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- The Ghost Soldiers: Poems - Popmatters.com
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You’ll remember Seinfeld , the ‘90s sitcom famously dubbed “a show about nothing.” Here’s part of Charles Simic’s blurb for Tate’s new collection, The Ghost Soldiers : “To write a ...
- West Lake, Buzzing Hangzhou’s Centre Of Calm (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
Located 150km South of Shanghai, China, fabled Hangzhou has been so celebrated in history, art and folklore that from a thousand years ago a picture of the city’s vast West Lake has remained in the Chinese collective consciousness, symbolising a place of unparalleled, serene beauty and calm.
- Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (12:33 p.m.) A convicted sex offender has admitted he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck.
- So long G-Town and thanks for the frostbite … - Tonight
So long G-Town and thanks for the frostbite …Tonight, South Africa - 4 hours agoBallistic beat-poet Ewok's rib-crackingly powerful poetry production, Spitfire. His caustic, but accessible rhymes reconstructed the way my synapses fire. ...
- Former Oakland Municipal Court judge Courtland 'Don' Arne dies at ... - Oakland Tribune
Former Oakland Municipal Court judge Courtland 'Don' Arne dies at ...Oakland Tribune, CA - 4 hours ago... a man in public office, to friends and family he was more than a judge. He was a renaissance man, best known as Don, who loved travel, poetry and music. ...
- Argentina's 'Loony Radio' threatened by hospital closure (Independent)
With no front teeth, Pacotillo is an unlikely radio sensation. And his patter with members of his on-air posse sounds more like a group therapy session than a Saturday show. But then the broadcast is coming from the inside of a Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital. And it is called La Colifata or "Loony Radio".
- St. Louis cast mysterious spell on poet TS Eliot - West End Word
St. Louis cast mysterious spell on poet TS EliotWest End Word, MO - 2 hours ago... when he was writing “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” his first commercially published poem. In his poetry Eliot didn’t mention his hometown. ...
- Progressing from Bad to Verse - National Review Online Blogs
Progressing from Bad to VerseNational Review Online Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoThe sad state poetry is in may have best been revealed when George W. Bush made Billy Collins poet laureate — an appointment that caused quite a stir in ...
- Dropping out didn't derail dreams - Gary Post Tribune
Dropping out didn't derail dreamsGary Post Tribune, IN - 51 minutes agoBecause he mistakenly filled out the wrong Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms, he couldn't afford to pay for gas to get to class. ...
- Summer workshop focuses on writing - Community Press & Recorder
Summer workshop focuses on writingCommunity Press & Recorder, KY - 26 minutes agoThe week-long course for students entering the fourth- and fifth-grade covered writing topics such as poetry, journalism, persuasive writing, ...
- Karibib Cluster Marks Children’s Day - New Era
Karibib Cluster Marks Children’s DayNew Era, Namibia - 1 hour agoLearners from the participating schools put up performances such as dramas, singing and poetry depicting the everyday plight of the African child, ...
- WOOD BOOK REVIEW: New book takes hard look at Martin Luther King ... - Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
WOOD BOOK REVIEW: New book takes hard look at Martin Luther King ...Coon Rapids ECM Publishers, MN - 1 hour agoHarvard prof Henry Louis Gates calls Rieder’s book “brilliant,” explaining that King’s command of both standard English and African American idioms made him ...
- Fear and Loafing - Ventura County Reporter
Ventura County ReporterFear and LoafingVentura County Reporter, CA - 4 hours agoJesus for President is the perfect antidote to the poisonous prose Christians like Anne Coulter have been spitting out for too many years. ...
- 2008 Maine Literary Festival to Focus on the Environment - eMediaWorld.com Newswire Press Release Distribution Service (press release)
2008 Maine Literary Festival to Focus on the EnvironmenteMediaWorld.com Newswire Press Release Distribution Service (press release), AZ - 5 minutes agoThe Festival explores the roles of writing, poetry, nature, and science in shaping the way we treat the planet and live our lives. ...
- Tuned In to Yoav (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
Our featured Tuned In artist this week is Yoav, who currently calls England home.
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