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- Female poets recoil from Laureate role - First Post
Female poets recoil from Laureate roleFirst Post, UK - Jun 10, 2008Even these perks could not sway Padel, the chair of the UK Poetry Society, who said she thought most poets worth their salt would give the post a wide berth ...
- Inspirational Youth Encourage You to Show Your Real Face - RedOrbit
Inspirational Youth Encourage You to Show Your Real FaceRedOrbit, TX - 28 minutes agoOne thing led to another and he was offered the opportunity to perform at the Toronto International Poetry SLAM. He was blown away by being on stage, ...
- Our rulers find the ultimate scapegoats - you and me - Daily Telegraph
Who broke the Broken Society? As politicians clamour to lay the blame for the gaping rends in our social fabric, one thing is becoming obvious. Behind their carapace of caring, their pious regrets and their hopes for a hopeless future, these ...
- We don't need a Poet Laureate - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukWe don't need a Poet Laureateguardian.co.uk, UK - 35 minutes agoI don't like the New Labour poetry-is-good-for-you ethos, either. Yet the Laureateship does represent a chance to do something for an artform that is ...
- Supermodel Plunges to Death in Apparent Suicide (People Magazine)
Ruslana Korshunova, 20, leapt from the balcony of her New York apartment
- Read the day away - Michigan Daily
Read the day awayMichigan Daily, MI - 10 minutes agoEven for someone with no background in poetry or analysis at all, Gilbert is understandable and fascinating. His poems are staggeringly personal, ...
- My thoughts exactly - Bay Area Reporter
Bay Area ReporterMy thoughts exactlyBay Area Reporter, CA - 4 hours agoBecause he is a skilled wordsmith, Shurin's sentences flow like poetry. Each sentence seems to be carefully constructed, as if the author pondered his word ...
- Singers tap into a 'feeling for harmony' with Cleveland Orchestra ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
What: Franz Welser-Most conducts concert performances of Dvorak's opera, "Rusalka," with soprano Camilla Nylund (Rusalka), tenor Piotr Beczala (Prince), soprano Emily Magee (Foreign Princess), bass-baritone Alan Held (Vodnik), mezzo-soprano Birgit ...
- The Many Faces of Amanda - Newsweek
NewsweekThe Many Faces of AmandaNewsweek - 43 minutes agoHer lawyers have leaked prison diaries that portray her as a romantic who writes poetry and love stories and who learned to play guitar ballads during her ...
- Maya Angelou Celebrates 80th Birthday In Atlanta (CBS 46 News Atlanta)
The legendary poet celebrates her 80th birthday in Atlanta. | Video
- Attendance up at second annual KC Literary Festival (The Kansas City Star)
Twelve-year-old Rachel Franklin stood alone onstage. Poised, confident, she recited one of her poems, “Plea for Goodness.”
- Rizzi takes poetry contest - Auburn Reporter
Rizzi takes poetry contestAuburn Reporter, CA - 15 minutes agoFriends decided to name a poetry contest after Lohmann on her 80th birthday. Rizzi, author of “Vibrant City of Bones” and a regular facilitator of the ...
- All tied up in knots - Evening Standard
The Bernard Sunley Room of the National Gallery is shrouded in sepulchral gloom. In it and its ante-room hang seven pictures of white drapery, the stuff of shrouds, grave cloths and winding sheets. All but one are big, some more than two metres ...
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes, by Mohammed Hanif (Independent)
On 17 August 1988, a plane carrying General Zia ul-Haq, the military ruler of Pakistan since 1977 and America's staunchest ally in the first Afghan war, went down in flames, killing everybody on board. Zia was accompanied by some of his senior generals, the US ambassador to Pakistan and the head of the US military aid mission to Pakistan, all of whom died. There was no real investigation and no ...
- Ex-Union Grove athlete returns home to coach (The Longview News-Journal)
Editor's note: Where Are They Now? is a weekly feature catching up with former athletes from the Longview News-Journal's coverage area.
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