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- Music Review: Yusa - Haiku - Blogcritics.org
Music Review: Yusa - HaikuBlogcritics.org, OH - 4 hours agoIn the liner notes of the disc, Yusa quotes Mexican poet Octavia Paz's definition of a haiku as "a poetic experience re-created as lived poetry". ...
- Tribute: Mary Lois Shepp had a way with words - Kansas City Star
Love of words: When Mary Lois Shepp had a hysterectomy in 1987, she did what she always did in moments that needed uplifting: She wrote a limerick — this time, as a goodbye to her womb. “For every occasion, normal occasions and invented occasions ...
- Che Guevara Birth Marked in Zambia - La Prensa Latina
Lusaka, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) A political-cultural gala held at the Play House Theater closed a campaign marking the 8Ernesto Che Guevara's 80th birthday anniversary. Students, artists, graduates in Cuba, members of the Zambia-Cuba Friendship ...
- A tragedy is unfolding, but not at Westminster - Daily Telegraph
Tragedy is the most over-worked word in politics. No leader ever founders because of rubbish policies. Most eventually have the T-word applied to them. John Major seized it for himself, calling his government "a Greek tragedy". Better, I suppose, to ...
- Best of Dallas Video Festival (Houston Press)
The Best of Dallas Video Festival includes a wide mix of genres. Ranging from experimental film to documentaries to animation, the collection highlights the top films of the festival’s 20th year. Lewis Khlar’s animated Pony Glass is a portrait of Superman’s best friend, Jimmy Olsen, w ...
- Kay Ryan, Donald Trump, Ronnie Wood (International Herald Tribune)
A round-up of the day's celebrity news.
- Ray Beauchemin's Letters from Abu Dhabi: Why Dubai may covet Cirque -- location, location, diversification (Market Watch)
If the rumor is true, Dubai wants to own outright the pride of Quebec, Cirque do Soleil. Ray Beauchemin tells why it makes more sense than it might initially appear to.
- Girls strike back at pop culture's beauty ideal - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Olivia Nofzinger, 11, has a friend who likes to ride horses and a friend who likes to protest. She has lots of friends who draw and one who hopes to become a fashion designer. So Olivia, a fifth-grader at St. Anthony Park Elementary School in ...
- Showcase Nightlife (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Former Portsmouth Poet Laureate John Perrault performs ballads and poems at the Elysium Arts Folk Club in Rollinsford, NH on June 28 at 8 p.m. Drawing from his two books, The Ballad of Louis Wagner and Other New England Stories in Verse and the poetry collection Here Comes the Old Man Now, John will present an overview of his writings on New England, including the Louis Wagner Ballad, which ...
- Christina Patterson: The challenge of poetry – and football (Independent)
It's so weird. Grown men dressed like two-year-olds, throwing themselves on the ground and shouting. One minute they're weeping and the next they're practically snogging. All those funny lines on the field. All those logos on their backs. I just don't get it.
- Five Best The Modern American West - Wall Street Journal
1. What You See in Clear Water By Geoffrey O'Gara Knopf, 2000 This timely work sheds light on the conflict over water rights in the American West, but it also describes the history of the Arapaho and Shoshone tribes who now live on the enormous and ...
- Canadian scoops Commonwealth Writers' Prize - SABC
The 22nd annual Commonwealth Writers' Prize has been awarded in Franschhoek in the Western Cape this afternoon. Organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation it is a leading award for fiction that was first awarded in 1987. The Commonwealth ...
- Night Of Poetry At RTB Celebration (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - It was a night of beautifully spoken words told in the form of poetry as RTB celebrated its 5V anniversary of radio broadcasting at the Royal Berkshire Hall of the Jerudong Park Polo Club yesterday.
- Usher takes a strong 'Stand' following hit 'Confessions' - Cleveland Plain Dealer
On "Here I Stand," Usher's first album in four years, the satin-voiced R&B crooner resumes his chart-topping ways. Plain Dealer Pop Music Critic John Soeder also reviews the latest releases by singer-songwriter John Hiatt, the electro-popping Ting ...
- Personal History Informs David Guterson's Newest Novel (Bainbridge Islander)
The two main characters in "The Other" — from which David Guterson will read Tuesday night at the Eagle Harbor Book Co. — stem from autobiographical paths the author could have taken back in his own 1970s adolescence.
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