Poetry Starts to Wear $100 Million Crown
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The Poetry Foundation plans a series of projects to make use of an enormous donation it received two years ago.
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Hollywood and Bollywood stars are to be roped in for a $100 million celluloid magnum opus on the Buddha's life and teaching.
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EXTRA, EXTRA! The first family of US newspapers are set to earn up to $1 billion (Â£538 million) from the sale of their business. The Pulitzers, famous for the prizes awarded in their name for literary and
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A group of white South Africans claim to have composed the longest poem ever written in their native Afrikaans tongue, hoping to trigger a renaissance in the minority language.
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âTerminus,â Mark OâRoweâs drama of interlocking monologues, adds an unusual twist to the playwrightâs already distinctive style: rhyme.
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An industry giant is inspired to spend billions on its own shares.
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The winner of this yearâs Man Booker Prize spoke of his joy at scooping the prestigious Â£50,000 (â¬72,100) award. Alan Hollinghurstâs novel The Line of Beauty, about Thatcherism and gay sex, beat David
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In this country, poetry is like national therapy for ills in the body politic.
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In the news release, Moniker Brings Multi-Milli
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.
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The Viacom pop culture division, still struggling with the transition to the digital era, has announced a new lyrics-centric project that will begin rolling out in November.
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Felix Dennis, the wealthy British founder of the raunchy men's magazine Maxim and who still enjoys booze, babes and expensive diesel-fueled toys, has become a poet.
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Playbill - Def Poetry Jam, the unique theatrical production of slam-style poetry which won a Tony Award for its Broadway engagement, is launching a new national tour which will take it to 51 cities.
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The paper products giant has plans in store for its record cash flows.
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India's best known artist Maqbool Fida Husain has struck a deal with a millionaire businessman to give him 100 paintings for one billion rupees (21.73 million dollars) in a year's time.
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Tycho:  Page Two of "In The Service Of The Queen" will be available shortly, as he's taking the process very seriously.  Writing ridiculous poems used to be something I did with much more frequency, though it still happens occasionally. I did, at one point, seize the entire site to host a comic musical about TRON.  The urge just rears up sometimes, swiping at the air with its claws, and I must feed it tender, rhyming couplets to bed it back down.
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So, what does a board with more than $100 billion in wealth do for an encore?