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- Laplante, Shanghai lyrical - Ottawa Citizen
Laplante, Shanghai lyricalOttawa Citizen, Canada - 16 hours agoWhat a pleasure, then, to hear a pianist like Laplante, who also finds so much of the kind of expressive nuance and poetry that can't entirely be conveyed ...
- Sweet home, Sonics - Seattle Times
Seattle TimesSweet home, SonicsSeattle Times, United States - 29 minutes agoThe National Book Award winner summoned the stuff of poetry, comparing players to Greek gods and the absence of the team to literature without Shakespeare. ...
- William Wordsworth - guardian.co.uk
William Wordsworthguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe pioneered the use of ordinary speech in poetry and, going against the fashion for heroic couplets, experimented with various stanza forms and irregular ...
- The Rules of the Game - Knoxville Metro Pulse
The Rules of the GameKnoxville Metro Pulse, TN - 1 hour ago... the work is a full-scale motorboat decked out with all the trappings required to induce a romantic interlude, including champagne and a book of poetry. ...
- Out and About: June 4 - 15 - Bridgewater Independent
Out and About: June 4 - 15Bridgewater Independent, MA - 1 hour agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Wow, what a story! - Winnipeg Sun
Wow, what a story!Winnipeg Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoLast May, Random House ponied up a $1.25-million advance for the US rights to the unorthodox gothic romance. Toss in other domestic and foreign rights and ...
- Top 10 literary destinations - Easier (press release)
Top 10 literary destinationsEasier (press release), UK - 21 hours agoSee the site of their famed first poetry reading, along with others of their circle like Philip Whalen, at the Six Gallery, or visit the popular City Lights ...
- Padma Lakshmi: The anti-Martha Stewart - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesPadma Lakshmi: The anti-Martha StewartLos Angeles Times, CA - 49 minutes agoHer long black hair is in a ponytail and she's wearing an oversized navy blue fleece sweater, jeans and gray sneakers. The 37-year-old host of Bravo's ...
- 2m free books for kids - The Bookseller (subscription)
2m free books for kidsThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 2 hours agoIn addition, poetry anthologies will be distributed to both age groups, with an abridged edition of The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems for ...
- In praise of ... bad lyrics - Guardian Unlimited
In praise of ... bad lyricsGuardian Unlimited, UK - 5 hours agoThere are also songs that sacrifice poetry for rhyme, such as the Supremes' tragic news: "Got a telegram / Momma passed away while making home-made jam. ...
- SPOKEN WORD: Word to the wise (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
SATURDAY, AUG. 16... By Carlton Hargro Local poet/promoter J.C. Cowan has worked to keep the art of spoken word alive in Charlotte for nearly a decade. So, it's only fitting that some of the city's (and the nation's) top poetic talents would come out to celebrate Cowan's official birthday bash -- dubbed Poetry in Motion. Expect to see spoken word stars like Def Poetry Jam regular Georgia Me, the ...
- A legacy of nothingness - The News - International
A legacy of nothingnessThe News - International, Pakistan - 3 hours agoRestaurants full of people talking nineteen to the dozen, fiercely arguing about books, poetry, the latest plays, the musicals? ...
- Sheldon Firth, shared his love of outdoors (San Jose Mercury News)
Sheldon William Firth, an avid outdoorsman and mountaineer who shared his love of the trail by leading monthly hikes for more than two decades, died May 3 at Kaiser-Santa Clara hospital at the age of 75.
- Going from mud to verse at Glastonbury - Whitehaven News and Star
MUD, sun, queues and sheer brilliance; Glastonbury 2008. I’d always wanted to experience the Mother of all Festivals, in the past I’d looked on enviously when university friends had flashed their “Golden Tickets” after spending what seemed ...
- 'Post Consumed' at the Center for Land Use Interpretation - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times'Post Consumed' at the Center for Land Use InterpretationLos Angeles Times, CA - 39 minutes agoThe only bit of overblown poetry in the show resides in the introductory wall label. It states: "Garbage is the effluent of our consumption and it flows ...
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