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- LOUIS AIMING FOR SPRINT HONOURS (Sporting Life)
John Jenkins will be represented by the improving Love You Louis as he aims to secure another high-profile prize in the Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury on Saturday.
- Host of bands rock at festival - Evening News Norwich
Thousands of festival-goers enjoyed music from the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Blondie and Interpol at the hugely successful third Latitude Festival. Set in Henham Park, near Blythburgh, the lakeside festival boasted big names from the ...
- Word Feast - New Yorker
Word FeastNew Yorker, United States - 5 hours agoThe Gramercy custom of reading poetry before the “family meals” that precede each service, however, met with resistance. (The practice got its start in the ...
- Helen Burns - Packet Online
Helen Burns of Princeton died Wednesday at University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 98. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was a former resident of New York City and Washington, D.C. A graduate of Hunter College with majors in classics and education ...
- Lord's Diary: Not quite the poetry of motion but still graceful - Independent
Lord's Diary: Not quite the poetry of motion but still gracefulIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoMuch better than doggerel, though not quite poetry in the strict sense, it captivated and was bought by thousands. And his life and times have been captured ...
- Palatine pastel artist at Prairie State Art Festival - Cary Grove Countryside
Palatine pastel artist at Prairie State Art FestivalCary Grove Countryside, IL - 20 hours agoThis summer, in place of the usual full-length play, the company will present a concert, with poetry interspersed with the music, and original artwork and ...
- Should public education promote single-sex schools? - WOAI
For years, we've done little to stem the tide of boys falling behind in most areas of education. We've done well at mending old gender inequities against girls -- but some of those very efforts have inadvertently hurt our boys. In an interview, Dr ...
- Erdrich's magic again casts a spell over those seeking the mystical and the divine (Pioneer Press)
Louise Erdrich is a shaman. She communes with spirits from other times, channels their messages, reveals their mysteries and layers the present
- Someone You Should Know: Sean G - WCTV
Someone You Should Know: Sean GWCTV, FL - 1 hour agoI used to have to go to poetry readings to get an open mike. I had to beg for stage time." Whether it's the Second City or Saturday Night Live, ...
- Set to leap into direction - Newindpress on Sunday
Newindpress on SundaySet to leap into directionNewindpress on Sunday, India - 16 minutes agoIf you love poetry, it can’t be for sale. The lyrics of my film (Jaane Tu Ya…) capture the way we were in college. So the lyrics (like Pappu can’t dance) ...
- Lord Tweedsmuir: Novelist and son of John Buchan who inherited his ... - The Independent
If all John Buchan's children had it hard, his second son, William, had it hardest. Endowed with his father's literary talent, he yet could not hope to match John Buchan in his other occupations of strategy, high policy, business, sport, action ...
- Pandora: Dave and Condi's sleepover - Independent
Pandora: Dave and Condi's sleepoverIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoIt's a far cry from the days of William Wordsworth, but as jolly 21st-century poetry beanos go, Felix Dennis's trip to the Hay Festival on Monday makes ...
- Trenchant but inspiring - Hindu
HinduTrenchant but inspiringHindu, India - 4 hours agoFor instance, she talks of the Muslims in Bengal writing poetry in Bengali and Urdu and the bhadralok or westernised Hindus in English! ...
- Lexington Woman's Club recognizes Women of Achievement (The Lexington Dispatch)
The Lexington Woman's Club will host its second Women of Achievement Celebration Dinner on May 30 at the Sapona Country Club in Lexington.In addition to honoring 10 women from Davidson County, the event will feature entertainment and a silent auction. The proceeds will benefit the American Red Cross.
- Robert Greacen: Ulster poet of considerable gifts (Independent)
In the years just before and after the Second World War, the north of Ireland was thought of, if at all, as a province culturally in the doldrums and religiously on the boil. "There was an almost complete blank in poetic utterance and in drama," Robert Greacen wrote. For an aspiring poet at the time in Belfast, he went on (in an article for the magazine Rann), few local literary exemplars ...
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