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- Post-holiday reading list - Guardian Blogs
How simple some great poetry can seem - as simple as water, and as necessary. Bishop is incomparable: "Awful, but cheerful," she said. 2. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton A vast rickety structure of learning, wit, sense, nonsense, bizarre ...
- Women of the west meet our first female G-G (Queensland Country Life)
Read the sweeping body of poetry and prose on the Darling River town of Bourke, from Lawson to Breaker Morant and Will Ogilvy, and you'd swear it was inhabited almost exclusively by rough men: shearers and tough fellows of the bush and the riverboats.
- Scots author hits back at Paxman over attack on Burns’s poetry (The Herald)
A leading Scottish author, angered by Jeremy Paxman's dismissal of Burns as a "king of sentimental doggerel", yesterday proposed a novel revenge against the controversial broadcaster.
- NEWS IN BRIEF (Nine O'Clock)
BERLIN - Islamic militants trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan are planning attacks in Germany, although there is no evidence of any imminent threat, the country’s top police officer was quoted as saying on Sunday.
- Jazz festival brings 'something new' to the table - Press-Register - al.com
Jazz festival brings 'something new' to the tablePress-Register - al.com, AL - 6 hours agoToday — "An Evening of Poetry" starts at 6:30 pm at the Alabama School of Mathematics & Science. As with most festival events, admission is free. ...
- Gang Gang Dance’s Lizzie Bougatsos Making Music in NY - BlackBook Magazine
BlackBook MagazineGang Gang Dance’s Lizzie Bougatsos Making Music in NYBlackBook Magazine, NY - 8 hours agoIt was a really intense, poetry, music hangout. And that’s where guys from TV On The Radio would work, at Max Fish. So that’s how we met them, ...
- Physical Fitness - Chicago Tribune
TODAY Nature walk Anita C. Leight Estuary Center at Otter Point Creek will hold a nature discovery walk at 10:30 a.m. at 700 Otter Point Road, Abingdon. Free for all ages. 410-612-1688. Wine and jazz Fiore Winery will hold a wine, jazz and art ...
- Novelist Michael Redhill named a judge for prestigious Griffin Poetry ... - Canada East
TORONTO - Michael Redhill, a noted Canadian novelist, poet, and playwright and publisher, will be among the judges for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. The English-language award hands out $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50,000 ...
- Matt Weinstock - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Anyone who does any downtown strolling can't help noticing the parade of shabby gentlemen lost in misfortune and alcoholism. Most of them are obviously drifting aimlessly and hopelessly. But many of them, beneath their ragged clothes, are bright ...
- Mary Sue ‘Petey’ Giroux, 63, educator - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Mary Sue ‘Petey’ Giroux, 63, educatorAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 2 hours agoShe popularized a national poetry contest called “River of Words” that Georgia students went on to win. “Petey made an enormous mark on our agency, ...
- Ageing chimp's story on book longlist (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: Cheeta's 'autobiography' to compete with fiction and non-fiction for £10,000 Guardian first book prize
- Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies at 87 (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, whose trailblazing activism spanned more than five decades, most recently in the battle for same-sex marriage, died Wednesday, just two months after she made history again by wedding her longtime partner in San Francisco...
- Poem of the week: The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukPoem of the week: The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mewguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoNot only a shop and a poets' meeting place, it was also a publishing venture dedicated to the work of younger writers. In 1916, the press brought out the 17 ...
- Scotland Festival: Cady's artwork lives on (Greene County Daily World)
SCOTLAND -- The artwork of a Greene County native from the tiny hamlet of Scotland lives on. Lenore Cady's artwork speaks to her and over the year's she developed a dramatic and unique technique to bring those messages to everyone who views her creations.
- Blog: In search of happiness - Nursing Times
Blog: In search of happinessNursing Times, UK - 23 hours agoOne man becomes half hyena, half quick-fire poetry slammer, howling his way though a tirade of vitriolic verse. My colleagues and I usually let them ...
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