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- I want a long rest from a game that never sleeps - Guardian Blogs
Why don't I like football? Maybe it's because I was a timid child and I was made to play it against my will. Memories of cold, dark autumn afternoons in the 1980s, standing in the corner of a sports field hoping nobody would kick the ball anywhere ...
- An Outpost on the edge of music - Watertown TAB & Press
An Outpost on the edge of musicWatertown TAB & Press, MA - 1 hour ago“It’s noncommercial-type music and performance and poetry.” And it’sa gallery. The 25-seat space, which rose, phoenix-like, out of the ashes of the late, ...
- A Garden of Verses (Washington Post)
AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. The staircase looks innocent enough, three narrow steps up to a landing, turn left, 11 more steps up to the second floor of this sprawling white clapboard farmhouse called Steepletop. But this is a house full of dark memories, and none more spooky than on these stairs.
- Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz dead - Sify
Islamabad: Pakistani Ahmed Faraz, considered one of the greatest Urdu poets and an ardent advocate of better ties with India, died here at age 77. Faraz, who died Monday night, is survived by his wife and three sons. He had taken ill during a visit ...
- Waiter is longlisted for £60,000 book prize (The Herald)
A 27-year-old waiter has been longlisted for a £60,000 book prize for his first novel. Yorkshire-born Ross Raisin, who lives in London, is up for the Dylan Thomas Prize for God's Own Country, which he wrote while working as a waiter.
- Clay and words are artist's favorite media (Las Cruces Sun-News)
LAS CRUCES — In a gallery alcove at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, Dana Kroos has created an alternative universe, filled with objects both exotic and strangely familiar.
- RulerRomanceofRuler of Romance - Roanoke Times
Roanoke TimesRulerRomanceofRuler of RomanceRoanoke Times, VA - Jul 20, 2008Her mini-empire also includes 15 children's books, multiple adaptations for TV or DVD, a volume of poetry and even a perfume from Elizabeth Arden. ...
- THE DREAM AFFIRMED (New York Post)
Thus, 45 years to the day after after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s immortal "I Have a Dream" address, did Obama, an African-American, formally accept the Democratic Party's nomination to seek the presidency of the United States. It was a huge...
- We need the wisdom of our elders now more than ever - Sunday World
We need the wisdom of our elders now more than everSunday World, South Africa - 1 hour agoWatching a spot of collaborative performance art, Moving Into Poetry – Threads, by choreographer Syvia “Magogo” Glasser and poet Lebo Mashile had the ...
- Week of June 22, 2008 - Los Angeles Times
Week of June 22, 2008Los Angeles Times, CA - 7 minutes agoSarah Maclay, Carine Topal, Douglas Richardson, Dennis Cruz, Jamie Asae Fitzgerald, Cathie Sandstrom Smith and Tess Lotta read their poetry, Beyond Baroque, ...
- Melrose people: The Village Women’ (Melrose Free Press)
Five women, Claire (Malenchini) Gorman, Betty (Malenchini) MacLeod, Fran (Donati) Dinardi, and Patti (Donati) Meehan, grew up together on Ryder Avenue in Melrose — ‘The Village,’ as the predominantly Italian area was known— where they shared a close-knit childhood that’s not as common today.
- NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetry - Scoop
The festivities will include the launches of Bob Orr's new collection of poems Calypso, with cover and section dividers by Waiheke sculptor Denis O'Connor, and the book-and-CD anthology New New Zealand Poets in Performance, edited by poets Jack Ross ...
- Legal eagle-turned-neta Sibal now tries his hand at poetry - Times of India
Legal eagle-turned-neta Sibal now tries his hand at poetryTimes of India, India - 36 minutes agoIn "Unshackled", he makes the point that "This life's blip, the journey divine, let's start it with/ a glass of wine." It would seem the Chandni Chowk MP is ...
- Memories of Wooler's famous son - Belleville Intelligencer
Memories of Wooler's famous sonBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 6 hours agoWe didn't know quite what to make of him, kind of wrote him off as an eccentric, but we knew he wrote poetry. One of those poems is entitled At the Quinte ...
- FESTIVAL TIME: At East Preston - Worthing Today
FESTIVAL TIME: At East PrestonWorthing Today, UK - 2 hours ago7.30pm, Conservative Hall, Sea Road, Poetry and Pints evening. 9.45-11.15am, Village Hall, La Rhonda Dance Studio open keep fit class. 2-4pm, Village Hall, ...
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