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- ‘Nation’s creativity’ in Scots poetry given to National Library (The Herald)
A treasure trove of poetry which captures the "creativity of the nation" over the last five years has been given to the National Library of Scotland.
- Sharing stories of John: Tribute to student who drowned (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
John Erlanson loved crafting prose. “Love is the greatest power; it’s with us every hour,” he once wrote. Those lines resonated among more than 200 of Erlanson’s family members and friends who attended a nearly two-hour memorial service at Atascadero High School on Wednesday afternoon. Erlanson — a 17-year-old student at the high school — died May 7 when he drowned in the campus pool. School ...
- Kay Ryan named US poet laureate (Guardian Unlimited)
News: A quiet writer of compressed poetry has been given America's top honour for poets
- Moments of the Past: Praise of Long-Haired Women - Statesman Journal
Moments of the Past: Praise of Long-Haired WomenStatesman Journal, OR - 1 hour agoPoets and painters have adopted it also, and in poem and picture woman's hair has played a prominent part. I don't recall just now any instance of a poet ...
- Cold feet at the gates of Hades - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukCold feet at the gates of HadesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIn a suggestive sub-chapter on "Roman gothic", he compares the hags who haunt Latin poetry with the reputed witches encountered by Carlo Levi in the ...
- Books with local links have long shelf lives - Baytown Sun
As mentioned in the previous column, many books with Baytown connections occupy space in my bookcase. Let the browsing continue: In 1979 Texas Monthly Press published a political potboiler, “The Power Exchange,” by former Sun reporter Alan Erwin ...
- Mushaira: Charting a new tradition - Saudi Gazette
Some people gather, and that is it. In this couplet, almost a century ago, Meer Taqi Meer, one of the legends of Urdu Poetry, was complaining about the changing state of Mushairas. At Meer’s time Mushairas were exclusive gatherings for literary ...
- Mid Ulster Film Festival voted a huge success - Ulster Herald (subscription)
Ulster Herald (subscription)Mid Ulster Film Festival voted a huge successUlster Herald (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoFamily breakdowns and shady deals were only two of the issues dealt with in the features. The final film of the festival, 'She Should Have Gone To The Moon' ...
- ANGIE MOON PHOTO - Cape Gazette
Cape GazetteANGIE MOON PHOTOCape Gazette, DE - 2 hours agoRehoboth Beach Bandstand, Rehoboth Ave., to kick off the 2008 summer season with a series o concerts at 8 pm each night featuring Love Seed Mama Jump on ...
- Art Museum Offers Immersion in Gullah Culture - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Art Museum Offers Immersion in Gullah CultureMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 6 hours agoWith the works of African American artist Jonathan Green as a backdrop plus a host of notable experts in Gullah art and culture, and lots of hands-on ...
- David Cook: A Bowl Falls From The Roof - The Chattanoogan
The ChattanooganDavid Cook: A Bowl Falls From The RoofThe Chattanoogan, TN - 9 hours agoSo what else can he do as he meets God, this man Rumi, but begin to speak poetry? “Some nights stay up till dawn,’’ he writes, “as the moon sometimes does ...
- Stories for Life showcases enduring art at its finest (The Post and Courier)
In "The Meaning of Shakespeare," Harold Goddard writes that the destiny of the world is determined less by "the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in." Political winds blow themselves out in time; humanity's great stories endure. So will storytelling, even in the electronic age.
- Hitler's Vindication - Indymedia Ireland
After WW II, Hitler faked his death and went to Argentina to reign from obscurity as the King of the South, controlling health care, starting wars, and promoting Nazism everywhere! Even Kweer Kalifornia!? Kweer Kalifornia "is the place you ought to ...
- Sports writer George Kimball: My close-up view of boxing's golden age - Independent
Sports writer George Kimball: My close-up view of boxing's golden ageIndependent, UK - 20 hours agoKimball produced poetry good enough to appear in the Paris Review and when Olympic Press in Paris was publishing English-language editions of Lady ...
- Rock and roll or write - Telegraph.co.uk
Rock and roll or writeTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoIn "On the Road 1", for instance, the author transforms every dreadful poetry reading experience into a barrage of mordant one-liners: "Afterwards, ...
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