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- POETS ADDING RHYME AND METER TO PRIME TIME - New York Post
It's the second coming of Yeats. That would be the late William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), who is suddenly emerging as the poet laureate of TV. One of the Irish poet's most famous poems is called "The Second Coming" and it is about to get a prime-time ...
- Philip Larkin - guardian.co.uk
Philip Larkinguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoLarkin's most famous poem, of course, is the grim doggerel of This Be the Verse ("They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad..."). There's more light and shade, ...
- Charlotte Kohler, Literary Journal Editor, Is Dead at 99 (New York Times)
Ms. Kohler was a longtime editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review and a quiet influence on the course of 20th-century American writing.
- Young children her passion (The Saginaw News)
This year, Sarah M. Berkley's family and friends gathered to celebrate her 80th birthday with a surprise party. Even then, her modest smile belied that she was very ill.
- Queering the Movimiento (San Antonio Current)
When bleached-blond Danny De La Paz rollerbladed onto a minimalist stage at Our Lady of the Lake University on August 13, 2005, wearing a glass tiara, a muscle T-shirt, and tight, bulging shorts while Brian Adams’ campy anthem “Heaven” played in the background, you knew this wasn’t gonna be just another Chicano gangbanger story.
- Film and Music Festival - Daily Ardmoreite
Movie and television actors, from left, Robert Fuller, Peter Brown and Alex Cord, were some of the stars at the 17th Annual Gene Autry Film & Music Festival Saturday talking with fans, telling stories and signing autographs. Movie and television ...
- Form Follows Function, Elegantly - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalForm Follows Function, ElegantlyWall Street Journal - 3 hours agoOver the doors at the building's entrance are six arched art glass lunettes inspired by the allegorical figures of Wisdom, Oratory, Drama, Music, Poetry and ...
- Technically Incorrect - CNET News
So has everyone been wandering around your office, puffing out their hairless chests and declaring "I'm a PC" with pride? Thought not. Visible Measures , a company that measures viral-video activity, announced this week that the Gates-Seinfeld ads ...
- Pubs battle for prestigious title (icWales)
THEY range from the idyllic country inn complete with cask ales and open log fire to the modern city centre gastropub serving tapas.
- Revamped Green Show hits a high note - Ashland Daily Tidings
Twelve-year-olds Ye Rim Choi, right, and Kim Salazar perform Tuesday with the Hobart Shakespeareans at the Green Show. The Hobart Shakespeareans are a group of students from South Central Los Angeles and will perform again at the Green Show on ...
- Literary tattoos (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
One day, while poking around on the Interweb, I came across a blog ( www.contrariwise.org ) devoted to literary tattoos -- photos that people have posted of their own little part in making sure that great writing endures.
- Zion Lutheran, Gibsonburg - Fremont News Messenger
Zion Lutheran, GibsonburgFremont News Messenger, OH - 2 hours agoThe weekend of worship and praise will start with a musical at 5 pm Saturday, featuring choirs from Fremont, Sandusky and Detroit, poetry reading, ...
- Legacy of North Carolina's Black Mountain College continues (Courier-Post)
Starting in the 1930s, a small, experimental college on the dense wood slopes of North Carolina's western mountains left an outsized mark on American art and culture.
- World-Herald multimedia - Omaha World-Herald
The Bike Man - what folks around Norfolk call retired teacher Dave Eurek - has a drawer full of tools and parts. When Eurek years ago gave up one job - as a business teacher in Howells - he kept an unpaid one. Always the bicycle repairman for his ...
- Jeni Stepanek watches as statue of son Mattie is unveiled in Rockville - Gazette
Jeni Stepanek takes a photograph of the life-sized statue of her son after it arrived this morning in Rockville. Jeni Stepanek greeted the life-size statues of her son and his service dog Micah this morning as they arrived at the Peace Garden in the ...
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