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- Grant Park Festival offers fine-spun mix of music (Chicago Sun-Times)
A welcome anomaly occurred last Wednesday when the Grant Park Festival had to turn away patrons for a packed midweek concert of Brahms' "German" Requiem. It isn't often when the capacity of free classical music festivals falls short of popular demand.
- The edge of madness - Guardian Unlimited
I have to confess, this has felt personal at times, and I have waited a long time for that message to appear from somewhere, in this case from a dear Bosnian colleague and friend: "Dr K arrested." The experience of Bosnia's war of the early 1990s was ...
- Can poetry in translation ever be as poetic in its new language? (The Japan Times)
A friend who was visiting recently from Germany posed me a difficult question: How can poetry be translated? I have often read that poetry is untranslatable, that "nothing is lost in translation except the poetry." Yet, if this were true, we would hardly be able to read, let alone appreciate, poets writing in other languages than our own. Read the full story
- Mom and dad's lives -- real and imagined (Miami Herald)
ALFRED & EMILY. Doris Lessing. Harper. 274 pages. $25.95. Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books -- novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction -- became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This year, she has published a clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction. Alfred & Emily is a culmination of ...
- Vatican scholar: prayer proves Knights Templar not heretical (Times Online)
The Vatican has for the first time published the prayer the Knights Templar composed when "unjustly imprisoned", in which they appealed to the Virgin Mary to persuade "our enemies" to abandon "calumnies and lies" and revert to "truth and charity".
- Young teacher wins top honors in East Windsor (Journal Inquirer)
EAST WINDSOR — Although relatively new to teaching, Colleen Bava has been chosen as the town’s teacher of the year for her innovative ideas, creative use of technology, and community outreach efforts.
- Contest: Poetry prize offered (Marion Chronicle-Tribune)
A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a special poetry contest sponsored by Golden Poets Guild, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes, totaling $5,000.
- Forever 27 Club - Entertainment.uk.msn.com
It's an oft-noted curiosity that many of rock music's leading lights have died at the age of 27. Tom Townshend asks... We once met someone who can lay claim to being the reason Kurt Cobain ended his life on April 5, 1994. Unfortunately we can no ...
- Burns fans mull over Jackson link - BBC News
BBC NewsBurns fans mull over Jackson linkBBC News, UK - 2 hours ago"I think it is great that anybody is trying to bring Burns and his philosophy and his poetry to the forefront of people's minds. "But I think there are ways ...
- WNMU professor to speak at Rizal conference - Deming Headlight
SILVER CITY — Most Americans are unfamiliar with Jose Rizal. Western New Mexico University Professor Jean Hall considers herself a student of the life of the Rizal, a Philippine hero. Executed by the Spanish colonials as a traitor in 1896, Rizal's ...
- Lonely life as commoner for Nepal’s former king - Daily Times
Gyanendra’s new life looks set to become even quieter after the departure of his son, former crown prince Paras, for Singapore earlier this month WITH few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (The Courier News)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable. And it's only the ...
- Tilda Swinton and Julien - Metro
MetroTilda Swinton and JulienMetro, UK - 1 hour ago'He was crucial in my thinking about film as a form of poetry rather than just conventional narrative,' says Julien. Wed, Jul 9 and Thu, Jul 10, ...
- Las Vegas Sun (Las Vegas Sun)
Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Poetry Night at ReJAVAnate (7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. | reJAVAnate Coffee Lounge) Feeling poetic? Head on over to ReJAVAnate for a cup ...
- Ad Astra: Glancy explores American Indian legacy (Lawrence Journal-World)
Diane Glancy, of Prairie Village, has German/English and Cherokee heritage. She writes about her family, American Indian histories and the Midwest. Her novel “Pushing the Bear” is one of the best-known accounts of the Trail of Tears. Her novel “Stone Heart” is about Sacajawea.
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