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- Schoolgirl celebrates published poems - This is Hertfordshire
The write stuff: Kristal celebrates with copies of her first published poem A Shenley schoolgirl is celebrating after becoming one of the youngest writers to have poems published in a new anthology. Kristal Seeney, 11, of Boswell Close, entered a ...
- Centuries-old Shakespeare volume recovered - Independent Online
London - It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of pounds after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it ...
- Poet laureate of American hymns dies at 89 (West Salem Coulee News)
ST. LOUIS — It wasn’t until the Rev. Jaroslav Vajda was nearly 50 that he began to pursue the craft that would leave his name etched in history. Or at least the hymnal.
- Cope rules out 'archaic' laureate role (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Hay festival: Contender to become first female poet laureate says she is not interested in the post
- Marsalis family spends Father’s Day at Toledo jazz fest - Toledo Blade
Marsalis family spends Father’s Day at Toledo jazz festToledo Blade, OH - 1 hour agoHe said he was not surprised that their son Ellis III opted for poetry and computers. “I’ve often wondered how I would have felt if I had been the third son ...
- Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' (International Herald Tribune)
Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' is a formidable consideration of the British landscape, by a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence — poetry, really — with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ideas and reach far transcend the physical region he explores.
- Radio Review - Stage
Radio ReviewStage, UK - 48 minutes agoTwenty years after his death at 17 in 1770 of arsenic poisoning in the face of poverty and despondency, Chatterton became the poster boy for Romantic poetry ...
- Carisbrook test a date with history (Otago Daily Times)
I blame it on the streaker. Yes, the All Blacks were seriously short-handed in the experience department even before Ali Williams came off. And, seriously, where would the All Blacks have been without Daniel Carter's kicking?
- In the footsteps of Osama ... - Asia Times
KUNAR VALLEY, Afghanistan - Nearly seven years after invading Afghanistan to go after Osama bin Laden, the United States has stepped up its campaign to catch the al-Qaeda leader and his senior associates, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, who are believed ...
- Jersey Cape Writer's Society invites criticism (Press of Atlantic City)
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP - You'd think a writer would prefer his work not be critiqued, but members of the Jersey Cape Writer's Society count on it. The group, which meets at 7 p.m. the last Tuesday of each month at the Wetlands Institute, is composed of writers from throughout Cape May County.
- Newspapers have always been full of useful info - Lake Sun Leader (subscription)
Newspapers have always been full of useful infoLake Sun Leader (subscription), MO - 6 hours agoHe had been a good young man, but early became addicted to writing poetry, winter and spring being his favorite topics. ''The good die young' and this man ...
- Critics: are we just loudmouths? - Guardian Blogs
Are critics dead? They still stagger on, course, and always will. Everyone has an opinion about the film they just saw , the book they read . Some people will always get so heated up in their critical opinions that they become ... critics, and so ...
- Poet Marie Howe's reading on Wednesday canceled - Democrat and Chronicle
Marie Howe’s poetry reading Wednesday at Writers & Books has been canceled because of because of travel difficulties. Howe, a Rochester native, was to appear as part of the Visiting Writers Series at 7 p.m. Howe's new poetry collection is The ...
- Soundtracking: Win A Beach Boys Limited Edition CD Boxset! - Gather.com
You may recall back when Soundtracking gave away a signed Beach Boys lithograph , now we're hosting another great Beach Boys giveaway! If you love the Beach Boys, you've come to the right place! On June 10th, Capitol/EMI released a boxed set of the ...
- 4-H Round Up (The Victoria Advocate)
Congratulations to everyone who participated and placed at the following District 11 4-H contests: Photography, Clara Smejkal, second place, animals; and third, theme; Kerilyn Wendel - first, arch. elements, third, people, third, plant/flora; Casey Tucker, third, theme, blue ribbon, natural landscapes; red ribbon, animals; Colton Fischer and Ashley Tucker have two photos each competing at the ...
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