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- Poetry needs to be read aloud, says Motion (Guardian Unlimited)
Andrew Motion shrugs off the hardships of a poet laureate's life to get people listening to poetry
- Lord Renton: 'The best epitaph he could have had' - Daily Telegraph
Playing cricket until he was 66, hunting at 75, riding at 82, on the grouse moors - with a replacement heart valve - at 91, driving till he was 96. The ever-cheerful late Lord Renton The late Lord Renton, the ever-cheerful and longest-serving ...
- Short Takes: Movies opening for the weekend of July 25-27 (New York Daily News)
This week's movies include "CSNY: Deja Vu," "Man on Wire," "Baghead," "Boy A," and "Bustin' Down the Door."
- TV thriller (Metro Times Detroit)
It's all fiction, except for what isn't. Her excuse for changing our lunch plans just an hour before we were to meet came in a voice mail message. It could only have been from a Detroit journalist."Call me. The mayor's going to jail. I have to reschedule," she said.
- Literary artists spread the word - BBC News
BBC NewsLiterary artists spread the wordBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoLike much spoken word, his performances combine poetry, theatre and live graphics. Other performers work with a musical accompaniment, but all artists ...
- ADMA-OPCO wraps up Ramadan activities - UAE Daily News
ADMA-OPCO wraps up Ramadan activitiesUAE Daily News, Canada - 7 minutes agoOther activities included a heritage night, a handicraft auction, a poetry night and future career fashion show co-organised with the Community Police of ...
- Tale of high-wire act one of year's best documentary - MLive.com
Balancing act: Philippe Petit crosses a high wire strung between the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York City in "Man on Wire." "Man on Wire" shows us when insanity becomes poetry. On Aug. 7, 1974, after years of yearning and months of ...
- UMAPAGAN AMPIKAIPAKAN: An obsession that pervades every aspect of my life (The New Straits Times)
WE all have our vices, a weakness of character that, as amatter of course, consumes us. It preoccupies our every thought. It isolates us, it alienates us, until eventually, it leaves us prostrate and penniless.
- The Myth Of Cultural Imperialism (Immigration Portal)
What’s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap over hostile elitists in a single bound? Well, it’s none other than the all-American duo of Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald.
- CARRIE McCRAY NICKENS 1913-2008 (The State)
A storyteller with grit and grace By the time she was in her 70s, Carrie Allen McCray Nickens had already had a long and productive live. She had taught school and been a social worker, earned a master’s degree and was active in the civil rights moment. But she still had another career in her. At 73, she began writing seriously, and during the final two decades of her life published poetry and a ...
- July 13 - July 20 (66) - Dakota Voice
► January 16 - January 23 (1) Who hasn’t seen T. Boone Pickens on TV promoting his plan for American energy independence? Stating “I’ve been an oil man all my life,” Pickens goes on to claim that he has a plan that will free America from ...
- This Week On The Space Show - Space Fellowship
This Week On The Space ShowSpace Fellowship, UK - 23 minutes agoDan has won awards for poetry and screenwriting. He wrote the chapbook Spindrifting Through Ocean Archways: Poetry of Monterey, published Passing Through, ...
- Manbag and Handbag - The Sun
Manbag and HandbagThe Sun, UK - 2 hours agoThe former PM, whose fearsome tongue-lashings were dubbed “handbaggings” during her time at No10, met the anti-poverty campaigner at a POETRY night in ...
- PROM 70: Olivier Messiaen's St. Francis of Assisi - Musical Criticism
Musical CriticismPROM 70: Olivier Messiaen's St. Francis of AssisiMusical Criticism, UK - 2 hours agoMessiaen's music either creates its own drama in place of a narrative, or convinces its listeners through sheer force of poetry of the insignificance of ...
- Need a Dickens expert? He's the man - Mankato Free Press
Need a Dickens expert? He's the manMankato Free Press, MN - 2 hours agoHanna’s contribution focused on the letters, nonfiction and poetry of Dickens, and the exhaustive result is set to be a starting point for future scholars ...
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