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- James Merrill Lecture - Westerly Sun
Author and critic Bonnie Costello will speak at the annual James Merrill Lecture Sunday in Stonington. Author and critic Bonnie Costello will speak on " Lyric Poetry and the First Person Plural: The Example of Elizabeth Bishop" at the fourth annual ...
- Cambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse song (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time.
- Playing the ponies at Thistledown and Northfield Park - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Scott Shaw/The Plain Dealer Thistledown racetrack. The image of the track used to be the grumbling old guy in the bad shirt, studying a dog-eared Racing Form through thick glasses and the smoke from a 50-cent stogie. Well, a lot has changed since ...
- New life for Old Fort Hays (Hays Daily News)
What once was old is new again at Historic Fort Hays.
- Cape Fear Profile: Neil Donnell Ray touches lives with poetry - Fayetteville Observer
On a surprisingly cool Tuesday night, Neil Ray arrives at an open mic night at Big Shots, a bar and nightclub off Yadkin Road. It’s 8 p.m., and Ray, the evening’s host, is setting up his instruments — congas, xylophone and an African tongue ...
- NBC's 'Kings' casts Ian McShane in story based on David and Goliath - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- The NBC drama "Kings," which will premiere at midseason, is a modern retelling of the Biblical story of David and Goliath. But "it is not a religious show," said one of the show's three executive producers, Francis Lawrence ...
- ACE calendar - Black Hills Pioneer
Black Hills PioneerACE calendarBlack Hills Pioneer, SD - 5 hours agoAlso, Summer Nights at the Dahl will continue at 6 pm with a 7 pm poetry reading by various local poets such as Braden Bilyeu. Elks Theatre, 512 6th St. ...
- Qasmi remembered as a great human being - Daily Times
Qasmi remembered as a great human beingDaily Times, Pakistan - 44 minutes ago“People have great respect for him and they love to read his poetry,” he said. Poet Najeeb Ahmed said Qasmi was not only a great poet but also a great human ...
- Continuing militancy - DAWN Group
THE Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for yet another attack in Quetta, the third in three days. The first two attacks were carried out on Wednesday in which four people, including a security man, succumbed to targeted firing. In the ...
- At the movies: Reviews of recently released flicks - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
So far this summer, I've had my brain pummeled by Robert Downey Jr. flying around in a techno-suit, Adam Sandler as an invincible (and priapic) former Mossad agent, Steve Carell as a nerdy indestructible super spy, Harrison Ford as a Teflon 60-year ...
- Three popular North Pinellas principals say goodbye - St. Petersburg Times
Donna Gehringer, left, assistant principal of Brooker Creek Elementary School, and Nell Chapman, principal of the school, celebrate at a retirement party for Chapman in Dunedin last month. Chapman’s last day at the school was Friday.  Forest ...
- Plenty of 'La Boheme' operas on DVD (The Star-Ledger)
New audio-only recordings of opera are perhaps going the way of the dinosaur, outnumbered by audiovisual productions captured on DVD. In the case of Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme," there are now more than a dozen contemporary and archival versions out on DVD.
- Persepolis DVD Review: Iranian Female Spirit On Fire - NewsBlaze
Persepolis DVD Review: Iranian Female Spirit On FireNewsBlaze, CA - 16 hours agoPersepolis is a remarkably eloquent personal journey into complicated womanhood, whose candor and poetry of the naked soul make one quickly forget that this ...
- Introducing Beth Morrissey - Huffington Post
Introducing Beth MorrisseyHuffington Post, NY - 1 hour ago... from academic papers to poetry, and with writers as young as 16 and as old as 80. I spent a year as the editorial assistant for the author and publisher ...
- 'I don't make things easy' (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: Some think she's the greatest singer-songwriter of her generation. So why haven't more people heard of Thea Gilmore? Stephanie Merritt reports
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