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- Potpourri of topics explored at poetry fellowship (The Jamaica Observer)
Poets blasted Cash Plus and Kern Spencer whilst discussing gay politics and sex-worker taxation, Tuesday at the Poetry Society's monthly fellowship at the Edna Manley College - part of the Kingston on the Edge Festival.
- Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There's no rhyme or reason why not (Times Online)
There is something historically incomplete about the modern Olympic motto of “citius, altius, fortius” or “faster, higher, stronger”. But in this lies an opportunity for the London Games.
- Funeral set for Anthony Kane Baker of Palm Beach, killed in plane ... - Palm Beach Daily News
Funeral services will be Tuesday, July 22, for Anthony Kane Baker, a longtime Palm Beach resident who was killed Wednesday when his lightweight airplane crashed into the Tennessee River. Mr. Baker was 65. The funeral will take place at 1 p.m. at St ...
- How Fiction Works By James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux 265 pp. $24 - Christian Science Monitor
How Fiction Works By James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux 265 pp. $24Christian Science Monitor, MA - 7 minutes agoAmong them: Joyce Carol Oates’s “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art,” and David Lodge’s “The Art of Fiction,” which collects essays from the Guardian ...
- PARROTHEADS PHLOCK TO BUFFETT BUFFET OF MUSIC, GAMES, FUN - Laughlin Entertainer
PARROTHEADS PHLOCK TO BUFFETT BUFFET OF MUSIC, GAMES, FUNLaughlin Entertainer, AZ - 1 hour agoI always liked his personal outlook on life-his escapism, his poetry and his way of life. I loved his attitude of taking it easy. ...
- 'Born To The Breed - A Tribute to Judy Collins, Vol. I' Due for Release October 14th on Wildflower Records (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wildflower Records is proud to announce the release of the long-awaited album, 'Born To The Breed - A Tribute to Judy Collins, Volume I' set for October 14, 2008. 'Born To The Breed' features the original writing and poetry of Judy Collins recorded by luminary artists such as Chrissie Hynde, Joan Baez, Rufus Wainwright, Dolly Parton, Shawn Colvin, Leonard Cohen and more.
- AP Profile of Cary Nelson - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
AP Profile of Cary NelsonChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 40 minutes ago“It’s like poetry, isn’t it?” Benjamin said, comparing Nelson’s AAUP and scholarly work. “You have to have creativity and you have to have discipline. ...
- Morgan making good impression with 49ers (The Monterey County Herald)
The 49ers have had more that their share of high-maintenance wide receivers. Terrell Owens, Antonio Bryant and Brandon Lloyd spring to mind. So it came as a surprise that they were willing to take a chance on Josh Morgan.
- MARK STRYKER: 8 Days counts down; Great Lakes Fest revs up (Detroit Free Press)
Metro Detroit's two major classical music festivals overlap for a few more days, before the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's 8 Days in June bows out Saturday and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival motors on for another week.
- Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet (International Herald Tribune)
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77.
- Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of ...Seattle Post Intelligencer - 30 minutes agoThe story has been told many times, in poetry from Ovid to Auden, in operas by Monteverdi, Haydn and Philip Glass, in Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus ...
- Mother Folk! - Style Weekly
Style WeeklyMother Folk!Style Weekly, VA - 12 minutes agoWith her own label, Righteous Babe Records, 19 original albums, the release of a book of poetry and paintings (“Verses,” September 2007) and the release of ...
- The Phantasmagorias (The Gillette News-Record)
Why are they doing this? There are maybe half-a-dozen paying customers on this Monday evening, tops.
- Sikander Abu Zafar remembered - The Daily Star
Sikander Abu Zafar rememberedThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 2 hours agoSyed Mohammad Shahed said, “In the '40s, poetry tended to be mostly romantic, very few spoke of the common people. Sikander Abu Zafar's poems were an ...
- Guanacastequidad Festival overflows with celebration - Guanacaste Journal
Guanacastequidad Festival overflows with celebrationGuanacaste Journal, Costa Rica - 17 hours ago... band parades, horse and oxcart parades, educational workshops on mask-making and painting, a bombas (traditional improvised poetry) contest, ...
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