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- Gossip: Philip Lauriat, Kent Stephens, Rob Scullin and more - Portsmouth Herald News
Gossip: Philip Lauriat, Kent Stephens, Rob Scullin and morePortsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoMckeel McBride is about halfway through her eighth book of poetry. How close on the heels of her last? She laughs; can't quite recall. ...
- Rhyming couplet - Liverpool Echo
Rhyming coupletLiverpool Echo, UK - Sep 19, 2008... in poetry – one tipped to become the first female Poet Laureate, the other local and award-winning – combine talents at the Sefton Celebrates Writing ...Will Self chats to the Visiter before his appearance at the Sefton ... Southport Visiterall 3 news articles
- Finding comfort alongside Maya Angelou (Concord Monitor)
Maya Angelou published her blockbuster memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in 1969, when she was in her early 40s and I was a 17-year-old white Southerner trying my luck in New York City. Catching her on late night television, I fell utterly under her spell.
- Slamicide takes poetry off the page and into the Den (Johns Hopkins News-Letter)
What do you get when you cross poetry, theater and social justice?
- The last man in the world to believe in newspapers - The Australian
The last man in the world to believe in newspapersThe Australian, Australia - 14 minutes agoToo often, what our literary prize panels confuse with proper writing is just overwriting, and the problem is exacerbated by a salon of smug, sanctimonious, ...
- Have racy ads finally crossed the line? (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
Ad agencies have found ways to pair just about everything with sex.
- Samoans strive to survive rising tide (The Star-Ledger)
NEW YORK -- The water isn't up to his chin yet, but Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio sees it rising. In the Kiribati Islands, the tide reaches higher and higher. In nearby Tuvalu, the ocean has swamped and poisoned farmland with its salt.
- Birders catch, band hummers at annual event - AZCentral.com
Hummingbirds are immortalized in poetry and on canvas, and coveted in backyards by an admiring "fan base" that goes out of its way to attract them. The personality of these creatures easily matches the intensity of their appeal. Ask Sheri Williamson ...
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors - The Evening Sun
Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrorsThe Evening Sun, PA - 2 hours agoSuch is the poetry of Allen Taylor, next week's guest columnist. Eventually, Taylor took a poetry writing workshop in college and the first contemporary ...
- Theater review: 'History Boys' tested - San Francisco Chronicle
Theater review: 'History Boys' testedSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 8 hours agoHis "History" springs to life most often in the classroom scenes - in the intellectual high jinks of the students vying for Hector's approval in poetry and ...
- Sound Art Limo - Artfacts.Net
Sound Art LimoArtfacts.Net, UK - Aug 12, 2008Joseph Beuys, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Lawrence Weiner, Patrick Ireland, Richard Huselsenbeck, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Jonas Christian ...
- Book Review: Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul edited by Judith Valente and Charles Reynard (Blogcritics.org)
The nourishment one takes from this volume of paired poems and essays, perhaps depends upon how one prefers to dine. Twenty poems seem easy enough to find - but ones which nourish the soul? Nourishment of any type is difficult to find. To nourish is to enrich, to sustain. The soul is a much debated article, tangible to some, elusive to others, its very existence a sore topic to many. So, poems ...
- Books/Publishing News - Yahoo News
LONDON (Reuters) - "Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers" benefited from a late surge in public support to win the title Friday of oddest book title of the past 30 years, The Bookseller magazine said. U.S. publisher buys novel about ...
- Chaucer's Tale (Kirkus Reviews)
Burton Raffel has made two key decisions in his rendition of Chaucer’s greatest work.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas.
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