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- Why I never want to hear Roger McGough Talk Talk again - Guardian Blogs
Last week, I was having trouble connecting to the internet and, as that can spell disaster in my line of work, I called my internet service provider in a bit of a panic. Fortunately, the phone was immediately answered by a friendly, sympathetic voice ...
- Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st century (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Nothing says love, or goodbye, like custom-blended tunes, and it's easier than ever to assemble the perfect compilation.
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in 37th novel 'My Sister, My ... - Jam! Showbiz
My Sister, My Love" By Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco) Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- From Better To Verse - Cape Breton
Around supper time this past Monday, I passed a friend on Charlotte Street and she asked me, "Are you going up to the Allegro for the poetry reading?" Of course I was. A couple of weeks ago I emceed a poetry evening at Main a Dieu's Big Wave Cafe ...
- RPT-Palestinian poet Darwish to be buried in Ramallah (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (Removes extraneous word from slug) By Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians are expected to bid farewell to Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated ...
- Wergeland hailed on 200th birthday (Aftenposten)
Henrik Wergeland, viewed by many as one of the most important founding fathers of the modern Norwegian state, may be long gone but he's certainly not forgotten.
- WKU Writing Project to present conference - Bowling Green Daily News
WKU Writing Project to present conferenceBowling Green Daily News, United States - 1 hour agoThe topics will include strategies for student success, poetry writing, academic writing, attacking prejudice and on demand writing. ...
- Prince Kupi: Guitarist on the brink of greatness - The Times
Prince Kupi: Guitarist on the brink of greatnessThe Times, South Africa - 4 hours agoHis brother- in-law, the late Matsemela Manaka, was a cultural activist with unbelievable abilities in a range of artistic pursuits from poetry to sculpture ...
- Nigeria: Dr. Emman Was Expelled From Ana - Patrick (AllAfrica.com)
Patrick Tagbo Oguejiofor is the current chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Abuja chapter. He was also a former chairman of ANA Abuja and served for four years.
- Bloomsday ramble (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
At several spots throughout the city yesterday people gathered to re-joyce and celebrate Bloomsday. The annual event follows in the footsteps of the lead character in James Joyce's "Ulysses," re-enacting Leopold Bloom's journey through Dublin on June 16, 1904. The entire novel takes place on that one day.
- Beyond Voting: Guerilla Gardeners, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Pirate ... - Monthly Review
Beyond Voting: Guerilla Gardeners, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Pirate ...Monthly Review, VA - 6 hours agoIn Nowtopia, Ted White talks of his experience at the Center for Appropriate Transport in Eugene, Oregon, where he worked with young kids to fix and put ...
- Author’s own path to God was anything but smooth - Toledo Blade
William P. “Paul” Young describes The Shack as a metaphorical place where “you get stuck, you get hurt, you get damaged, where you hide your lies and you store your secrets and hope you don’t have to go back to.” The unassuming 53-year-old ...
- Guardian Unlimited: Culture Vulture - Guardian Blogs
What a treat this morning to hear, among the Today programme's usual roll-call of bombs, pensions and global warming, the measured tones of the poet laureate talking about a new website, the Poetry Archive , on which are stored recordings of poets ...
- Lou Reed, Royal Albert Hall, London Beck, Guildhall, Southampton (Independent)
The last time I reviewed Lou Reed in this column, I made what I thought was a fairly transparent joke about taking heroin in the toilets beforehand. The credulous media diarist at The Guardian took this at face value, and alerted that newspaper's entire readership to my apparent junkiedom. This time, then, with a face as solemn as Reed's, I shall report that I watch Lou Reed recreate his entire ...
- New Acura: poetry in motion - Detroit News
DANBURY, Conn. -- Engineers rule at Honda Motor Co. This has always been the case for the Japanese automaker whose top executives care as much about slide rulers as they do stick shifts. It was engineers that moved the company from motorcycles to ...
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