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- CDs out today (Denver Post)
John Mellencamp, "Life Death Love and Freedom" (Hear Music) Chevy ad soundtrack "Our Country" soured Mellencamp's otherwise impeccable folk-rock credentials a couple of years ago, but his new album returns him to the gritty, spare ruminations for which he's known.
- On This Day in History: July 10 ‘Just an Average Guy’ - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
On This Day in History: July 10 ‘Just an Average Guy’Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NY - 17 minutes agoIn his early teens he began to write songs, and during his high school years he played with a folk/bluegrass band. Arlo was just past his teen years when in ...
- It's Happening - Bloor West (Scarborough Mirror)
Get Set for Summer with Mary, Mother of God School's annual sale from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Friday, May 9 and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 10 at St. Vincent de Paul Parish Hall (263 Roncesvalles Ave.) Clothing is sold by the pound.
- Music lovers gather to hear country tunes (Arizona Daily Star)
It might have been just a little warm outside, but that didn't bother music lovers Saturday at La Encantada.
- First Leonard Cohen takes Toronto, then he takes... (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Singer Leonard Cohen on Friday kicks off his first world tour in 15 years with a Toronto gig, marking the return of the poet who converted to Buddhism during his absence from the limelight.
- Glasgow University honours authors - The Herald
Glasgow University honours authorsThe Herald, UK - 1 hour agoShe won the Somerset Maugham Award for a poetry collection called Other Lovers, and the Guardian Fiction Prize for the novel Trumpet, before being awarded ...
- Grandson Writes Letter to Honor Late Writer - Donga.com
The late Korean writer, poet and English literature scholar Pi Cheon-deuk, whose pen name was Geum-a, met a Japanese girl named Asako three times in his essay “Karma,” before he died last year. “I shouldn’t have met her the third time,” he ...
- 'Wishy-Washy Approach To Public Policy' honey2me (Jackson Free Press)
Juan Felipe Herrera is one of the preeminent voices in 20th-century Chicano poetry. Since the early 1970s, he’s devoted his multimedia work to challenging the notions of what it is to be a Mexican American. ...
- Animal whisperers come out of the shadows - Detroit Free Press
NEW YORK — Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their “cat whisperer,” and the girls had something to tell me: “Their food tastes like sawdust.” Nikki and Lucy are ...
- Institute provides enrichment programs for older adults - Inside Illinois
Institute provides enrichment programs for older adultsInside Illinois, IL - Jul 5, 2008Courses offered at Urbana this year have included poetry, African-American sacred music, Taiji (Tai Chi) and a course on brain function and brain health, ...
- Breton's revolutionary returns - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukBreton's revolutionary returnsguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoIt is not simply that Breton spent most of his adult life utterly skint - though that's always worth remembering. The true offense lies in the way in which ...
- Kay Ryan is named U.S. poet laureate - Seattle Times
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has ...
- Bangladesh mourns death of poet Samudra Gupta (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Dhaka, July 20 (IANS) Noted Bangladeshi poet Samudra Gupta, a freedom fighter who wrote against religious extremism in his poems, short stories and novels, died in a Bangalore hospital in India Saturday.
- Bamboo – a great green solution (The Borneo Post)
DAIK cuts a bamboo stem down to about two feet long before filling it with chicken and water. Next to him is Debid igniting a piece of rubber and dropping it between dried bamboo stems neatly arranged to start a fire.
- Poets performing prose is the real prize (Toronto Star)
The Griffin Poetry Prize holds a big payday for a couple of fortunate versifiers. But the previous night's reading – an evening-long recital that has also become a highlight of the annual event – promises a huge payoff for everyone else.
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