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- The Poetry of April Ossmann (Good Times)
Editor’s note: This week’s Poetry Corner features April Ossmann, the author of “Anxious Music” (Four Way Books, 2007) who has published her poems widely in journals. She is executive director of Alice James Books and teaches at The Writer’s Center in White River Jct., Vt.
- Obama Confirms Relationship With Red Mentor - MarketWatch
Obama Confirms Relationship With Red MentorMarketWatch - 1 hour agoInstead, Kincaid notes, the report attempts to play down instances in which Obama soaks up Davis's anti-American thoughts and pro-communist "poetry. ...
- Simon Gray; playwright noted for wit; 71 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays such as “Butley,” “Otherwise Engaged” and “Quartermaine's Terms” about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself, died Aug. 6 in London. He was 71.
- Review: Art Garfunkel at The Dome, Brighton - Daily Telegraph
Art Garfunkel may be half of one of the Sixties' most enduring acts but his live bassist, one David Anderson, is excruciating. As he perched on a stool, Anderson's cheesy session-musician showboating was grimly fascinating. He spent every second ...
- America's Muslim problem - Guardian Unlimited
Barack Obama isn't the only one with a Muslim problem. America has one, too. Instead of ineffective denials, Obama should meet his Muslim problem and America's head on. The New Yorker cover , depicting the Illinois senator in Muslim garb with a ...
- Los Angeles Times - Hartford Courant
. -- When he was 5, John Moceo announced that he wanted to play the accordion. Chalking it up to childhood whimsy, his mother pushed him to play something else, anything else -- guitar, piano, even baseball. "He came home from school, shoving this ...
- The Original Slick Willie: Prime Pastrano (East Side Boxing)
By Mike Casey : My father, who has always shared my love for the purest form of boxing, has seen many a sublime exhibition between the great practitioners of the Noble Art in his 60 years around the fight game.
- Catholic Daughters announce state contest winners - Journal-Advocate
Catholic Daughters announce state contest winnersJournal-Advocate, CO - 56 minutes ago1-3 in Colorado Springs, the following local winners were announced: • and James Skerjanec, fourth place; for his poetry entry, “Jesus the Light of My World ...
- Family, friends reflect on two killed in crash (Tallahassee Democrat)
Friends and family remembered Steven Taylor Riles, 18, and Christina Mellen, 20, as an inseparable couple Monday. The two were together right up to the point of their deaths. Mellen and Riles died Friday night after a car crash at Mahan Drive and Edenfield Road.
- Witness who took risky stand in Sacramento gangland trial works to ... - Sacramento Bee
Witness who took risky stand in Sacramento gangland trial works to ...Sacramento Bee, USA - 3 hours ago... off a marijuana cigarette a friend handed to him. Hurst also sings, writes poetry, produces CDs and videos, and creates wildly colored clothing designs. ...
- Ada poet to give reading - NewsOK.com
Ada poet to give readingNewsOK.com, OK - 4 minutes agoNORMAN — Ken Hada of Ada will be the featured poet when the Performing Arts Studio has its Second Sunday Poetry Reading at 2 pm Sunday at Norman Depot, ...
- 'Hell Ride' Is Here to Creep You Out - OhmyNews International
OhmyNews International'Hell Ride' Is Here to Creep You OutOhmyNews International, South Korea - Aug 8, 2008... not for expositional purposes, only to hear them speak his streetwise poetry. It's a breathless Tarantino Jr. writing effort, with the actors rambling ...
- Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserve (Independent)
Arresting headlines all last week. "Police arrest Batman" caught the eye. "Police arrest Balls" would have been better, but Ballsing up the education of thousands is not yet considered a crime in this country. Unlike ballsing up your own disappearance which in any decent society would not be considered an offence.
- Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (The Plain Dealer)
Jerusalem- Mahmoud Darwish, whose searing lyrics on Palestinian exile and tender verse on the human condition led him to be widely viewed as the pre-eminent man of Palestinian letters as well as one of the greatest contemporary Arab poets, died Saturday night in Houston after complications from heart surgery.
- Poetry reading is the new rock'n'roll - Independent
Poetry reading is the new rock'n'rollIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoI wrote my first poem at the age of six, but I never really thought I would turn out doing it as a full-time career." The poet, who has signed a major ...
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