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- Michael Rosen: 'Give children books, not SATs' (Independent)
Michael Rosen, the children's laureate, can't help but feel a tinge of glee at the recent SATs fiasco. "There is a bit of schadenfreude, if you like," he says, "a bit of celebration at their misfortune" – meaning the misfortune of the Government; or the Department for Children, Schools and Families; or ETS; or head teachers; or advocates of testing. Take your pick, Rosen has multiple gripes ...
- The many peaks of mountains in literature - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe many peaks of mountains in literatureguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoBut I'm personally more interested in books inspired by (rather than about hanging off) mountains, whether it is the poetry of Chinese masters like Li Bai ...
- Lincoln's Home Away From The White House (NPR)
For nearly a quarter of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln lived not in the White House, but rather three miles away — in a large, airy summer home in Northwest Washington, D.C.
- DR.VIJAYA DABBE RECEIVES KAVITHA MEMORIAL AWARD - Star of Mysore
Mysore, July 26 (SC) – For the past 10 years, Smt.Yashoda Ragow Trust has been honouring women achievers. The Trust honoured Dr.Vijaya Dabbe, a renowned feminist with the Kavitha Memorial Award on Thursday. The award was presented to her by C.S ...
- WASHINGTON DIARY: Mastering the mother tongue —Dr Manzur Ejaz - Daily Times
WASHINGTON DIARY: Mastering the mother tongue —Dr Manzur EjazDaily Times, Pakistan - 6 hours agoOne day, in poetic trance, when he was reciting his Persian poetry, a wasp made her way into his dhoti (loincloth). Maulvi Sahib, thrashing his dhoti, ...
- Refuge begins work on conservation plan (The Record)
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, headquartered in Los Banos, has begun a multi-year process to develop a Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the San Luis and Merced National Wildlife refuges and the Grasslands Wildlife Management Area.
- Hundreds mourn at seven-year-old Toronto girl's funeral - Canada.com
Canada.comHundreds mourn at seven-year-old Toronto girl's funeralCanada.com, Canada - Aug 12, 2008It's very sad." Katelynn had been living with Irving since May 2007. Katelynn's lifeless body was found on Aug. 3. The girl's legal guardian, Donna Irving, ...
- Following in a poet's footsteps: Exploring Thomas' Wales - Inside Bay Area
Following in a poet's footsteps: Exploring Thomas' WalesInside Bay Area, CA - 13 minutes agoIf it doesn't succeed in reinventing the unfashionable poet (his poetry gets little notice in the film), it will at least whet people's appetite for Wales. ...
- Best Bets: Going Out - Courier-Post
Singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson brings his tour -- which had previous stops in Indianapolis, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco -- to the Theatre of Living Arts on South Street in Philadelphia Saturday. On Nathanson's latest EP, "Left & Right ...
- Mom and dad's lives -- real and imagined (Miami Herald)
ALFRED & EMILY. Doris Lessing. Harper. 274 pages. $25.95. Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books -- novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction -- became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This year, she has published a clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction. Alfred & Emily is a culmination of ...
- Uneasy calm settles in Gori - Beeld
Gori - As diplomats try to get a ceasefire agreement between Georgia and Russia signed and put into place, an uneasy kind of calm has settled on Gori, occupied by the Russians and situated just south of South Ossetia. Russian armoured vehicles rattle ...
- Fans, poets gather for poetry slam (Wisconsin State Journal)
"Poetry slams began in Chicago in 1984," reads Bill MacMillan, the evening's "bout manager" and de facto emcee, as he goads a standing-room-only crowd in Madison's Bartell Theatre. On cue, the audience hollers back: "SO WHAT!" And that's just the warm-up. When MacMillan, a longtime spoken-word fan from Worcester, Mass., finishes his introduction, what follows is a rollicking night of ...
- Critics’ picks: This week’s best bets - The State
Some of the best poets you’ll hear in Columbia will return with a bang, bang, bang. Columbia Slam , the verbally acrobatic poetry group, returns from hiatus with the Carolina Classic Poetry Slam Invitational at 8 p.m. Thursday at Jammin Jazz Cafe ...
- Daniel Radcliffe Worries That no One Likes Him - Showbiz Spy
Showbiz SpyDaniel Radcliffe Worries That no One Likes HimShowbiz Spy, UK - 2 hours ago"I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap and everything, with no discernible talent," he said, adding that he enjoys writing poetry ...
- 'A Dangerous Weakness' buys house for first time author - Torquay Herald Express
A 93-year-old writer who has published her first novel has used the proceeds to buy a large house — so her friends can move out of care homes and live with her. Generous Lorna Page says she spent all the proceeds from the book sales on a big home ...
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