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- Robin Blaser wins Griffin Prize - National Post
Robin Blaser wins Griffin PrizeNational Post, Canada - 5 hours ago"Life is full of surprises, isn't it?" said Blaser as he took the podium. "Vive la poesie. Long live poetry." The prize was founded in 2000, and is awarded ...
- Mexican-themed festival planned for Tuesday - Post-Star
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- This weeks’s "dark day" at the Saratoga Race Course will be brightened by a fiesta. La Fiesta en el Museo de la Hipica, a free festival of traditional music and arts associated with the racetrack and its backstretch workers ...
- Woman gets 8-13 years in ex-boyfriend's stabbing (The Salem News)
DANVERS and mdash; Kathie DeFelice made one last plea for mercy yesterday as she was about to learn her sentence for the stabbing death of former boyfriend William Olsen Jr., a killing she said was in self-defense after years of abuse.
- Bleekers: Books help celebrate our planet - Topeka Capitol-Journal
Intriguing recent children's and young adult books give readers good reason to celebrate our planet earth every day. • Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch. "How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warning ...
- 50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill 2008 - 40 More - Thehill.com
There are far more pretty people on Capitol Hill than we can show you here, but here are 40 more of the "most beautiful people on Capitol Hill." The rest of these beautiful people are not ranked in any specific order. Thank you to all that ...
- "Eros": A creepy love story entwined with Germany history - Seattle Times
"Eros": A creepy love story entwined with Germany historySeattle Times, United States - 50 minutes agoBesides writing novels and poetry, Krausser is a screenwriter, and his skills at pacing and setting up cliffhangers are part of what makes this book a fun, ...
- Poet's well-versed in humor - Charlotte Observer
Poet's well-versed in humorCharlotte Observer, NC - 6 hours agoKnowing her talent for rhyme and expression, friends often asked her to write poems for special occasions. She submitted some for publication. ...
- Out and About: Aug. 6 - 17 - West Bridgewater Times
Out and About: Aug. 6 - 17West Bridgewater Times, MA - Aug 5, 2008Open mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Duncan Hamilton: Punishment through poetry. Let's teach miscreants a ... - yorkshirepost
There's an image of our judiciary as being stuffily cloistered in Harold Macmillan's "you've never had it so good" tweedy and monochrome 1950s. It is difficult to shake when one judge is heard in court dimly murmuring to himself "Who are the Beatles ...
- Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate - International Herald Tribune
Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureateInternational Herald Tribune, France - 50 minutes ago... poetry pulpit, whether Robert Pinsky compiling the public's favorite verse or Collins advocating daily broadcasts of poetry in the nation's schools. ...
- A stranger's stolen kiss: The lothario who cut me adrift and the ... - Daily Mail
Daily MailA stranger's stolen kiss: The lothario who cut me adrift and the ...Daily Mail, UK - 1 hour agoA friend once told me there were three ways to achieve this: shopping, poetry and sex. 'And you, my dear,' she said with disapproval, 'prefer to spend your ...
- Ralph Victor Heino Sr., 91, Seattle Symphony musician (Seattle Times)
Until the end of his life, composer and musician Ralph Victor Heino Sr. remained passionate about the arts. Mr. Heino, best-known for his 40-year career with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, died July 26, after suffering a stroke the week before. He was 91.
- Kahn recalls stories of summer - Washington Times
Washington TimesKahn recalls stories of summerWashington Times, DC - 1 hour agoAs we have seen, Kahn likes to derive his titles from poetry. "The Boys of Summer" originally was contributed by Dylan Thomas and "Into My Own" by Frost. ...
- Jesus died for somebody's sins ... (Salon.com)
But not hers. A dazzling, dizzying documentary captures female rock pioneer Patti Smith during her comeback years, surrounded by death and life.
- A Punch of Salt - Kolkata Newsline
A Punch of SaltKolkata Newsline, India - 1 hour ago... running down the contemporary markers of Bengali culture (read Bangla bands and their neo-Bangla rhetoric, poetry on T-shirts, de-boned ilish and more ...
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