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- New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slams - Danbury News Times
New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slamsDanbury News Times, CT - 1 hour agoBy John Pirro Staff Writer DANBURY--There isn't a lot of money to be made on the competitive poetry circuit. Occasionally, you might win a small cash prize. ...
- Children - We Can Make a Difference - Desicritics.org
Children - We Can Make a DifferenceDesicritics.org, India - 1 hour agoWhether it was singing, dancing, poetry recital, drumming, recitation of multiplication tables or the 3 R’s, they were pretty good. ...
- Text size (Malaysia Today)
The political system has become very corrupt; the crime rate has increased and environmental degradation has continued. Political dynasties proliferate. Few families are controlling the nation's economy – for their own political gains.
- Review: ‘Wit’ takes one woman on final journey (Naples Daily News)
“Wit” headliner Janina Birtolo launches into a poetry-filled monologue mere seconds after making a shambling, barefoot entrance onto the empty concrete floor of the Tobye Studio space. For her grand entrance, she wears just a red baseball cap and two hospital gowns. An IV machine trails her, making a persistent beep-beep-beep as she pulls it along by palsied hands.
- Fighting Words - BU Today
BU TodayFighting WordsBU Today, MA - 2 hours agoJames Anderson Winn, a BU professor of English, started working on The Poetry of War during a sabbatical in 2001. He’d written an introduction and part of ...
- Marcus Tanner: Karadzic, the psychiatrist who became a genocidal ... - Belfast Telegraph
I will never forget the first time I met Radovan Karadzic – because I got him so wrong. Standing in a tatty Sarajevo school room, I encountered what I thought was a rather dotty-looking school teacher parading in front of an ethnic map of Bosnia ...
- Maya Angelou captivates Cleveland audience - Cleveland Plain Dealer
In an age besotted with vacuous adolescent celebrity, 80-year-old Maya Angelou held a packed audience rapt at the Allen Theater in downtown Cleveland Monday night with nothing more than her voice. Frail knees kept her off her feet for much of her 75 ...
- Something about Mary - Sydney Morning Herald
Intrigued by the journeys of Australia's saint-in-waiting, Dugald Jellie sets off in the footsteps of Mary MacKillop. Holy sites ... (from top) inside the memorial chapel in North Sydney; the school she opened in Penola, South Australia; Mary's tomb ...
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- Fiction's Authentic Alien Voice - Gay City News
Fiction's Authentic Alien VoiceGay City News - 3 hours agoIt would be great if politicians read more poetry - indeed any poetry, because poetry and politics should not be separate spheres of life; they are, ...
- Bards of New Brighton poetry group finds a new home - Liverpool Daily Post
Bards of New Brighton poetry group finds a new homeLiverpool Daily Post, UK - 12 hours agoA WIRRAL-BASED poetry group has found a new home – and is urging more poets to join them. The Bards of New Brighton had met monthly for the past year in the ...
- The Man At the Office - Brooklyn Rail
The Man At the OfficeBrooklyn Rail, NY - 13 minutes agoOn his desk was a book of poetry by Rilke. She picked it up. “I love Rilke,” she’d said. “I was a literature major, thought I’d become a professor. ...
- Monday's Agenda, July 13 (Miami Herald)
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- Local poets bare their words on 2nd Fridays - Charlotte Observer
Local poets bare their words on 2nd FridaysCharlotte Observer, NC - 4 hours agoAmerican poet Paul Engle said, "Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ...
- Partners in music - The Australian
The AustralianPartners in musicThe Australian, Australia - 1 hour agoAnd I love poetry and words and languages, so song accompaniment indulges that passion in the nicest possible way." Melbourne pianist Stephen McIntyre is ...
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