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- Stolen Bard Folio Is Retrieved After Brought to D.C. Library (Washington Post)
LONDON -- A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued $30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated.
- Edwin Morgan: A very modest magus - Scotsman
Edwin Morgan: A very modest magusScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoOn the Poetry Archive website on which he can be heard reading his poems, he selects his favourite quote: Shelley's dictum that "poets are the mirrors of ...
- A Lot More Joseph Arthur Music On The Way - ChartAttack
ChartAttackA Lot More Joseph Arthur Music On The WayChartAttack, Canada - 12 hours agoThe first two, Could We Survive and Crazy Rain, are already available online. Vagabond Skies will be released on June 10 and Foreign Girls will follow on ...
- Peabody's summer book report gets a makeover (The Salem News)
PEABODY and mdash; Summer reading shouldn't be a drudge, and neither should the book reports that come from them, say school officials. So the old-fashioned report is getting a bit of a makeover. Schoolchildren will still have the option to write a traditional book report, but there will be alternatives, including poetry, slide show presentations or clay art.
- Stavanger, Norway: Going green - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukStavanger, Norway: Going greenTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoA three-mile walk leads through a sheep-strewn, dry-stone-wall landscape dotted with “installations”: giant birds’ nest, neon-coloured fence, poetry on tree ...
- I’m still top of the mops, says Boris Johnson's father - Times Online
During his first days in office, somebody should let the new mayor of London know that he must change the announcements on the Tube. They annoy his father Stanley, a classical scholar. “You get on the Underground train and what do you hear ...
- Vendler’s Yeats - New York Times
Vendler’s YeatsNew York Times, United States - 2 hours agoHelen Vendler is one of the most powerful poetry critics of our time, and her relationship with her art is as simple as it is peculiar: she’sa steward. ...
- College Grad Wins Literary Prize With Blog Entries - WJZ
College Grad Wins Literary Prize With Blog EntriesWJZ, MD - 14 hours agoIt's her poems that helped her capture the prestigious Sophie Kerr Literary Prize "In my glacier poem, I tried to capture not so much exactly what I did but ...
- Zorba the Israeli - Haaretz.com
"I expect nothing. I fear nothing. I am free," reads the epitaph on the grave of Nikos Kazantzakis, located in a cemetery in Heraklion on the island of Crete. Kazantzakis, of "Zorba the Greek" fame, is not merely an author, poet, translator, and ...
- Mohamed El-Makhzangi - Egypt Today
The art of short story writing is, arguably, increasingly marginalized aside the more popular novel. So it came as a surprise when Mohamed El-Makhzangi’s latest book, a collection of short stories called Hayawanat Ayyamna (Animals of Our Days ...
- THE LIST: June 6 to 12 - Kitsap Sun (Subscription)
THE LIST: June 6 to 12Kitsap Sun (Subscription), United States - 2 hours agoCOURTESY PHOTO Mary Lou Sanelli will read from her new collection of poetry, "Small Talk," at 8 pm June 7 at Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St. in Port ...
- Holbrook brought street cred to Twin Cities writers’ market (Pulse of the Twin Cities)
Writer-editor-administrator Carolyn Holbrook, well known as SASE: The Write Place founding artistic director, is a singular presence in Twin Cities lit.
- Doveside Promotions LLC Presents: A Nation of Lost Children - PR.com
New Book uses people, politics, prose and poetry to emphasize the needs and feelings of children awaiting permanency. Doveside Promotions, LLC is an independant organization examining and challenging "systems" to stand up and take action against any ...
- 'Globalisation is only for men' - Sify
New Delhi: Globalisation, as Tamil poet and MP K Kanimozhi sees it, remains masculine in gender. It has not brought liberation for India's women who still do not have the freedom to say and write what they want, says the daughter of a famous father ...
- Rarely Performed Well or at All - Wall Street Journal
Brooklyn, N.Y. Domenico Cimarosa's "Il Matrimonio Segreto" (The Secret Marriage) is one of those pieces that every music student has heard of but probably hasn't seen. It was a hit in Vienna in 1792, two months after the death of Mozart, but today it ...
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