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- World's worst poetry sold for $12,840 (Toronto Star)
EDINBURGH, Scotland – The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language.
- Book review: Where the Sidewalk Ends, you find perfection - Andover Townsman
Book review: Where the Sidewalk Ends, you find perfectionAndover Townsman, MA - 2 hours agoThus, poetry, which has garnered a reputation for its difficult meanings and cryptic language, is largely ignored by the younger crowd. ...
- Persian music's super star - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunPersian music's super starVancouver Sun, Canada - 23 minutes agoShajarian also talks about the art of improvising and his love for traditional Iranian poetry. The second film is Santouri (The Music Man), a 2007 work by ...
- How to stay positive - New Statesman
New StatesmanHow to stay positiveNew Statesman, UK - 3 hours agoA rhino and a talking mammoth stand for HIV and “scientific poetry†respectively. This is a revelatory, optimistic world.
- Inside the unwritten rule of late innings walks - Detroit Free Press
It's an unwritten rule that might go back at least 120 years, all the way to the composition of baseball's most famous poem. The rule is this: In the late innings, you never intentionally walk a batter who represents the potential winning run. Ernest ...
- Angelou to celebrate her 80th birthday in Atlanta (Marietta Daily Journal)
ATLANTA - Maya Angelou may be 80, but she doesn't party like it. The author-poet-dancer-singer-activist will celebrate her birthday in Atlanta on Sunday with a star-studded gala including a red carpet and a celebrity guest list.
- Boy, 6, hailed a hero after saving drowning friend - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Focusing on price fires up Wal-Mart's results Fayetteville, Ark. —- Wal-Mart executives said Friday that a reinvigorated focus on price has allowed the world's largest retailer to beat out competitors in a challenging economic environment... Wal ...
- Television movies for the week of May 4 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Television movies for the week of May 4Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 4 hours agoA young widower alienates his teen daughter by refusing to let his wife go. (PG-13) (1:35) MAX: Fri. 10:30 AM (CC) • To Love, Honor and Betray '99. ...
- Looking for a Deviant With Imagination - Slate
Slate readers are tireless and generous: They read our articles and give us their advice and predictions. It's been a busy time for these dedicated commentators, what with (among other items) the finale of American Idol , the return of Indiana Jones ...
- 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 ...
- Government of Canada Supports March Hare Literary Festival - Market Wire (press release)
Government of Canada Supports March Hare Literary FestivalMarket Wire (press release) - 17 hours agoThe growing festival has built non-traditional poetry audiences through its imaginative mix of artists and venues, while at the same time continuing to ...
- Bessie Head competition (Mmegi)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards.
- Built on soaring words - The Australian
BLACK holes, notoriously resistant to improvement through the design process, aren't the most glamorous subjects for student architects. But one black hole in architecture education demands transformation: too many architecture students can't write ...
- Bainbridge teen heads to National Spelling Bee - Sun and Press
BAINBRIDGE -- Claudia Schulze's love of reading helped lead the Bainbridge girl to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., this week. The 13-year-old, eighth-grade student at Bainbridge Middle School will take an early-morning flight ...
- Garden to host poetry events (Edinburgh Evening News)
POETRY is set to be celebrated in the new St Andrew Square Garden, it has been announced.
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