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- Resident asks council for more trolley stops - Gadsden Times (subscription)
Resident asks council for more trolley stopsGadsden Times (subscription), AL - 7 minutes agoArea schoolchildren and the public have the opportunity to enter an essay/poetry writing contest. Winners will receive cash prizes, and their essays will be ...
- Karadzic's self-image: Intellectual and poet - International Herald Tribune
CAMBRIDGE, England : With his arrest on Monday after more than 12 years on the run, Radovan Karadzic seems virtually certain to face trial in The Hague - and the prospect of life imprisonment - for his role in masterminding massacres that war crimes ...
- Obama running mate rich with appeal to blue-collar America (Canada.com)
The Christmas of 1972 should have been the happiest of Joseph Biden’s life. Only a few weeks earlier and just 30 years old, the young Delaware attorney had been elected one of the youngest U.S. senators in American history. He and his wife, Neilia, doted on their 13-month-old infant daughter, and the couple’s two sons were growing into rambunctious young preschoolers.
- Obituary: Elizabeth Bartlett - Guardian Unlimited
The poet Elizabeth Bartlett, who has died aged 84, drew upon her experience working in the NHS and cash-strapped social services to create a body of work characterised by uncompromising honesty in its confrontations with physical and mental illness ...
- Film Weekly on Cass and Man on Wire - Guardian Unlimited
With audience awards from Sundance, Edinburgh and Britdoc, Man On Wire finally arrives in cinemas this weekend and we turn our heads skywards to ooh and aah. It's an incredible feat of film-making, restaging the daring Frenchman Philippe Petit's high ...
- Gagetown's octagon barn hosts is annual Fall Family Days - MLive.com
Rural Electrification and quilting are the themes this year at the Thumb Octagon Barn's 13th Annual Fall Family Days. The two-day event celebrating farming and rural life in the early 1900s runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6-7, in ...
- Rankin Tells Boys: Read Comics Authors Reveal How To Get Kids ... - Glasgow Sunday Mail
Rankin Tells Boys: Read Comics Authors Reveal How To Get Kids ...Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 47 minutes agoTEEN fiction author Catherine said: "I remember the first time I was able to read without help and enjoyed it rather than struggling with it - it was ...
- Poet laureate strives to build poetry fans (The Eagle-Tribune)
NORTH ANDOVER — It's Gayle Heney's mission to show people that anyone can be a poet. So it is no surprise that Heney has turned her own reception as the town's newest poet laureate on Sunday into a public poetry reading.
- Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute (The Charlotte Observer)
The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War. The dispute has arisen over whether to open the grave of Federico Garcia Lorca, widely considered Spain's best 20th century poet and playwright. At the start of the 1936-39 war, ...
- Where silence is on the timetable: Quiet is key at Quaker schools - Independent
Where silence is on the timetable: Quiet is key at Quaker schoolsIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoOne of Ackworth's most popular clubs, PeaceJam, takes its lead from the American organisation of the same name that champions the work of peace campaigners ...
- Music reviews - The Feeling, The Whip, Hadouken! & more - Huddersfield Examiner
Music reviews - The Feeling, The Whip, Hadouken! & moreHuddersfield Examiner, UK - 3 hours agoUrban poetry in agitated tearaway pop rock art form that breathes life into grotesque caricatures. When it finally erupts in a frenzy, it comes as something ...
- The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism - Fabula
The Cambridge Introduction to ModernismFabula, France - 9 hours agoGenres: 4. Poetry; 5. Prose fiction; 6. Drama; Part III. Fate: 7. Literature and politics; Conclusion: after modernism?; Chronology.
- National recognition for teenage poet - This is South Cotswolds
A SIXTH former in her final year at Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School is one of just a few winners of a national poetry competition. Janey Thornton, 17, was one of more than 5,000 poets from all over the country who took part in Foyle’s Young Poet ...
- The ethereal world of radio poetry - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe ethereal world of radio poetryguardian.co.uk, UK - 48 minutes agoThat twitching into life of the radio, the nonchalant way it transmits beyond the hypnotic tumult of Larkin's seascape. And this is how the sea and the ...
- Washington State Book Award winners - Seattle Times
Seattle TimesWashington State Book Award winnersSeattle Times, United States - 4 hours agoBooks winning this year's Washington State Book Awards include a sci-fi thriller by Matt Ruff, poetry by state poet laureate Samuel Green, a new history of ...
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