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- Kailua House Fire Leaves Family Homeless - KHON2
Kailua House Fire Leaves Family HomelessKHON2, HI - 2 hours agoMy wife wrote poetry so I'm hoping some of it can be saved." Willis had already experienced tragedy when his grandmother died from a fire when he was a ...
- Saw Wai gets two years for writing coded poem - Democratic Voice of Burma
Saw Wai gets two years for writing coded poemDemocratic Voice of Burma, Norway - 11 hours ago... was arrested on 22 January after one of his poems contains the message 'Megalomaniac General Than Shwe', was published in the weekly news journal 'Love'.
- Farewell to Fairheads - Ilford Recorder 24
Farewell to FairheadsIlford Recorder 24, UK - 16 hours ago... a member of Fairheads for 46 years, and make no apologies for these biased views, and here is a short poem as a tribute for this sad, but special occasion.
- Michael Billington on directing Harold Pinter's works (Guardian Unlimited)
For the past four weeks I've been leading a strange double life, like a John le Carré character. By day I've been closeted with a group of third-year acting students from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) in a west London rehearsal room, directing a Pinter triple bill. By night I've been dashing off to review other people's work in the usual glut of autumn openings. I may ...
- Iranians celebrate longest night of the year (The State)
Iranians recited poetry, shared stories and ate fruits and nuts Saturday during all-night celebrations of the longest night of the year, a tradition going back thousands of years to when Zoroastrianism was the predominant religion of ancient Persia. For many Iranians, the celebration, known as Yalda, offers a link with ancient traditions as well as a chance to gather with family. "Almost all ...
- Author Jon Katz writes of dogs, death and healing - Delaware County Daily Times
WEST HEBRON, N.Y. — Jon Katz and companion Izzy, both wearing the photo IDs of hospice volunteers, are greeted brightly as they enter the dining room at Pleasant Valley Infirmary. While Katz chats and jokes with caretakers and residents seated ...
- MADD Holds Annual Remembrance Ceremony - Tyler Morning Telegraph
MADD Holds Annual Remembrance CeremonyTyler Morning Telegraph, TX - 4 hours agoSaturday's ceremony included a slide show of loved ones who have passed or were injured and poetry readings, all set to the musical stylings of the Texas ...
- Kiss and Tell - New Yorker
New YorkerKiss and TellNew Yorker, United States - 42 minutes agoOn the subject of inadequacy, spare a thought, please, for the fine-voiced, hardworking cast of John Patrick Shanley’s musical “Romantic Poetry†(directed ...
- Around Town: Area native gets poetry award - Canton Repository (subscription)
Around Town: Area native gets poetry awardCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 3 hours agoHilles' first poetry collection, "Brother Salvage," is about his former childhood physician, Dr. Thaddeus Stabholz, who lives in Canton and just celebrated ...
- The public shouldn't have a say in choosing the laureate - Guardian Unlimited
The news that the public will be asked for their opinion when considering who will be the next poet laureate might have been welcomed by Andrew Motion himself, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. Of course, being laureate can have a ...
- The Winter's Tale: North Wall - The Oxford Times
The Winter's Tale: North WallThe Oxford Times, UK - 14 hours agoShakespeare’s romance about love, imprisonment and mortality is an elegant vessel that relies on mystical winds to fill its sails, but here the poetry was ...
- Man On Wire - ABC Online
Man On WireABC Online, Australia - 25 minutes agoThe counter-culture, as writers like Richard Neville understood back then, was as much about play and performance and poetry, as it was about challenge. ...
- Kids get to show off talent - Edmonton Examiner
The Carrot will be alive with the sights and sounds of youth this Saturday. Kids aged 5 to 18 will get a chance to showcase their talents and even sell some art at the Carrot arts market and open stage, 9351 118 Ave., on Nov. 8 from 11 a.m. until 3 p ...
- Noteworthy books 2008: 10 panelists, 10 books each - News-Democrat
Thorough and wide-ranging, but rather impersonal. That sums up The Kansas City Star's 2007 crop of Noteworthy Books. We employed a large panel of staffers and freelancers and vigorously debated the results. It worked out just fine. But this year we ...
- St. John’s Auxiliary - Albert Lea Tribune
St. John’s AuxiliaryAlbert Lea Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoVice President Angle Nelson read the names of residents celebrating October birthdays and the birthday song was sung in their honor. ...
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