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- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road - The Independent
The womanising, the four bottles of wine a day and the five-year retreat in a Buddhist monastery are all behind him. This week, Leonard Cohen embarks on his first British tour for 15 years. And the former poet laureate of despair might even be ...
- Karadzic: The butcher was also the healer - Independent
The Father Christmas beard, the knotted ponytail and the smeared glasses have gone. Radovan Karadzic, freshly clean-shaven, now sits in his cell, reading the Bible obsessively. In the past week, the two lives he kept separate for 12 years have been ...
- Queen is asked to appoint first female Poet Laureate after 22 men in 340 years (Independent)
Ever since the Royal household crowned John Dryden as the first Poet Laureate in 1668, the honour has been bestowed on men of letters from William Wordsworth to Ted Hughes. No woman has ever held the position.
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, July 3rd - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Thursday, July 3rdOpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Serenity prayer stirs up doubt: Who wrote it? (International Herald Tribune)
The prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene.
- Love story: Challenges melt when couple fall in love - Post-Bulletin
In spring 2000, Jesse Lohmann was like many 20-year-old college students. After graduating from Mayo High School two years earlier, she was a sophomore at Winona State University with a part-time job in Rochester. She wanted to be an elementary ...
- First stills from The Edge of Love - Monsters and Critics.com
Monsters and Critics.comFirst stills from The Edge of LoveMonsters and Critics.com - 36 minutes agoDylan tells her he is writing propaganda films, as he hasn't enough money to be able to write his poetry and that he’s not fighting in the war because of ...
- Henry Rollins, US punk icon and anti-poet, London-bound - London Free Press
Henry Rollins, US punk icon and anti-poet, London-boundLondon Free Press, Canada - 4 hours ago"Poetry and me are like oil and water . . . I always like what Nietzsche said about poets. He said, 'poets are those who muddy the waters to make them ...
- Profile of a newsmaker: Griswold High senior receives award for ... - Norwich Bulletin
In the news: Nicholas R. Jamrock, 17, received a 2008 award in student leadership from the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education. Background: Jamrock, a senior at Griswold High School, has received numerous academic honors and volunteered in ...
- Czech Embaasy in Seoul to show "Spring in My Hometown" on Ewha Campus - The Seoul Times
Czech Embaasy in Seoul to show "Spring in My Hometown" on Ewha CampusThe Seoul Times, South Korea - 16 minutes agoI think TS Eliot thought that way too, which is why I liked his poetry. He thought that the romantic poets, like Wordsworth, always say one thing but the ...
- Who tends this? - Maitland Mercury
Who tends this?Maitland Mercury, Australia - 8 hours agoHer artwork was exceptional and she wrote some beautiful poetry. We will miss her so much," they told the Mercury the day after the crash. ...
- Bridges provides direction for children - The Flint Journal - MLive.com
Bridges provides direction for childrenThe Flint Journal - MLive.com, MI - 15 hours agoDozens of students performed at Saturday's seven-hour event with demonstrations of karate, dance, song, poetry and other talents. ...
- Artists say they're being squeezed out of their space (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Posted: 7:32 PM- Tim Larsen fell in love with his home in the Artspace Bridge Projects after he moved in seven years ago.
- How long will we have to put up with this mess? - Times & Star
How long will we have to put up with this mess?Times & Star, UK - 9 hours agoIN RESPONSE to Carruthers of Great Clifton and his request for more poetry, here is one I wrote... Am I really the only person in Cockermouth who is fed up ...
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies - Pantagraph
LOS ANGELES -- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
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