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- Kenny Farquharson: Let's hear it for inspirational leaders - Scotland on Sunday Online
COME on, admit it. Who cried as they listened to Barack Obama's victory speech? That wonderful section about the 106-year-old black woman who voted for him, and all the iniquities she lived through. The simple declaration of love for his wife ...
- Poet Imlah wins £10,000 prize (BBC News)
Poet Mick Imlah wins the £10,000 Forward Prize for his first collection in 20 years, The Lost Leader.
- Bringing up Mommy: Saying prayer for my saving grace - San Luis Obispo Tribune
Bringing up Mommy: Saying prayer for my saving graceSan Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 1 hour agoNot marriage, nor work, not exercise, nor mindfulness sites, nor changing the color of my hair or losing weight, not work, nor music nor poetry nor ...
- Former professor, poet to be celebrated - The Daily Collegian Online
Former professor, poet to be celebratedThe Daily Collegian Online, PA - 55 minutes agoSpanning today and Friday, the activities planned will include poetry readings of students', professors' and Roethke's work, along with various other events ...
- Anthony, N.M., author Ana Castillo talks about life, happiness and her new book (Las Cruces Sun-News)
Editor's note: Ana Castillo, whose titles during her 30-year career include novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, journalist, artist, writer-in-residence, editor, teacher, and activist, now calls Anthony home. Her latest novel, "The Guardians," was just released in paperback by Random House.
- Betty Folgeltanz dies Friday at age of 85 - Antigo Daily Journal
Betty June Fogeltanz, a member of the Antigo Daily Journal staff for 65 years, died Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. She was 85 years old. A prolific reader, writer and lover of verse, Mrs. Fogeltanz was born Jan. 3, 1923 in Antigo, a daughter of the late ...
- Tree from Robert Frost Farm lives on - Nashua Telegraph
Tree from Robert Frost Farm lives onNashua Telegraph, NH - Oct 19, 2008By ELLEN GRIMM Correspondent DERRY – About a year ago, woodworkers arrived at Rodney Daily's home in Derry to haul away parts of a century-old maple tree ...
- On the scene: Lemon’s music tickles funny bones - The State
8 tonight: Red Clay Ramblers at Newberry Opera House. The Red Clay Ramblers, a bluegrass string band, walk the trails of old-timey mountain folk, country and gospel, and the group’s Broadway compositions have garnered Tony awards. The opera house ...
- Canton’s trip through the looking glass becomes curiouser and curiouser (The Canton Daily Ledger)
Remember how strange the world looked when you were seven and a half?
- Book review: Jim Harrison's “The English Major†goes on an amusing road trip (The Kansas City Star)
As the novelist John Gardner identified them, there are but two universal plots in literature: either you go on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
- House of the Sleeping Beauties (Reel.com)
(2006) Starring: Vadim Glowna , Angela Winkler Director: Vadim Glowna Synopsis: An elderly man visits a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken.
- Gluck receives Wallace Stevens Award (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
NEW YORK -- Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Gluck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced recently. Gluck, who served as poet laureate in 2003-04, is known for such books as "Averno," "The Seven Ages" and "Vita Nova." Previous winners of the Stevens award include Adrienne ...
- Poetry: Three simple questions ad infinitum - The Evening Sun
Poetry: Three simple questions ad infinitumThe Evening Sun, PA - 30 minutes agoBy MICHAEL HOOVER Lately I've been focusing upon the answers to three questions: Where do I come from? What am I? Where am I going? ...
- Poetry: Find encounters of the sacred kind - Evening Sun
Who would be crazy enough to pick the last weekend in unofficial summer to come to the most toured town in our area to see the very popular, recently reconstructed visitor center? Yep, that's me. But what an experience I had this past Labor Day ...
- interview with the author of "Jewel of Medina" - Beliefnet.com
interview with the author of "Jewel of Medina"Beliefnet.com, NY - 18 minutes agoBut as I read - books by Western scholars, Islamic scholars, religious clerics, ancient Arabic poetry - what I gained from my reading was an impression of ...
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