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- California Bill Would Force Public Schools to Honor ‘Gay Hero’ - CNS News
Harvey Milk was the first openly homosexual person to be elected to public office in a major U.S. city. (CNSNews.com) – A conservative group is warning parents about a bill under consideration in the California Legislature that requires public ...
- Mary-Sherman Willis' "The Laughter of Women" (Seattle Times)
So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia describes the feeling of being...
- The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materials (Independent)
Monoculture threatens literature just as much as landscape. If featureless plains of soya beans or oilseed rape can ruin not just the charm but the resilience of an eco-system, then a reading culture built around a narrow band of middle-of-the-road fiction and biography runs the risk of wrecking its fertility. From tutors on creative-writing courses I hear the complaint that their students ...
- Profile: Radovan Karadzic - poet, psychiatrist, war ciminal - Times Online
Times OnlineProfile: Radovan Karadzic - poet, psychiatrist, war ciminalTimes Online, UK - 14 hours agoIt was while in the city that he met his wife, Ljiljana, and, in the early 1970’s began writing poetry. It was then that he fell under the spell of Dobrica ...Video: EU hails Karadzic arrest france24englishHis Old Friends, Loyal to the End BuzzleA Leader Turned Ghost New York TimesThe Associated Press - Melbourne Herald Sunall 3,140 news articles
- Palestine mourns death of poet icon - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldPalestine mourns death of poet iconSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 9 minutes agoPhoto: AP Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry helped make him one of the leading cultural voices for the Palestinian experience, has died in Houston, Texas, ...
- Lollapalooza 2008: Day 3 Recap (Chicagoist)
Sunday Sweaty Sunday. The weather was somewhere between Friday's scorcher and Saturday's gorgeousness. We had our sunscreen applied, water packed, our beach towels ready, and were prepared for whatever Day 3 had to bring us. Lots of questions floated around the grounds, including the still-rumored Obama appearance. What some folks failed to realize was that said rumor was actually listed in ...
- Appetite for learning shapes seniors' life - The Daily Yomiuri
Appetite for learning shapes seniors' lifeThe Daily Yomiuri, Japan - 2 hours agoSeventeen students studied American poetry as an elective at Rikkyo Second Stage College of Tokyo's Rikkyo University. The yearlong curriculum, which began ...
- Daniel Radcliffe: I'd Love to Play a Drag Queen (US Weekly)
Forget Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe's dream role? "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen," he says in the October issue of Details. "It would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." It wouldn't be the first controversial role the 19-year-old star has tackled. Radcliffe - who recently revealed he suffers from a mild brain disorder that sometimes prohibits him from tying...
- Our friends electric: Wall.E & family (Independent)
Look around you: the future's here. Robots build our cars. They save our lives, defusing terrorist bombs. They go to war, flying pilotless over enemy territory. And now comes a robot with the conscience of Al Gore and the comic timing of Charlie Chaplin, to save the planet and make everyone laugh.
- Events for the family (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Special Events Philadelphia Battle on the Runway Invited guests include Eva Marcille & Jaslene Gonzalez, Winners of 'America's Next Top Model.' Tickets & info: 646-881-0324. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St.; 215-418-4700. www.mmmmodelmanagement.com. 6/29 noon-10 pm.
- The Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition 2008 - Times Online
Times OnlineThe Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition 2008Times Online, UK - 13 hours agoMick Imlah, Poetry Editor of the TLS, and Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America and formerly Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, ...
- Harry Reid’s national rural strategy isn’t working in his own home ... - Reno News & Review
Harry Reid’s national rural strategy isn’t working in his own home ...Reno News & Review, NV - 34 minutes ago“If I had it to do over again, I would attend the obligatory events in rural Nevada, like the parades and the cowboy poetry event, and spend the rest of my ...
- MISSING BRONTë Letter Returns To The Bontë MUSEUM IN HAWORTH - 24 Hour Museum
What did Charlotte Brontë really think of her critics? Visitors to the Brontë Parsonage Museum will be able to find out thanks to the discovery of a missing letter between the best-selling author and her publisher, William Smith Williams.
- A lifetime of drawing dreams - Fall River Herald News
A lifetime of drawing dreamsFall River Herald News, USA - 10 hours agoShe describes herself as French-educated, with American habits and Russian blood. Her family has been nicknamed the United Nations, she added, with African ...
- The Monterey County Herald - Monterey County Herald
The Monterey County HeraldMonterey County Herald, CA - 1 hour agoMusic, poetry, with guest Dave Stamey, the Western Music Association's, Male Performer of the Year, inductee Michael Martin Murphey, poets Clem Albertoni ...
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