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- Unattended packages - Guardian Unlimited
During high security alerts, we're familiar with the "show of strength", in which tanks patrol the fences at Heathrow and cops wait at the end of railway platforms, machine guns on hip and sniffer dogs at feet. This is part of a psychological battle ...
- Contest: Poetry prize offered (Marion Chronicle-Tribune)
A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a special poetry contest sponsored by Golden Poets Guild, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes, totaling $5,000.
- Khia Interview - Ugo.com
"I continue to find success on my terms." When it comes to rapper Khia, you may call her a thug, loose at the lips, a vixen or contentious. Whatever the word choice, she continues to make herself relevant, current and talked about. Khia, pronounced ...
- Actress Alanna Ubach makes her NY debut in 'Patriotic Bitch' - New York Daily News
New York Daily NewsActress Alanna Ubach makes her NY debut in 'Patriotic Bitch'New York Daily News, NY - 1 hour agoA couple of months later, Ubach, who was raised in a predominantly Latino suburb of Los Angeles, enrolled in an American poetry class at UCLA and the ...
- Lost Dylan poetry surfaces with '60s Hollywood photos - International Herald Tribune
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, said that this autumn the magazine would publish two of the poems and perhaps a photograph or two. Christopher Ricks, a professor of the humanities at Boston University and the author of "Dylan's Visions ...
- Star of Spike Lee's 'When the Levees Broke,' puts heart into raw ... - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayune Phyllis Montana LeBlanc pens her hurricane tale in "Not Just the Levees Broke: My Life Before and After Katrina." See Phyllis talk about her book » "I truly believe that home is where the heart is and when you say ...
- MC professor to present paper at Oxford University (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
To mark her 25th year at Midland College, English professor Pam Howell wanted to do something special and she found it. This summer, she will present a paper at the 20th Oxford Round Table in England in July.Â
- Art exhibit revisits cannery strike - Register Pajaronian
Art exhibit revisits cannery strikeRegister Pajaronian, CA - 3 hours ago21, will also include a wealth of talks, a procession, workshops, poetry and songs about the Watsonville Cannery Strike. Twenty years after the end of a ...
- Poetry review: 'The Ghost Soldiers: Poems' by James Tate - Orlando Sentinel
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You'll remember Seinfeld, the '90s sitcom famously dubbed "a show about nothing." Here's part of Charles Simic's blurb for Tate's new collection, The Ghost Soldiers: "To write a poem out of nothing ...
- Which bits of Michael Jackson turn 50 today? - Guardian Unlimited
Court and social, now, as you are cordially informed that Michael Jackson is 50 years old today. Well, bits of him are, and while our little Peter Pan would probably like to think that more recent tissue-based additions to his constantly evolving ...
- Disputes Over Ukrainian Orthodoxy Dominate Christian Feast - The Bulletin
Ukrainian Christians celebrate 1020 years of Christianity in Kiev on July 28, but disputes among the three competing Ukrainian Orthodox Churches, and the visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the most senior Eastern Orthodox bishop ...
- Portsmouth news briefs (Portsmouth Herald)
Part of Pleasant Street near Market Square will be closed for the next two Saturday evenings (July 12 and 19) from 5 to 10 p.m. for Pro Portsmouth's Summer in the Street downtown music program. No vehicular traffic or parking is allowed on Pleasant...
- Those are fighting words in Pakistan - Los Angeles Times
Those are fighting words in PakistanLos Angeles Times, CA - Jun 5, 2008His birthday is a national holiday. (Imagine a US holiday for Robert Frost or Emily Dickinson.) “Our people are very fond of poetry. ...
- Nikki Giovanni Speaks Poetry in NYC July 8-9; Broadway's Jenkins Adds Music (Playbill)
Acclaimed poet and author Nikki Giovanni is in New York City July 8-9 to join Broadway vocalist Capathia Jenkins and songwriter-performer Louis Rosen for a reading event of Giovanni's work, and two performance/signings of the new PS Classics CD, "One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs."
- Today in Entertainment History - WIS
Today in Entertainment HistoryWIS, SC - 5 hours agoIn 1969, a free concert by the Rolling Stones was held in London's Hyde Park. Mick Jagger read poetry in memory of the late Brian Jones. ...
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