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- Poet Laureate to speak at Auckland campus - Massey News
Poet Laureate to speak at Auckland campusMassey News, New Zealand - 7 hours agoHer first collection, Like This?, won the PEN Best First Book of Poetry in 1989 and Dia won the 1995 NZ Book Award for Poetry. In her collection of poems As ...
- A treat for language lovers - Louisville Courier-Journal
A treat for language loversLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 56 minutes agoAnalogy, metaphor, and simile are the linguistic tools by which mere prose swoops and swells into poetry; with them, from the prosaic comes art. ...
- Sanibel Library gets ready for a season jam-packed with ... - Sanibel Captiva Islander
Sanibel Library gets ready for a season jam-packed with ...Sanibel Captiva Islander, FL - 16 hours agoOther presentations will include poetry readings and topics such as astronomy, Ernest Hemingway, a husband and wife team who write about local pirate ...
- From a Red Sox fan to Cubs fans - Chicago Tribune
From a Red Sox fan to Cubs fansChicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoYes, there would be poetry in winning a World Series after more than 100 years of not winning. But, sorry, we own poetry too. As John Cheever said, ...
- Dead author's estate snatches child's domain - The Register
A British couple has lost the battle to keep the narnia.mobi domain name which they claimed was only registered so that their son could have a Narnia-related email address. The address will transfer to a company representing CS Lewis's estate ...
- Paul McCartney - Guardian Unlimited
Billed as an evening with playwright Willy Russell and friends, this event deteriorated into a media circus for the launch of Paul McCartney's new career as a poet. McCartney, it was announced, would fill the last spot in the event (ostensibly a ...
- Laureate post is 'quite a ride' (BBC News)
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says reports he had writers block because of "bad communication" with the Queen were "patently ridiculous".
- How Greenwald’s Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message Online - MediaShift
MediaShiftHow Greenwald’s Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message OnlineMediaShift, CA - 1 hour ago“Exit question: Can a halfwit who thinks poetry slams are an effective tool for anti-war messaging ever really ‘lighten up and get a life’? ...
- The challenge of having Western readers see past culture and gender - Daily Star - Lebanon
The challenge of having Western readers see past culture and genderDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 33 minutes agoLebanon's Joumana Haddad, already widely translated in the rest of Europe, is publishing a collection of her poetry in English this autumn. ...
- Speak your mind: Slam poetry exhibition event takes place Friday ... - Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Speak your mind: Slam poetry exhibition event takes place Friday ...Moscow-Pullman Daily News, ID - 58 minutes agoHe said Anderson is well read and that shows in his poetry. "He has a lyrical sense; he speaks in prose and is very rhythmic," he said. ...
- Travel briefs - Times & Democrat
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival for Sept. 27 on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady ...
- ‘Heavy’ heart accompanies Toradze - South Bend Tribune
‘Heavy’ heart accompanies ToradzeSouth Bend Tribune, IN - 17 hours ago... of the social life of Europe,” he says. Before dinner or after dinner, romances were meant to be a very warm form of entertainment, music and poetry. ...
- A.S. Maulucci: Confessional verse arose out of repressive post-war era - Enterprise
Poets who expose details of their lives in verse are writing what has come to be called confessional poetry. The hallmarks of this type of work are intimacy and personal revelation. Some critics trace the origin of confessional poetry to the early ...
- All eyes on the stoic senator - The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette (Montreal)All eyes on the stoic senatorThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 1 hour agoHe learned to overcome his speech problem by reciting poetry in front of a mirror. After graduating from the University of Delaware in 1965, ...Worldly wise Biden full of candor, zeal Detroit Free Pressall 330 news articles
- Urdu lovers condole legendary Pakistani poet - Gulf Times
Gulf TimesUrdu lovers condole legendary Pakistani poetGulf Times, Qatar - 13 hours agoFaraz was a classicist like Faiz Ahmed Faiz who, like him, produced poetry of great lyrical beauty. He never hesitated to stand up against oppression and ...
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