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- Time to put peace on parade - Rochdale Observer
Time to put peace on paradeRochdale Observer, UK - 6 hours agoThe tent will also host a ‘Write a Poem for Peace’ competition, which will be judged by children’s Poet Laureate, Michael Rosen and read by Colin Parry OBE, ...
- Riverfront park with a view and poetry, too - Calgary Herald
EDMONTON - Walking through the city's river valley is about to get more poetic. Forty poems mounted on 40 light poles will be unveiled on Friday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Louise McKinney Riverfront Park, located south of the Shaw Conference Centre ...
- Sikaman Palava: Political bulldog-ism and December 7 - Joy Online
Sikaman Palava: Political bulldog-ism and December 7Joy Online, Ghana - 3 hours agoThe poetry that couched Ghana's political independence and the lyrics with which it was celebrated was none Ghanaians have seen again since Dr Kwame Nkrumah ...
- Prizewinner wants to be All Blacks poet - Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki Daily NewsPrizewinner wants to be All Blacks poetTaranaki Daily News, New Zealand - 1 hour agoBy VIRGINIA WINDER - Taranaki Daily News | Wednesday, 10 September 2008 When Elizabeth Smither heard she'd won a $60000 poetry prize she was stunned into ...
- Before 8/8/08, here are our favorite eights - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Before 8/8/08, here are our favorite eightsSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 9 minutes agoJohnson, 16, writes poetry. Certain segments of the population (MEN!!!) have no problem with NBC declaring beach volleyball the fifth "major" Olympic sport. ...
- Fighting Words - BU Today
BU TodayFighting WordsBU Today, MA - 2 hours agoJames Anderson Winn, a BU professor of English, started working on The Poetry of War during a sabbatical in 2001. He’d written an introduction and part of ...
- Lonely life as commoner for Nepal's former king (TODAYonline)
File photo of ex-kKing Gyanendra of Nepal. With few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life of Nepal's ousted king as a commoner is by all accounts a lonely, meditative one.
- Hilary Mantel: In the Waiting Room - London Review of Books (subscription)
Hilary Mantel: In the Waiting RoomLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoHis versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters. Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love ...
- I'm an AAA credit rating addict - Sydney Morning Herald
I'm an AAA credit rating addictSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 4 hours agoRecently Nathan Rees, who has a degree in literature, told the Sun-Herald his favourite poem was Paradise Lost. It was an apposite choice for a man who had ...
- Shopping for a nursing home It's a daunting task, but it's well worth the trouble to find just the right place (Yakima Herald-Republic)
YAKIMA — When Ben Herres needed to find a nursing home to care for his wife, Ollie, he followed his nose. He visited nursing homes all over Spokane and later the Yakima Valley in search of a safe haven for Ollie, who had multiple sclerosis.
- Sing, Memory - New Haven Advocate
New Haven AdvocateSing, MemoryNew Haven Advocate, CT - 58 minutes agoAnd yet it was her mother's lullabies, full of portent and mystery, that gave her the earliest inklings of poetry, a feeling she would rediscover in the ...
- Chill out at Cool Beans’ open mic night - MidWeek
Chill out at Cool Beans’ open mic nightMidWeek, IL - Oct 1, 2008Anyone is welcome to perform at the event, with talents ranging from music to poetry to acting or otherwise. As long as acts are family-friendly, ...
- Zombie Haiku - Silicon Valley's Metro
Silicon Valley's MetroZombie HaikuSilicon Valley's Metro, CA - 2 hours agoActually, Mecum's poems are closer in content and theme to another form of Japanese poetry called senryu marked for its dark humor, cynicism and lack of ...
- Poetic Justice: A dying artist finally gets recognized for his work (The Plain Dealer)
Editor's note: Reporters usually are careful to stay out of the action. They watch, listen and ask questions, but they don't set things in motion. Michael Heaton got involved because he wanted to help a lonely man who reached out to him in his dying days.
- Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alive - Citizen
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night." So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a big event in publishing for grown ...
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