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- Students tested on Winehouse lyrics (UPI)
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 28 (UPI) -- Students taking the Practical Criticism class at Cambridge University in England compared Amy Winehouse's lyrics to Sir Walter Raleigh's poetry for an exam.
- Aging gracefully with a sense of humor - Argus Leader
Remember when you were a kid and it seemed like your birthday would never come. You were doomed to stay 7 or 8 or 9 forever? Impatience to get older usually resulted in adding a half to every year. When asked, "How old are you?" it helped to be able ...
- Breathing new life into a town tradition - Clackamas Review
Breathing new life into a town traditionClackamas Review, OR - 1 hour agoHamilton said Pat DuVal, one of the organizers of the event, told her that anyone who reads their own or someone else’s poetry will get a certificate signed ...
- 'Cowboy Christmas' this weekend - WMI Central
Bareback rider Shawn Best of Omak, Wash. returns from his mount at last year's Deuces Wild Rodeo in Show Low. The best rodeo stars in the West will be in the White Mountains this weekend wtih rodeos in Show Low, Springerville and St. Johns. WHITE ...
- Sebadoh: Bubble and Scrape Deluxe Edition (Pitchfork)
Sebadoh's first step from four-track aesthetics to well-crafted songs is one of key documents of 1990s U.S. indie rock, and the original Sub Pop release is now augmented by Domino with a handful of live cuts and songs from Bubble and Scrape -era singles. read more
- Nancy Metzgar Lippa | Theater assistant, 64 - Philadelphia Inquirer
Nancy W. Metzgar Lippa, 64, a retired administrative assistant at People's Light and Theatre near Malvern, died of pancreatic cancer Saturday at home in Springfield, Delaware County. Mrs. Lippa graduated from Nether Providence High School. After ...
- Downe Twp. superintendent at home at school, on feet - Press of Atlantic City
Downe Twp. superintendent at home at school, on feetPress of Atlantic City, NJ - 1 hour ago"Last year, I did a poetry unit with the second grade, which was where my heart was when I was a teacher." She said the most difficult thing has been ...
- Ineffable lightness of being Cesare and Jean Marie Syjuco (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Scrolling through avant-garde artist Cesare A. X. Syjuco’s on-line blog is an exercise in momentary displacement. There is nothing there; not a single line of his famous cryptexts or those raging dialogues between debating punctuation marks.
- Film reviews: The Waiting Room, Let's Get Lost and more - Daily Telegraph
For a while, this seems the most apposite title of the week. Watching Roger Goldby's romantic drama, we sit and wait to make connections between individuals passing by in the manner of rush-hour commuters: there's a single mother (Anne-Marie Duff ...
- Tinian Peace Ceremony to celebrate sixth year - Saipan Tribune
Tinian Peace Ceremony to celebrate sixth yearSaipan Tribune, Micronesia - 17 hours agoAn evening candlelight vigil featuring performances of peace songs and poetry by community members will be held at 7:00 pm on the night of the ceremony. ...
- Poll: Jobs top list of state concerns - UW Badger Herald
Poll: Jobs top list of state concernsUW Badger Herald, WI - 3 hours agoShe has won multiple awards for her show “Conversations with Jean Feraca” and has also published several poetry and fiction anthologies. ...
- Poets performing prose is the real prize - Toronto Star
Poets performing prose is the real prizeToronto Star, Canada - 19 minutes agoThe Griffin Poetry Prize holds a big payday for a couple of fortunate versifiers. But the previous night's reading – an evening-long recital that has also ...
- Dick Martin, half of comic duo that brought 'Laugh-in' to TV, dies in California at 86 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The team's back together for an unlimited engagement. Tickets are free.
- What rhymes with taxes and crime? - Albany Times Union
What rhymes with taxes and crime?Albany Times Union, NY - 6 hours agoRome is burning and these guys ponder official prose. Gas and heating oil prices are going off the page and street gunfire is the worst in history. ...
- How to stay positive - New Statesman
New StatesmanHow to stay positiveNew Statesman, UK - 3 hours agoA rhino and a talking mammoth stand for HIV and “scientific poetry” respectively. This is a revelatory, optimistic world.
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