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- I Love You; Please Go Away - Huffingtonpost.com
Several years ago, I attended a poetry slam at New York's Bowery Poetry Club . One of the presenting poets, whose name now escapes me, tore up the competition with a biting poem about an obsessive lover who cannot tear herself apart from her ...
- McCain offers 10 town-hall debates, Obama only wants one — when no ... - Hotair.com
Talks between the two presidential campaigns on debates have stalled over a disagreement over the number and format of the events. John McCain suggested a weekly series of town-hall debates televised nationally between the conclusion of the ...
- Prince working on book to be published in the fall - The Associated Press
The Associated PressPrince working on book to be published in the fallThe Associated Press - 1 hour ago"Juxtaposing his dueling worlds of music and solitude, it (`21 Nights') will incorporate Prince's evocative poetry and lyrics to new songs and other ...
- Review: 'Facade' comes across as light, airy (Knoxville News Sentinel)
One certainly has to be in a certain mood to appreciate William Walton's "Facade," especially when it is played as a suite for orchestra, without the seemingly comical stream-of-consciousness poetry of Edith Sitwell, to which Walton set the original music in 1922.
- Nature long a focus of women writers - MLive.com
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-94), daughter of famous novelist James Fenimore Cooper, published her insightful ``Rural Hours'' in 1850, the first book of nature writing by an American woman. Cooper spent her earliest years and her adult life in ...
- Free poetry reading slated for Wednesday - Daily Hampshire Gazette (subscription)
Free poetry reading slated for WednesdayDaily Hampshire Gazette (subscription), MA - 1 hour agoMartÃn Espada is the author of 10 collections of poetry, including "The Republic of Poetry," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. ...
- Quest for the best - Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh TribuneQuest for the bestChandigarh Tribune, India - 1 hour agoIt is celebrated in Urdu poetry and folk idiom. Till recently, it was believed that the Turko-Afghan had imported the kebab into the subcontinent. ...
- We're off to see the Wozard - guardian.co.uk
We're off to see the Wozardguardian.co.uk, UK - 29 minutes agoJuilliard-educated, he'd arranged strings for an album of Laurence Harvey's poetry readings, and - just prior to Wozard - Glen Campbell's By the Time I Get ...
- Nonfiction review: Masters of 'Make-Believe' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Minders of Make-Believe Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature By Leonard S. Marcus Houghton Mifflin; 402 pages; $28 I was a bookish girl, and the heroes and heroines of children's literature were as alive to me as...
- Jeremy Lawrence is Tennessee Williams in Solo Show - Broadway World
Jeremy Lawrence is Tennessee Williams in Solo ShowBroadway World, NY - 7 minutes agoDrawing on various sources, through anecdote, memoir, poetry, and the plays themselves, Tennessee muses about the turn away from Broadway, his search for ...
- Kate Wolf Festival brings some of the best to Mendo - Eureka Times-Standard
The Kate Wolf Memorial Festival embodies the politics and community of the deceased west coast folk star. This year's festival includes performances by Taj Mahal, Los Lobos, Keb Mo', Greg Brown, and 'surprise guest artists,' the Ani DiFranco Band ...
- Soldier Boy - New York Times
Soldier BoyNew York Times, United States - 50 minutes agoThe point, of course, is that the news we get from poetry isn’t like the news we get from newspapers. Nor is it like the news we get from memoirs, ...
- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road (Independent)
On Tuesday a spry 73-year-old man in a double-breasted suit and fedora will step on to the stage at the Manchester Opera House. For those of us in Britain who love his music, this moment will be both an epiphany and a relief. It is 15 years since Leonard Cohen last toured – after four nights in Manchester, he'll play several more dates in the UK this summer, including the O2 Arena and the ...
- Thursday premieres: 'Fear Itself' has its moments; 'Swingtown' is just ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eric Roberts plays a private eye who is staking out a haunted house -- evidently, it's not going well -- in next week's episode of "Fear Itself." The broadcast networks suffer from a seemingly incurable case of cable envy. They look over the backyard ...
- M Vyasa no more - Udayavani
M Vyasa no moreUdayavani, India - 8 hours agoA litterateur who had always been away from publicity, Vyasa had published story compilations ‘Kritha’ (1998), ‘Kambani’ (1965), poetry anthologies ‘Suli’, ...
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