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- Poetic justice retires from bench (London Free Press)
To remove the judicial gown.
- Visiting maestro stands flat and rises above (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
We really should find a more gracious way to treat guests. In addition to enduring the usual stresses of a tour, the Orchestre National de France Tuesday night came up against unusually inhospitable conditions at Kimmel Center.
- Obama, JFK parallels - real or media hype? - San Francisco Gate
He's fired up youth with eloquent oratory and a message of change. He has the pearl-wearing wife and two adorable little kids. He's making plans for a huge speech in Berlin. So ask - or ask not: Is Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ...
- Living slow and other summer vacation resolutions - Baltimore Sun
Living slow and other summer vacation resolutionsBaltimore Sun, United States - 15 minutes agoThe poet said (tongue in cheek) that a poet's way with words is superior to mere prose. Poetry picks up, he said, where prose is simply inadequate. ...
- Events celebrate sculptor Harriet Hosmer - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-DispatchEvents celebrate sculptor Harriet HosmerSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 5 hours agoDaphne, the daughter of a river god fleeing Apollo, the god of poetry, is saved by being transformed into a laurel tree. Bernini's baroque vision of the ...
- Book Review: An A to Z Walk In The Park by R.M. Smith (Blogcritics.org)
Graphic artist R.M. Smith teaches the alphabet and animals in his lovely park. An A to Z Walk in the Park by R.M. Smith is a lovely animal themed stroll through the alphabet. This 9” by 9” picture book is aimed at the three to seven year old age group, and it should please animal loving youngsters with its combination of exotic and familiar beasts. The conceit of the book is inviting the reader ...
- ?A Writer?s People? (New York Times)
?Early in 1949, in Trinidad, near the end of my schooldays, word came to us in the sixth form of Queen?s Royal College that there was a serious young poet in one of the smaller islands to the north who had just published a marvellous first book of poems.?
- Hu cherishes national Poetry Out Loud experience - Morris Sun Tribune
Hu cherishes national Poetry Out Loud experienceMorris Sun Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoShe became friends with a competitor from Montana, and was intrigued by another contestant who she said had an obsession with the Edgar Alan Poe poem ...
- Poet to pen Blackpool memories - Blackpool Citizen
Poet to pen Blackpool memoriesBlackpool Citizen, UK - 1 hour agoBlackpool is to become the stuff that poetry is made of, with residents being given the chance to contribute their own thoughts, memories and experiences of ...
- Poetry Column: Hanover first with borough laureateship - Evening Sun
Carl Sandburg once said, "Nothing happens unless first a dream." According to Anna Manahan Bowman, Hanover's first poet laureate, Hanover was first in the state of Pennsylvania to designate the official position of a borough poet laureate. The ...
- The Libertines - Artvoice
The LibertinesArtvoice, NY - 1 hour agoYes, the debaucher should be made more welcome in poetry. To approach life without fear is the debaucher’s motto. To make art without fear is a good motto ...
- Malcom X Artifacts Come To Omaha (KETV 7 Omaha)
OMAHA, Neb. -- The past and future met at North Omaha High School Saturday morning. Workers with Omaha's Malcolm X Memorial Foundation celebrated the African-American legend with a tribute.
- Stage guide (The San Francisco Examiner)
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - Tracy Letts couldn’t be hotter right now. The Chicago -based playwright, acclaimed for theater works including “Killer Joe” and “Man from Nebraska ,” recently won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his drama, “August: Osage County .”
- Best Bets: June 26 (The Troy Record)
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- 'Ginsberg loved Calcutta, where poets were worshipped' - Rediff
In the early 1960s, journalist and Sikh historian Khushwant Singh met with a group of hippies who told him that they had left America for an Indian sojourn because they were fed up with materialism. Singh told them Indians were fed up with ubiquitous ...
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