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- 'Man on Wire' scales the heights of acrobatic feat (The Tennessean)
Atop the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the high-wire walker Philippe Petit is an epic poem in motion. In Man on Wire, the site of his accomplishment — he walked back and forth between the towers eight times in his 1974 acrobatic feat — registers, in its own balletic way, as potently as King Kong climbing to the top of the Empire State Building.
- Xlibris Children’s Book Author Named Winner in New York Book Festival - openPR (press release)
Xlibris Children’s Book Author Named Winner in New York Book FestivalopenPR (press release), Germany - 3 hours agoThe New York Book Awards aims to recognize the achievement of writers in the non-fiction, fiction, children’s books, teenage, poetry, how-to, audio/spoken ...
- Battle over thinning mustang herds (Seattle Times)
Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they...
- How a ballerina commits fraud - Globe and Mail
The Word Play files are near to bursting, and must be winnowed. Beware the casual metaphor. The Canadian Press's report on a fire that destroyed much of a military armoury this spring included this sentence: "Lt.-Col. [Eric] Gosselin said Quebec City ...
- New Novel Asks Whom Do You Love? Whom Do You Bomb? - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Third World is full of grist for the pulp mill. Adam Kellas is a reporter who wants to sell out, write a rollicking thriller that will earn him scads of cash and put his embossed name on a cover in gold lettering 2 inches high. And though he ...
- An Outpost on the edge of music - Daily News Tribune
An Outpost on the edge of musicDaily News Tribune, MA - 13 hours ago“It’s noncommercial-type music and performance and poetry.” And it’sa gallery. The 25-seat space, which rose, phoenix-like, out of the ashes of the late, ...
- A sense of place - PopMatters
PopMattersA sense of placePopMatters, IL - 8 hours agoModern Australian poetry faces a similar uphill battle. The golden age of our national poetry was the “bush poetry” of the late-19th and early 20th ...
- Outside Edge - The Independent
It's a tradition handed down through generations of football journalists that at every major tournament they must file some beer stories. Who are we to argue? This week's frothy outpourings from Euro 2008 include a Salzburg bar dishing out free ...
- Jamey Johnson: That Lonesome Song - My Tennessean.com
Jamey Johnson: That Lonesome SongMy Tennessean.com, TN - 9 hours agoWith That Lonesome Song, Johnson gives us an album full of simple poetry, unchecked honesty and genuine sonic and lyrical subversion. ...
- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests (AP via Yahoo! News)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- 'Breath' by Tim Winton - Los Angeles Times
'Breath' by Tim WintonLos Angeles Times, CA - 47 minutes agoIt achieves that essential quality of a short novel: Its poetry becomes its imperative, its motivating and most risky venture. "Breath" is a coming-of-age ...
- 2009 - Act 2: Nothing Left to Mull - Cape Cod Today
2009 - Act 2: Nothing Left to MullCape Cod Today, MA - 2 hours ago"You know poetry is illegal. All creativity was abolished by the state. You could get into trouble." "Here, I'll read it to you. ...
- John Lichfield: Racy goings-on in la France profonde - Belfast Telegraph
The nearest town to our house in Normandy is a sad place which has never fully recovered from the summer of 1944. In June of that year, it was pointlessly bombed by the British. In August, it was partially burned by the SS. Sixty-four years later ...
- Abortion and Crime: The Flip Side - New York Times Blogs
Abortion and Crime: The Flip SideNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- (Un)Dressed for success - Ha'aretz
(Un)Dressed for successHa'aretz, Israel - 4 hours ago... who saw her outside the American University in Cairo. Ruby put aside her law books in favor of poetry, a personal agent replaced her professor, ...
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