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- Female Poet Laureate contenders rule themselves out - Daily Telegraph
Wendy Cope, Fleur Adcock and Ruth Padel said the post of poet to the Queen was "archaic", "terribly hard work for very little pay" and could stifle their writing. The incumbent, Andrew Motion, is due to relinquish the post next year. Although being ...
- A Mom-umental Failure The spectacular flameout of the mother of all D ... - Washington Post
ON A WARM SPRING DAY IN 1929, dozens of Washington dignitaries gathered in a forest near Chevy Chase to think about their mothers. It was, after all, Mother's Day, just the 15th since the holiday had been made official, and thus an appropriate time ...
- Cave Creek film fest - AZ Central.com
Cave Creek film festAZ Central.com, AZ - 22 minutes agoIn the third year of the competition, where first prize in each category nets $1500, Adrienne has entered a poem called What Happened, a realistic look at ...
- Celebrating our culture in a festive fortnight - Manning River Times
Celebrating our culture in a festive fortnightManning River Times, Australia - 38 minutes ago... Kasey Chambers Acoustic Tour, Blueback and dance party, Taree Scribblers Club’s prose and poetry evening, the festival committee’s gala cocktail dance, ...
- Family Sues Police in Taser-Related Death - The Ledger
JACKSONVILLE | The family of a schizophrenic woman who died after being shocked by a Taser 10 times during a mental health crisis is suing the City of Green Springs and two of its police officers in federal court. An autopsy categorizes 56-year-old ...
- A life of fractured memories - Denver Post
A life of fractured memoriesDenver Post, CO - 1 hour agoAdapted by Canadian director Jeremy Podeswa, "Fugitive Pieces" delivers its own evocative poetry. Stephen Dillane plays the grown Jakob. ...
- Event to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela - Bermuda Sun
Canada.comEvent to pay tribute to Nelson MandelaBermuda Sun, Bermuda - 2 hours ago... from 5pm to 7pm and there will be music, poetry and refreshments. A tribute concert was held in London last month in honour of Mr. Mandela's birthday. ...Wishes for Madiba pour in as city gets ready to party Cape Argus (subscription)all 291 news articles
- Tagore is read much less nowadays: actor Soumitra Chatterjee (Interview) (New Kerala)
By Madhusree Chatterjee, New Delhi, May 11: Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee believes that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore is very much a part of our present, but he is being read much less these days.
- Mamet's 'Redbelt' raises action filmmaking to an art (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
"Redbelt" takes Mamet into territory no one otherwise would have predicted, the martial-arts thriller of honorable expert fighters, international competition and sinister organizers who corrupt the process.
- An Interview with a Moroccan Author - Alarab online
Alarab onlineAn Interview with a Moroccan AuthorAlarab online, UK - 27 minutes agoIn his youth, he wrote poetry in Moroccan Arabic, later switching to French, and then to English after receiving his BA in English from the Faculty of ...
- Run For Roses' Bed Of Thorns - Hartford Courant
The Kentucky Derby is the one horse race that captures the imagination of people who don't know a colt from Peyton Manning . The TV cameras will focus on women with gaudy hats and listen as the University of Louisville marching band plays "My Old ...
- Attention should be paid - Vacaville Reporter
Regarding the Associated Press article titled "Tragedy brings wrong attention to horse racing" (The Reporter, May 5): One need only read Sally Jenkins' Washington Post commentary ("Expectations are breeding trouble in modern horses") to see why there ...
- Situationism and hats - Manchester Evening News
I BLAME Leonard Cohen for making this a hold-on-to-your-hats event. The sprightly septuagenarian and his band, whose four gigs conquered Manchester last week, all sported natty titfers. So the sight of co-organiser Eliot Rashman wearing what Dunns ...
- Memories of Us - Daily 49er
Memories of UsDaily 49er, CA - 39 minutes agoWill you love Costello's new record, "Momofuko?" Celebrate the night on campus at the Soroptimist House (7 pm) by getting high off sweet poetry and fiction ...
- Dad: You da man! - Allentown Morning Call
Allentown Morning CallDad: You da man!Allentown Morning Call, PA - 12 hours agoEven the forms varied, from short notes to loving poetry. See them all at www.themorningcall.com. You are the best dad ever and there are barely any words ...
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