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- 'World's worst poems' at auction - BBC UK News
The ditties by "The Tayside Tragedian" have been valued in the same league as Harry Potter first editions signed by JK Rowling. McGonagall, who died in 1902, was often mocked and had food thrown at him during readings in Dundee. He was born in ...
- Burns’s legacy to be given £17m revamp (The Herald)
In life he may have been a humble "lad o' pairts", but Robert Burns's legacy is to receive a multi-million pound makeover after the Heritage Lottery Fund yesterday pledged ÂŁ5.8m to help pay for a restoration of the Bard's home in Alloway.
- Communists, the Media, and the Democratic Party - Right Side News
Communists, the Media, and the Democratic PartyRight Side News, GA - 55 minutes agoHis own book, Dreams From My Father, talks about a mysterious “Frank” giving him advice, reading poetry, and telling him not to believe that?expletive ...
- We Need More Novels about Real Scientists [Scientific American Magazine] (Scientific American)
In novels and films, the most common scientist by far is the mad one. From H. G. Wells’s Dr. MoÂÂreau to Ian Fleming’s Dr. No to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, scientists are portrayed as evil geniuses unrestrained by ethics and usually bent on world domination. Over the past two years, as I struggled to write my own novel about physicists and their quest for the Theory of Everything, I ...
- Rise and fall of boxing champion Michael Nunn (The Des Moines Register)
Iowa native goes from unknown to champ to inmate.
- Three times a lady - Carla Bruni - Scotsman
Three times a lady - Carla BruniScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoShe released her first album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, in 2002; the poetry-inspired No Promises followed it in January 2007. She had also become a mother, ...
- 'Saffron King' finds his niche in N.Y. City (The Daily News)
NEW YORK — With his flowing black hair, bushy beard and slight paunch, Behroush Sharifi hops off his bicycle and bounds into an expensive restaurant on the Upper West Side.
- R E G I O N A L B R I E F S - Tribune
Nominated : Dr Gurjinder Singh has been nominated president of the Sikh Youth Federation, Bhindranwale, after Balwant Singh Gopala decided to step down due to his some personal engagements. Gopala nominated Dr Gurjinder by honouring with a siropa and ...
- The Natchez Democrat (The Natchez Democrat)
NATCHEZ — The Judge Armstrong Library hosted its first annual Poetry Slam this past April in celebration of National Library Week and National Poetry Month.
- A dramatic canvas - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphA dramatic canvasCalcutta Telegraph, India - 3 hours agoApril 26 - May 5 at Gallery with Difference, Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 SP Mukherjee Road: Black and White Lines, an exhibition of paintings by Nabyendu ...
- Writing a haiku in German - often a tight squeeze - TopNews
Writing a haiku in German - often a tight squeezeTopNews, India - 3 hours agoCologne, Germany - The ladies who meet regularly in a museum cafe in Cologne skip the gossip and get straight down to haiku, an ultra-brief poetry style ...
- Upshaw's silvery voice'Was Here' - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comUpshaw's silvery voice'Was Here'The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - May 12, 2008The composer's description of the poetry's "somber abstractions" is apt for the music: "an art where all the elements are so intimately bound up that one ...
- MP3: Sweet Trip Covers James Joyce - Wired News
MP3: Sweet Trip Covers James JoyceWired News - 6 hours agoJames Joyce wished that someone would eventually make music out of his Chamber Music (.txt) collection of poetry. Over one hundred years after they were ...
- Thieves steal homeless poet's words - Ottawa Citizen
Thieves steal homeless poet's wordsOttawa Citizen, Canada - 14 minutes ago"It's the poetry, it's my art -- that's what hurts," he said. Fortunately, Mr. Dessler's friend, Guy Bérubé, director of La Petite Mort gallery on ...
- Riverwalk enters new era with solid roof and sides; NRO opens season - Summit Daily News
By LESLIE BREFELD Summit Daily News Summit County, CO June 12, 2008 Comments Print Email BRECKENRIDGE — The winter of 2007-2008 in Summit County was not an easy one for a construction project, but the builders of the Riverwalk Center’s roof made ...
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