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- GCSE poem dropped over knife fear (BBC News)
An exam board asks schools to destroy a GCSE poetry anthology because one poem refers to knife violence.
- NPS2008: A New Generation Of Poets Speak To The Madison Community - Dane101
NPS2008: A New Generation Of Poets Speak To The Madison CommunityDane101, WI - 26 minutes agoI have done that, but it has not happened because I decided that a poem against the war ought to be written,†says Bergmann. “I really detest poetry that is ...
- Writing his own story - Salem News
"Please, no doom and gloom," Christopher Reardon asks. "This isn't another kid in a wheelchair crying about his life." This is a kid in a wheelchair who says he's trying to tell the truth about his life. A kid, a man, really, who just turned 22 and ...
- Palestinian poet Darwish critically ill -officials (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry Palestinians believe has given a voice to their suffering, lay critically ill on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas, a ...
- Sprinboks' coach knows only victory will suffice - Courier Mail
Sprinboks' coach knows only victory will sufficeCourier Mail, Australia - Jul 17, 2008SOUTH Africa's first black coach, Peter de Villiers, was endorsed by a tight 10-9 vote and he seems fated always to be the centre of strong debate. ...
- Poetic Justice: Spike in sales for Kay Ryan, the next poet laureate (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall.
- American Teen: Reality bites the documentary - Creative Loafing Tampa
American Teen: Reality bites the documentaryCreative Loafing Tampa, FL - 10 minutes agoThe smoothly digestible freneticism of WALL-E's last act is a bit of a let-down after the near-minimalist poetry of the unconventional opening passages ...
- Sunday sermon - Emporia Gazette
Sunday sermonEmporia Gazette, KS - 3 hours agoJob begins the Poetry section, but belongs to a much earlier period. After the collection of Psalms, written mostly by David, the remaining three poetic ...
- Billy Graham is a Devil Worshipper! (Indymedia Chiapas)
Ha Ha! Fooled you! He is the Devil himself! "Psst! Lets go to a crusade, pose as Christians, and get rid of anyone who is stupid enough to come down and assume the title of Jesus Christ!" "You know what we do with Messiahs, don't you?"
- Bishop to order investigation of gay priests' ceremony - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
LONDON (AP) — The bishop of London said today he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines. The priests walked down the aisle in a May 31 service at one of ...
- Cantus firmus - The Christian Century
Cantus firmusThe Christian Century - 46 minutes agoIn the process, I came across this poem written by my friend Mark Perlberg almost 40 years ago, and it repossessed me. In Letters and Papers from Prison, ...
- Lyrical farewell for Dubliner Ronnie Drew - Irish Times
Lyrical farewell for Dubliner Ronnie DrewIrish Times, Ireland - 27 minutes agoShe ended with an Arthur O'Shaughnessy poem: "We are the music-makers and we are the dreamers of dreams . . . One man with a dream, at pleasure/ Shall go ...
- Scuba accident victim's coma now considered irreversible (Cyber Diver News Network)
GINNIE SPRINGS, Florida (1 July 2008) — The coma that enveloped Shannon Leigh Lewis, one of Austin's most honored spoken-word poets, turned irreversible Monday. She had entered the coma after a June 14 cave diving accident near Ginnie Springs, Florida.
- Made of Honor - DVD Talk
Made of HonorDVD Talk, OR - 1 hour agoThe fantasy that "everything will work out" and "love conquers all obstacles" makes for great sophomoric poetry but it generally results in a level of ...
- Goethe establishment slams lawyer's romance claims - Feature - Earthtimes
Berlin - Allegations of a secret love affair between a dowager duchess and Germany's greatest writer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, have been hotly rejected this week by German literary scholars. The claims were advanced in a 2003 book by literary sleuth ...
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