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- Mary-Sherman Willis' "The Laughter of Women" (Seattle Times)
So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia describes the feeling of being...
- Kay Ryan named US poet laureate (Guardian Unlimited)
News: A quiet writer of compressed poetry has been given America's top honour for poets
- Teen talents: Free festival showcases movies, music, art and more - Billings Gazette
Loosely quoting filmmaker Spike Lee, aspiring director Alex Miller noted that, with the availability of the Internet, young filmmakers have no excuse not to make their voices heard. That sums up the theme for tonight's Media Arts Festival, an event ...
- Adam Begley - New York Observer
The word "dazzle" appears often and in many forms in Adam Thirlwell’s boldly self-indulgent The Delighted States (FSG, $30), which turns the history of the novel, from Cervantes to Nabokov, into an enchanted, borderless, timeless playground for the ...
- Sacajawea Bluegrass Festival returns next weekend to Pasco's state ... - Tri-City Herald
It's one thing to hear great bluegrass music on the radio or on a CD through a great set of speakers, but it's still not as good as hearing it live. And when the Sacajawea Bluegrass Festival gets under way next weekend, you'll get your fill of lively ...
- Swampscott woman shares life story with new book - The Salem News
Swampscott woman shares life story with new bookThe Salem News, MA - 3 hours agoRight now, Epstein said she is working on her next project — a collection of her poetry. After that, she doesn't know if there is another book in her future ...
- Johnny Byrne: Writer of feelgood TV dramas - The Independent
Johnny Byrne was a hugely prolific and successful writer for British television, but the Dublin tenement where he grew up, during the Depression and Second World War, was a thousand miles from the rural backdrops to the popular, feelgood television ...
- John Densmore's jazz education (Los Angeles Times)
- Frills-free rockers go extra yard for the fans - Irish Independent
Frills-free rockers go extra yard for the fansIrish Independent, Ireland - 1 hour agoBy Ed Power Somewhere between Springsteen's pool-hall poetry and REM's gently arty college rock, you will find the Goo Goo Dolls. Starting out, the upstate ...
- Speaking Volumes: Fathers and sons (The Star-Ledger)
In his second poetry collection, "Boy" (University of Georgia Press, $17), Drew University English professor Patrick Phillips explores the life-changing experience of fatherhood and the corresponding feeling of mortality as his father successfully battles cancer and his father-in-law dies at home, surrounded by loved ones.
- Governance becomes a casualty - Tribune
T HE terrorists struck in a big way when they killed six civilians and a jawan in the Samba sector in Jammu and Kashmir. This happened just three days after the bid by heavily armed infiltrators to sneak in from the Pakistani side of the border with ...
- Development and Validation of a Writing Dispositions Scale for ... - RedOrbit
Development and Validation of a Writing Dispositions Scale for ...RedOrbit, TX - 3 hours agoLife of prose and poetry: An inspiring combination. In J. Darton (Ed.), Writers (on writing): Collected essays from the New York Times (pp. 178-184). ...
- Quentin Skinner on Milton - London Review of Books (subscription)
Quentin Skinner on MiltonLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoAfter the appearance of Poems of Mr John Milton in 1645, Milton published no further works of poetry until Paradise Lost in 1667. ...
- Cast rich in talent enhances musicality of classic - ic Wales
ic WalesCast rich in talent enhances musicality of classicic Wales, United Kingdom - 48 minutes agoBy combining humour and poetry with elements drawn from different artistic disciplines it has really wide appeal. Director Malcolm Taylor should be known as ...
- Katy Guest: A Week in Books (Independent)
As May ticks over into June, three things are predictable in the literary calendar. There will be apocalyptic downpours at the Hay Festival. Someone will say that the Orange Prize isn't fair on men. Then someone will say no, it probably isn't, but never mind, because it encourages people to read.
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