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- MIDDLEBURY, VT.: Vandals must take class on Robert Frost's poetry (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment.
- Father's Day has special meaning for Astros' Brocail - Houston Chronicle
Father's Day has special meaning for Astros' BrocailHouston Chronicle, United States - 51 minutes agoHer poetry is fabulous. And Doug plays guitar and writes music. After his surgery, he said it was something he always wanted to do, and he decided not to ...
- Oakland's unofficial poet laureate dies at 60 - Alameda Times-Star
Reginald Franklin Lockett touched people's lives through his artfully chosen words, poignant themes and sincere friendships. The accomplished educator and award-winning poet was much loved in Oakland's literary community and beyond. He published ...
- Paisley poet's work goes global - Paisley Daily Express
Paisley poet's work goes globalPaisley Daily Express, UK - 12 minutes ago“It all started really when I entered a poetry competition in 1994 and was fortunate enough to win it. “It was then that I thought I might have some sort of ...
- Report finds racial gap in student suspensions - Bemidji Pioneer
Keenan Hooper likes to joke around and admits he has a motormouth. He also admits to getting into trouble again and again with teachers weary of his antics. School officials have sent him home more times than Keenan or his mom can count. So often, in ...
- Four who made old Vermont the new thing - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Four who made old Vermont the new thingBarre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 10 minutes agoIn 1928 he published "Some Vermonters," the first of nine collections of poetry. Hard used his hometown and neighbors as the inspiration and subject matter ...
- 'Selected Poems,' Fernando Pessoa - Open Democracy
Recommended by John Tranter : “One of my favourite books is the Selected Poems of Fernando Pessoa, a writer whose Modernist poems gave Portuguese literature European significance. He began publishing books of English poetry in 1918, but it was not ...
- Poet Laureate gives tips to aspiring poets - Kent News
Kent NewsPoet Laureate gives tips to aspiring poetsKent News, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoThe anthology will feature stories and poetry written by children and adults from across the district. It will be published in September and launched during ...
- 'Any Solution Will Have to Involve More Creative Thinking' - Spiegel Online
'Any Solution Will Have to Involve More Creative Thinking'Spiegel Online, Germany - 56 minutes agoAbu- Lughod began her career by studying the poetry and honor codes of Arab Bedouins, and later organized surveys of women in the Arab world. ...
- 'Essential Self-Defense': An indie 'Babes in Toyland' (Boston Herald)
It's best to think of "Essential Self-Defense" as a fairy tale. It's your classic boy-meets-girl story, only with raw meat, kung fu roller-skating, Russian...
- • A true case of poetic justice - Guelph Mercury
• A true case of poetic justiceGuelph Mercury, Canada - 4 hours agoAs it happened, I had just finished a book called "Why Poetry Matters," a study on the role poetry can play in our daily lives that deals extensively with ...
- On the dusty roadto redemption (The Christian Science Monitor)
In Leif Enger's 'So Brave, Young, and Handsome,' an outlaw and an author hit the road on a quixotic quest.
- 'World's worst poet' goes under hammer - AFP
AFP'World's worst poet' goes under hammerAFP - 2 hours ago... it would be in the same league as first edition copies of Harry Potter books signed by author JK Rowling, according to The Daily Telegraph newspaper. ...
- For Jaymay, each song is a piece of her soul - Los Angeles Times
For Jaymay, each song is a piece of her soulLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoNot just songs but poetry that she has been submitting eagerly to the New Yorker magazine. (Only rejections so far.) Now 27, Jaymay grew up in Long Island ...
- How to stay positive - New Statesman
New StatesmanHow to stay positiveNew Statesman, UK - 3 hours agoA rhino and a talking mammoth stand for HIV and “scientific poetry” respectively. This is a revelatory, optimistic world.
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