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- Poetry: Is poetry's future as bright as its past? (The Evening Sun)
Editor's Note: Guest poet columnist Allen Taylor is webmaster of http://www.world-class-poetry.com and writes a daily blog at http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com . He spent 2005 in Iraq with his National Guard unit and is revising a book of poems he wrote during that time.
- Turning Off The TV - The Times
Turning Off The TVThe Times, South Africa - Aug 3, 2008Yes, all those adverts for ringtones, lotto numbers, cheap bad poetry and soft porn imagery. There are so many things about this advertising strategy that ...
- Review: 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson - Chicago Sun-Times
What some folks are calling a once-in-a-decade sci-fi classic is, in fact, a best-ever genre-crushing power-script that defies simple classification. Neal Stephenson's Anathem is a 900-page world-building exercise. It takes the long view, and creates ...
- Side-effect - The News - International
Side-effectThe News - International, Pakistan - 3 hours agoAs a student of literature, I grew closer to the modern strand in Urdu poetry, as it were, which in my view include Noon Meem Rashid, Majeed Amjad, ...
- Jack Irving awarded the Order of Canada - Telegraph-Journal
Jack Irving awarded the Order of CanadaTelegraph-Journal, Canada - 3 hours agoUsing songs and poetry, performer Donat Lacroix also helped preserve and promote the Acadian culture in the province. For more than 50 years, ...
- Thoughtful Colours - Newindpress
Thoughtful ColoursNewindpress, India - 1 hour ago... using the squeeze writing technique with acrylic, the letters hardly decipherable, Koumadi renders some poetry and prose that are comments on her works. ...
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Hayden Carruth dies - WTNH.com
Munnsville, N.Y. (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Hayden Carruth is being remembered as someone who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world. Carruth was 87 when he died Monday at his home in Munnsville, New York, about 30 miles east ...
- How would you improve South Carolina? - Hilton Head Island Packet
How would you improve South Carolina?Hilton Head Island Packet, SC - 6 hours agoAlong the way, Liberty Life Insurance helped finance the oceanfront William Hilton Inn on South Forest Beach Drive in 1959. That gave young Charles Fraser, ...
- Prize-winning poet kicks off LR programs - Hickory Daily Record
Prize-winning poet kicks off LR programsHickory Daily Record, NC - 5 hours ago"I tell my friends 'If I can sell poetry, I can sell anything,'" said Rand Brandes, who organized the Black Mountain College Celebration and the Visiting ...
- Religious Fare On Centre-Stage (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - Religious events were not to be missed out during the 62'd birthday celebrations of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang DiPertuan of Brunei Darussalam, at the centre-stage in front of the Royal Regalia.
- Parting words to sum up all our lives - Irish Independent
Parting words to sum up all our livesIrish Independent, Ireland - 5 hours agoThen there is Seamus Heaney on Ted Hughes, first at his funeral in 1998: "No death in my lifetime has hurt poetry or poets more than the death of Ted Hughes ...
- Stuart Jeffries on the 10 novels most frequently abandoned by British readers (Guardian Unlimited)
Stuart Jeffries: We spend more on books than any nation in Europe, but many of us haven't read one in the past year. What's behind this reader's block?
- Leading article: A triumph for all of Europe - The Independent
As Europe celebrates arrest of Karadzic, hunt is on for Mladic Suspect to face war tribunal within days Brigadier Ben Barry: I saw disturbing evidence of dark crimes all around me Marcus Tanner: With Karadzic in the dock, the Bosnians he terrorised ...
- Culture Calendar (The Downers Grove Sun)
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- On the scene: Corey Smith returns for stadium concert - The State
On the scene: Corey Smith returns for stadium concertThe State, SC - 2 hours ago... will celebrate his 57th birthday Saturday with the Travelin’ Man Road Show. It begins with poetry and music at 5 pm at Ella’s Cafe, 1117 Augusta Road, ...
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