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- Hadrian's soldiers writing home - Daily Telegraph
The hulking great highlight of the Hadrian exhibitiown opening this week at the British Museum is a mammoth head of the emperor . Excavated in Turkey last year, it has never been shown to the public before. You can make out not only his beard - he ...
- Theater review: 'Andersen' goes it alone (San Jose Mercury News)
Hans Christian Andersen reputedly was fond of solitary pleasures. You could well say the same of Robert Lepage, the high-tech theater guru who has reinvented the solo genre as epic theater.
- Students To Have Their Words Made Into Smash Song (Scoop.co.nz)
Talented young poets, songwriters and lyricists have just three weeks to enter their best work into the New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards.
- Volunteer says taking first step is the hardest (The Doings Hinsdale)
One friend asking her to be involved kick-started a 20-plus year volunteer career for Hinsdale's Lisa Wilhelm Haag. "Start where you can to help a cause and say, 'What else can I do,' " she said. "Someone is going to call you about a volunteer opportunity." Since the 1980s, she has been involved with the YWCA of Metro Chicago, where she is the treasurer of the board and chairman of the finance ...
- Pa. Board Of Education Chair Resigns - The Bulletin
In the midst of controversy surrounding a proposal that Pennsylvania students pass a series of tests before they can graduate high school, the chairman of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education is stepping down. At the request of Gov. Ed Rendell ...
- Prince Releasing A New Multi-Media Book - The Celebrity Truth
The Celebrity TruthPrince Releasing A New Multi-Media BookThe Celebrity Truth, Australia - 4 hours ago... book book, being published by Atria, "transcends the conventions of form" according to a statement by the company and contains photographs, poetry by ...
- Joseph Solman - Guardian Unlimited
The night before he died, the American expressionist painter Joseph Solman enjoyed a convivial dinner with family and friends in his old apartment on 10th Street, New York. He was eight months short of his 100th birthday, active and productive to the ...
- Letters: Fathers (Independent)
Sir: I have to express my alarm at the advice dispensed by Virginia Ironside and five female readers in relation to the man deceived by his partner into unwillingly fathering a second child (Dilemmas, 23 June). Once again the sisterhood rises in unquestioning support of one of their own, and in contempt for the man concerned.
- Tough times for local booksellers (The Milford Daily News)
Stepping into the 19th century barn housing Vintage Books, visitors are surrounded by cabinets and shelves holding 35,000 volumes about everything from Paleolithic cave paintings to a cookbook of Dutch recipes. Video: Explore the stacks
- Poetry Night celebrates 25 years - Rome News-Tribune
Poetry Night celebrates 25 yearsRome News-Tribune, GA - 5 hours agoRena Patton taught creative writing at Darlington School for many years and now teaches at Savannah Country Day School. Mildred Greear resides in Helen and ...
- 'Emo' fan 'hanged herself after talking of suicide' (Daily Telegraph)
A 12-year-old girl hanged herself in her bedroom after visiting 'emo' websites to discuss suicide, an inquest has heard.
- Teacher's aide turns herself in over 'secret love' with teen - Philadelphia Daily News
It was a "secret love" within the confines of North Penn High School in Lansdale. She told him she wanted to have sex with him this summer, according to the affidavit of probable cause. He already began making his moves on her in a darkened classroom ...
- Words to touch the invisible - Brisbane Times
Words to touch the invisibleBrisbane Times, Australia - May 25, 2008And fellow poet Adam Thorpe reckons, "If genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music. ...
- Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World - Payvand Iran News
Recent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of Iranian works thanks ...
- 3 year old Mid-Southerner the youngest member of Mensa (WMCTV Memphis)
She can point out any country on a globe, memorize a poem in minutes, and has dreams of becoming a doctor. She sounds normal enough for a child, but Avery Yarbro is just three years old, and one of the youngest members of Mensa.
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