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- Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood glory (Erie Times-News)
DURHAM, N.C. -- The bull still snarls from atop the outfield wall, snorting smoke after home runs and taunting hitters with four simple words written on it: Hit bull, win steak.
- Imagination takes flight - Financial Times
Out of Breath By Julie Myerson Cape £12.99, 295 pages Myerson’s latest novel is narrated by a 13-year-old ingénue and follows a raggle-taggle group of children who run away from a sinister adult world. Something to Tell You By Hanif Kureishi ...
- Metal goes global, with some surprising riffs - Globe and Mail
This is a story dripping with irony - ghoulish, blood-red irony. It turns out that heavy metal, anathema to the moral majority, has spread Western ideals of freedom of expression and democracy more effectively than some more conservative means. to ...
- British poet expects to pen poem about visit to Augusta - Augusta Chronicle (subscription)
British poet expects to pen poem about visit to AugustaAugusta Chronicle (subscription), GA - 2 hours agoBy Johnny Edwards | Staff Writer There are probably more poets now than there are poetry readers, British bard Sir Christopher Ball said. ...
- BILL BROWNSTEIN, The Gazette - The Gazette (Montreal)
BILL BROWNSTEIN, The GazetteThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 5 hours agoThis stunning piece is akin to visual poetry. On the subject of eye candy, Sébastien Deschéne's La Trilogie du chevalet is an animated splendour that brings ...
- Speaking up for eloquence - Arizona Daily Sun
May I offer a few words in defense of eloquence? You wouldn't think that eloquence is the sort of thing that needs defending, but it has taken some hits during the presidential primaries. Other sorts of speaking skills went pretty much uncriticized ...
- Quirky science fiction writer - Chicago Tribune
Thomas Disch, who has been called one of the most important science fiction writers of his generation, died Saturday in New York. Friends said Mr. Disch, 68, was found dead inside his apartment. He had shot himself in the head, according to the city ...
- Breathing literary life into 1950s Cuba - Los Angeles Times
Breathing literary life into 1950s CubaLos Angeles Times, CA - 26 minutes agoKushner -- who was raised in San Francisco's Haight district by poetry-loving scientist parents and moved to LA in 2003 -- made three long visits to Cuba ...
- Waiting room reading gets a dose of poetry - Herald.ie
Herald.ieWaiting room reading gets a dose of poetryHerald.ie, Ireland - 2 hours agoThe poem leaflets are offered free of charge and visitors are encouraged to take one read it and then recycle it by leaving it in another waiting room. ...
- Doughnut-ology: Will Bush-Wah convert? (WorldNetDaily)
I'm trying to wrap my mind around the possibility of our putative Presi-Dunce as a later-life convert to Catholicism , perhaps following the example of his diplomatic mentor/erstwhile poodle Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, but it doesn't quite compute.
- 30 Countries will take part at 13th Havana's International Poetry ... - Cuba Headlines
30 Countries will take part at 13th Havana's International Poetry ...Cuba Headlines, Cuba - 3 hours agoSome 95 poets from the five continents will participate at the 13th Havana's International Poetry Festival, to begin on May 26th through the 31st 2008, ...
- Religion Calendar: 06/07/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com . Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- ‘The Uncertain Art’ - New York Times
‘The Uncertain Art’New York Times, United States - 5 hours agoAlthough poetry and the pursuit of sunbeams had long since become Keats’s passions, he had been anything but an indifferent student. ...
- LBCC spring writer’s series will start with dual readings - Albany Democrat Herald
LBCC spring writer’s series will start with dual readingsAlbany Democrat Herald, OR - 4 hours agoSalisbury, a professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, is the author of three books of short fiction and nine of poetry. ...
- The Young Library: Grins, grit and a gross-out - Sacramento Bee
The Young Library: Grins, grit and a gross-outSacramento Bee, USA - 41 minutes agoApril is Poetry Month, and plenty of excellent collections are available. On the edge, however, is my favorite, Kelly Di Pucchio's "Sipping Spiders Through ...
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