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- Quake's Artistic Aftershocks: Chengdu Poetry (NPR)
Chengdu, China, is known as a city of writers — with an especially strong community of poets. Last week's earthquake already has made its mark. Poet He Xiaozhu says he wrote a poem about the quake both for those who died and as a way to release what's in his heart.
- AWAKENING INTO SIMPLICITY - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphAWAKENING INTO SIMPLICITYCalcutta Telegraph, India - 1 hour agoA motif that keeps recurring in her work is lines in Bengali script — usually poetry — embroidered, as it were, on her forms. ...
- James Reaney, 81: Canadian playwright (Toronto Star)
LONDON, Ont.–James Reaney, a national literary icon who stayed close to his southwestern Ontario roots during a celebrated 50-year career as a playwright, poet and professor, has died.
- Obama factor and Iran - Persian Journal
Persian JournalObama factor and IranPersian Journal, Iran - 1 hour ago5000 years old cradle of civilisation need no nukes they have given culture, poetry and history to the nomads of the world, their cultural supremacy and ...
- Books of life - Guardian Unlimited
Books of lifeGuardian Unlimited, UK - 39 minutes agoDoes this, as in the case of the racist, sexist Philip Larkin revealed by Andrew Motion affect the way we read their novels or poetry? Of course it does, ...
- Sacred Heart's helping hand - Greenwich Time
Sacred Heart's helping handGreenwich Time, CT - 16 minutes agoThe evening began in the gymnasium with poetry readings followed by the students and their families participating in classroom activities. ...
- Christ, Come Quickly - America Magazine (subscription)
America Magazine (subscription)Christ, Come QuicklyAmerica Magazine (subscription), NY - 18 minutes agoIn Exiles, Hopkins needs nothing more than a Jesuit superior’s gentle prodding to inspire a return to poetry. Hansen intersperses his tale of Hopkins’s ...
- Pen stroke of genius: recalling Reed's Lloyd Reynolds (The Oregonian)
Thirty years he's been dead, and still they remember him vividly. The great teacher. The restless spirit. The man who changed their lives. And ours. Bits of Lloyd Reynolds are in the poetry we read, the art we admire, even the look of what we write on our computers.
- Boardwalk in Cape Town - July 1, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk in Cape Town - July 1, 2008Tonight, South Africa - 5 hours agoProgramme includes narration, dance, song and praise poetry, Western choral, fusion of jazz and folk song, African choral, gumboot dancing and drama. ...
- Soprano Meets Bovary in Hothouse Without Onion Rings (Update1) - Bloomberg
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- French professor Beth Mauldin 's ears perked up when a character on the cable-television drama ``The Sopranos'' advised the mob boss's wife to read ``Madame Bovary.'' She turned her former Sunday-night pleasure into an academic ...
- On Stage: Cambria's Pewter Plough puts on 'The Belle of Amherst' (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
A virtuoso one-woman performance brings the talented, eccentric poet Emily Dickinson to new life in “The Belle of Amherst” at Cambria’s Pewter Plough Playhouse. Emma Duncan is a talented young actress who explores the poet’s history and psyche through a fine piece of writing by William Luce. Based on biographies and Dickinson’s many letters, the play weaves her enduring poetry into the ...
- 'Desperate Housewives' and best bets in the arts - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
What happens in the two-hour season finale of "DH"? How much space do we have? Susan and Mike (Teri Hatcher and James Denton) show off their new baby; Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is accused of child abuse; and, finally, we learn the truth about ...
- Poetry party performers Second annual event highlights the spoken word as performance art in local schools (Portage Daily Graphic)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE — Students from kindergarten to Grade 6 waxed poetic during a party of limericks, rhymes, songs and theatrical readings on Friday.
- Meet Keiko! (Payvand Iran News)
A year after we had met, Keiko died - suddenly - of lung cancer. "I didn't know Keiko smoked!" I said to the teary-eyed friend who brought the news of her death. "She didn't," he said rather hurriedly, and added after a silence, "she was born in Hiroshima." Neither of us said much after that. -A poem by Fatemeh Keshavarz
- Ashlee Simpson-Wentz cancels tour, including Cleveland concert - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has called off her tour, including a stop June 11 at the House of Blues in Cleveland. Ticket refunds are available at point of purchase. The pop singer married Fall Out Boy 's Pete Wentz in May. Last week, Wentz announced they're ...
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