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- One of poetry's finest reminds us of our place in the natural world (The Japan Times)
Skinny frog Don't give up! Issa is here He has been dead for 180 years, but Kobayashi Issa's haiku keep reminding us that the essence of Japan's culture lies in its intimate tie to nature. Humans are seen by him entirely as an element in nature, where ideally there is no artificial hierarchy and certainly no holier-than-thou moralizing. Read the full story
- Michael X: A Life in Black & White by John Williams - Times Online
Times OnlineMichael X: A Life in Black & White by John WilliamsTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoAlong the way he was absolutely up to his neck in any number of crazy Sixties ventures from music and gambling clubs to poetry festivals, radical publishing ...
- Words that changed me forever - Sunshine Coast Daily
Words that changed me foreverSunshine Coast Daily, Australia - 43 minutes agoI’m no poetry expert, some of it I find beautiful, some funny, some just plain wanky. Your poetry changed me forever. In 1984, I joined Mrs Master’s Year 11 ...
- Georgetown professors get creative with book buying - U-Wire.com
The Georgetown University Bookstore was busy this year. Bustling with students just returning to the Hilltop, it reported a successful back-to-school season, with faculty order numbers up 3 to 4 percent from last year. However, despite the bookstore ...
- CCSU professor writes novel for young adults - New Britain Herald
CCSU professor writes novel for young adultsNew Britain Herald, CT - 5 hours agoAn early review from "School Library Journal" gives the novel a thumbs up: "Hazuka's first young adult novel realistically depicts one teen's struggle to ...
- Stanford Summer Theater opens its 10th anniversary season - San Jose Mercury News
"It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.'' Certainly language flickers like a candle flame in the plays of Brian Friel, illuminating some truths and casting shadows on others ...
- A Posthumous Tribute to the Sweet Queen of the Kingfish Cafe - TheStranger.com
TheStranger.comA Posthumous Tribute to the Sweet Queen of the Kingfish CafeTheStranger.com, WA - 2 hours agoShe wove poetry out of whipped cream and composed great symphonies in the key of cake. But the Kingfish and its desserts was the end, not the beginning, ...
- Poetry Foundation names children's laureate, humor winner - Chicago Tribune
Poetry Foundation names children's laureate, humor winnerChicago Tribune, United States - 34 minutes agoIn honor of her career, Chicago's Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, has named her its children's poet laureate. ...Albert Goldbarth and Mary Ann Hoberman Win Major Prizes for ... MarketWatchall 6 news articles
- Check (my manuscript), please: At Bread Loaf, young writers wait on ... - Newsday
RIPTON, Vt. (AP) _ It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s ...
- 'Friendly society' coddles taste buds - Toronto Star
'Friendly society' coddles taste budsToronto Star, Canada - 18 minutes agoNearby Yorkville was the place to be, smoke grass and read poetry (the antecedent of today's Def Poetry Jam), though the 1966 completion of the Bloor subway ...
- Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival events set - Southern Illinoisan
CARBONDALE -- You don’t have to be a writer to want to see what’s cooking at the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The annual festival brings established and up-and-coming writers to a weekend ...
- Three days of pure theatrical bliss - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphThree days of pure theatrical blissCalcutta Telegraph, India - 13 hours ago“Trying to discuss life, reality, love and the mental state of mind of a revolutionary, I want to do some research by using a few poems of Magon Kachari, ...
- Photography: Love, hope, exuberance and desire - Miami Herald
''Whether we're born in Buenos Aires, Havana or Madrid, we come into this world with dance in our hearts,'' Isabel Muñoz says. The famous Spanish photographer, known for her intimate images of bodies in motion, is sitting on a lounge chair at the ...
- Roger Hall; WWII spy who made it fun in his memoir; 89 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Roger Hall, 89, who wrote “You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger,†a wry memoir about World War II spycraft that became a cult classic in intelligence circles and appealed to a wide audience for its irreverence, died July 20 at his home in Wilmington, Del. He had congestive heart failure.
- Iran's Mr Nice - satire on a tightrope (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
In Iran, satirising the establishment can mean being slapped with a publication ban or even jail for an editor.
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