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- "Honus" cliched, but a home run to audiences (Denver Post)
For more than a century, nothing but nothing has brought out the shameless sentiment in writers like baseball. Most have missed.
- The spirit of Persian monarchy - Open Democracy
Firdowsi’s epic, “The Book of Kings”, is even more than a great product of Persian civilisation. In conveying the essence of kingship as divinely ordained yet conditional on just and protective rule, the principles of the millennium-old epic ...
- Banning pigeons from Venice, and other news - Budget Travel
Banning pigeons from Venice, and other newsBudget Travel, NY - 6 hours agoPingMag: This blogger calls it "product poetry." In Japan, visitors will find small texts, almost like poems, written on many products, from groceries to ...
- On far too many issues, Obama's poetry doesn't rhyme - Seattle Times
On far too many issues, Obama's poetry doesn't rhymeSeattle Times, United States - 1 hour agoThe poetry reading on change and hope... Barack Obama is such a stand-up guy that he'll stand up twice — once for each side of an issue. ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in 37th novel 'My Sister ... - The Canadian Press
Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in 37th novel 'My Sister ...The Canadian Press - 1 hour agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that - her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- The Dark Knight, round 2. - GreenCine
Times OnlineThe Dark Knight, round 2.GreenCine, CA - 15 hours ago"Warner Bros has continued to drain the poetry, fantasy, and comedy out of Tim Burton's original conception for Batman (1989), completing the job of ...Video: Ledger Lauded at 'Dark Knight' Premiere AssociatedPressThe Dark Knight (IMAX Cinema Blendall 997 news articles
- Debuts fly high but unsteadily - Globe and Mail
By Katia Grubisic Goose Lane, 85 pages, $17.95 DAUGHTERS OF MEN By Brenda Leifso Brick Books, 119 pages, $18 If poetry eases the anguish of the actual, this trio of high-flying yet uneven débuts may satisfy readers seeking solace in the (sometimes ...
- Local Dispatch: A Poetry Slam dunk, from the halls of Pittsburgh Sterrett (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Hey, here's an idea. Take a bunch of eighth-graders desperately consumed with what's cool, what's not, what their friends think of what they wear, what they do and what they say -- and have them deliver their hopes, dreams, fears into words on a page called a poem.
- Cold Snack Devoured by Poetry Award Judges (Scoop.co.nz)
Janet Charman has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards poetry category in a tough contest, one that marked a bumper year for New Zealand poetry. Charman took the prize for her poetry collection Cold Snack.
- The Bookworm Sez: “The Brothers’ War” tells history in verse (Cape Cod Times)
“The Brothers’ War: Civil War Voices in Verse,” by J. Patrick Lewis (National Geographic, 32 pages, $17.95
- Gregory Crewdson poses at the Gagosian Gallery - Los Angeles Times
All the world may be a stage, but Gregory Crewdson 's big color photographs manage to flatten it into a backdrop for an overproduced photo shoot. Like ads for luxury cars, pricey perfumes and exotic getaways, Crewdson's 19 nearly 5-by-8-foot inkjet ...
- Stop the Iranian right, but don't feed its paranoia - Daily Star - Lebanon
Stop the Iranian right, but don't feed its paranoiaDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 7 hours agois a common theme of Persian poetry, and complaining about the disfavor of the stars is a general Iranian art form. There is no dearth of evidence in ...
- In Memoriam: Thomas M. Disch - PopMatters
Los Angeles TimesIn Memoriam: Thomas M. DischPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoIn his 1998 book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of (a companion piece to his 1996 excoriation of modern poetry (The Castle of Indolence), Disch created a ...Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008 Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide Columbus Dispatchall 12 news articles
- Hip-Hop Rumors: Hot 97's Summer Jam 2008 - allhiphop.com
The Dream's dancers take the stage shaking gold pom-poms. He finally takes the stage and surprisingly goes right into "Shorty Is a 10." No wasting time for this man! 6:52 ...things slow down. The dancers strip off a layer of clothes as he winds his ...
- Many-layered 'Eurydice' takes journey beyond death - Morning Call
''Eurydice,'' Sarah Ruhl's updated interpretation of the Greek myth about Orpheus's journey to the underworld to save his wife, Eurydice, is not the first play Ruhl has had produced by the Wilma Theater. In 2005 the Philadelphia theater produced the ...
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