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- Cowboy gathering returns to Big Bear Lake (The Press-Enterprise)
Strap on some boots and head up to Big Bear for a weekend of music, poetry and stories of the Old West at the ninth annual Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering.
- Hayden Carruth, Marian McQuade - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Carruth lived for many years in rural Vermont and New York, where manual labor and an unforgiving climate became part of his daily life and, ultimately, his poetic voice. Through years of isolation and neglect, he doggedly continued to write, gaining ...
- Award-winning poet gave voice to plight of Palestinians - Chicago Sun-Times
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose writings gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- 'Hyakunin' translations capture commission prize (The Japan Times)
In the same way that few British people have read all of Shakespeare's sonnets but many can quote at least a few lines of the lyric tradition, any adult who has gone through the Japanese school system is familiar with the Ogura "Hyakunin Isshu." This collection of 100 waka — a classic poetic form written in lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables — has been translated into English before. The first ...
- Eyes on the prize - Business Gazette
Business GazetteEyes on the prizeBusiness Gazette, MD - 1 hour agoThey made poetry." The work of The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards finalists is on view Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 6 pm today through ...
- Dire predictions call for traditional approach - CBC News
Scottishness is something you can't outrun. I have spent most of my life trying – and my Scottish-Canadian mother has been patience itself over the years as she watched me lashing at those Calvinist ties that bind – but I concede defeat. Every ...
- Heart to heart - BlueRidgeNow.com
Heart to heartBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 39 minutes agoBut like poetry, within that form there is a poetic freedom to express a fleeting moment, the partners say. "On the dance floor, you create a series of ...
- VIDEO: Students debut first film - Las Cruces Sun-News
VIDEO: Students debut first filmLas Cruces Sun-News, NM - 10 hours ago"It's about a kid in danger or becoming a gangbanger who ends up being saved by poetry. It's a great human story. This is a blessed project. ...
- Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry Prize - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Osundare Wins Poetry PrizeAllAfrica.com, Washington - 6 hours agoNigeria's highest poetry prize is ANA/Cadbury Prize worth $1000. A letter from the organisers of the award, Assilah Forum Foundation, a non-profit ...
- The dead should be seen, not heard - PSU Daily Vanguard
The dead should be seen, not heardPSU Daily Vanguard, OR - 6 hours agoAdditionally, Ruhl tackles death with invention, whimsy and honesty. From the absurdist induction of a chorus of stones to moments of dance, song, poetry ...
- 'Project Runway' guides my university teaching - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com'Project Runway' guides my university teachingThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 1 hour agoI thought of my own teachers, like the late, great Diane Middlebrook at Stanford University who taught poetry with feminist reinterpretations and a flair ...
- Time Out at 40 (Guardian Unlimited)
How an arts magazine born on a kitchen table became the bible of the hip crowd
- Man says he's had sex with 1000 cars and he's not sick - Daily Telegraph
Man says he's had sex with 1000 cars and he's not sickDaily Telegraph, Australia - 1 hour ago"I'm a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what's in my heart and I have no desire to change."
- Poet Kooser, musicians to perform in Omaha bar (Daily Nebraskan)
Ted Kooser, who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, made about 200 public appearances during his term. Nowadays, he doesn't do nearly as many poetry readings. "It really is slowing down now, and I'm glad," Kooser said. The reduced pace gives him the opportunity to fix things up on his farm in Garland, Neb.
- Padraig Conneely to indulge his inner poet - Galway Advertiser
Padraig Conneely to indulge his inner poetGalway Advertiser, Ireland - 24 minutes agoNational Poetry Day takes place today and will see Mayor Conneely, County Mayor Peter Feeney, and Dep Michael D Higgins, and others recite their favourite ...
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