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- Please Not Biden - Slate
Why Biden Would Be Bad: There's a bit of CSPAN tape that should surface quickly if he's named. ... Remember, it wasn't Biden's plagiarism that knocked him out of the 1988 race. It was "''I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do.'' ... [ via ...
- Prof. Ian Jack: Literary scholar who moved from Butler and the Brontës to the definitive edition of Browning (Independent)
Ian Jack, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, was the author of a series of masterly studies and editions of English writers between 1660 and 1860. His critical discussion was careful and decisive, his editing learned and lucid. There is no reader of Keats, or of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, or of Robert Browning, but must reckon a debt to Ian Jack.
- Killing the CanLit competition - Globe and Mail
Killing the CanLit competitionGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoA line of poetry found by a decapitated head. "You will see me - here in your dreams." The author of this rhyming couplet is the Sandman, who shuffles with ...
- Michael Coren: GK Chesterton, an icon to too few - National Post
Michael Coren: GK Chesterton, an icon to too fewNational Post, Canada - 19 minutes agoThere was poetry -- The Ballad of The White Horse and Lepanto -- and the creation of the priest detective Father Brown. He was as witty as Wilde, ...
- Open air poetry with passion (The Budapest Sun)
Ãgnes Vinkovits meets three very different English language poets at the latest Pilvax reading
- Oberlin celebrates 175th anniversary this weekend (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
OBERLIN — The community will celebrate its 175th anniversary in activities tonight and Saturday. These events are free and open to the public. Various organizations and individuals are participating, including Oberlin College, Oberlin Schools, the Oberlin Heritage Center, Oberlin Shansi, the Community Music School and the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra. The [...]
- Grant hopes to put human face on day labor site (Portland Tribune)
Despite ongoing controversy about the city’s day laborer hire site, the Portland City Council is investing another $10,000 in the project, this time in the form of a grant that will support the site’s outreach to the community through neighborhood cleanups, music, poetry, dance and ...
- Annual celebration of African-American art starts this weekend - Charleston Post & Courier
Even without money in your pocket, it's easy to enjoy MOJA. The annual African-American and Caribbean arts festival, which kicked off Wednesday and stretches through Oct. 5, will be serving up plenty of free entertainment. "This year, we have more ...
- Poet helps kids see it's about more than rhyme - Arlington Heights Post
Educator and poet Bill Buczinsky says kids can write a three-page essay but if there's no poetry in it, or it's not interesting to them, it won't live on in their minds and they won't remember the subject matter. "Poetry helps kids learn not just ...
- Extraordinary American Novelist Ray Bradbury to Headline the Seventh Annual West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, ... (Centre Daily Times)
Famed novelist Ray Bradbury, who is widely considered to be one of the most important American writers of fiction during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, will headline the award-winning West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, September 28, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at West Hollywood Park, 647 North San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood. The West Hollywood Book Fair is free. (Free ...
- Mutual respect for the land - Cumberland News
Cumberland NewsMutual respect for the landCumberland News, UK - 14 minutes agoBrian later dabbled in some personal illustrations for his own poetry, which he is hoping to publish soon. The creative pair felt it was time to exhibit ...
- Bubbling Venus (The Villager)
Zelda Fitzgerald, along with her husband F. Scott, stirred things up from time to time by bathing in the fountain in front of the Plaza. She may or may not have been a vestal virgin, but Scott thought she was.
- Plenty going on in the Vale today (Saturday) - Bucks Herald
VALE Park in Aylesbury will be a hive of activity today (Saturday), one of many events around the Vale. Events on today (Saturday) includes: PARKLIFE: A full programme of entertainment for all the family including theatre, sports, music, arts and ...
- Belle's Book Review - The Tribune
Belle's Book ReviewThe Tribune, TX - 30 minutes agoWhile writing it down on waking, he was interrupted and unable to remember the rest. Lithgow's grandmother recited poetry from memory for forty minutes at a ...
- Making the pen her friend - Irish Times
Making the pen her friendIrish Times, Ireland - 1 hour agoThe subjects we do include art, drama, reflective studies, English, music, poetry and maths, which I find the hardest. There are 28 in my class and I travel ...
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