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- Call to Readers: To express poetry in motion, try a haiku (The Sacramento Bee)
Eppie's Great Race, dubbed the "World's Oldest Triathlon," deserves a literary form of its own. That's why we've created "tri-ku," a triathlon poem in the form of a haiku. Carlos Alcalá
- Phil Hogan finds out what the truth is behind memory loss and if you can avoid it (Guardian Unlimited)
Phil Hogan asks leading academics and medics what the truth is behind memory loss and, crucially, can you avoid it?
- Entertainment calendar - Explorer News
Entertainment calendarExplorer News, AZ - 3 hours agoHear leading poets debate issues and read their work at the Conceptual Poetry Symposium, which will feature poets Caroline Bergvall, Charles Bernstein, ...
- Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in US - NWI.com
It's no coincidence that in just the past week, I've received two publicist pitches promoting the return of absinthe, that green liquor potion portrayed in movies and pop culture as mind-altering. ( Graphic ) In the 1952 classic film MGM musical ...
- “Virtual Greats” Enters $1.5 Billion Virtual Goods Market - Business Wire (press release)
“Virtual Greats” Enters $1.5 Billion Virtual Goods MarketBusiness Wire (press release), CA - 4 hours agoWith everything from art contests to discussion forums on poetry, politics, celebrities and more, to fully customizable profiles, digital characters and ...
- Audio reviews - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Audio reviewsDubuque Telegraph Herald, IA - 7 hours agoHis bare-knuckled, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and it's shot with blue-collar authenticity. ...
- The Hold Steady / McCarren Park Pool - Metromix
The Hold Steady / McCarren Park PoolMetromix, IL - 14 hours agoBoys and girls in America may have a sad time together, as the Kerouac-inspired Hold Steady lyric goes, but that's not the case at their shows. ...
- WASHINGTON DIARY: Mastering the mother tongue —Dr Manzur Ejaz - Daily Times
WASHINGTON DIARY: Mastering the mother tongue —Dr Manzur EjazDaily Times, Pakistan - 6 hours agoOne day, in poetic trance, when he was reciting his Persian poetry, a wasp made her way into his dhoti (loincloth). Maulvi Sahib, thrashing his dhoti, ...
- Derek Walcott: 'The Chatterbox' (The Jamaica Observer)
AN hour was all Derek Walcott needed to remind the large and very diverse gathering of book lovers at the just-concluded Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, why he is one of the world's most celebrated poets and thinkers.
- How to teach science to the Pope - MSNBC
How to teach science to the PopeMSNBC - 1 hour agoIt makes us go back to the seven days of creation — which is poetry, beautiful poetry, with a lesson underneath it — and say, ‘Oh, the seventh day is God ...
- Every School Every Thursday -- Des Moines West - DesMoinesRegister.com
Every School Every Thursday -- Des Moines WestDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - May 22, 2008Michaela Tuttle's students are learning about poetry and producing some of their own poems about different things they select. The second-grade classes have ...
- Local Digest - El Dorado News-Times
Local DigestEl Dorado News-Times, AR - 9 hours agoBarton came home with 10 awards including four for poetry, three for fiction and three for nonfiction. He won the top prize in fiction and was second in ...
- Abdul Waheed Areesar: championing for Sindhis - The News - International
Abdul Waheed Areesar: championing for SindhisThe News - International, Pakistan - 2 hours agoMany writers believe that had he not become a politician, Areesar would have written fiction or poetry. To date Areesar has written almost 30 books, ...
- Princess trouble - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphPrincess troubleCalcutta Telegraph, India - 3 hours agoGiven the utterly prosaic nature of her administrative duties, Vasundhara Raje can certainly be excused, even admired, for letting her love of poetry show. ...
- Why We Left Islam - AINA
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Joel Richardson, human rights activist and expert in Jewish and Islamic theology. He is the author of Antichrist: Islam's Awaited Messiah , a bestselling analysis of Islamic apocalyptic belief, the co-author ...
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