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- Parting gifts for Martin's mate - BBC News
What's the power of poetry? As a parting gift, Martin McGuinness presented Ian Paisley with a couple of hand-written poems. Mr McGuinness wrote one of the poems himself One was a passage from Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy in the laureate's own ...
- Gender-bending, role-switching keep Savoyards cast lively (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
The expression that "men are from Mars and women are from Venus" only entered our modern lexicon about 15 years ago -- but Gilbert & Sullivan not only understood the idea about 100 years before that, but also used it as rich fodder for their famed brand of musical satire.
- Let Obama choreograph his own dance - Columbus Other Paper
Let Obama choreograph his own danceColumbus Other Paper, OH - 3 hours agoThough Soleau’s video explains how he was inspired by Robert Frost’s poetry about New England, viewers don’t need to know that to enjoy the flowing ...
- REVIEW: 'Patience' pleasing to theatergoers of all types - Bellevue Leader
Once every five years, the Bellevue Little Theatre puts on an operetta. This is one of those years and "Patience" is not to be missed. The comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan is about a simple milkmaid named Patience who is courted by two poets ...
- Hundreds gather at funeral for Palestinian poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- A break by the Yellow sea - Newindpress on Sunday
Newindpress on SundayA break by the Yellow seaNewindpress on Sunday, India - 5 hours agoCelebrated in classical poetry and scroll painting, the coast north of Qingdao attracted sages of Taoism, an ancient faith inspired by nature. ...
- Anjali Sircar - Newindpress on Sunday
Anjali SircarNewindpress on Sunday, India - 11 hours agoHis art is visual poetry, an intrinsic social metaphor at the heart of which lies the concept of turning nothing into something, seeking and finding ...
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' (The New York Sun)
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get the memo. In 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of ...
- Soldiering on - Guardian Unlimited
In one of Tobias Wolff's early stories, a married professor has a one-night stand with a vulnerable woman helping out with the catering at an academic conference. Brooke, the professor, dislikes his colleague Riley, a Yeats scholar with an ...
- Get Real: Count Your Blessings and Your Troubles - Beliefnet.com
Get Real: Count Your Blessings and Your TroublesBeliefnet.com, NY - 2 hours agoAt my 15-year college reunion, everyone got out their snapshots of the kids, and waxed poetry about Timmy's cute habit of biting his sister, ...
- Portsmouth to revisit plan for nightclub in Old Towne - HamptonRoads.com
The city's planning commission split this week over whether to allow a venue with late-night entertainment to open in Olde Towne. Restaurateurs and club owners Terry Webb and Kelli Davis said they envision young professionals sampling tapas and ...
- New Director, Operation At Historic Latimer House (Queens Chronicle)
Vivian Warfield is the new director of the Lewis Latimer House in Flushing. She promises more accessibility to the facility. (photo by Michael O’Kane)
- LAist Interview: Ed Park, founding editor of The Believer and author of Personal Days (LAist)
Ed Park is in town this week to read from and sign Personal Days , his funny, frightening & frighteningly spot-on novel about modern-day office life in this time of mergers, acquisitions, and business books full of empty platitudes that encourage workers to "do whatever it takes" and "put the customer first." Employees go missing without reason and a rogue element shakes things up, all ...
- Author David Wroblewski answers 7 questions (Vail Daily)
David Wroblewski, author of “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,” will visit the Bookworm of Edwards Wednesday. ‘The Story of Edgar Sawtelle’ Author: David Wroblewski. Cost: $25.95. Pages: 576.
- Obama moment for Mich. family - Rocky Mountain News
Obama moment for Mich. familyRocky Mountain News, CO - 3 hours agoLA LA LAND: Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony's betrothed and MTV personality La La Vazquez celebrated her 29th birthday with pals at Poetry in the Forum Shops ...
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