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- Sliced from the curriculum - New Statesman
Sliced from the curriculumNew Statesman, UK - 16 minutes agoHowl will recount the life of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg, with emphasis on the obscenity trial which billowed around the eponymous poetry collection. ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Whittlesea Leader
Whittlesea LeaderFinding challenge in verseWhittlesea Leader, Australia - 8 hours ago... it's just talking free-flow emotion and that's not very challenging, really," Albiston said. "For every rule in formal poetry, a creative window opens. ...
- Poster poems: autumn leaves - Guardian Blogs
As I think I might have mentioned previously , May 1 is the official start of summer here in Ireland. And so, three months later August 1, Lughnasadh , is the first day of autumn. Lughnasadh, or Lammas, was the traditional start of the harvest and ...
- No sensible British shoes for this rebel fashionista (Toronto Star)
"You can't have depths without surfaces," the British writer Linda Grant notes on her online blog, The Thoughtful Dresser . In The Clothes on Their Backs , her fourth novel, she pays plenty of attention to what her characters wear, but her emphasis is on what their fashion sense (or lack of it) reveals about them.
- Library to get $7300 grant - Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
Library to get $7300 grantGloucester County Times - NJ.com, NJ - 21 minutes agoThe second part of the program will be used to encourage the young adults to participate in creative writing such as poetry, book reviews and the creation ...
- Bumbershoot: Theater makes a fast break for its 10 minutes of fame - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post IntelligencerBumbershoot: Theater makes a fast break for its 10 minutes of fameSeattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoNew York's Julie Atlas Muz was Miss Erotic World in 2006, but she was also a favorite at a recent Whitney Biennial and the Bienal de Valencia. ...
- Festival offers free tickets to young people - Malvern Gazette
Festival offers free tickets to young peopleMalvern Gazette, UK - 2 hours agoPoet Laureate Andrew Motion will be taking part, talking about the importance of poetry. For more information call Malvern Theatres box office on 01684 ...
- Celebrating 25 years of dance - Sunday Leader (subscription)
Sunday Leader (subscription)Celebrating 25 years of danceSunday Leader (subscription), Sri Lanka - 1 hour agoAlliance Française de Kandy will host Poetic Impressions 2008, an evening of poetry proposed by Asoka Palliyaguruge and her students of Gateway College, ...
- Simon Gray; playwright noted for wit; 71 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays such as “Butley,†“Otherwise Engaged†and “Quartermaine's Terms†about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself, died Aug. 6 in London. He was 71.
- Comedy review: Charlie Murphy energizes the Kalamazoo State Theatre - Kalamazoo Gazette
Courtesy of Comedy Central Comedian Charlie Murphy, shown here on the set of Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show," performed at the State Theatre Friday. It was one of the main subjects of Charlie Murphy's stand-up at the State Theatre Friday night ...
- New York exhibit features Vincent van Gogh's starry nights - The Canadian Press
The Canadian PressNew York exhibit features Vincent van Gogh's starry nightsThe Canadian Press, NEW YORK - 21 minutes agoVan Gogh was not just a poet of rural life, however. He "looked hard at the world around him," and that included city life, even in its most unsavoury ...
- Heinz Awards Honor Five Eminent Americans with 14th Annual Human Achievement Prize (Centre Daily Times)
Celebrating the unbridled human spirit to change the world around us in ways great and small, in the here and now, and for generations to come, the Heinz Family Foundation today announced the recipients of the 14th annual Heinz Awards, among the largest individual achievement prizes in the world.
- P-i Editorial Cartoonist: Michelle Obama proves she's all-American - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Michelle Obama is as all-American as any one of us, but still she had to prove it in a speech that was the centerpiece of the Democratic National Convention's opening night. In a cogent post-speech analysis, CNN's John King said of the Obama ...
- Mashpee soldier killed in Afghanistan - WHDH-TV
MASHPEE, Mass. -- A second Mashpee soldier has died in a week in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Cape Cod Times reported Sunday that Army Pfc. Paul Conlon died Friday morning in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb blew his vehicle. His mother ...
- Greencup Books - Black and White
Greencup BooksBlack and White, AL - 46 minutes agoIn one display case are some obscure poetry and arts journals, to the left of which is the Industrial Workers of the World Songbook. ...
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