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- What does constitute academic freedom (The Hendersonville Times-News)
This question was raised most recently when a few students refused to attend a required play. In my literature course, it is common that some want sexual content, especially work containing homosexuality, edited out, including Byron's poetry, de Laclos's novels, and Shakespeare's bawdy plays. Similarly, I have had students refuse to read a novel...
- Capturing the Enormity of the Shoah - Jewish Exponent
Jewish ExponentCapturing the Enormity of the ShoahJewish Exponent, PA - 50 minutes agoThe critics quoted above were generally speaking of an approach to written creativity -- poetry and novels. The argument gets far more complex when faced ...
- What I Like About Limerick.. Barney Sheehan, craftsman and poet - Limerick Leader
What I Like About Limerick.. Barney Sheehan, craftsman and poetLimerick Leader, Ireland - 9 hours agoA lot of people don't know it, but he also wrote a serious amount of poetry from as young as seven or eight years of age. He was determined, from the amount ...
- Local peers honour visiting poet - Gulf Times
Gulf TimesLocal peers honour visiting poetGulf Times, Qatar - 42 minutes ago... Pakistan Cultural Forum general secretary Furqan Paracha and Bazm-e-Urdu joint secretary Zawar Hussain Zair spoke about Hassan’s works. A poetry session ...
- The battle that reshaped children’s literature. - New Yorker
New YorkerThe battle that reshaped children’s literature.New Yorker, United States - 3 hours agoShe celebrated the holidays of immigrants (reading Irish poetry aloud, for instance, on St. Patrick’s Day) and stocked the shelves with books in French, ...
- Readings and Talks (The New Yorker)
NATIONAL ARTS CLUB Eugene Drucker, a violinist for the Emerson String Quartet, reads from his début novel, “The Savior,” about a violinist in a Nazi concentration camp. Drucker will also perform. (15 Gramercy Park S. No tickets necessary. June 19 at 7.) FILM FORUM The downtown revival house, which is . . .
- COLUMN: Leyde: Murphey follows way of the West - Thecalifornian.com
Michael Martin Murphey isn't shy about sharing what his priorities are: The cowboy way, restoring the American prairie, longhorn cattle and preserving our Western heritage. The singer-songwriter has made a career and a lifestyle working at those ...
- Cohen adds another show at Toronto stop - Toronto Star
Cohen adds another show at Toronto stopToronto Star, Canada - 44 minutes agoFour decades ago, the late Jack McClelland, CanLit pioneer, made Cohen a literary star by publishing his poetry and fiction. And these days, after the ...
- Californian chosen as U.S. poet laureate - AZCentral.com
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared with ...
- Stolen $30M Shakespeare book found - MSNBC
This "priceless" edition of Shakespeare's works was finally recovered after a man took the book into a US library and asked to have it authenticated. The first folio edition, printed in 1623, was taken ten years ago from the Durham University ...
- The Presence wins Welsh award (Guardian Unlimited)
Dannie Abse's memoir of his 50-year marriage, written after his wife Joan died in a car crash, took the prize for a Welsh author writing in English
- St. Louis Opera takes minimalist approach with 'Madame Butterfly' - Dallas Morning News
St. Louis Opera takes minimalist approach with 'Madame Butterfly'Dallas Morning News, TX - 7 hours agoBut a more experienced baton would find more poetry in the score and wouldn't allow singers to over-sing and bog down in the middle of phrases. ...
- Kevin McFadden; University of Georgia Press - C-Ville Weekly
C-Ville WeeklyKevin McFadden; University of Georgia PressC-Ville Weekly, VA - 1 hour agoInformally divided into three courses by a 28-page riff of a prose poem, Hardscrabble wrings us through a whiplash-quick examination of language in all its ...
- Sanya Richards clinches Olympic berth (Miami Herald)
Sanya Richards has her eyes locked on a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. But that didn't prevent her from looking past the first step toward being best in the world, which was to confirm that she is best in the nation in the 400-meter sprint. Slicing through a headwind on the backstretch and gaining momentum with a tailwind on the homestretch, Richards won her race by three strides at the ...
- Pat West - Guardian Unlimited
During the 1970s, my friend, Pat West, who has died of cancer aged 69, blossomed in Sistershow, as a poet, performance artist and feminist. For at least 15 years from the early 1990s she organised and hosted the poetry and words tent at the ...
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