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- Exam pits pop's lyrical prowess against Raleigh (Guardian Unlimited)
Cambridge University finalists have been asked to demonstrate their three years of intensive study at a world-class institution in an exam question that compared the poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh with the lyrics of the pop singer Amy Winehouse.
- Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: the shortlist - Guardian Blogs
The big man himself ... but which book is a winner worthy of his name? Photograph: National Portrait Gallery/PA There are almost as many ways to read a book as there are books to read - in the bath, on the loo, or slumped in your favourite armchair ...
- An uneasy calm in a key Georgia city - The Associated Press
The Associated PressAn uneasy calm in a key Georgia cityThe Associated Press - 13 hours agoA woman in her 40s named Manana Labadze, wearing a shabby black dress and worn-out shoes no better than slippers, was outside Gori near a Russian-occupied ...
- Call to Readers: To express poetry in motion, try a haiku - Sacramento Bee
Call to Readers: To express poetry in motion, try a haikuSacramento Bee, USA - 6 hours agoThat's why we've created "tri-ku," a triathlon poem in the form of a haiku. Here's one by Bee staff writer Carlos Alcalá. Submit one (or a couple) of your ...
- It's good old rhyme time - OCRegister
It's good old rhyme timeOCRegister, CA - 4 hours agoSerious poetry will not receive serious consideration. You must be 50 or older to enter. Put your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and age on ...
- Beyond Pokemon: Anime for Young Artists - Express from The Washington Post
Express from The Washington PostBeyond Pokemon: Anime for Young ArtistsExpress from The Washington Post, DC - Aug 11, 2008THE SMITHSONIAN'S STEVEN ECKERD acknowledges the importance of "Pokemon," "Cowboy Bebop," "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" and other famous series in the ...
- Bulletin Board, June 8 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, June 8Norwich Bulletin, CT - 38 minutes agoCONNECTICUT POETRY SOCIETY, 10 am to noon, July 5, East Lyme High School, EAST LYME. All area Poets are invited to attend. Bring a work in progress or your ...
- The light of fallen friends (Boston Globe)
MASHPEE - About 600 people turned out at Mashpee's Community Park last night for a candlelight vigil honoring the town's three fallen members of the military.
- Missoula Independent Names New Editor (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN))
The Missoula Independent has tapped arts and entertainment editor Skylar Browning to be the paper's next editor and hired freelance contributor Erika Fredrickson to take over the arts desk.
- Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alive - WTOP
Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln aliveWTOP, DC - 30 minutes agoReaders also get a look at pages from young Abe's sums books and bits of poetry he composed: "Abraham Lincoln, his pad and pen. ...
- POETRY : Ozark Slam Team headed to national competition - Northwest Arkansas Times
POETRY : Ozark Slam Team headed to national competitionNorthwest Arkansas Times, AR - 3 hours agoThe pain and struggles of friends and family inspires Crain, as does the kind of introspection that is often confusing or contradictory and that is ...
- Livin’ La Vida Hands-Free Loca (Santa Monica Mirror)
This column has long questioned the need for California drivers to make telephone calls while they are operating a motor vehicle. So when it became law on July 1st that you couldn’t talk and drive without a hands-free device, there was some sense of things moving down the right road.
- New play explores what search reveals about us (The State)
They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person? That's the premise behind "User 927," a new production in Philadelphia that blends fact and fiction in the tale of a disappearance from a small Midwestern town. "It's the world's first play based on a search log," director ...
- 2008 Kansas Notable Books Eagle staff (The Wichita Eagle)
Fifteen books have a place on the third annual Kansas Notable Book List, announced by the State Library of Kansas. The list, which includes fiction, nonfiction and children's books, honors books released in the preceding year either by Kansas authors or about Kansas. For this year's list, 122 books were considered, state librarian Roy Bird said in a news release. The books, listed ...
- Bold English: Anglo-Saxon Poetry (The New York Sun)
Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to "What" or "Listen now." Old English is largely Germanic, its brusque sounds ungussied by the softer French words that would later mix into Middle English. It is the language of conquerors: The Roman Empire, finally crushed by the Vandals and Goths, ...
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