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- Vice-Chancellor slams justified future investment (Scoop.co.nz)
Students at the University of Auckland return to classes tomorrow, disappointed that their Vice-Chancellor appears out of touch with their financial situation and dismissive of moves to improve it.
- Funeral pending for poet Charles Guenther - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It is with sadness that I have just finished writing an obituary for Charles Guenther, who died Thursday at 88. He was such a quiet gentleman and one of the most generous, hard-working book reviewers I’ve ever worked with. He reviewed poetry for ...
- Macbeth as Othello, and other players - Daily Telegraph
Nick Laird reviews The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah, Selected Poems by Bernard O'Donoghue, and The Broken Word by Adam Foulds The Lost Leader, the first full-length collection in 20 years by Mick Imlah, the poetry editor of the Times Literary Supplement ...
- Pakistan’s very own Haiku expert - Pakistan Daily
Pakistan’s very own Haiku expertPakistan Daily, Pakistan - 57 minutes ago‘Mujh ko Tanha Na kar’ was the real start of his poetry, published in monthly Takleequ, Lahore, after several years. He has been extremely humble about his ...
- A working mother’s first job is to be our scapegoat - Times Online
A working mother’s first job is to be our scapegoatTimes Online, UK - 33 minutes agoIt’sa bummer, of course, that anyone has to work, we could all do with lying in meadows all day long, composing poetry and being fed grapes, but since work ...
- Brave New Worlds - Business Standard
Brave New WorldsBusiness Standard, India - 2 hours agoInstead, we did a rough categorisation, separating literary fiction from science fiction, poetry from pulp. This worked reasonably well, until we both ...
- Madison poets finish third in second national bout (The Capital Times)
After coming in third at the second bout Thursday evening at the 2008 National Poetry Slam, members of the the Madison Slam Team won't be going on to the semifinals Friday night for individual pieces. They find out Friday afternoon if they'll be competing in the Group Piece Championship (Friday, August 8 at 10 p.m. in the Overture Center, 201 State ...
- Personalities: Kelsey Grammer, Morgan Freeman, Norman Lear and ... - Poughkeepsie Journal
Personalities: Kelsey Grammer, Morgan Freeman, Norman Lear and ...Poughkeepsie Journal, NY - 6 hours agoAngelou, 80, has written more than a dozen best-sellers as well as three Grammy-winning spoken-word albums, poetry, plays and children's books. ...
- Books in Brief: Capsule reviews of recently released books - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Well, let's just dump out the entire wheelbarrow of book-reviewing cliches: "Wildly inventive." "Rich with detail." Verbally dazzling." "Wise and insightful." "Poignant and moving." "You'll laugh your guts out." These are the numb yet cogent terms ...
- Critics: are we just loudmouths? - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukCritics: are we just loudmouths?guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe reason the views of, say, TS Eliot on poetry were once taken so seriously (apart from the fact that when he wrote books such as The Use of Poetry and ...
- K-jay releases the very funny It's Hard Being Tall - Insight News
K-jay releases the very funny It's Hard Being TallInsight News, MN - 4 hours agoRoutine after routine calls on real life situations to fracture your funny bone. As in: Daddy trying to nestle up next to Mom with decidedly amorous intent ...
- Religion is poetry - Salon
SalonReligion is poetrySalon - 6 hours ago"What these critics are attacking is not religion, but a hasty caricature of it," he writes in his new book, "The Religious Case Against Belief. ...
- Project opens doors for teachers - Aiken Standard (subscription)
Project opens doors for teachersAiken Standard (subscription), SC - 7 hours agoPoppy is also intrigued, however, with using poetry in her chemistry classes. Technically, writing is about giving facts but, in the form of poetry, ...
- What a load of crockpots! (Salon.com)
Who doesn't want a Manwich? Sarah Haskins' new video spoofs the advertising world's rosy vision of motherhood.
- Canadian poet and playwright James Reaney dies at 81 - CBC News
James Reaney, a poet, author and dramatist of three famous plays about Ontario's feuding Donnelly family, has died. He was 81. Reaney died Wednesday in London, Ont., after a long illness. Reaney won the Governor General's Award for poetry three times ...
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