3 hours agoThe word occurs, almost always with a pedagogical mock-solemnity, in Renaissance poetry, but very rarely in the personal record of modernity. ...
- Listening to the Past: Liao Yiwu's 'Corpse Walker' - New York Sun
Listening to the Past: Liao Yiwu's 'Corpse Walker'New York Sun, United States - 1 hour agoHe earned notoriety for writing poetry critical of the communist system while a student, and was imprisoned for four years for supporting the democratic ...
- The Union Impediment - American Chronicle
American ChronicleThe Union ImpedimentAmerican Chronicle, CA - 16 minutes agoThey are daily exposed to the requirements and capabilities of what they have to work with. Yet they live in a world of assignment. ...
- V V: `Divine absence` - Business Standard
We are known by the company we don’t keep as much by what we do. Put it another way, we are defined by the books we don’t read as much by the books we do. We all have multiple identities but it is difficult to get a fix on what we are at any ...
- In debate over official language, Suriname seeks itself - International Herald Tribune
In debate over official language, Suriname seeks itselfInternational Herald Tribune, France - Mar 23, 2008"It is a form of communication perfect not just for poets but for the Chinese groceryman or Brazilian miner who arrived a few months ago," he continued. ...
- Last Year at Marienbad - Chicago Reader
Last Year at MarienbadChicago Reader - 6 hours agoThe overall tone is poker-faced parody of lush Hollywood melodrama, yet the film's dreamlike cadences, frozen tableaux, and distilled surrealist poetry are ...
- Up for grabs - Irish Examiner
Irish ExaminerUp for grabsIrish Examiner, Ireland - 17 minutes agoPure poetry. Scotland have every reason to look back on the defeat with a mixture of despair and disappointment. Despite dominating territory and possession ...
- This poet is well versed in having fun (Miami Herald)
There are myriad reasons to study poetry -- it encourages careful observation of the world, it's a healthy outlet for emotions, it builds vocabulary, it teaches rhythm and cadence, it inspires the imagination. But Jack Prelutsky, America's first-ever children's poet laureate, has done a better job than possibly anyone at persuading children that poetry is worth their while. How?
- Happy Hunting (Ralston Recorder)
RAYMOND - For more than a decade, Raymond Central has built a speech team dynasty. But even after 13 consecutive state championships, members of a dynasty still get a little nervous before each state competition.
- Dorothea Lasky's poems inspire 'Awe'
St. Petersburg Times - Who wouldn't be interested in a poem ( The Chinese Restaurant ) which begins, "They had both gotten the same letter the other ... Melanie Hubbard's first poetry collection, "Gilbi Winco Swags," was recently published by Cannibal Books.
- Chipper Jones homers in Braves' 7-4 win over Florida - International Herald Tribune
Chipper Jones' season is going so well he fulfilled both of his birthday wishes. Jones celebrated his 36th birthday with a home run and a perfect 3-for-3 night at the plate to lead Atlanta past the NL East-leading Florida Marlins 7-4 on Thursday. "I ...
- School, forums welcome Bangla new year - Gulf Times
Gulf TimesSchool, forums welcome Bangla new yearGulf Times, Qatar - 38 minutes agoPoetry recitations, songs and music were the highlights of the day. The Institution of Engineers (Qatar chapter), welcomed the new year at a programme at Al ...
- Dysfunction, hope make 'The Glass Menagerie' resonate today - Times-Argus
Menagerie," in a professional production, May 22-June 8 at City Hall Arts Center, 39 Main St. in Montpelier. Performances are at 7 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m. Sundays (except June 8 at 2 p.m.), plus a 2 p.m. matinee on ...
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