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- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (The Charlotte Observer)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways - and the redemptive power of poetry. ...
- Catherynne M. Valente: Playing in the Garden - Locus Online
Locus OnlineCatherynne M. Valente: Playing in the GardenLocus Online, CA - 4 hours ago“The first book I ever read was a fantasy novel, The Neverending Story. My mother also made me read some very strange things, like Samuel Beckett when I was ...
- Peter Wilby on the extravagant lives and loves of the poet George ... - Guardian
Peter Wilby on the extravagant lives and loves of the poet George ...Guardian, UK - 55 minutes agoHe regarded poetry as a full-time occupation and, save for a few visiting university lectureships, never had anything resembling a full-time job. ...
- Opera Camp Hits The Right Note - Yankton Daily Press (subscription)
Opera Camp Hits The Right NoteYankton Daily Press (subscription), SD - 16 hours agoIt’s the poetry, the melody and the harmonies,” she said. “He really stresses making the piece your own, internally, because people may have heard the same ...
- The art world discovers Sand City (The Monterey County Herald)
The Professor has been on vacation for a couple of weeks of well-deserved rest and nearly jumped for joy when she sorted through her accumulated mail and found the latest issue of Via, the AAA Traveler's Companion for Northern California.
- Ron Sexsmith: Exit Strategy of the Soul (Toronto Star)
Despite the weighty matter Ron Sexsmith deals with on his 11th – and arguably his best – album, no one will walk away from it bereft or downhearted.
- Take a Trip Back to Simplicity With Pop Goes the Poetry -- New Book Pays Tribute to Simplicity and Peaceful ... (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ALEXANDER, Ark., May 13, 2008 -- Life truly was simple ages ago. Back then, simplicity was very common in everyone's minds and expressions. In his new book Pop Goes The Poetry, author Ralph Watley takes his readers back to the past with a series of poems that will entertain and refresh everyone's minds.
- Blogosphere to Stratosphere (Entrpreneur.com)
Savvy bloggers are turning mere concepts into the building blocks of a media empire.
- Hollywood is finally chasing Amy (Independent)
Amy Ryan knows all about being brought back down to earth. Nominated for an Academy Award this year for her breakout performance in Ben Affleck's credible directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, she went home empty handed. And then? "The day after the Oscars, I was back in New York and dropping off my laundry at the laundromat."
- Bob & Margery's Poetry Blog - About - News & Issues
Bob & Margery's Poetry BlogAbout - News & Issues, NY - May 7, 2008The poems chosen to represent the About Poetry Forum are: “An Old Married Couple Dancing” by Debbie Ouellet, a graceful and vivid depiction of how long-time ...Winners announced in the April InterBoard Poetry Competition About - News & Issuesall 2 news articles
- Arif pays tribute to Russian writers - The Post
Arif pays tribute to Russian writersThe Post, Pakistan - 19 hours agoHe said Imean Rimma Kazakova was specially known for translations of poetry of Pakistani poet Faiz Admad Faiz into the Russian language.
- Japan takes to the ring for poetry boxing (Daily Telegraph)
The jabs are fast and the blows occasionally low, but no-one lays a glove on their rival in the noble Japanese art of Reading Boxing.
- DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Karen Akers, Tony Talk and News of Callaway and Errico (Playbill)
News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
- Hundreds attend funeral for slain 20-year-old - Howard County Times
Hundreds attend funeral for slain 20-year-oldHoward County Times, MD - 14 hours agoMangana encouraged her son to take a poetry writing class at Howard County Community College and his father encouraged him to take theater classes, ...
- ‘(Kashmiri) language is not moving at all, it has lost its dynamism’ - Etalaat
‘(Kashmiri) language is not moving at all, it has lost its dynamism’Etalaat, India - 1 hour ago... become a legend of Kashmiri Poetry. Amin Kamil gave a new direction to Kashmiri ghazal and made this romantic art to express the human anguish and pain. ...
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