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- Bloomsday ramble (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
At several spots throughout the city yesterday people gathered to re-joyce and celebrate Bloomsday. The annual event follows in the footsteps of the lead character in James Joyce's "Ulysses," re-enacting Leopold Bloom's journey through Dublin on June 16, 1904. The entire novel takes place on that one day.
- School's end weighs on parents (San Diego Union-Tribune)
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys “won” (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a workday.
- Bainbridge teen heads to National Spelling Bee - Press & Sun-Bulletin
Bainbridge teen heads to National Spelling BeePress & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 27 minutes agoHer English teacher, James Spinella, called her a shy but exceptional student who's good at writing poetry. "She's able to take her writing to places that ...
- Authors' summer reading lists full - Arizona Daily Star
Authors' summer reading lists fullArizona Daily Star, AZ - 1 hour agoI thought I'd have a look at "Bleak House," which I've never read, and "Our Mutual Friend," which I remember as one of my favorites, though I don't really ...
- Life's lessons hard - Sydney Morning Herald
The classic recovery trajectory, says actor Samuel Johnson, includes a few "slips". "They don't tend to say relapse any more," he explains, rolling a cigarette with slightly trembling fingers outside a cafe on Acland Street in St Kilda, a Melbourne ...
- Young poets could win an MP3 player - Diss Express
Young poets could win an MP3 playerDiss Express, UK - 4 hours agoBy Judy Foster A competition is being run in conjunction with a half-term drop-in poetry workshop at Harleston Library. The competition, now in its second ...
- Calendar: This week in Davidson, May 28-June 4 - Nashville Tennessean
Haunted Tavern Tours: A tour guide leads participants through a few of Nashville's most haunted taverns. At each location, enjoy a beverage while learning of the pub's haunted history or play haunted trivia and win prizes. Locations vary. Drinks are ...
- Local student to explore Europe as ambassador (Bastrop Daily Enterprise)
Michelle Nichols and her classmates have just finished up their freshman year at Bastrop High School, but Nichols is not just preparing for a summer of lounging around the pool.
- Letters From Elijah - Am J Psychiatry (subscription)
Letters From ElijahAm J Psychiatry (subscription) - 4 minutes agoHe writes of "the light which dispels darkness," words of grace and poetry befitting his prophetic namesake. His exhortation to "be ready to help those who ...
- Singing the Blues in the Valley - Times of India
Singing the Blues in the ValleyTimes of India, India - 3 hours ago"We have been through so much that we’re incapable of writing flowery poetry," says the chubby, smiling Bilal Ahmed, the classical vocalist of the band and ...
- Wednesday's Child - Katie - WTNH
Wednesday's Child - KatieWTNH, CT - 1 hour ago"My favorite thing to do is write poetry because it helps me express my feelings and anxiety that I sometimes have," Katie said. "I love graphic design, ...
- Aziz Hamid Madni: the poet who avoided limelight - DAWN Group
Gives it a wipe — and all is gone.” But you would perhaps agree that rarely does a poet have such highly developed critical faculties and such a high standard of sincerity as to spit on the slate himself and wipe out what he has written. Ghalib ...
- A philosophical approach to a mouse in the house - Christian Science Monitor
Baltimore - It's the little things that annoy us most, someone once said. Right now I am more than annoyed by little things – brownish gray, swift-as-a-blink-of-the-eye things. My wife shivers and shakes, and I feel a bit scattered. We are beset by ...
- Poetry Slam allows young and old to use the power of words (The Daily Texan)
Korim, of Team Neo-Soul, approached the microphone, closed his eyes and began a torrent hum of dialogue almost incomprehensible to the audience. At Friday's Slam Bowl IV at Ruta Maya, emcee Kimberley Taylor introduced young slammers who argued the strength and moving power of words, as well as veterans who "spit" - the insider term for delivering a piece of slam poetry - about everything ...
- Go, Kids, GO! - HamptonRoads.com
I’ve been attending kids’ recitals longer than most of my neighbors have been alive. I’m a maven, an expert. I’ve seen it all. I’ve watched martial arts exhibitions complete with little kids breaking boards. I’ve seen every kind of dance ...
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