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- 'Bad woo, this could die/ Ah-choo, this could die' - Guardian Blogs
If you're like 90% of the population, you'll feel that reading the lyrics to a song gives you - to quote a survey conducted by the National Year of Reading - "a full appreciation of the music". The survey goes on to say that it's harder to come by ...
- Novelist Michael Redhill named a judge for prestigious Griffin Poetry ... - Canada East
TORONTO - Michael Redhill, a noted Canadian novelist, poet, and playwright and publisher, will be among the judges for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. The English-language award hands out $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50,000 ...
- My week in Media: Pablo Ganguli - Independent
My week in Media: Pablo GanguliIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoI have been in Lithuania, at the Vilnius Book Fair, this week and picked up a copy of The Vilnius Review, a brilliant poetry magazine. ...
- Graphic Novels - School Library Journal
Graphic NovelsSchool Library Journal - 17 minutes agoThe book opens with a “prologue†that admirably and entertainingly sums up the classic story in just seven pages of poetry and panel art. ...
- Dance review: A turn in the spotlight (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Who knew that Abdo Sayegh is still a virtuosic dancer of tremendous grace, kinetic articulation and emotional complexity? In Minnesota Dance Theater, he's largely sidelined when he's not encased in the "Nutcracker" costume and choreography.
- Local award-winning poet dies at 87 (WSTM Central New York)
Hayden Carruth, a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87.
- Valley Native Has Small but Huge Role in Shepard Play - RedOrbit
Valley Native Has Small but Huge Role in Shepard PlayRedOrbit, TX - Jul 27, 2008The Bethlehem native stands silent for four to five minutes in nothing but a slip and a cowboy hat. Her only act is to hand the hat to the man who tossed it ...
- Guest commentary: Poetry topics surround us - Sacramento Bee
Guest commentary: Poetry topics surround usSacramento Bee, USA - 21 minutes agoBut a sharing of life's glories, Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses. Working people the world over made the poem famous. As a tourist, I saw the phrase "Brot ...
- Editorial Roundup (AP via Yahoo! News)
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
- Your Artist Rating: - Launch.com
Few women in the history of rock & roll have stirred as much controversy as Yoko Ono. Although her romance with John Lennon was hardly the only factor straining the relationships between the individual Beatles, she made a convenient scapegoat for the ...
- Men Uplifting - Metro Weekly
Metro WeeklyMen UpliftingMetro Weekly - 1 hour agoThey speak to us through monologue, poetry, song and the physical essence of character with pivotal points in between where they speak to each other. ...
- The kitchen garden graduate: potatoes - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukThe kitchen garden graduate: potatoesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoIf it helps, I'm open to poetry. When harvesting, try not to leave any little potatoes in the soil, since these will sprout next year and pop up like weeds ...
- Springsteen, Joel team up for Obama - MLive.com
WASHINGTON - Rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are teaming up for their first joint concert to benefit Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Obama plans to attend the concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Oct. 16 ...
- New poet laureate built a career far from the literary mainstream - Contra Costa Times
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. Ryan's appointment as the nation's new poet laureate ...
- Obituary: David Hammond (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: A 'natural force' for good in Irish life with a gift for television film-making and song
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