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- Lord Tweedsmuir: Novelist and son of John Buchan who inherited his ... - The Independent
If all John Buchan's children had it hard, his second son, William, had it hardest. Endowed with his father's literary talent, he yet could not hope to match John Buchan in his other occupations of strategy, high policy, business, sport, action ...
- Breton's revolutionary returns - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukBreton's revolutionary returnsguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoIt is not simply that Breton spent most of his adult life utterly skint - though that's always worth remembering. The true offense lies in the way in which ...
- When saving lives morphs into torture and killing (Sydney Morning Herald)
Behind the doctor-poet who wrote Let's Go Down To The Town And Kill Some Scum .
- Richard Wright: black first - Times Online
By the time he sailed to France from New York in 1947, Richard Wright was a star, fixed in the literary firmament. Two of his books – Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) – had risen high in the US best-seller lists, and were being translated ...
- Monica Yant Kinney: Student poetry 'channels' a slain graduate (Philly.com)
The Spirit of Kyle Quinn poetry contest at William Tennent High School in Warminster was, in keeping with the spirit of Kyle Quinn, fairly freewheeling.
- George Carlin: An Appreciation - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The first reactions varied Monday when people learned of comedian George Carlin's death: "George Carlin, really?" "How old was he?" "Oh, man, too bad." But the second reactions were all the same. Like a proud aunt naming her nieces and nephews, folks ...
- Big Book Fortnight continues this week - Stourbridge News
Big Book Fortnight continues this weekStourbridge News, UK - 3 hours agoThe event, which kicked off on May 10, has been organised by Black Country Libraries in Partnership (BCLiP) and aims to encourage more people to take up ...
- Health Care - Another California 11th Hour - OpEdNews
Health Care - Another California 11th HourOpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoBorn that way. My love of poetry pretty much ended with Rupert Brooke, who died in WWI. "Ah, a romantic at heart," you might say. Yes, but a realist. ...
- A close encounter with Bill Bailey - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzA close encounter with Bill BaileyStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours ago"We have an oral culture, and just like songs or poetry or even advertising catch-phrases, the best jokes get handed down from one generation to the next. ...
- Follow in the footsteps of Dylan Thomas - Guardian Unlimited
Thursday night in Swansea and it's a full house. Outside, it's the kind of night that Dylan Thomas would have described as 'starless and Bible black'. Inside, text-messaging teenagers and polite pensioners count the seconds to the interval and the ...
- librarynotes (The Lincoln-Way Sun)
Poetry slam
- The word in color - San Antonio Current
San Antonio CurrentThe word in colorSan Antonio Current, tx - 40 minutes agoNot surprisingly, it’s the work of poets of color that has regularly infused American poetry (in the hemispheric sense) with a striking urgency, ...
- Teets to prove worth with free hog roast - Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- J. Michael Teets, Republican candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture, is hosting a free hog roast at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at Camp Mad Anthony Wayne, located on Spring Valley Drive in Wayne County. Campaign manager Ashley Stinnett ...
- To Floyd Skloot, poetry emerges from emotional intensity and 'insistence' (The Oregonian)
L onger than he's lived in Oregon, longer than he's written essays, longer than he's penned novels, Floyd Skloot has been a poet.
- Trash Talking - Cleveland Free Times
Cleveland Free TimesTrash TalkingCleveland Free Times, OH - 4 hours agoAnd in a sequence of almost heartbreaking poetry, WALL-E and EVE both find themselves outside the Axiom, the sleeker EVE jetting along gracefully while ...
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