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- Christian Wiman's carvings from the dark - University of Dallas University News
Christian Wiman's carvings from the darkUniversity of Dallas University News, TX - 16 minutes agoWiman is perhaps best known as the editor of Poetry, the monthly magazine founded by Harriet Monroe at the advent of American modernism in 1912 and ...
- Madonna gushes over A-Rod - Beeld
Los Angeles - Madonna says rumoured lover Alex Rodriguez "has the heart of a poet trapped inside an insanely gorgeous body". The 50-year-old singer who was first romantically linked to the baseball player, nickname "A-Rod", earlier this year before ...
- A tree for the ages, ancient ginkgo spreads golden carpet of leaves this season (Greensboro News & Record)
Surely some poetry lovers disagree with poet Joyce Kilmer's observation that he (not a she) never saw a poem lovely as a tree. Those who take issue probably have never seen a ginkgo tree in the fall. They need to observe a row that forms a canopy on a short stretch of a road in Green Hill Cemetery. For sure, a big maple at the cemetery's Wharton Street entrance is a thing of beauty for at ...
- Return of the prodigal - New Statesman
New StatesmanReturn of the prodigalNew Statesman, UK - 1 hour agoAt the ball which features at the climax of the 19th-century section, an aside disrupts the grandeur of prose and setting: "From the ceiling the gods, ...
- I found a lump and thought, that's it the party's over - Belfast Telegraph
Belfast actor and director Dan Gordon has revealed he feared for his life during a health scare three years ago. The 47-year-old, who has just started a new column in Sunday Life, thought he had testicular cancer and worried that his days were ...
- Local group trying to help Palestinian family buy home - Peterborough Examiner
Local group trying to help Palestinian family buy homePeterborough Examiner, Canada - 14 minutes agoSpears, who has won the Governor General’s Award for her poetry, was in the region to document the conflict, Slavin said. Khalid was a paramedic. ...
- Hallaig - A Celebration of Sorley MacLean - The List
The ListHallaig - A Celebration of Sorley MacLeanThe List, UK - 4 hours agoThe show takes its title from his great long poem Hallaig, and that is also the title of a new piece commissioned for the occasion from Inverness-born ...
- If Your 2009 Goal is to Quit Smoking ... (R News)
Concerns over the economy may factor into people's New Year's resolutions, taking a closer look at what they need and what they can do without. With cigarettes at more than $6 a pack and the known health risks, it might cause smokers to consider quitting.
- Sheepish: Fluffy guests star in parade down Main Street - SUU Journal Online
Sheepish: Fluffy guests star in parade down Main StreetSUU Journal Online, UT - 28 minutes ago"I actually heard about this on a MySpace bulletin and after checking it out online, I knew I had to come," Pascoe said. Both students said they had a fun ...
- An exercise in virtual training (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Paul Krumrich is a Twin Cities triathlete and inventor whose latest project, a first-of-its-kind $12,000 bike training system, is touted to "encapsulate a rider in a bubble of technology."
- Bulletin Board: Oct. 19 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board: Oct. 19Norwich Bulletin, CT - 5 hours agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY MEETING, 10 am to noon, Nov. 1, East Lyme Public Library, EAST LYME. All area poets and prose writers are invited to attend. ...
- The many deaths of Roberto Bolaño - Times Online
The many deaths of Roberto BolañoTimes Online, UK - Jan 7, 2009This is the focus of Part Three, narrated from the perspective of an African-American journalist who comes to her aid, and written as a tribute to the noir ...
- Tygahoney Music supports live Fairtrade Acoustic Music with ... - PRLog.Org (press release)
Tygahoney Music supports live Fairtrade Acoustic Music with ...PRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 10 hours agoFolk, Rock, Acoustic/Gospel, Poetry and hip-hop are just some of the fusions taking place at the event, this one-off acoustic special is not to be missed. ...
- Poet speaks up for clear writing (Boston Globe)
Poet Marian Kaplun Shapiro would like to refute what she sees as a common misconception: Poetry is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to understand.
- INTELLECTUAL LOOK (New York Post)
SOME celebrity-snapping photographers have interests beyond the stars they hunt on the streets. Take The Post's Lawrence Schwartzwald, who reads poetry. When Schwartzwald ran into Patti Smith one chilly day in the Village, he asked the rocker to...
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