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- Paperback choice - Daily Telegraph
According to Richard Ford, short stories are 'daring little instruments': they 'leave out a lot of life and try to make us not worry about it'. One tends to associate American writers with spaciousness rather than concision, but this bumper ...
- Economy forces couple to cut wedding costs, for better or worse - Pantagraph
Guests by the dozens gathered in a barn on the Jones family farm for a simple picnic-style meal. Afterward, they played croquet, horseshoes and badminton, shadowed by towering grain silos and within earshot of lowing cattle. When the sun set, they ...
- Fans, poets gather for poetry slam (Wisconsin State Journal)
"Poetry slams began in Chicago in 1984," reads Bill MacMillan, the evening's "bout manager" and de facto emcee, as he goads a standing-room-only crowd in Madison's Bartell Theatre. On cue, the audience hollers back: "SO WHAT!" And that's just the warm-up. When MacMillan, a longtime spoken-word fan from Worcester, Mass., finishes his introduction, what follows is a rollicking night of ...
- Patti Smith documentary powerful - Jam! Showbiz
In November 1994, punk-poet-rocker Patti Smith lost her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, the famed MC5 guitarist, to a heart attack at age 45. For the next 11 years, fashion photographer Steven Sebring trained his camera on her, her two children with Fred ...
- Bravo's 'Real Housewives' TV franchise spreads to Atlanta - The Canadian Press
Bravo's 'Real Housewives' TV franchise spreads to AtlantaThe Canadian Press, NEW YORK - 3 hours ago"There are people at poetry readings in the Village and people doing drugs in Washington Square Park - which has nothing to do with our lives - but it's ...
- Scenes From Buenos Aires - Slate
After a week here, we will happily proclaim Buenos Aires one of the best cities in the world. It's rare to visit a place and not be disappointed by one thing or another. But so far, just about everything we'd been promised about Buenos Aires has ...
- First Christmas By Alastair Macdonald - A Classic Is Born - Post Chronicle
First Christmas By Alastair Macdonald - A Classic Is BornPost Chronicle - 16 minutes agoIt became somewhat of a joke in the Macdonald household and each year his children would again remark "Dad's writing his poem again. ...
- Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked' - Guardian Unlimited
"Today I am going to kill something," says the unnamed protagonist of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure. "Anything. / I have had enough of being ignored and today / I am going to play God." Duffy, one of Britain's most admired poets, might ...
- Xero†Skidmore a poet, musician - 2TheAdvocate
Xero†Skidmore a poet, musician2TheAdvocate, LA - 4 hours agoBy JOHN STARR When you think of Baton Rouge, music, poetry and the arts are probably not the first things that come to mind. This is the motivation behind ...
- Serbia arrests leader charged with genocide - Concord Monitor
Serbia arrests leader charged with genocideConcord Monitor, NH - 15 hours agoIn 2005, a book of his poetry, titled "Under the Left Breast of the Century," was published in Serbia. And he outlived his onetime sponsor, ...
- Kaplan and Newsweek Award $15,000 to Winners of the 14th Annual "My Turn" High School Essay Competition (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions and Newsweek magazine have announced the winners of the 14th Annual “My Turn†Essay Competition, a national contest that recognizes talented young writers.
- Events for the family - Philadelphia Inquirer
Events for the familyPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 4 hours ago*FREE* Open House & Outdoor Arts Festival Free, family-friendly performances in dance, theatre, puppetry, poetry & more. Community Education Center ...
- Blood Wedding stabs at the heart of tragedy - Metro
MetroBlood Wedding stabs at the heart of tragedyMetro, UK - 11 hours agoThe additional cast clunk badly and hammily on occasion, and the excessive music dolefully drowns out the poetry. But as dusk lowers over the Thames, ...
- Taylor Mali, a warm host of poetry workshopping and slam - Rowan University The Whit Online (subscription)
Taylor Mali, a warm host of poetry workshopping and slamRowan University The Whit Online (subscription), NJ - 15 hours agoLast Saturday, poet Taylor Mali treated the Rowan students to a night of self-discovery, emotion and language with his poetry workshop and "Slam Poetry Show ...
- Renowned Palestinian cartoonist remembered in Gaza - www.worldbulletin.net
www.worldbulletin.netRenowned Palestinian cartoonist remembered in Gazawww.worldbulletin.net, Turkey - 3 hours agoIn 1985 Al-Ali moved to London, where he stayed until his death. The tribute to Al-Ali's life and work included reading of new and classic poetry about ...
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