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- Cliches are a trusty friend - Guardian Blogs
Cliche gets a poor press (bad rap, lousy rep ...) but all good writing depends on this trusty friend, as I was driven to recognise recently while reading a Penguin Classics anthology of Dante in English. This is a collection of translations from ...
- The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes - The Independent
The phrase "Romantic Chemistry" did not always mean the sexual spark between two people. At the birth of English Romanticism, chemistry and other sciences, notably astronomy and the physics of electricity, were exciting components of the new mood ...
- Kane County talent contest winners named - The Courier News
Kane County talent contest winners namedThe Courier News, IL - 7 hours agoSecond place was awarded to Russ Devereaux, representing St. Charles, for his oratory of an original piece of poetry entitled A Call To Arms. Third place ...
- Local author shares struggle, strength (News 8 Austin)
It's a long way from Bulgaria to Texas, but it was even longer before the Iron Curtain fell. Author Elizabeth Benlian Dianovich describes her journey to Texas in 1968 in her book, "God Saved Me in the Orient Express and I came to America."
- Write stuff - WalesOnline
Write stuffWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoOther activities will include poetry and short story readings for children and adults written by members. The event takes place at Neath Community Centre, ...
- Christina Patterson: There is a lot to be said for marrying young (Independent)
My parents met on a hill in Heidelberg. It was, they always told us, love at first sight. My mother was 18. My father was 21. When they went home, three weeks later (she to Sweden, he to England), they continued their romance, in German, by letter. Four months later, my father sent my mother a telegram. "Will you marry me?" it said, in English. My mother's reply was one word: "Yes." By the time ...
- Wall of Shame - NY Arts Magazine
Wall of ShameNY Arts Magazine, NY - 1 hour agoOur backgrounds are in poetry, music, and theater, and we generally think of our work as a kind of opera, whether it’s presented in a theater, gallery, ...
- art September 19 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Jamini Roy Gallery, 3rd floor, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 6.30 pm: (The Telegraph)
Inauguration of an exhibition by young women artists from Afghanistan by Prof. Malini Bhattacharya, chairperson, WB Commission for Women. The show will be on till September 27, 11 am to 7 pm.
- The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes - Independent
The Age of Wonder, by Richard HolmesIndependent, UK - 4 hours agoDavy went from success to success and became a social lion; in contrast, Coleridge's life was fraught in the extreme. Davy invited him to lecture on poetry ...
- From Better To Verse - Cape Breton Post
From Better To VerseCape Breton Post, Canada - 48 minutes ago... a book length poem. A section of this poem, under the title "to float, to drown, to close up, to open-a throat", earned honourable mention in Arc Poetry ...
- Radio - Light programme - Stage
Radio - Light programmeStage, UK - 54 minutes agoDread, Beat an’ Blood was the title of both Linton Kwesi Johnson’s second collection of poetry, published in 1975 and his first LP, which was released three ...
- Lesbians cheer Lesbos ruling - The Sun
A GREEK court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho whose love poems inspired the ...
- Tales of Two Cities - Alarab online
Tales of Two CitiesAlarab online, UK - 20 minutes agoAlong with various hues, brave allusions and intelligent nuances latent in Munir Mezyed, a keen eye may detect that his poetry is beautiful in essence, ...
- Palanca won’t stage satirical play on woman president - Inquirer.net
Palanca won’t stage satirical play on woman presidentInquirer.net, Philippines - 7 hours agoIn lieu of a play, poetry and essay readings were among the highlights of Monday’s program. Education Secretary Jesli Lapus was the guest speaker at the ...
- TBA DIARY: Lemon Made Good Made Bad - Willamette Week
TBA DIARY: Lemon Made Good Made BadWillamette Week, OR - 1 hour agoWe learn this only when Lemon Anderson, best known from Russell Simmons's Def Poetry Jam, bursts into archaic flow and histrionic gesture before he has even ...TBA DIARY: Lemon Andersen—Another Perspective Willamette Weekall 2 news articles
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