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- It's Easier Than Ever To Be John Q. Publish - Tampa Bay Online
TAMPA - Everybody always told Joe Pelkington he should write a book. Pelkington had a million stories about being a police officer in Tampa for 25 years, from 1960 to 1985, and the police chief in Treasure Island until he retired in 2005. One night ...
- He's a bad poet, and everybody knows it (Winston-Salem Journal)
The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid $12,840 yesterday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet to assault the English language.
- Venturing Out: Latitude Festival in review - Drowned In Sound
Artists: Snow Patrol , Mogwai , Part Chimp , The Zutons , The Veils , Youthmovies , Polytechnic , The Pipettes , Mystery Jets , Regina Spektor , Antony And The Johnsons , My Latest Novel , Guillemots , King Creosote , Noisettes , The Early Years ...
- Chicago's Tony haul - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago's Tony haulChicago Sun-Times, United States - 1 hour ago(ANSWER: Thunderous) As expected, “August,” which puts a literate, sharply comic, decidedly Jerry Springer-like edge on a dysfunctional family, nabbed the ...
- Cambridge students asked to compare Raleigh and Shakespeare with Amy Winehouse lyrics in final year exam (Daily Mail)
Baffled Cambridge University students were asked to compare a 15th century poem with lyrics by troubled singer Amy Winehouse in their final year exam paper.
- Calendar April 24, 2008 (The Milpitas Post)
Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform at the Milpitas Community Library on Sunday, April 27 at 3 p.m. in a free concert. This will be Fletcher's second appearance in Milpitas.
- How to read Cicero's gobbets - Times Online
A century or so ago, the English word “gobbet” was given a new lease of life. This obscure term for a small lump of something unsavoury (mud, raw meat, snot) was reborn. It now referred to a short extract of text, one that was often set as an ...
- Watch clips of the Evans poetry slam - Orlando Sentinel
Watch clips of the Evans poetry slamOrlando Sentinel, FL - Apr 25, 2008Let me warn you -- I shot this, so it is raw. I truly believed Evans hung its backdrop crooked, until I figured out I wasn't lining up my horizon correctly. ...
- Nathaniel Mackey to receive African American literature award in SF - Currents
CurrentsNathaniel Mackey to receive African American literature award in SFCurrents, CA - 1 hour agoMackey received a 2006 National Book Award in the poetry category for his book Splay Anthem. He received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1993 and was elected to ...
- TGIF (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
AMORE RESTAURANT, 223 Northern Blvd., Clarks Summit: today, The Wanabees; Saturday, Them Again; Monday, Karaoke. APPLEBEE’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL & BAR, Viewmont Mall, Dickson City: Wednesdays, Tony Vergnetti.
- 'The Willow Tree' offers cautions about what we see - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Iranian director Majid Majidi's sad, soulful film is his second to explore blindness and sight on multiple levels. His heartbreaking 1999 film, "The Color of Paradise," focused on the desperately lonely but strangely happy existence of a blind 8-year ...
- Seminars, Forums, Workshops and More - Laredo Morning Times
The Laredo City Council is scheduled to meet today at 12:15 p.m. in City Council Chambers at City Hall, 1110 Houston St. On the agenda are three public hearings on bond issues. After the public hearings, the council will recess until 5:30 p.m. when a ...
- George Carlin: An Appreciation - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.comGeorge Carlin: An AppreciationThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 5 hours ago"It may not be on so lofty a perch as poetry or ballet, but it is nonetheless art . . . vocal art, expressed in monologues. ...
- 'Lyrical Terrorist' has conviction quashed in UK - Mathaba.Net
Times Online'Lyrical Terrorist' has conviction quashed in UKMathaba.Net, UK - 1 hour agoSamina Malik, who wrote poetry and called herself the 'lyrical terrorist', was the first woman convicted under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 last ...Thought Criminal Wins Appeal Londonist'Lyrical terrorist' has conviction quashed guardian.co.uk'Lyrical terrorist' wins appeal against jail AFPReuters UKall 121 news articles
- Putting the Niger Delta on the literary slab - Nigeria Guardian
S PURRED by the success of the first Ojaide International Conference held in July 2005, the stage is set for its second edition as literary scholars from within and outside Nigeria converge at Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka to celebrate ...
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