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- Poem of the week: Fine Knacks for Ladies, by Anon - Guardian Blogs
This week's poem is by the greatest poet of all time. I was reminded of its existence by an essay by Clive Wilmer, published in the latest issue of that excellent poetry journal, PN Review , "Thom Gunn, Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry". During the ...
- Cheri Samba Contributed photos - Jamaica Gleaner
Cheri Samba Contributed photosJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 30 minutes agoMy critical method is based on my experiences with the poetry group I ran in the 1950s and 1960s, whose methods, in turn, were based on the teachings of Dr ...
- Poster poems: Actually creating reading of substance trapped in ... - Guardian Blogs
OK, so it's better if you don't have a Y in your name. With more advanced students, I liked to explore more complex possibilities; the language of affection, irony, satire, the natural world and so on were all practised by generating acrostics. But ...
- Famed Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish dies: hospital (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mahmud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest Palestinian poets, died Saturday in a US hospital following open-heart surgery, hospital officials told AFP.
- Bumbershoot literary lineup to include Edmund White, Joshua Ferris - Seattle Times
Bumbershoot literary lineup to include Edmund White, Joshua FerrisSeattle Times, United States - 4 hours agoOther highlights: a teen angst poetry contest and a haiku competition. The festival runs Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at Seattle Center. Go to www.bumbershoot.org for ...
- Five questions for . . . Neil Rollinson - Metro
MetroFive questions for . . . Neil RollinsonMetro, UK - 39 minutes agoI just finished a new poem that was commisioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to do with space and poetry. I came to Manchester to visit a scientist ...
- Porter's Kasztner's Train wins Jewish Book Award - Globe and Mail
Porter's Kasztner's Train wins Jewish Book AwardGlobe and Mail, Canada - 24 minutes ago... Ruth Panofsky (poetry, for Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices), Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (biography/memoir, ...
- Theatrical battle of the sexes? (Salon.com)
Liz Smith says only men are trashing "Mamma Mia!" Meanwhile, an L.A. Times blogger explains why women can't handle "The Dark Knight." Oh, please!
- Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 7-13 (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Who could forget "The Crocodile's Toothache"? The toothy reptile sobbing in the dentist's chair as the helpful doc asks, "Why does it hurt and where?"
- Island woman a portrait in courage - Staten Island Advance
The poem is simple inspiration, typed in capital letters with one finger on one hand by a former executive secretary who once did 70 words a minute. Although each stroke Joan DiFiore makes on the keyboard these days can be laced with pain from ...
- Writers focus on Midwest Latinos - Kansas.com
Writers focus on Midwest LatinosKansas.com, KS - 3 hours agoBY CHRISTINA M. WOODS Contributors to the new anthology "Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland" -- including one with ties to Wichita -- say they ...
- Defense secretary visiting McChord, Fort Lewis - Seattle Post Intelligencer
FORT LEWIS -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is visiting Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base. A spokesman for the Army Base, Joe Piek, says he'll remain Tuesday at Fort Lewis. Piek says no details of the visit are available. Fort Lewis is the ...
- I never get despondent — Raghib Muradabadi - DAWN Group
RAGHIB Muradabadi, the noted Urdu poet, scholar of Persian and Arabic, who has been a popular figure at mushairas (poetry recitals) in Pakistan and abroad for decades, gave me a pleasant surprise when he showed me his book Tarian dee lo. The book is ...
- Past As Prologue - The Bulletin
President George W. Bush signed a proclamation that honors the 60th Anniversary of Armed Forces Integration Wednesday. On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order to end segregation in the armed forces. It stated that all in ...
- Third Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina brings new wave of books - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.comThird Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina brings new wave of booksThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 2 hours agoThis book won the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. -- 'Colosseum: Poems' by Katie Ford (Graywolf Press, $15) is a collection of work by the poetry editor of the ...
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