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- Portraits: Moving on - Sacramento Bee
Portraits: Moving onSacramento Bee, USA - 28 minutes agoBy Bob Sylva - bsylva@sacbee.com A senior at Oakmont High School, Roshawnda Bettencourt, reigning state champion in Poetry Out Loud, contemplates college. ...
- Insurers given help to hike car rates - Buffalo News
State lawmakers hastily passed legislation that would restore auto insurers’ ability to raise or lower rates, by an average of up to 5 percent, without seeking prior permission from regulators. The bill, which has not been signed by the governor ...
- The love stories are gone - Tehran Times
The love stories are goneTehran Times, Iran - 1 hour agoThis is the kind of love story Iraqis tell nowadays. “The country of the Arabian Nights and of wonderful poetry is no longer good for love,” Maki al-Nazzal, ...
- It’s one of the greatest survival stories - The Times
It’s one of the greatest survival storiesThe Times, South Africa - 8 hours agoI have no scruples and don’t feel guilty about what I did. I accept it. Life — that is, poetry, invention, intelligence — is more important than death. ...
- KIS fourth graders learn poetry in two voices (Kingston Reporter)
If you like spiders and poetry, fourth graders Chris Burgess and Michael Melanson have just the thing for you.
- Cultural Center of Cape Cod - Barnstable - Register
Cultural Center of Cape CodBarnstable - Register, MA - 2 hours agoCreative Writing: July 14-18, kids will write both poetry and prose, revise, and present their work. Visual Arts: July 28-Aug. 1, kids will be engaged in ...
- This Flood Should Make You Sad - American Chronicle
This Flood Should Make You SadAmerican Chronicle, CA - 2 hours agoIn 2004 she wrote her third volume of poetry titled, "Say It! Say Gen-o-cide!!" − dedicated to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. In 2003 Wright created the ...
- Falling into novel notion - Windsor Star
Windsor StarFalling into novel notionWindsor Star, Canada - 10 hours agoShe is best known as a poet and, in 2004, won the Griffin Prize, the country's most prestigious poetry award for her collection titled Loop. ...
- Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we want - The Independent
"Sex," says the 17-year-old narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, "is something I really don't understand." Well, mate, nor do I. I only know (yes, I'm afraid I do know) that the arms of someone you don't even like – who your head, and your friends ...
- Black Tuna Gang Leader Gets Out of Jail - Miami New Times
Robert Platshorn was the first big bust of the War on Drugs. Almost 30 years later, he's free and talking. "I have a hard time with modern technology," Brazilian icon Gilberto Gil says, describing the theme of his latest CD, Banda Larga Cordel . "I ...
- From the pulpit and pew - New Mexican
From the pulpit and pewNew Mexican, NM - 4 hours agoFrom 6 to 7:30 pm on Wednesdays: "Ecstatic Hebrew Poetry" focuses on the sacred phrases (mantras) within the ancient Hebrew texts known as the "Psalms" with ...
- Call of the wild: Britain's nature writers - The Independent
British nature writers have rambled out of the shadows and into the limelight. Boyd Tonkin explores the revival of their art A couple of weeks ago, I descended on a blazing Italian afternoon into a steep wooded ravine. Gnarled old trees hid overgrown ...
- The Star Trek mixtape (Toronto Star)
In space, no one can hear you scream. Or warble a dreadful tune. That's a fortunate thing, considering how many times the casts of all the Star Trek series and movies have attempted to sing.
- McGuinty defends Ont. tax credits for racy film; politicians are not ... - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - Politicians should not engage in censorship of movies, art, literature or architecture, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday as he defended the use of provincial tax credits to help fund a controversial new movie about the sex ...
- Out and About: May 7 - 18 - Avon Messenger
Out and About: May 7 - 18Avon Messenger, MA - 14 minutes agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
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