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- Dyin’ donuts - Eye Weekly
Dyin’ donutsEye Weekly, Canada - 35 minutes agoIt is a place of sweaty, mundane poetry and of incubating dreams. The Tim Hortons of today, with its quick service counters, cramped, isolated two- and ...
- Daily Wail: We All Die Next Wednesday - Anorak
Apparently the LHC will fire an asylum seeker at a paedophile in front of a 6 tonne speed camera at near light-speed velocities - thus creating a creature capable of harming our blameless likkle knifespawn from countries that haven’t even got a ...
- Poet/essayist will give reading at UMF - SunJournal.com
SunJournal.comPoet/essayist will give reading at UMFSunJournal.com, ME - 2 hours agoHis other work, both prose and verse, has appeared in Agni, Ascent, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, The Literary Review, Poetry, Shenandoah and Witness as ...
- 'STAGE LEFT' takes tour statewide - Austin Daily Herald
A group of students and community members sharing personal stories and seeking tolerance of gay and lesbian issues is getting statewide attention for its unique presentation. Last year, Riverland Community Gay-Straight Alliance (RCGSA) partnered with ...
- Entertainment Calendar - Free Press
CWE and Symphonic Bands — 7:30 p.m., MSU Halling Recital Hall, $8 general admission, $4 for students and children, 389-5549. Hiking on Rasmussen Woods trails — 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Elk’s Nature Center, free, 387-8585. “Lysistrata” — 7:30 p ...
- Rita Joe’s poetry lives on - The Chronicle Herald
A FIRST NATIONS native of Cape Breton, Rita Joe died in March 2007 at age 75. Awarded the Order of Canada and presented with several honorary doctorates, she was a poet who placed a Mi’kmaq sensibility at the core of what was once purely ...
- Whitefish: Chicken in any yard costs $990 - Missoulian
WHITEFISH - Chicken champions ran afoul of city bureaucrats this week, when the Whitefish planning board balked at allowing household hens. “The board had some concerns,” said planning director Dave Taylor, including noise, smell and fence ...
- POETRY READINGS AT MOE’S - Berkeley Daily Planet
Two unusual poetry events at Moe’s Books on Telegraph: Jack Marshall of El Cerrito, long an influential Bay Area writer and teacher, reads Mon. Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m.; the following Monday the great Nathaniel Tarn, poet, translator and anthropologist ...
- Ideas & Trends Yet Once More, a Laurel Not Bestowed - New York Times
BBC NewsIdeas & Trends Yet Once More, a Laurel Not BestowedNew York Times, United States - 6 hours agoThe only problem is that the first half of the 20th century is widely considered a golden age of American poetry — a judgment supported not only by critics, ...Ig-Nobel Thoughts Inside Higher EdCOUNTER VIEW: Juries have to look beyond literary merit Times of IndiaOdds favor Amos Oz for Nobel Prize in Literature Christian Science Monitorall 1,402 news articles
- Giving verse a voice (The News Journal)
On a Saturday night in October, the street sounds of downtown Wilmington reverberate beyond the walls of Genelle's Cafe on Market Street, while the restaurant's back room plays host to lush and provocative words, spoken by some of the area's most...
- Altar Boyz (The Washington Times)
Hold Steady frontman — and devoted Minnesota Twins fan — Craig Finn fielded an age-old question during a recent online chat at ESPN.com.
- Battling a rare ailment (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WOODSTOCK - Jasmin Floyd says she likes to think of herself as a typical 15-year-old girl.
- Greece to mark anniversary of Byron's death - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has declared the anniversary of the death of Lord Byron, the British Romantic poet who fought in its 19th century war of independence, as a day of celebration to hail Greek culture. Byron died of pneumonia fighting Ottoman ...
- A talk with pianist Richard Goode - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Special to the Star-Telegram To fill the free time between rehearsals and performances in cities around the world, concert pianist Richard Goode browses used-book stores. One performance biography says he has 5,000 volumes shelved in his New York ...
- Artists respond to K. Curtis Lyle poem about 9/11 tragedy this Friday - St. Louis American
Artists respond to K. Curtis Lyle poem about 9/11 tragedy this FridaySt. Louis American, MO - 23 minutes agoIn Nailed Seraphim, Curtis n one of the nation’s greatest working poets, and the culture critic for the American n tells the story of 9/11 through the wild ...
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