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- Rochester poets show poetry is not for sissies - Democrat and Chronicle
Forget Stephen King. You want bone-chilling violence, blood-curdling revenge, read a poem. That's one lesson I learned from going though the 180 or so poems submitted to the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. As announced last week ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance - NWI.com
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Focus on poetry at Brisbane festival - Courier Mail
Focus on poetry at Brisbane festivalCourier Mail, Australia - 4 hours agoAS FAR as Julie Beveridge is concerned, poetry is the rock 'n' roll of literature. "Something clicks in my brain when I read good poetry or hear good poetry ...
- Weasels, planes and an African adventure - Hampstead and Highgate Express
Weasels, planes and an African adventureHampstead and Highgate Express, UK - 2 hours agoThere is even some decent poetry - Tennyson's The Mermaid. It is best read with a real friend, but it's also fun for the temporarily friendless. ...
- Hospitality, Hollywood style (Miami Herald)
Jennifer Lopez announced last week that she was closing her beloved Madre's in Pasadena, Calif. The posh diner was inspired by the down home Puerto Rican recipes of her maternal grandmother, who died last year. Lopez gave no reason for the 6-year-old eatery's shutdown but it's been speculated that motherhood keeps her too busy.
- New Indian Bible Draws Fire over Hindu References - Christian Post
A new Indian version of the Bible recently, published by the Catholic Church, has run into controversy over its inclusion of verses from the Bhagavad Gita, a form of Hindu chant, and references to the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. An illustration in ...
- Arts Blog (The New Statesman)
When Lucien Freud’s painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping was sold last week for £17.2m arts columns nationwide began murmuring about capitalism, commodity culture and – crucially – the role of the artist’s muse.
- Flying on fresh wings - Beeld
With a new poetry anthology and new TV show, poet Lebo Mashile speaks to CARL COLLISON about burning out on TV and where she draws the line ‘You can’t heal a nation with PR,” says Lebo Mashile, ex-member of female poetry collective, Feela ...
- WALL-E: Family space odyssey has wall-to-wall robotic fun (Daily Mail)
Pixar has created their most appealing charcter yet in WALL-E, who deserves to stand alongside Babe and ET as representatives of family film at its finest.
- InterBoard Poetry Competition Honorable Mentions, May 2008 - About - News & Issues
InterBoard Poetry Competition Honorable Mentions, May 2008About - News & Issues, NY - 5 hours ago... and this gentle poem—so full of specific detail, yet at its center a tender and intense moment between father and child—hit me right in the heart. ...
- 12 12 Gallery Exhibits "Painting, Prose & Poetry" - Richmond Times Dispatch
12 12 Gallery Exhibits "Painting, Prose & Poetry"Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - 1 hour agoCharles Philip Brooks complements his oil paintings with poetry. Through June 15 in the John B. Anderson House, just east of Hull Street at 12 E. 12th ...
- Leonard Cohen - Times Online
Leonard CohenTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoHis mother Masha was a Russian Jew from Lithuania, from whom he inherited an affinity for song and poetry. Soon news arrived of the fate of other relatives ...
- Vandals of Frost's home are punished with poetry classes - Detroit Free Press
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Chamber music fest walks on wild side - Detroit News
It was a wild musical hunt, the 15th Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. Spread over two weeks and moving through venues across Metro Detroit, the Great Lakes fest -- which presented its 17th and final concert on Sunday -- was full of surprises ...
- Hey Grandmama (NDTV)
To be or not to be : Shakespeare a woman? Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman who had disguised to get her work published in Elizabethan London where original literature from women was not acceptable, an expert has contended.
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