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- The Bookworm Sez: “The Brothers’ War” tells history in verse (Cape Cod Times)
“The Brothers’ War: Civil War Voices in Verse,” by J. Patrick Lewis (National Geographic, 32 pages, $17.95
- Tempo changes for Wallace community leader - North Platte Telegraph
Tempo changes for Wallace community leaderNorth Platte Telegraph, NE - 41 minutes agoHahn praised the North Platte hospital and Dr. Michael Bianco and his staff, noting that Bianco read some of her poetry and encouraged her to share it with ...
- Christina Patterson: A joyous display to help heal broken lives (Independent)
"It's hard to read this," said the man on the stage, "because it brings back all the memories." His voice had faded almost to a whisper. "This was 15 years ago, and it still affects me."
- Commentary: Keeping it simple, and real - Oregonian
It was 2 a.m. and my stress level had slightly declined since 10 p.m. when I was panicking about how on earth I'd get my paper done. Camped out on the laptop, I input the last corrections on my final draft. Everyone's guilty of it, every student. I ...
- ‘Soldiers around you, kicking, spitting, screaming, swearing’ - Nouse
‘Soldiers around you, kicking, spitting, screaming, swearing’Nouse, UK - 14 minutes ago“Lists of every country in the world, lists of every capital city in the world, the periodic table of the elements… and I wrote lots and lots of poetry, ...
- McGoughière Comes To Liverpool Playhouse - HULIQ.com
For Liverpool's Capital of Culture Year, Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz directs Molière's famous 17th century French comedy Tartuffe, in a specially commissioned new adaptation by 'Liverpool's Poet Laureate' Roger McGough ...
- Blindness no handicap - Wilkes Journal Patriot
Blindness no handicapWilkes Journal Patriot, NC - 4 hours agoShe has published her poetry on , and she also likes to participate in computer-based role-playing games. But Ms. Estes admits she’sa little apprehensive ...
- Demo2DeRo: Emanuel Vinson - Chicago Sun-Times
Emanuel Vinson is the sort of absurdly ambitious young musician whose burning desire to express himself in as many ways as possible is bound to warm the heart of the most jaded listener. He takes part in poetry slams at his Chicago high school, he ...
- The 5-minute Interview: Alina Ibragimova, Musician - The Independent
At 14, Alina Ibragimova, was the youngest person to win the Royal Philharmonic Society's Emily Anderson Prize. Now 22 she has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, winning a scholarship in 2005, and is a Radio 3 new generation artist If I ...
- Tongue? Tonge? Toung? Tung? For and Against Simplified Spelling - Wall Street Journal
Over the past eight centuries, spelling reformers and their opponents, from Mark Twain to Theodore Roosevelt, have explained their goals in both poems and prose. Below, review some of the most famous. (See related article.) "And for ther is so gret ...
- Present comedies don’t make viewers laugh — Athar Shah Khan - DAWN Group
WHILE he was watching a movie, Athar Shah Khan’s family were preparing to go on an outing. Suddenly, the video went crazy, as the old videos on cassettes had a wont to, and he called his son back from the door. The young boy came back, took the ...
- The voyage of a lifetime - Austin American-Statesman
Ben Edelstein rose early, clambered up the steps of the Gypsy Soul and gazed out at deep blue water. Alone in a cove in the Galapagos Islands, the former Austin real-estate broker saw nothing but 3,000 miles of water between him and the Marquesas ...
- Boyd Tonkin: The Week In Books - Independent
Boyd Tonkin: The Week In BooksIndependent, UK - 8 hours agoIf Her Majesty felt the need for a soothing topic of conversation with the embattled Archbishop of Canterbury, she might have chatted about poetry. ...
- It's all about emotion for acclaimed guitarist Feriante (Yakima Herald-Republic)
There's something about the guitar, says classical guitarist Andre Feriante. It has a sound that just pulls at your heart. That's especially true with Feriante, who spent part of his childhood in Yakima.
- Nick Sanderson: Singer with art rockers Earl Brutus (Independent)
Nick Sanderson played in post-punk rock groups including The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Gun Club, World of Twist and Earl Brutus. Earl Brutus's chaotic live shows featured a bracing mix of glam-rock and synthesisers – plus wind machines wafting Brut aftershave over the audience and a line of seven big stage-prop plastic wreaths. They spelt two words: "FUCK OFF". To a degree, Earl Brutus were ...
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