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- From bad to verse: Vandals get lesson in poetic justice (The Courier News)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using The Road Not Taken and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways -- and the redemptive power of poetry.
- Court rejects Lesbos 'insult' - Scotsman
A GREEK court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word "lesbian" to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public yesterday. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient ...
- Welsh bard touched our hearts - The Australian
Welsh bard touched our heartsThe Australian, Australia - 1 hour agoRhys certainly gives a warts and all Thomas and he also recites the swaths of the poetry with a burnished magnificence (somewhere between Thomas and Richard ...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - Forbes
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some ...
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona - PopMatters
PopMattersVicky Cristina BarcelonaPopMatters, IL - 11 hours agoThe poetry (which may or may not be beautiful, we’ll never know) stands in Vicky Cristina Barcelona as a test that goes both ways. ...
- Jeffries goes from burgers to Olympic bronze - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentJeffries goes from burgers to Olympic bronzeIrish Independent, Ireland - Aug 19, 2008... Getty Images Tony Jeffries, the former nightclub doorman who has spent his nights here writing prose to his girlfriend back home in England, was poetry ...
- Here is the city report on former City Court Clerk Ed Hammonds ... - The Chattanoogan
Here is the city report on former City Court Clerk Ed Hammonds ...The Chattanoogan, TN - 1 hour agoShe said he pulled out a large stack of papers in a folder and then asked her to read page after page of sexually explicit/erotic poetry. ...
- A man who has had sex with 1,000 cars! - Zee News
Melbourne, Aug 01: A stunning woman won’t set his heart racing but a car is more than enough to leave Edward Smith gasping for more. Smith claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars insisting that he would prefer a car over a woman any day. Smith’s ...
- Voices of the People - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Voices of the PeopleNortheast Mississippi Daily Journal, MS - 1 hour ago"He signed his name as An Angry Man,'" said Byron Schexnayder, founder of poetry night. "Someone stole his guitar and he did this rant, this out-there rant. ...
- Youth Activism: TAKE ACTION PACK - MediaRights
MediaRightsYouth Activism: TAKE ACTION PACKMediaRights - 41 minutes agoStart a slam-poetry club and encourage students to start one themselves. Check out sites for poets such as WelfarePoets.com who incorporate spoken word, ...
- ‘Dark Night’ reinvents a film genre (The Sudbury Star)
“THE DARK KNIGHT†4 stars, SilverCity Batman†isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight†is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of [...]
- David Archuleta's new single! (Entertainment Weekly)
''Idolatry'' host Michael Slezak on the ''Idol'' season 7 runner-up's ''Crush'' -- his rate-a-record verdict is...
- Show & A.G. - CNET Asia
How can you have any objectivity about a group that's got you hypnotized? Show & A.G. offer woozy urban poems of a classic New York style: drawly words of wisdom blended with glowing keys and drum machine clips. We'd love to hear more of it from the ...
- Girls Fall Down - PopMatters
PopMattersGirls Fall DownPopMatters, IL - 3 hours agoSome might consider it a bit of a comedown: that after six books of poetry and at least one novel published by a major publisher (Knopf Canada’s Between ...
- Living slow and other summer vacation resolutions - Baltimore Sun
Living slow and other summer vacation resolutionsBaltimore Sun, United States - 15 minutes agoThe poet said (tongue in cheek) that a poet's way with words is superior to mere prose. Poetry picks up, he said, where prose is simply inadequate. ...
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