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- The Year Nothing Changed - Texas Observer
Texas ObserverThe Year Nothing ChangedTexas Observer, TX - 58 minutes agoMy own high school experiences were more the tragic, pining Emily Dickinson variety, except without the great poetry and genius. I read books, mooned over ...
- The Big Gigs - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Cedar Cultural Center's 10th and final Nordic Roots Festival features several heroes of fests past. Sounds of Sweden dominate, with sets by traditional music trio Väsen (8 p.m. today), hard-hitting electro-folkies Hedningarna (8 p.m. Sat.), energy ...
- AUGUST 26, 1999 (New York Press)
You are standing of a summer’s day on a lovely beach, and you are doing what millions of others just out of eyeshot are doing. You are looking at the sand squiggling between your toes. You are perusing the broken shells just beyond your toes and the foamy wavelets curling against the shore nearby.
- Authors in the area (The Charlotte Observer)
Renowned poet Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, speaks at Hickory's Lenoir-Rhyne University, 8 p.m. Thursday in the Belk Centrum. Kinnell's 2006 poetry collection, “Strong Is Your Hold,†includes his celebrated long poem about the collapse of the World Trade Center, “When the Towers Fell.†His talk is free and open to the public.
- Kate Schutt Trio at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia - All About Jazz
Kate Schutt Trio at World Cafe Live in PhiladelphiaAll About Jazz, PA - 2 hours agoRaised in Pennsylvania, Kate was schooled in Boston, both at Harvard’s English department, where she studied the influence of jazz on modern poetry, ...
- Potato madness has gripped at least one man (Anchorage Daily News)
Palmer potato guru Bill Campbell is a guy with a head stuffed with potato science, potato trivia and potato tales, a guy who can and does talk potatoes longer than most people can listen, a guy with the personal motto, Cogito Ergo Spud. “I think, therefore I yam.â€
- Ancients back from the dead - The Australian
Ancients back from the deadThe Australian, Australia - 16 minutes ago"Also they treat big themes of gender, power, violence, extremism -- themes that are really relevant -- and do so with more intelligence and greater poetry ...
- Best Party Line - LA Weekly
Best Party LineLA Weekly, CA - 49 minutes ago“I like to call Eric ‘protocore,’ in a way — he’s sort of like one of the originators of the poetry scene, so originally CUT-FOOT was a hot line people ...
- Inprint Writers Workshops for Fall - Houstonist
HoustonistInprint Writers Workshops for FallHoustonist, USA - 2 hours ago... Fall 2008 writing workshops. The courses start in mid-September, running once a week for ten weeks. They cover fiction, essay, poetry, and playwriting. ...
- Acting as he likes it - Tonight South Africa
From a young age, Thami Mbongo lost his heart to poetry. "I fell in love," is how he explains this first brush with performance poetry. Growing up in Paarl, it was his involvement in Volkswagen's Music Active programme that showed him the way. "We ...
- Illinois family legacy continues (Daily Illini)
Homecoming is no new phenomenon to Nancy Miller, the youngest member of her family's century-long alumni legacy. The first family member graduated just before 1900, beginning a long history entwined in both the University and the Champaign-Urbana community.
- Washington hosts National Book Festival, Sept. 27 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- What makes Phelps so special? - bbc
Michael Phelps showed no sign of letting up in his pursuit of breaking Mark Spitz's record for the most amount of medals won in one Olympic Games . First he romped home in the 200m butterfly in a new world-record time. He gave all swimmers around the ...
- Obama Confirms Relationship With Marxist Mentor - Mens Newsdaily
This comes to us from Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid. AIM is an organization that has published a number of my articles and they are considered the news media watchdog group to be reckoned with. Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid said that ...
- Best-sellers off the shelf - Sheffield Telegraph
Best-sellers off the shelfSheffield Telegraph, UK - 11 minutes agoA strong poetry strand includes the inimitable Simon Armitage, Ian McMillan with new book Talking Myself Back Home, Forward Prize winner Daljit Nagra and ...
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