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- Looking back at 2009: A year in review (Part 2) - West Fargo Pioneer
Looking back at 2009: A year in review (Part 2)West Fargo PioneerJamie Parsley, an associate poet laureate and Episcopal priest, who graduated from West Fargo High School in 1988, published his ninth book of poems titled ...and more »
- Happy ending to riddle of love letters left on coach after story in Bristol ... - Bristol Evening Post
Happy ending to riddle of love letters left on coach after story in Bristol ...Bristol Evening PostIn December, the Evening Post reported that bus operator First had been unable to trace the owner of old love notes, poems and photographs, pictured right, ...
- Raise a glass to Robbie Burns - Times and Transcript
Raise a glass to Robbie BurnsTimes and TranscriptSACKVILLE - Haggis, bagpipe music, highland dances, songs and poetry are all part of the celebrations when Sackville pays tribute to poet ...and more »
- Cairo-Durham hires Wise - Times Union
Cairo-Durham athletic director Greg Hagan found Ron Wise's personality to be engaging and totally infectious. Little did Hagan realize when he tabbed Wise to be the school's next football head coach that Section II history was being made. Wise, a ...
- Home Fires: Shaking All Over - New York Times Blogs
Earlier in the day, I went to S-21 at Tuol Sleng, the former high school that was turned into a prison and death camp by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970’s ... His 2005 book of poems, “ Here, Bullet ,†has won several awards. He is the recipient of ...
- Pastor Takes Leap of Faith - Press-Enterprise
Pastor Takes Leap of FaithPress-EnterpriseTeen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases were rampant, the infant mortality rate tragic. The predominantly white congregation steadily dwindled as ...
- We're all alone and no one knows why. - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
We're all alone and no one knows why.Institute for Ethics and Emerging TechnologiesThey are happier writing poetry, listening to music, playing video games, or whatever. Caution: Advanced species realize that human beings are dangerous, ...
- Los Olivos museum home to hiker's art - The Daily Sound
When Everett Ruess trekked into the scorching canyon country of southern Utah in 1934, he was 20-years-old and likely had little notion that the fragments of his life that he’d left behind would serve as a mysterious reminder to generations that a ...
- Lost In A Sea Of Words - Salon
This seemed to be a poetry morning for me here as I read Owl and AnniThyme's poems. Something that strikes me about poetry is that, sometimes, it isn't so much the writer's intent or emotions when creating but the ground on which the seed falls that ...
- Why sport matters - Vancouver Sun
Why sport mattersVancouver SunAlong with poetry, song, dance and storytelling, sport is probably one of the mother arts, incorporating elements of them all, as does its sister medium, ...and more »
- Literary Happenings: 'Sold' reveals humanity, both good and bad - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: 'Sold' reveals humanity, both good and badVentura County StarPoetry reading 7:30 pm Tuesday. Artists' Union Gallery, 330 S. California St., Ventura. 320-3524. Conversation group 2 pm Friday. ...
- Ronnie Press obituary - The Guardian
Ronnie Press, a member of Bristol Actsa (Action for Southern Africa), who has died aged 80, wrote in the dedication to his 1995 autobiography To Change the World! Is Reason Enough?: "I am proud to be a white South African because of those of us who ...
- Lumpers and splitters - Examiner.com
Lumpers and splittersExaminer.comThis means that even outside politics, outside religion, outside poetry and every other "unscientific" discipline there can be a need for a debate. ...
- The people's poet - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima will give her inaugural address Tuesday, weaving a theme of how poetry fosters community. Her talk, open to the public, is set for 6 p.m. at the Main Library in Civic Center. The poet, prose writer ...
- New in paperback - Globe and Mail
Globe and MailNew in paperbackGlobe and MailBy Christian Bök, Coach House, 113 pages, $16.95 Bök's imaginative and innovative work consists of five chapters of poetry – plus a few odds and ends – each ...
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