Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Teen Poetry Slam (Cape May County Herald)
Copyright © 2008 Cape May County Herald. All rights reserved.
- Roses are red, violets are blue, HSBC investors know what to do - Daily Telegraph
Every year a handful of HSBC's Hong Kong shareholders compose poems praising the bank and read out their masterpieces. This year Mike Geoghegan, HSBC's straight-talking chief executive, will be there to hear the offerings. If only Geoghegan could ...
- West Cork Literary Festival programme sets pulses racing! - Southern Star
West Cork Literary Festival programme sets pulses racing!Southern Star, Ireland - 11 minutes agoHaving said that, the festival has always been driven by a very strong workshop programme that covers not only the familiar genres such as poetry, ...
- The rise of the smorgasbord arts night - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe rise of the smorgasbord arts nightguardian.co.uk, UK - 34 minutes agoMulti-programmed events mix theatre with food, music, live art and poetry. Will someone invent a fringe theatre crawl? Cultural picnicking ... a play at ...
- City writer hits jackpot with third novel - Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - On his website, Edmonton's Thomas Trofimuk describes himself as "writer, gardener and failed Buddhist." Looks like he'll now have to add literary lottery winner to the billing. After publishing his first two novels with small presses ...
- Letter from London - A great new literary icon roars for Africa - Daily Nation
Letter from London - A great new literary icon roars for AfricaDaily Nation, Kenya - 59 minutes agoThough he had been writing poetry for years, Fr Akpan only wrote his first short story in 1998 – about a good man trying to help a priest while the priest ...
- Iraqi translators have the deadliest job (San Francisco Chronicle)
Neither his parents nor his siblings know he works for the U.S. Army. It's bad enough that he wakes up each night around 2 a.m., the hour his armored convoy was hit by a roadside bomb several months ago. He doesn't want his family to have the same...
- Nick Laid on merging science with poetry - guardian.co.uk
Nick Laid on merging science with poetryguardian.co.uk, UK - 26 minutes agoPaul discovered a black hole in Cygnus X-1, and is the author of many popular books on the universe. For my part, I've been reading up on all things cosmic. ...
- Should You Be Allowed to Buy Plastic Fish Brake Lights? - New York Times Blogs
I am a firm believer in consumer choice — an individual’s utility and society’s economic welfare are maximized if people are free to buy whatever they want (so long as others are not forced to sell it to them). Nonetheless, an amazing number of ...
- Tom Meschery: Dishing out knowledge - Sierra Sun
Tom Meschery, who has lived in Truckee for more than 30 years, was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 2003 and was one of five Golden State Warriors players to have his jersey retired. Emma Garrard/Sierra Sun Editor’s note: This is ...
- New book explains author's struggle with misdiagnosis - Cape Gazette
New book explains author's struggle with misdiagnosisCape Gazette, DE - 17 minutes agoHer first book, “Delaware, I Sing thy Shore,” is a poetry and photography piece highlighting the natural beauty of the state. Both books may be purchased at ...
- Remembering Josh: Friends gather to honor young Bluffton car-crash ... - Island Packet Online
Cindy Sprouse, a teacher and friend of Josh George, didn't know much about the 17-year-old junior when she met him. His mother, Cheryl, the school nurse at Bluffton High School, didn't make him out to be an academic. But after teaching Josh for a ...
- Thomas Jefferson, Gentleman Scholar (The New York Sun)
The title of Kevin Hayes's new study of Thomas Jefferson, "The Road to Monticello" (Oxford University Press, 752 pages, $34.95), holds out several possibilities. Is it a book about Jefferson's famous house, which he spent much of his life building and rebuilding, and which still stands as a monument to his multifaceted genius? Or could it be a biography covering the first decades of Jefferson's ...
- The best is yet to be: Dr. Strock: a year after retirement - Martha's Vineyard Times
The best is yet to be: Dr. Strock: a year after retirementMartha's Vineyard Times, MA - 48 minutes agoAs a teen, time goes on forever." For elders, he says, there is the subtext: "Do I have the time?" Sounding thoughtful, he says, "No one can do it for you. ...
- Edgy and intense, Kingston defies expectations - Canada.com
Canada.comEdgy and intense, Kingston defies expectationsCanada.com, Canada - 3 hours agoThis is edgy tourism for a certain kind of traveller. One observer has referred to Kingston as "poetry and chaos." I, too, found both.
|
|
Refinancing today can save you big bucks!
Get your Online Degree today!
December 2007 Mortgage News
|