The English Roses The English Roses The English Roses is a children's picture book written by American entertainer Madonna, released on September 15, 2003, by Callaway Arts & Entertainment. The publishing company's owner Nicholas Callaway had always wanted the singer to write a children's book. Madonna took up the opportunity after her second marriage and being inspired by her Kabbalah teacher and her studies of Jewish mysticism. She wanted to write stories where the female protagonists have a more active role than in traditional fairy-tales. Madonna presented five stories to Callaway, who chose "The English Roses" as the first to be published. The
The Best American Poetry 2003 and Ted Kooser. The Best American Poetry 2003 The Best American Poetry 2003, a volume in "The Best American Poetry series", was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa. Ron Smith, reviewing the book in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, wrote that Galway Kinnell's "When the Towers Fell" is "often moving, even if it doesn't manage the fusion of Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot it aims for." Another poem in the volume focusing on the effects of terrorism is Susan Dickman's "Skin". Smith thought the better poems in this edition were by Marilyn Nelson, Rodney Jones, Brigit Pegeen