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- The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory (PhysOrg)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- Those mangled lyrics just won't go away - Miami Herald
OK, here it comes again, that part toward the end of the Creedence Clearwater song, Looking Out My Back Door , when John Fogerty sings, 'Ann-Marie's an elephant, a-playin' in the band / Won't you take a ride on a flyin' spool ...'' The mind reels ...
- Around the Area: 09.05.08 - 09.11.08 (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
EXHIBIT: The exhibit "Cataclysm and Creativity: Art in the Age of Uncertainty" will be on display through Nov. 1 in the Weil Gallery, Center for the Arts, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
- Lesbian lit goes online - SX
Lesbian lit goes onlineSX, Australia - 1 hour agoLesbian literature will be available in PDF format for readers to enjoy, free of charge, online. Although the site is starting with short stories, poetry ...
- Whitehouse Student Receives Musicianship Award - Tyler Morning Telegraph
NACOGDOCHES -- Shelby Rinehart, band student at Whitehouse Middle School, received the Musicianship Award from Chris Brown, conductor of the 8th Grade Lumberjack Band at Stephen F. Austin State University Band Camp in Nacogdoches. Awards were ...
- Poetry review presents 'Tres Poetas' (The Standard-Times)
Whaling City Review LIVE presents a bilingual reading in Spanish and English, "Tres Poetas," at 7 p.m. Sunday at Gallery X in New Bedford.
- Blue Devils Renew Iroquois Rivalry with Second Cross Town Cup Game Friday (East Aurora Advertiser)
It's hard to believe that it's been almost half-a-century since the Blue Devils first faced off against the Iroquois Chiefs in football. According to Geoff Vosseller, who played in that inaugural 1959 game at Latimer Field on Girdle Road, "It was a mud bowl. Neither team could get anything going." That encounter ended with the teams tied at zero, having produced no scores but lots of very dirty ...
- How to be a success in life - Thread
How to be a success in lifeThread, New Zealand - 8 hours agoThere’s no little people, black people, or disabled people. Say ‘There’s two sides to every story’, ‘Yes, they have some issues’, and ‘How do you feel? ...
- McCain and Obama as Leading Men - Outside the Beltway
McCain and Obama as Leading MenOutside the Beltway, VA - 22 hours ago... the fecklessness of youth, and nobody but Wayne could turn it into poetry. But in the same instant, I remember Will Smith in the original “Men in Black. ...
- Jewel makes her way along a country road - Houston Chronicle
Jewel makes her way along a country roadHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour agoBut come on — it's not like Jewel has never written a corny lyric (or a ho-hum book of poetry). Time — and sales — will tell if country is where Jewel ...
- Cultural Evolution - nextbook
Cultural Evolutionnextbook, NY - 6 hours agoZackin is from a white, East Coast family; Biggs is from a black, West Coast family. Silent video montages of their respective middle-class childhoods are ...
- The Minimal Man: Aram Saroyan - Palisadian-Post
Palisadian-PostThe Minimal Man: Aram SaroyanPalisadian-Post, CA - 53 minutes ago... o'clock NBC local news in New York City with Aram Saroyan's first poetry collection some 40 years ago. Self-titled, the book, published by Random House, ...
- Stony Brook Southampton adds on to successful witers conference - Southampton Press
Southampton PressStony Brook Southampton adds on to successful witers conferenceSouthampton Press, NY - 4 hours ago... debut new work because it is such a comfortable and welcoming forum.” Mr. Collins added that he plans to “trot out” work from his newest book of poetry, ...
- Rule by law or dictatorship? - La Crosse Tribune
As America gets to celebrate another birthday, let us hope the rules we live by, lauded in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, are enforced and upheld. There is a great division happening now in America. There are those who believe the ...
- Bombers: Italy's finest (The Farmington Daily Times)
Italy would be proud. The Connecticut Bombers may hail from the East Coast, but with a tongue-tying roster, you'd never know. Take it from their coach, the quotable Joe Rietano, who is a Connie Mack World Series alum (class of '72).
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