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- GMTV Weather Presenter Quits - Waveguide
Weather presenter Andrea McLean is to quit GMTV after 11 years to appear on ITV's lunchtime show Loose Women. Mclean has a year-long contract to appear on the programme and plans to pursue other broadcasting opportunities. "I've been thinking about ...
- Back to school, in poetry: 'Life, friends, is boring.' - Los Angeles Times
Back to school, in poetry: 'Life, friends, is boring.'Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoJohn Berryman's poem "Dream Song #14," which begins, "Life, friends, is boring," has a stubborn ennui that makes it perfect for this locker-stuffing list. ...
- Combat Poet - Centralia Chronicle
Combat PoetCentralia Chronicle, WA - 2 hours agoBy Julie McDonald A 21-year-old Army soldier from Napavine finds comfort in an Iraqi war zone by sharing her thoughts and feelings in poetry. ...
- Sonny's recommendations - San Francisco Examiner
Something about those poets and the way they're always dropping each other’s names all over the place. It gives me a queer tremor in the stomach. I picked up a Ted Berrigan book from the library the other day and just about every poem seemed ...
- Photographer finds home with Taiwanese squatters - Georgia Straight
Photographer finds home with Taiwanese squattersGeorgia Straight, Canada - Aug 7, 2008A tea house, garden, and pond are hand-built out of a falling-down group of small houses; an archive is assembled; poetry readings and performances take ...
- Murder, sex (& high tea) (Independent)
It's probably the most extraordinary corner in England – the blind corner at the end of Park Street, Woodstock, where two worlds collide. It looks wholly unpromising when you stroll down the main street of this dazzlingly pretty Oxfordshire town, past the Bear Hotel, the church of St Mary Magdalene, the coffee house, Chaucer's House... Then you turn the corner and see before you a huge entrance ...
- Vietnam: Eight Vietnamese Writers Receive Prestigious Human Rights ... - Human Rights Watch (press release)
Vietnam: Eight Vietnamese Writers Receive Prestigious Human Rights ...Human Rights Watch (press release) - 1 hour agoHe continued writing philosophical essays, satirical pieces and poetry that are published abroad and clandestinely in Vietnam. Over the past 20 years, ...
- plus reviews of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Henry Poole is Here ... - Movie City News
Movie City Newsplus reviews of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Henry Poole is Here ...Movie City News, CA - 2 hours agoYet, Like Kane and Rules of the Game, it can be seen over and over again without losing any of its poetry and passion. As we take our seats in the sawdust ...
- Shailja Patel utsedd till NAI Guest Writer 2009 - Newsdesk (pressmeddelande)
Shailja Patel utsedd till NAI Guest Writer 2009Newsdesk (pressmeddelande), Sweden - Jul 1, 2008Hon var en av åtta poeter som utvaldes till att framträda vid Poetry Africas arrangemang vid World Social Forum i Nairobi i början av 2007. ...
- 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 ...
- Fall Arts Guide (Arkansas Times)
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- Diversions for August 10, 2008 - Evansville Courier & Press
Diversions for August 10, 2008Evansville Courier & Press, IN - 3 hours agoOPEN POETRY NIGHT — featuring Jean Ann Kizer & Friends, 8 pm, Penny Lane Coffeehouse, 600 SE Second St. EVANSVILLE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY STAR WATCH — 8 pm, ...
- UK tops the list of literary tourism destinations worldwide - Holiday Lettings
Holiday LettingsUK tops the list of literary tourism destinations worldwideHoliday Lettings, UK - 3 hours agoSee where they made their first poetry reading at the Six Gallery. Rome - Rome is "birthplace of some of the world's most influential literature", ...
- 'It's not really a career, more like a series of identity crises' (Sydney Morning Herald)
I WANDER into the room next to the London Sofitel's Peggy Ashcroft Suite, where I am to interview Sophie Marceau. The vast bed is tempting, as is the room-service menu.
- Biden's candor, passion can be a plus and a minus (Honolulu Advertiser)
The 65-year-old chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee returned recently from a visit to the Republic of Georgia to assess the Russian invasion there.
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