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- A double blast of fun - Black Hills Pioneer
A double blast of funBlack Hills Pioneer, SD - 2 hours agoTonight (Thursday, June 12) downtown gets active with two free concert series kicking off. James Van Nuys, Kenny Putnam and Bob Fahey open the Summer Nights ...
- Book Events - The State
Book Events Book signings, poetry readings, club meetings, writing workshops — send us your literary events. We will publish your happenings under the events section at thestate.com/books , and some will run in this space on Sundays.
- Joyce Carol Oates gets wild with her latest (Courier-Post)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. "My Sister, My Love," her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Poetry precipitates prizes - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
"I was born like this." Jeannette Barnes sounds as if she's speaking of a medical condition. Instead, the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center librarian is speaking of her passion for poetry. "I was telling poems to the dogs when I was 4," Barnes said ...
- Lunch & laurels - Amherst Bulletin
Lunch & laurelsAmherst Bulletin, MA - 41 minutes agoThe 55-page festschrift, titled "Lay This Laurel," from a version of the poem Dickinson sent to Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1877 in remembrance of her ...
- 'ROAD' WORK IS UNDER 'WAY (New York Post)
Plenty of activity afoot this season on off-Broadway - and there's no doubt about its most eagerly anticipated production: "Road Show," the first new musical by Stephen Sondheim since his 1994 "Passion." The show, co-written by John Weidman, is...
- Robert DesRoche (Scribe) - Bleacherreport.com
Robert does not have any lineup tags. My main focus here is MMA. I found bleacher report when searching for rankings of fighters in each division. I looked at some of the typical sites, but then in the search I stumbled upon an article here by Derek ...
- Abrams delivers poetry as a high art of human expression (Cornell News Service)
A poem is "one of the most nuanced of the arts in expressing what is human," said Cornell Professor Emeritus M.H. (Mike) Abrams, who shared some of his deep understanding and love of poetry in a public lecture, "On Reading Poems Aloud," July 16, in Alice Statler Auditorium.
- A grim reminder of ocean’s danger - Jacksonville Daily News
A grim reminder of ocean’s dangerJacksonville Daily News, NC - 5 hours agoThe ocean has been the subject of poetry, books and movies. It engages us like no other entity on Earth. It is a source of both pleasure and industry and ...
- Jack White and Alicia Keys Team for Quantum of Solace Theme Song - Forbes
CULVER CITY, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the highly anticipated 22nd James Bond adventure "Quantum of Solace," announced today that multi-Grammy Award-winning and platinum selling recording ...
- Melange on the Mic - Gay and Lesbian Times
Melange on the MicGay and Lesbian Times, CA - 2 hours agoThen when I saw hip-hop was picking up and saw more images of it on TV and video, my best friend taught me how to put my poetry into rhymes, and rhymes over ...
- Remembering the Unknown Soldier - The Herald
Remembering the Unknown SoldierThe Herald, Zimbabwe - 33 minutes agoPlato is said to have once remarked that, "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history", and it would be appropriate to borrow from a Zimbabwean poet when ...Let’s honour our fallen heroes The Heraldall 2 news articles
- Newspaper editorials from around the nation and world (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
The following are excerpts from recent newspaper editorials in the United States and abroad:On China and OlympicsFrom the Jacksonville (Ill.) Journal-Courier:Many people hoped that holding this year's Olympic Games in Beijing would serve as a lever to induce China to act more as a mature member of the international community.
- David Hammond - Guardian Unlimited
Five years ago, when David Hammond received an honorary degree from Dublin City University, he was invited to come to the podium and say a few words in response. So he rose in his robes, looked down for a moment at the hundreds of graduates and ...
- Tribute to a mate (Wingham Chronicle)
Killabakh bush poet Roderick Williams has returned from the Henry Lawson Festival at Gulgong with a prize for a very personal poem he wrote as a tribute to one of his mates.
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