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- Tolworth author robbed of valuable manuscript - Sutton Guardian
A Tolworth author has appealed for the return of his valuable manuscript after being robbed in Surbiton last night when he stopped to ask for directions. Sohan Lal Saini, 72, of Hamilton Avenue, Tolworth was driving back from Surbiton station at 10 ...
- Newark Profile: Delaware Poet Laureate a UD grad - Newark Post
Newark Profile: Delaware Poet Laureate a UD gradNewark Post, DE - 48 minutes ago“When most children learn about poetry, they’re taught to break the poem apart and look for symbols and literary devices, like a fish caught in a net,” she ...
- Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet (International Herald Tribune)
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77.
- Che's transformation, in his first wife's words - Detroit Free Press
Ernesto (Che) Guevara's transformation from adventurer to revolutionary is chronicled by his first wife in the intimate portrait, "My Life With Che," picking up where his book, "The Motorcycle Diaries," left off. This revised and updated version of ...
- Fred d'Aguiar's poetry workshop (Guardian Unlimited)
The idea of revision presupposes a vision, an original which enables the return visit. Poets faced with a prodigious library of forebears, continue precisely because they see opportunities for further exploration of ideas and emotions touched on by previous books. The Guyanese writer, Wilson Harris, characterises this process of return to an unfinished legacy as a creative act of engaging with ...
- If my sister could vote, she'd back the Greens - Guelph Mercury
If my sister could vote, she'd back the GreensGuelph Mercury, Canada - 47 minutes agoI couldn't have been more than eight or nine and I had just won a poetry contest. The poem was about my mother dancing in the moon. ...
- Napa Valley Tour Part One: Napa and Yountville (LA.com)
A Guide to Big and Small Stops in Wine Country
- Utah Phillips: radical US folksinger and pacifist - Times Online
Utah Phillips was an American folk singer, story-teller and political activist of the old school who kept alive the freewheeling hobo spirit of Woody Guthrie. He was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were both labour ...
- The POPS Sizzle "In the Heat of the Night" - Pasadena Now
Pasadena NowThe POPS Sizzle "In the Heat of the Night"Pasadena Now, CA - 3 hours agoBetween them they hold numerous national and regional poetry slam championships and have also participated in two highly visible national spoken word tours ...
- Open letter to the players - La Crosse Tribune
This is an open letter to “our boys of summer” the La Crosse Loggers from the families who opened their hearts and homes to you. It isn’t often that someone comes into your home but moves into your heart as well. That it is precisely what you ...
- Pompano Beach - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Your condo association refuses to tell you how it is spending your money or won't let you see the books. You want to file a complaint with the state, but you cannot do so anonymously. If you give your name, chances are you could become a pariah in ...
- August Kleinzahler's ugly gifts - Times Online
August Kleinzahler's ugly giftsTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoTake the following send-up of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: "But I, for one, have never in my lifetime seen the situation of poetry in this country ...
- Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Royal Academy: the poetry of silence (14 pictures) (Guardian Unlimited)
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1885 (oil on canvas).
- The second best shed in Britain - Newbury Weekly News Group
Newbury Weekly News GroupThe second best shed in BritainNewbury Weekly News Group, UK - 3 hours agoHe is planning a fresh assault on the title by building a second shed, as well as writing a book of poetry dedicated to these castles of the soil.
- A lost weekend in the north (Guardian Unlimited)
The recent history of posthumous publishing has not been terribly happy.
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