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- Battle of the wordsmiths - This is Dorset
WORDSMITHS are being invited to pen a limerick as part of a week of events dedicated to Thomas Hardy. The quirky verses will form part of a week of events being run by Goulds in Dorchester as part of the Thomas Hardy conference and festival being ...
- Mirroring JonBenet story - Baltimore Sun
Mirroring JonBenet storyBaltimore Sun, United States - 1 hour agoOates has published more than 100 books - novels, nonfiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, plays, even children's books (Come Meet Muffin). ...
- China's junk culture (BBC News)
China is an emerging superpower, but back in the 19th Century Brits were scathing of this alien culture.
- Nick Sanderson: Singer with art rockers Earl Brutus (Independent)
Nick Sanderson played in post-punk rock groups including The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Gun Club, World of Twist and Earl Brutus. Earl Brutus's chaotic live shows featured a bracing mix of glam-rock and synthesisers – plus wind machines wafting Brut aftershave over the audience and a line of seven big stage-prop plastic wreaths. They spelt two words: "FUCK OFF". To a degree, Earl Brutus were ...
- Irene Gammel's 'Looking For Anne of Green Gables' - International Herald Tribune
Irene Gammel's 'Looking For Anne of Green Gables'International Herald Tribune, France - 2 hours agoEwan Macdonald won her affections and carried her off to Ontario, where she raised two children and wrote 20 novels and two poetry collections. ...
- Time-warp tunes - Auburn Citizen
Time-warp tunesAuburn Citizen, NY - 3 hours agoThe “wordplay” theme is a prelude to next year's 30th anniversary, for which organizers created a poetry contest. “The text (from the winning poems) will ...
- Propaganda has no place in Arabic textbooks - Newsday
At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She's the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout "Al-Kitaab," the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and other American ...
- SHAKESPEARE STUDY TO TEACH KIDS NEW WORDS FOR COCK - Daily Mash (satire)
SHAKESPEARE STUDY TO TEACH KIDS NEW WORDS FOR COCKDaily Mash (satire), UK - 1 hour agoPRIMARY school children as young as five are to study the works of Shakespeare as part of a government initiative to teach them hundreds of 17th century ...
- Happiness: Enough Already - Newsweek
Recommended (6) Is Happiness Overrated? Counting Your Blessings ‘He Should Never Have Gone to Iraq’ My Shrink Says ... Blog! Danielle Steel: A Secret Mission On the Streets Clift: Some Republicans Worry About Party’s Chances The drawbacks of ...
- Pupils win in poetry contest - Huddersfield Examiner
Pupils win in poetry contestHuddersfield Examiner, UK - 20 minutes agoTWO pupils at a Huddersfield school have been named as winners in a national poetry contest. Reece Holmes, 13, and Emma Daffern, 12, pictured, both students ...
- Symposium: Obscene Hostage Trades - FrontPage magazine.com
Symposium: Obscene Hostage TradesFrontPage magazine.com, CA - 5 hours agoWe are - or at least most of us are - incapable of thinking about human remains, a fortiori of those whom we love, respect or cherish - in these brutal ...
- Community briefs - Leaf Chronicle
What: Yard sale items are being accepted for this community event benefiting the American Cancer Society. Donations can be dropped off during the hours from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Anyone wishing to set up and sell their own items may do so for a ...
- Callaloo workshop presents four prominent African-American writers - University of Washington
Four faculty members from the 2008 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops will read from their poetry and fiction at 7 p.m. Aug. 6 in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge. The event is free and open to the public. A reception for the authors will ...
- Letters (Washington Post)
In two of her recent Poet's Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. In the June 8 issue of Book World, she states that "William Matthews beat brain cancer" before submitting to a heart attack in 1997. It was Matthews's wife, Patricia, who beat brain cancer. Two of...
- Palestinians Mourn Death of 'National Poet' Mahmoud Darwish - Voice of America
Palestinians are mourning the death Saturday of renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was considered a cultural icon. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. The muezzin chanted a mournful dirge as Palestinians observed three ...
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