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- Michael Dirda - Washington Post
Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda took your questions and comments concerning literature, books and the joys of reading. Each week Michael Dirda's name appears -- in attractively large type -- in The Post's Book World section, where he writes about ...
- Heinz Awards Honor Five Eminent Americans with 14th Annual Human Achievement Prize (Centre Daily Times)
Celebrating the unbridled human spirit to change the world around us in ways great and small, in the here and now, and for generations to come, the Heinz Family Foundation today announced the recipients of the 14th annual Heinz Awards, among the largest individual achievement prizes in the world.
- Lady Chatterley - Salon
Viewers will no doubt like and dislike Pascale Ferran's "Lady Chatterley" in ample numbers, but the picture itself is an impressive construction that seems indifferent to such concerns. Watching it is something like swimming in the ocean: You have an ...
- Obituary: John Matshikiza’s independent voice will be remembered (The Natal Witness Group)
John Matshikiza, actor, director, writer and poet, died suddenly in Johannesburg on Monday night from a heart attack. He was 54.
- We Love Everyday People (Chicagoist)
Kevin Coval ’s Everyday People book release makes for cerebral entertainment so nice you can see it twice. Tonight and tomorrow night you can witness the locally born, bred, and based HBO Def Poet in the flesh, performing various selections from his latest poetry collection. Also in on the gig: participants from Louder Than a Bomb , the annual Chicago spoken-word smackdown Coval put ...
- Business forum: Your story? Just the facts, ma'am - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mark Jaffe is president of Wyatt & Jaffe, an executive recruiting firm based in Minneapolis. His e-mail address is mjaffe@wyattjaffe.com . If your 401(k) has dwindled to a 201(k) and your real estate has gone soft, it's possible that the most ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan (Las Cruces Sun-News)
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
- Moodie's old home sheds its rough image - Nationalpost.com
Brianna Goldberg visits the Douro Dummer, Ont. home of 19th-century author Susanna Moodie. Brianna Goldberg, National Post DOURO DUMMER, ONT. - He yanked back the rotting wood that covered the mouth of the old stone well, and let go of a head-sized ...
- Altar call questionable at funeral - Allentown Morning Call
Altar call questionable at funeralAllentown Morning Call, PA - Aug 2, 2008From its original provenance as a Sufi song, the poem has become a contemporary song often played at Christian funerals. It is called ''All I ask. ...
- George’s mother used to fancy me, says Victor - Liverpool Echo
George’s mother used to fancy me, says VictorLiverpool Echo, UK - 10 hours ago“A reservoir of poetry and melody poured over us and it’s called the Beatles – their songs are still there, and still pertinent. “Their songs are about the ...
- Story telling fest comes to Hudson - The Gazette (Montreal)
Story telling fest comes to HudsonThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 1 hour agoThis eclectic festival also offers an open-door, open-stage Poetry Free-for-All for poets of every ilk, and a local storytellers' corner along similar lines ...
- Writing captures retiree's unique perspective (The Daily Review)
Poetry, prose reflect Hayward woman's experiences in South Korea, Vietnam
- Bare or Bear, or, the Story of Berserk - OUPblog
Bare or Bear, or, the Story of BerserkOUPblog, New York - 3 hours agoBerserks were mentioned for the first time in a poem commemorating King Harald Fairhair’s victory in a battle that occurred around the year 872. ...
- Poetry alive and well in Oakville - Oakville Today
Poetry alive and well in OakvilleOakville Today, Canada - 3 hours agoPoetry is alive and well in Oakville and that is due, in no small part, to the support it gets from the community. The Poetry Café meets at The Moonshine ...
- Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There's no rhyme or reason why not - Times Online
There is something historically incomplete about the modern Olympic motto of “citius, altius, fortius†or “faster, higher, strongerâ€. But in this lies an opportunity for the London Games. The original games of Ancient Greece included an ...
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