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- Carolyn Barber: Gas, Guest and go - Red Bluff Daily News
Carolyn Barber: Gas, Guest and goRed Bluff Daily News, CA - 21 minutes agoA few were anxious to read the whole poem written by Edgar A. Guest I suggested checking at Tehama County Library for Guest's poetry. ...
- Short Comings (The Shawnee News-Star)
Today Individual Artists of Oklahoma will sponsor an open-mike poetry reading at 7 p.m. at Benedict Street Marketplace. Jennifer Kidney, Ph.D., director of literature for the Oklahoma Humanities Council, will be the featured reader. ••• Overeaters Anonymous meets at 11 a.m. at First Christian Church, 1625 N. Broadway, Shawnee. For more information, call Oteka Ball at 275-2594. ••• Disabled ...
- Read More: Daily Life , Happiness , Life Hacks , Psychology , Sydney ... - Huffingtonpost.com
While reading a biography of English writer Sydney Smith, Hesketh Pearson's The Smith of Smiths , I stumbled across a letter. In 1820, Smith wrote a letter to an unhappy friend, Lady Morpeth, in which he offered her tips for cheering up. I have my ...
- Paul Overy: versatile historian and art critic of The Times - Times Online
Paul Overy was an historian of art, architecture and design of impressive versatility. He was an art critic (for four years for The Times ); he taught at numerous art schools (including the Royal College of Art, the Slade, the London Institute, and ...
- Benefit at Davey’s and the Pitch Showcase top the week for local ... - Kansas City Star
Mr. Marcos V-7 is part of a spirited fundraiser Friday at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club. Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main St., is having a fundraiser for one of its own: “The Music Arts Spirited Libations Sale” is a benefit for Dante Vichareli, whose ...
- Afghan 'Winter Of Hell - Sky News
Afghan 'Winter Of HellSky News, UK - 11 hours agoAl Libi praises fighters with poetry, calling them a "shining star in this dark age and a luminous moon in its dark sky". He says Islamic fighters in ...Al-Qaida prison escapee warns of more attacks in Afghanistan Jerusalem Postall 152 news articles
- Plato's Greek Taverna , Ponsonby Rd - New Zealand Herald
Greek cuisine gets a bad rap. AA Gill reckons it's "unremittingly ghastly. Greek food is best eaten drunk, but even that they don't make easy". Which may be unfair: when you've spent a couple of milennia working out democracy, philosophy, drama ...
- Glencairn Balfour Paul: Diplomat, scholar and poet with a lifelong love of the Middle East (Independent)
Glencairn Balfour Paul was a soldier, diplomat, traveller, explorer, scholar and poet, and excelled in all these diverse careers and vocations. Above all this floated an original dream of becoming an archaeologist, a dream which had to be abandoned because of family responsibilities. In the field of diplomacy, for which he was best known, he served in the Sudan Political Service and in Chile, ...
- Do we protest too much about where we write? - Guardian Blogs
In a city bereft of a location with equivalent bookish cache to the British Library, entrepreneurs in Manhattan have provided New York's literati (as in anyone, published or not, who can afford to pay a hefty annual fee) with an opportunity to get ...
- Book Briefs: Aug. 31, 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Book Briefs: Aug. 31, 2008Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - 58 minutes agoThis summer, Stephenie Meyer's banner may have been carried high by hordes of teen vampire lovers, but adults were pretty darned excited about their books ...
- Kay Ryan, a Laureate Worth Lauding (The New York Sun)
Yesterday's announcement from the Library of Congress that Kay Ryan will be the country's next poet laureate is a cause for celebration. In part, this is because Ms. Ryan is an excellent poet, and in poetry it is rarer than it should be for merit and recognition to find one another. But it is also because Ms. Ryan has advanced to the top rank of American poets while keeping a principled distance ...
- Q&A with the author: Daniel Grandbois - Summit Daily News
Q&A with the author: Daniel GrandboisSummit Daily News, CO - 1 hour agoFrustrated, I switched to poetry when applying to Bennington’s MFA program and was accepted on what was, essentially, my first batch of poems. ...
- Shakespeare goes groovy in Kingsmen's comedy - Agoura Hills Acorn
Shakespeare goes groovy in Kingsmen's comedyAgoura Hills Acorn, CA - 5 hours agoThere's some clever business of Touchstone mocking Orlando's syrupy love poetry and "Ganymede" teaching Orlando how to pitch woo to a lady. ...
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- Arguing the World: Standpoint, A New British Periodical (The New York Sun)
'When intellectuals can do nothing else they start a magazine." So spoke Irving Howe about his decision to launch Dissent in 1954. The dean of New York social democracy was drawing on reserves of nostalgia for Partisan Review, the literary journal founded 20 years earlier that had changed the way politically engaged intellectuals wrote for a general audience. All smart sheets trace a lineage ...
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