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- Cedar Rapids native reads his 'Letters from Abu Ghraib' - Daily Iowan
It sounds like the world's oldest set up to some awful joke: What's the difference between President Bush and Joshua Casteel? But the answer helped set in motion a series of events culminating in Casteel's book, Letters from Abu Ghraib, ironically ...
- CD to raise breast-cancer awareness - Deseret News
CD to raise breast-cancer awarenessDeseret News, UT - 2 hours ago"I write sappy poetry. I have since I was young. But this is finally a poem that became a song." "I don't have anyone in my family who has breast cancer, ...
- Guardian profile: Sebastian Barry, favourite to win this year's Booker (Guardian Unlimited)
Guardian profile on Sebastian Barry: History and family fuse in the work of the author tipped to win the Booker
- Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and Farsi - Daily Star - Lebanon
Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and FarsiDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 40 minutes agoNot surprisingly perhaps, Talebi says the 1979 Iranian Revolution is an integral part of today's expat Iranian poetry. "The poets in 'Belonging' left their ...
- In praise of the north - Guardian Unlimited
Tennyson wrote that "bright and fierce and fickle is the South/And dark and true and tender is the North". I'm not sure whether the rightwing wonks at the Policy Exchange thinktank are any brighter or fiercer than we northerners but they are ...
- Norman Lear, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman (International Herald Tribune)
A roundup of the day's celebrity news.
- 2008 ‘Florida Book Awards' competition begins with call for entries - Herald Tribune
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Book Awards has kicked off its third annual competition with a call for entries in eight categories, including a new one for “Book Design.†Established in 2006 and now the most comprehensive state book awards ...
- Henry Rollins - Willamette Week
Henry RollinsWillamette Week, OR - 56 minutes ago... poetry and sleep-deprived reverie about life on the road, crushing loneliness and his waking dreams that slip easily from hot to horrifying. ...
- Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? - Slashdot
Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement?Slashdot - 13 hours agoWhy should English majors study poetry, when so few will become poets? Why should Business majors study economics, when so few will actually become ...
- Teenage dreams so hard to beat – but I wouldn't go back - Yorkshire Post
Teenage dreams so hard to beat – but I wouldn't go backYorkshire Post, UK - 3 hours agoI began to write poems of teenage angst and despair and send them off to obscure poetry magazines. I write in Talking Myself Home of the terrible palaver I ...
- The Closing Bell (POLLSTAR)
Wrapping up the Thursday adventure we leave you with new listings for Herbaliser , CSS , Jason Ringenberg and Ian Tyson , and links to items about Dolly Parton's new job, New Kids On The Block's new mission, Phil Spector's new jury, Copyright Royalty Board's new decision, a new essay on why Guitar Hero isn't the same as playing the guitar and a founding member of The Kingston Trio passes at 75.
- ACT-SO to kick off this weekend (Winston County Journal)
The Winston County Branch of the NAACP ACT-SO is preparing for its Fourth Annual Competition. A meeting for interested youths and their parents to meet with the ACT-SO committee will be held Sunday, September 21 at 4 p.m. in J.R. Restaurant.
- Women's Project Presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills' Opening ... - Broadway World
Women's Project Presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills' Opening ...Broadway World, NY - 4 hours agoShe teaches at NYU's School of the Arts. She has also published six books of poetry and drama including Google me! (poetry), Black Milk (four plays) and The ...
- The PC Spotlight 10.09.08 - 411mania.com
411mania.comThe PC Spotlight 10.09.08411mania.com, TX - 3 hours agoAlso, as I'm sure most if not all my readers are happy with, I submitted last week's Duke Nukem poem to a poetry competition and I won the million dollar ...
- Investor Backs Business To Benefit Artists - Memphis Daily News
Memphis Daily NewsInvestor Backs Business To Benefit ArtistsMemphis Daily News, USA - 5 minutes ago... daughter of a family friend last year who wowed him with an impromptu recitation of some of her poetry, it gave the Memphis venture capitalist an idea. ...
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