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- James Joyce's Poems Get a Musical Facelift - NPR News
All Things Considered , June 21, 2008 - In 1907, shortly after publishing a book of love poetry titled Chamber Music , Irish writer James Joyce penned a letter to his brother Stanislaus: "Some of the verses are pretty enough to be put to music. I ...
- Unofficial greeter - Daily Independent
HUNTINGTON — Traffic flows slow and heavy along Spring Valley Drive’s long curves that hug the mountainside and follow the creek. Many of the cars are heading to the VA Medical Center. Others to Spring Valley High School and some are local ...
- Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, Radio 2 (Independent)
One does not automatically connect Radio 2 with the avant-garde. But every so often it happens that a slot for it is made available, and the collision of the two makes for enormously uplifting radio. Such was the case with this week's Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, which went out last Tuesday at 11.30pm, so as not to scare the infants.
- Goethe establishment slams lawyer's romance claims - Feature - Earthtimes (press release)
Goethe establishment slams lawyer's romance claims - FeatureEarthtimes (press release), UK - 6 minutes ago... self-destructive romantic love, The Sorrows of Young Werther. All German children are obliged to learn some Goethe poetry at school and Germans are ...
- 'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-Roper - Los Angeles Times
'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-RoperLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoFake history often supports unfortunate regimes, but Scottish fakery spread tragically bad poetry and made a bunch of rich people look like idiots. ...
- The histories, by Herodotus (The Globe and Mail)
History, like poetry, began with war
- Remembering Shamsur Rahman - The New Nation
Remembering Shamsur RahmanThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 7 hours agoAnd this new breed, in the trend of Bengali modern and post modern poetry, has been unarguably continuous with the powerful contributions of Shamsur Rahman. ...
- Poetry: An 11-year-old's octogenarian wisdom - Evening Sun
Our common denominator has to be love. The most common, love of self. The least, love of others. Here's where less is really more. The indivisible, the smallest fraction. Reduce ourselves to love of others. So simple. So fulfilling. Yet, the most ...
- Read the movie - GQ
Read the movieGQ - 17 minutes ago... life and tough poetry of the pop and literary icon. As you'd expect with a project that's been over a decade in the making, there's a book attached: A ...
- Physician's poem gets AMA nod for publication (The Huntsville Times)
After a stressful day at his Huntsville medical practice, Dr. Scott Williams heads home and writes poetry. After years of penning verse mostly for himself, the 40-year-old family physician will soon have a national audience.
- Dannie Abse: The Presence Hutchinson, hardback £15.99 - WalesOnline
Dannie Abse: The Presence Hutchinson, hardback £15.99WalesOnline, United Kingdom - 35 minutes agoA poet, reviewer and playwright, Dannie Abse has written and edited more than 16 books of poetry as well as books about medicine and also fiction. ...
- 3 in 4 Minn. sophomores satisfy reading requirement - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Three-quarters of Minnesota sophomores can begin their summer break knowing they've performed well enough on a state reading exam to satisfy a requirement for high school graduation. As freshmen, they faced a writing exam with diploma implications ...
- Nightlife Calendar: 08/15/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Nightlife Calendar: 08/15/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 6 hours ago30; Open-Mic Poetry 7 pm third Mon., (Sept.-May), followed by open mic, bring poems to read and share, writing exercises available, bring eight copies of a ...
- Center on Halsted opens door to gay acceptance - Chicago Tribune
Center on Halsted opens door to gay acceptanceChicago Tribune, United States - 3 hours ago... iced tea, the book club. Most mornings, a dozen homeless kids come for breakfast. All kinds of people come for meditation, poetry slams, the co-gendered ...
- Library doubles size of collection for Somali community - Columbus Local News
Library doubles size of collection for Somali communityColumbus Local News, OH - 13 minutes agoAlso included were books on the economic conditions, politics, government and the role of women, as well as songs, music, folktales and Somali poetry, ...
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