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For this particular Hollywood love story, there was no girl bossing, no modern twists, no glorification of living in sin forever.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 @ 11:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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A college graduate with a very expensive Master's degree in Ancient Sumerian Poetry wrote a massive check to a plumber this week, prompting him to question every decision he's made in his adult life.
Published: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 @ 8:20 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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The Song of Songs is chock-full of memorable love lines (fawns, anyone?) -- but not all of Solomon's romantic poetry was included in the final cut. Here are nine rejected lines that didn't quite make the grade:
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
By: Babylon Bee
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I am not sure we can get more stupid than Tommy Tuberville trashing poetry reading on a war ship as being too “woke.” Really?
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 8:05 am
By: Lib Campbell
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American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, on Christmas Day of 1863, wrote what has become a well-loved carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 2:31 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Master Sailor, Artist, Poet, Musician, and retired carpenter, Gary Pitsenberger’s love of life didn’t come to an end with his death.
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 8:04 am
By: Announcements
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Amanda Gorman, who read a poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration and was feted as the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, decided to rewrite the words of the national anthem for July 4, calling the American flag the “scar-mangled banner.”
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 7:23 am
By: Daily Wire
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The New York Times has again fallen for anti-Israel propaganda, this time uncritically reporting that a Palestinian professor “calmly teaches Israeli poetry.”
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2022 @ 8:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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U.S. Poet Laureate impacts students, public while at ECU
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 1:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Jewel's "Picking Up the Pieces" Tour, showcased March 19, 2016 at Durham's Carolina Theater, is ancillary to her autobiography, "Never Broken", which is at the nexus of her every one woman show; it is her all consuming theme projected well, her life as a poetic masterpiece.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 9:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that he would reappoint poet, teacher, and community advocate Jaki Shelton Green as North Carolina’s poet laureate.
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 6:25 am
By: Governor's Office
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Virtual parade will include “musical acts, local bands, poets, dance troupes"
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 @ 1:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Poet Adrian Rice, in a thick Irish brogue, paints a scene in the imaginations of the third-graders who sit before him in Walkertown.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 @ 11:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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More specifically, what is it about boarding schools that makes them the setting for so many novels? Christopher Swann's "Shadow of the Lions" is set in a boarding school in the mountains of Virginia.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 8:11 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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February is Black History Month and the Beaufort County Community College library will host Dr. Jason Miller as part of its community voices series on February 28 at 3:30 p.m
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2019 @ 8:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper inducted North Carolina's Ninth Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, at a ceremony in the North Carolina State Capitol.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2019 @ 8:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, I wrote about a lesser known truth that I write poetry - when I was young on scraps of paper - now that I am older, and have the means to database these words in message for all posterity, I do it here.
Published: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 @ 3:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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These limericks can be read or sung to the traditional song "Over the River."
Published: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 @ 7:50 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Song lyrics and Poetry are short stories in my mind and a photo is worth a thousand words. However, a word warrior can make a grown man cry with a long story.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2016 @ 9:33 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Faculty, curators and administrators are still discovering just how momentous East Carolina University's collection of literary work, letters and mementos from famous Southern writers could turn out to be.
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 2:27 am
By: ECU News Services
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A poet and writer of many short stories, including the ones using the "Flim Flam Yarn" title, Guy Owen was launched into fame with comical and popular The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory announced today the appointment of Shelby Stephenson of Benson as North Carolina's poet laureate.
Published: Monday, December 22nd, 2014 @ 9:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Former Lead Instructor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Beaufort County Community College Tim Mattimoe returns to campus to read from his new book of poetry, Calligraphy on the Moon's Face.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 7:54 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Well, the testosterone-challenged crowd in the McClatchy newsrooms have claimed the scalp of a poor, defenseless woman who made the horrific "mistake" of allowing Gov, Pat to appoint her poet laureate.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 7:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory has appointed Valerie Macon as the poet laureate of North Carolina
Published: Friday, July 18th, 2014 @ 12:20 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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"I am hurt," says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. "A plague o' both your houses!" In popular remembrance, we actually invest the Bard's line with even more poetic force by substituting a different word when wishing...
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 6:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am from sports cars, from sandy beaches and Pennsylvanian mountains.
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 @ 1:27 am
By: Joel Inzerillo
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Precious South, sweet sassafras/ Puckers pale lips near wooden spoons of simmering succotash/ Vapors wafting in the living room/ The Georgia peach candle gifts mix and match perfume
Published: Monday, February 21st, 2011 @ 11:38 pm
By: Nathan Black
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