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- What's in a Name? - Slate
On frozen winter nights in Minneapolis, I used to lie in the dark and listen to the high-school hockey scores. They were read out on the radio—hockey is always news in Minnesota—but I didn't much care who won. I was 10 or 11 years old, a little ...
- Iran honors great poet Omar Khayyam - PRESS TV
PRESS TVIran honors great poet Omar KhayyamPRESS TV, Iran - 3 hours agoHe is best known for his poetry and his quatrains, dubbed “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, which was popularized among other nations through Edward Marlborough ...
- Salem area welcoming to diverse groups (Salem Statesman Journal)
M. Lee Pelton was named president of Willamette University in 1998.
- Elinor Lyon: Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled ... - The Independent
Author of 20 well received children's novels, Elinor Lyon ceased writing in 1975, at a time when the new emphasis on urban social realism in junior fiction had made her own stories seem increasingly out of date. But for many older readers, her ...
- Shakespeare in a Hawaiian setting (The Record)
Shakespeare, these days, has something in common with TV's "Survivor." And that thing is: location, location, location.
- Summer reading lists just got longer with new books by local writers - Cape Cod Times
Summer reading lists just got longer with new books by local writersCape Cod Times, MA - 1 hour agoThe New York Times Book Review has written of Toby Olson that "nothing can detract from (his) ability to conjure gorgeous prose passages that celebrate the ...
- Facebook is "educational", says US uni - Silicon.com
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial technological, creative and ...
- After-work drinks could lead to no more work - Walletpop.com
When I was in academia, my department's Christmas parties were an annual festival of drinking, dancing and fun. There was the feminist theorist whose flailing elbows and knees made her a force to be reckoned with on the dance floor, the conservative ...
- Robert Greacen: Ulster poet of considerable gifts - The Independent
In the years just before and after the Second World War, the north of Ireland was thought of, if at all, as a province culturally in the doldrums and religiously on the boil. "There was an almost complete blank in poetic utterance and in drama ...
- 'Step outside the box': Immaculate grads urged to pursue their dreams (The News-Times)
DANBURY -- Immaculate High School Principal Richard Stoops gathered his 99 seniors outside the Danbury school after their graduation Wednesday so they could toss their caps into the air in unison.For them, it was his final show of leadership, and in their joyful exuberance the class of 2008 revealed their sense of community for the school most of them had attended for the past four years.
- Queen Victoria's sex life exposed - Monsters and Critics.com
Queen Victoria's sex life exposedMonsters and Critics.com - 3 hours agoShe bought him many gifts, which he thanked her with through seductive poetry. Victoria's affairs continued when she became the Empress of India at the age ...
- A Novel Proposal - Washington City Paper
A Novel ProposalWashington City Paper, DC - 4 hours agoThe building seems built for them, beckoning only those drawn to dank, dark corners of public space. The library's basement auditorium is so foreboding that ...
- Arts in Brief - Fort Worth Business Press
Arts in BriefFort Worth Business Press, TX - 7 hours agoReservations ($5-$10) for the Advertising Federation event can be made online at www.sunsummerkickoff.com. The Kimbell Art Museum will present Part No. ...
- MLC PR SIGNS INDIE SOLO ARTIST MICHAEL JAMES - openPR (press release)
openPR (press release)MLC PR SIGNS INDIE SOLO ARTIST MICHAEL JAMESopenPR (press release), Germany - 13 hours agoHis music is poetry in motion, and the indie music scene really needs more music with substance right now,” says president of MLC PR, Mona Loring. ...
- Rutgers-Camden holds summer writers’ conference - Philadelphia Inquirer
Rutgers-Camden holds summer writers’ conferencePhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 1 hour agoOn Monday, June 23, poet JT Barbarese, author of four collections of poetry and a translation of Euripides' "Children of Herakles," will read with Lisa ...
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