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- Your comments on my ‘animals’ column - New York Times Blogs
My Thursday column is more personal than most and is inspired partly by a visit back to the farm where I grew up in Oregon. The column looks at the vexing question of animal rights, tied partly to Proposition 2 on the California ballot, which would ...
- Guide: Public Radio - Billings Gazette
Here are program highlights for the next seven days on Yellowstone Public Radio (KEMC-FM, 91.7 in Billings). • Friday, 2 p.m. - Maxine Sullivan, chanteuse of chamber jazz, is honored on "Riverwalk Jazz." • Saturday, 1 p.m. - Songs from the ...
- Baring their souls - guardian.co.uk
Baring their soulsguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe answer might also lie in the history of poetry. Even now, male singer-songwriters are often viewed as troubadors - historically, lyric poets whose ...
- Middle East News - Yahoo News
BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi negotiators are "very close" to reaching a long-term security pact that will decide the fate of American troops in Iraq, the foreign minister said Sunday. Iraq to revive oil deal with China AP - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago BAGHDAD ...
- Book fair, parade highlight Dominican Independence Day (The Eagle-Tribune)
LAWRENCE — It's going to be a bittersweet Independence Day celebration for Dominicans after Jose Balbuena, who they were going to honor, died last week after battling cancer. "We don't want this to be a sad posthumous moment because we were going to honor him anyway," said Dario Silverio, parade organizer. "We want to remember him as he was, happy, full of life."
- Georgia at War: What I Saw - Huffingtonpost.com
The first thing that strikes me as soon as we are out of Tbilisi is the strange absence of military force. I had read that the Georgian army, defeated in Ossetia, then routed in Gori, had withdrawn to the capital to defend it. I reach the outskirts ...
- Maui poets to compete in National Poetry Slam (KHNL News 8 Honolulu)
WAILUKU, Maui (KHNL) - For the first time in three years, a team of poets from Maui will compete in the National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Nigeria: Thisday Music & Fashion Festival (AllAfrica.com)
For the third year running, THISDAY Newspapers, one of the leading newspapers in Nigeria has brought Nigeria close to the world through its annual music festival, which is today, adjudged the best in the African Continent.
- Women writers help each other find the right words (Daily Record)
Culinary and literary adventurer that she is, Joanne Flynn Black of Morristown penned the beginning of "Daily Dosa," the story of how she first encountered the South Indian crepe in a restaurant Down Under.
- Idlewild Elementary defying the odds - Charlotte.com
When Idlewild Elementary's Odyssey of the Mind team won a state championship, the coaches were as thrilled as the kids. Then they learned what it would cost to get to Maryland for the world finals -- a tab approaching $10,000 for the whole team. "I ...
- Edinburgh Book Festival Unveils Its Own First Edition - Booktrade.info
Edinburgh Book Festival Unveils Its Own First EditionBooktrade.info, UK - 4 hours agoLights off the Quay, a 44-page compilation of fiction and poetry, has contributions from four of Scotland's best-known writers: Don Paterson, ...
- Fyne time - Sunday Herald
STAND LONG enough at any festival, and you begin to sympathise with how soldiers must have felt during their unremembered and uncelebrated wars of attrition. There's mud - that's a given. There's the slippery kind, the smelly kind, the living and ...
- HOWL! makes a break, hasn’t got the FEVA anymore (The Villager)
This year’s HOWL!! Festival will feature New Orleans-style musical marches, “green†giveaways, comic-book and punk panels and eclectic events at the Bowery Poetry Club — but no FEVA.
- In Memoriam: Tom Disch, science-fiction master and poet - Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment WeeklyIn Memoriam: Tom Disch, science-fiction master and poetEntertainment Weekly - 1 hour ago... The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters, that was positively inspirational in its glowing appreciation and ruthless criticism of what ...
- A prize worth cracking a beer over - Toronto Star
A prize worth cracking a beer overToronto Star, Canada - 10 hours agoToronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, NS, have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial ...
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