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- McCain fails to change the game (BBC News)
The BBC's Kevin Connolly says neither candidate outshone the other - and this amounts to a defeat for John McCain.
- MoMA Presents a Site-Specific Installation of Newly Acquired Works by Artist Lucy McKenzie (Art Daily)
Lucy McKenzie with Linder Sterling. Untitled from Flourish Night Posters. 2002-04. One from a series of eight screenprints, composition (irreg.): 22 1/16 x 15 15/16" (56 x 40.5 cm); sheet: 23 1/4 x 16 9/16" (59 x 42 cm). Publisher and printer: the artist, Brussels. Edition: unlimited.
- Elham Gheytanchi: Hardliner Repression of Iranians Online (HuffingtonPost)
As Tehran's nuclear crisis grabs headlines, an ominous development is taking place inside Iran: the escalation of state repression against Iranian dissidents online.
- Sharing their way with words (Abilene Reporter-News)
Participants were an assorted cast of characters from retirees to English professors -- and even a veterinarian, Jim Wilson, who recited a poem about a fearless little crawfish titled "Braveheart the Crawfish."
- John Betjeman hated being Poet Laureate, says Andrew Motion - Daily Telegraph
Motion said Betjeman, who was much loved for his poetry and cheerful public persona, wrote "vicious" things about the burden of the Laureateship. But while Motion has let his struggle with the position be known, Betjeman largely kept his troubles ...
- Author speaks to young Brock Elliott readers - Manteca Bulletin
Author speaks to young Brock Elliott readersManteca Bulletin, CA - 9 minutes agoIn poetry, he wrote about two whales - "White Wings and Black Sail" was done under the his pseudonym, Tom Kelly - that impressed students and colleagues. ...
- Moon festival marked at Bettendorf library - Quad-Cities Online
Moon festival marked at Bettendorf libraryQuad-Cities Online, IL - 6 hours ago... and reading of poetry to the moon in both Chinese and English, including a moon poem written for the festival by Quad City poet laureate Dale Haake. ...
- UNCG professor is prized for her poetry - Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO — Jennifer Grotz once wrote poetry like a drunken Patsy Cline, sick on love. She heard that from her professor at Tulane. It didn't stop her. She still wrote her honor's thesis of poetry — even though she had taken only one creative ...
- Those Who Plant Trees To Harvest $50 Rebates - Washington Post
Those Who Plant Trees To Harvest $50 RebatesWashington Post, United States - 5 hours agoPoetry from students at 12 DC public high schools will be on display in buses and at Metro stops under a program unveiled last week by Metro and the DC ...
- 7 Days and 7 Nights (Gay City News)
Sexy People Vote! In the final of three candidate nights, the LGBT Community Center and Gay Men's Health Crisis host an evening of Manhattan congressional candidates, moderated by Marcus Mabry of the New York Times. 208 W. 13th St., 6:30-8:30 p.m.
- Kelly honored with Academy of American Poets fellowship - Inside Illinois
Kelly honored with Academy of American Poets fellowshipInside Illinois, IL - 2 hours ago“The list of past winners looks an awful lot like the canon of 20th- and 21st-century poetry.” Previous winners include Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, ...
- Children’s book teaches acceptance - Eastern Arizona Courier
Children’s book teaches acceptanceEastern Arizona Courier, AZ - 5 hours agoShe has been writing poetry since she was 8 years old. Her work can be found online at www.poetry.com. Though she has had no formal training, Stingley said ...
- "Faith County" mixes comedy with dinner - Batesville Herald Tribune
"Faith County" mixes comedy with dinnerBatesville Herald Tribune, IN - 22 hours ago"The comedy's plot centers around the events at the fair, a pair of love interests and local gossip, as well as some poetry reading and piano playing from ...
- Space, Aesthetics, Performance: Reflections on the Western Zhou ... - UCLA Asia Institute
UCLA Asia InstituteSpace, Aesthetics, Performance: Reflections on the Western Zhou ...UCLA Asia Institute, CA - 4 hours agoAnother major field of my interest is in Chinese poetry, its theory, aesthetics, and hermeneutic practices. I am currently spending much of my time on the ...
- Around Town: Area native gets poetry award - Canton Repository (subscription)
Around Town: Area native gets poetry awardCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 3 hours agoHilles' first poetry collection, "Brother Salvage," is about his former childhood physician, Dr. Thaddeus Stabholz, who lives in Canton and just celebrated ...
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