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- No country for old men - Guardian Unlimited
Earlier this year, an advertisement appeared in a Hampshire post office. Lonely widower Jack Hammond, 88, was looking for a drinking partner. The successful applicant would be a man who would be prepared to accompany Hammond, a retired doctor and ...
- 'Beheading' poet wins conviction appeal - News.com.au
A former employee at a newspaper kiosk at Heathrow airport, she had written poetry which prosecutors said advocated violent extremism, and also downloaded Islamist literature from the Internet.
- Kibbutznik diary longs for 'purity of that generation' - Ha'aretz
Kibbutznik diary longs for 'purity of that generation'Ha'aretz, Israel - 1 hour agoThe language was "not high language, except for poetry quotes." But she is amazed when she looks back. "I can't believe I wrote it. The innocence. ...
- Jenny Diski tries to stay awake - London Review of Books (subscription)
Jenny Diski tries to stay awakeLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 2 hours agoShearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006. James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize ...
- Rest in pieces - World Link
CHARLESTON — If Charleston’s Charlie had hoped for his friends and loved ones to laugh at his funeral, the fish statue’s wishes were granted. At what was likely the most bizarre wake ever held for an 8-foot tuna, people celebrated the life and ...
- OTEP tour sets a brief, eight-city schedule - Ticket News
Ticket NewsOTEP tour sets a brief, eight-city scheduleTicket News, CT - 3 hours agoA singer, activist, actress, writer, she has filmed segments for several top-rated TV shows, including HBO's "Def Poetry," Bravo's "Date My Ex" and most ...
- Students Compete in Poetry Recitation Contest (NPR)
Each year, high school students from all over the United States come together to compete in a poetry recitation contest — standing center stage with only a microphone and their memory.
- Urbanscapes Hits Town - RedOrbit
Urbanscapes Hits TownRedOrbit, TX - 3 hours agoThere's Rather Peculiar Theatre, a group that will be doing improvised sketches, and KL Poetry Slam will showcase the variety of prose and limericks our ...
- Writers share views on tolerance, creativity - The Daily Yomiuri
Writers share views on tolerance, creativityThe Daily Yomiuri, Japan - 1 hour agoI found poetry in Mr. Pamuk's novel "Snow" and in Mr. Oe's "Routashi Anaberu Rii Souke Dachitsu Mimakaritsu" (The beautiful Annabel Lee was chilled and ...
- Jamie Lynn Spears shows off daughter Maddie; Lindsay Lohan gets a ring ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jamie Lynn Spears revels in motherhood. Jamie Lynn Spears is doing what every Hollywood mom aspires to do: pimp her baby for maximum profit. OK! magazine scored the exclusive rights to the first photos of the unwed teen mom with her new daughter ...
- 'Get Smart' spies for laughs - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Warner Bros. Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway star as CONTROL agents 86 and 99 in "Get Smart." Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 is the best thing about "Get Smart." But I don't know if that's the best thing for this movie. Hathaway, who has grown up before ...
- Cathy Davey (RainbowNetwork.com)
Cathy Davey was always destined to be a musician. Having grown up with parents who were creative types - her mother is a sculptor, her father a musician and composer - conventional means of academia just didn't appeal to her. Having dyslexia didn't help, either.
- Sweet words, sweet eats at poetry reading - Northumberland Today
Sweet words, sweet eats at poetry readingNorthumberland Today, Canada - 34 minutes agoIn writing I enjoy all kinds of subjects and styles, ranging from two lines to three pages; free verse and more formal structures and that, in way, ...
- Paula Gunn Allen, 68; a key figure in putting Native American literature on the map (Los Angeles Times)
- Mansfield throwing itself a big 200th birthday party this weekend - Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD -- Parades, Poco, poetry, pets. The weekend is jam-packed with Bicentennial Festival events as the community throws itself a party to mark the city's 200th anniversary. As of noon Wednesday, 180 units were registered to roll east on the ...
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