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- Widely ridiculed poet's original works sell for $12,840 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
EDINBURGH, Scotland – The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid $12,840 for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language.
- Concert to Honor State's 'Willie Nelson' - RedOrbit
Concert to Honor State's 'Willie Nelson'RedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoActivities at the Kanawha County Library system include Poetry Alive performances Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the Summer Library Club. ...
- Community Leaders Forge New Approach To HIV Prevention As Part Of M•A•C AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative (Medical News Today)
HIV among imprisoned juveniles, teenagers and the Muslim community headlined a discussion of community leaders and AIDS experts in Johannesburg.
- A look at the best books for fall - Scripps News
A look at the best books for fallScripps News, DC - 1 hour agoA self-publicizing foodie dilettante specializing in the game of his native Michigan when he's not writing fiction or poetry, Harrison has fans in several ...
- Laughing and learning the traditional way - Times of India
Laughing and learning the traditional wayTimes of India, India - 2 hours agoWith the minimum of Sanskrit prose and poetry the vidushaka expands each word to weave the story fabric in Malayalam, which is understood by every one in ...
- Battery-operated buses for city’s V5 roads - Tribune
After Ahmedabad and Agra, the City Beautiful has decided to opt for battery-operated buses. To promote the use of renewable energy, the Chandigarh administration has decided run buses on inner sector roads (V5 roads) and those connecting to villages ...
- WND - WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDailyWNDWorldNetDaily, OR - 1 hour agoKincaid writes that in addition to Tidwell's confirmation, another book, "The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946, ...
- NY students celebrate published stories, poems - Lower Hudson Journal news
NY students celebrate published stories, poemsLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 4 hours agoWriting is an expression of yourself." Her mother, Soraya Barletta, said she was proud. "It's almost like she got an early start" on a career, she said. ...
- Literary Calendar: May. 17-23 - The Gazette (Montreal)
Literary Calendar: May. 17-23The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 56 minutes ago... Janet Pasternak, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Boire, Gwyn Beaver, Jean Kelly and Marian Morkill participate in a Yellow Door poetry and prose reading, ...
- Email-like names cause controversy in China - Times of India
Email-like names cause controversy in ChinaTimes of India, India - Jul 8, 2008Unlike the African-American leader of the 1960s, Malcolm X, who dropped his surname to snap ties with his "white" slave masters, modern day Chinese names ...
- Flower Fest supports service groups - Lompoc Record
Flower Fest supports service groupsLompoc Record, CA - 1 hour agoVillage Library Poetry Group: The next meeting is at 6:30 pm July 24. New members are welcome. The poetry group was saddened to hear of the passing of one ...
- Meltdown as itch sets in - Sunday Mirror
Meltdown as itch sets inSunday Mirror, UK - 1 hour agoThey seemed the picture of alternative bliss (Manson would paint his wife and write her poetry), but Dita, 35, threw in the towel seven years later, ...
- Hilary Bradt, Founder, Bradt Travel Guides - guardian.co.uk
Hilary Bradt, Founder, Bradt Travel Guidesguardian.co.uk, UK - 17 minutes agoI was 18 years old when I read it, and it set me on the path of Bohemianism, poetry and wandering (Jack Kerouac's On the Road having done the same for ...
- Defining Christianity - Scotsman
Defining ChristianityScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIf more attention were paid to the simple Christian message than to self-indulgent misrepresentations of what the poetry and metaphor of the Bible might ...
- Iraq War Veteran Recycles Uniforms Into Art - ConnieTalk
Iraq War Veteran Recycles Uniforms Into ArtConnieTalk, Ohio - 9 hours ago"Art, poetry and performances have now become my way of letting go of the past," Turner says. "They also have reminded me of who I was before I signed on ...
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