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- Why not ban Shakespeare then? Poet strikes back after knife verse was dropped from GCSE (Daily Mail: World News)
Her poem was dropped from the GCSE syllabus because it describes the thoughts of someone with a knife who plans to kill - but now Carol Ann Duffy has struck back against the ban with a new poem.
- John Betjeman on the wireless - Daily Telegraph
John Betjeman changed one of his poems because he was told it was contrary to Christian belief. So I learn from a fascinating book that includes a handful of his poems never published before. It is called Poems in the Porch (Continuum, £14.99) and ...
- Jazz, poetry help festival bid farewell - Charlottesville Daily Progress
Jazz, poetry help festival bid farewellCharlottesville Daily Progress, VA - 1 hour agoBy The Daily Progress Staff The Wintergreen Summer Music Festival will wind up its season with jazz, poetry, theater and one last cup of coffee. ...
- Books: "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba" (The New Yorker)
Facundo Bacardi, who founded the eponymous rum company in 1862, came to Cuba from Spain as a teen-ager. By the turn of the century, as Gjelten lucidly recounts, the distilling operation that Facundo had begun in a shed was among the brands most closely identified with Cuba, and the . . .
- Julia Darling's top 10 books about northern England - guardian.co.uk
Julia Darling's top 10 books about northern Englandguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoThis poetry is full of new ideas and is always a joy to pull down from the shelf. Some of it is vehement and angry, but there are tender poems too that make ...Seamus Heaney guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Education Newsmakers: 08/12/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
-- West Shore Medical Center recently presented four area high school seniors with scholarships of $500: Joshua Briggs, an Onekama High school graduate, who will be attending Grand Valley State University to study pre-medicine; Julia Kedrowski, a Manistee High School graduate who is attending Grand Valley State University to study nursing and hopes to become a nurse practitioner; Allyson Owens, ...
- Showbiz people briefs (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Robin Williams is learning a lesson from Alexie Gilmore in "World's Greatest Dad," which began filming Tuesday in Seattle.
- A Day with Trey McIntyre - Boise Weekly
A Day with Trey McIntyreBoise Weekly, USA - 42 minutes ago4:00 pm—The dancers break again and McIntyre sits down to explain that both "Surrender" and "Leatherwing Bat" deal with recent important changes in his life ...
- Bringing art downtown: Pullman Gallery & Studios provides a space ... - Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Bringing art downtown: Pullman Gallery & Studios provides a space ...Moscow-Pullman Daily News, ID - 17 hours agoBy Omie Drawhorn, Daily News staff writer Mike Yates was repeatedly approached by local artists interested in purchasing gallery space in the Market Square ...
- "Man to Man" keeps experimental theater alive (Portland Tribune)
The shadow of the late Scott Kelman, the experimental theater wizard who died in Portland last year, is all over Taru Sinclair’s one-woman show, “Man to Man,†which concludes this weekend. Sinclair’s husband, Bob Lockwood, first glimpsed Kelman’s unique approach to ...
- She 'amp; Him, Eef Barzeley, NPS reflections, and more in Madison Miscellany (Isthmus)
Day four reports and reflections from the National Poetry Slam, Eef Barzelay plays the Momo, She ' Him play the Barrymore, The Taming of the Shew by the Open Spaces Theatre Company, the Monroe Street Bisto soft opening, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and Dane County.
- Poetry Box, Top Two Primary and The Big Sort - KUOW NPR
KUOW NPRPoetry Box, Top Two Primary and The Big SortKUOW NPR, WA - 35 minutes agoBill Bishop talks about the ideas in his book The Big Sort, how we tend to live in neighborhoods and towns where everyone around us thinks the way we do, ...
- Parks center creativity contest opens to area teens - Fort Scott Tribune
Parks center creativity contest opens to area teensFort Scott Tribune, KS - 2 hours agoThe contest has grown from previous years when it only offered participants a chance to show off their poetry and essay writing skills, to a more developed ...
- 20th Annual National Cowboy Symposium This Weekend - KCBD-TV
20th Annual National Cowboy Symposium This WeekendKCBD-TV, TX - Sep 4, 2008Every year the symposium has poetry readings, singing, food, a parade, and memorabilia celebrating the old west and cowboy history. "We have exhibits really ...
- Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! - Broadway World
Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! , a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union, returns for its 6th stunning year on Monday, July 21 at 7:30PM in the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 La Guardia ...
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