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- Tropicalia boating: Sailor brings wicked boat to annual regatta (The News-Press)
Poet Robert Frost spoke of the road not taken. Roger Horton of North Fort Myers appears to have traveled it.
- 'I am so glad you told us the truth' - Globe and Mail
After L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter, Kate Macdonald Butler, stated in an essay in Focus last Saturday that the author of Anne of Green Gables had committed suicide, readers responded quickly. Mongomery died in 1942, but the messages below - and ...
- Poetry for the people - Midland Mirror
Poetry for the peopleMidland Mirror, Canada - Oct 9, 2008Roger Bell reads one of his poems on King Street last week during the fifth-annual Random Acts of Poetry event. Luckily for Midland residents drawn in by ...
- Ann Arbor Materials Recovery Facility turns 13 - MLive.com
Gillian Mayman, of Ypsilanti, made her children's Halloween costumes out of recycled cereal boxes last year. "I cut them into strips and made a gladiator costume and a knight's shield," she said. Mayman said her two oldest sons, Oliver and Calvin ...
- Foresta's forge on beyond 1934! - Phoenixville News
Foresta's forge on beyond 1934!Phoenixville News, PA - 10 hours agoBretz is a former radio talk show host (WYIS), has won 18 poetry awards and is Leyden High School's Wall of Fame recipient. She has won numerous awards in ...
- France bids farewell to black pride - Sydney Morning Herald
France bids farewell to black prideSydney Morning Herald, Australia - Apr 20, 2008French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to join mourners on Sunday at the state funeral of Aime Cesaire, a poet and pioneer of the black pride movement who ...
- America's Busiest Poet - Time
When the Library of Congress announced Kay Ryan as its pick for 16th Poet Laureate Consultant last week, the poetry community went all atwitter.
- Andrei Codrescu, NPR Biography - NPR News
Poet, essayist and novelist Andrei Codrescu has been contributing commentaries to NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered since 1983. During this time, he's also reported from Romania, Cuba and New Orleans. In 1989, Codrescu returned ...
- Poet versed in humor - Washington Times
Poet versed in humorWashington Times, DC - 38 minutes agoIn the musty, overheated Academy of American Poetry, Billy Collins is the wiseguy in the back row, throwing spitballs and cracking up his friends. ...
- Updated: Young couple killed in car crash described as funny and ... - Tallahassee Democrat
Friends and family remembered Steven Taylor Riles, 18, and Christina Mellen, 20, as an inseparable couple Monday. The two were together right up to the point of their deaths. Mellen and Riles died Friday night after a car crash at Mahan Drive and ...
- The Young Man and the Lakes - Wall Street Journal
Seney, Mich. When Ernest Hemingway was a young writer in the 1920s, he pinned a map of northern Michigan to the wall of his room in Paris. It probably came in handy as he wrote his first batch of short stories. Although he was born and raised in Oak ...
- Poetry conjures up sounds, images - SunHerald.com
Poetry conjures up sounds, imagesSunHerald.com, MS - 1 hour agoBy SCOTT NAUGLE Poetry engages as many of the senses simultaneously as the delicate thread of meaning between the reader and writer will bear. ...
- Zimbabweans blog out their deep frustrations - Baltimore Sun
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The blogger calls himself a "fat white man" and jokes about the right way to approach a cordon of Zimbabwe riot police: Don't wear an opposition T-shirt, or ask for the results of the recent one-man presidential runoff ...
- Now listen to books on new Playaway systems - Portsmouth Herald News
Now listen to books on new Playaway systemsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 2 hours agoA literary magazine is devoted to literature and usually publishes short stories, poetry and essays literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles ...
- Theologian Calvin Miller to speak at ASU - News-Courier
The Department of Religious Studies at Athens State University will host a lunchtime discussion Monday in the chapel on the second floor of Founders Hall. Noted theologian Calvin Miller will speak to students, faculty, staff and the community at noon ...
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