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- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (Lexington Herald-Leader)
PHILADELPHIA - "Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'" The latter conclusion would be more logical. But it hasn't always been shared by the masses. ...
- Still Life - Exclaim!
Exclaim!Still LifeExclaim!, Canada - 13 hours agoOne doesn’t exactly get poetry from Jia’s images, but one gets the very pointed sense that people no longer have control over the world in which they live. ...
- Thanks for the Poetry - Slate
This abortion ruling strikes me as a lot like the religious culture-war debates, where we spend a lot of time fighting about symbolics and very little about things that matter (a creche vs. faith based funding, abortion language vs. actual access ...
- PoemMegan Berndt's 'Grandpa' finishes second in contest - Belleville Intelligencer
PoemMegan Berndt's 'Grandpa' finishes second in contestBelleville Intelligencer, Canada - 48 minutes agoBarker submitted students' entries in both the Polar Expressions contest and the Young Writers of Canada poetry and prose contests. Another Grade 7 student, ...
- Looking back at the Booker: JM Coetzee - Guardian Blogs
The book that won JM Coetzee his second Booker prize is, according to Time magazine: "A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland...Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form." OK ...
- School district may cut seven jobs at high school to balance budget - Taos News
It was a high-anxiety night at Taos Middle School Monday (May 12) night as the Taos Municipal Board of Education heard public outcry against the knowledge of possible position cuts at Taos High School next fall. “I am not going to introduce myself ...
- Indexed: This Can’t Be Real - New York Times Blogs
Jessica’s past posts can be found here , her own blog here , and her book here . Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own, send it along here ...
- Condensing Jerusalem (Haaretz Daily)
"The world is becoming small," says Gilad Meiri. "This country is small and contains two nations, this city is small and has many people who are seeking a means of expression, and poetry is the smallest aesthetic genre that can express so much in a few words.
- Hospes Amerigo Alicante: Doze of summer - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukHospes Amerigo Alicante: Doze of summerTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours ago... distinguish a good sleeper from a bad. But my body feels as relaxed and stress-free as it has in years. Eight hours? I’ll probably get 10 and miss my plane.
- Grammy's wisdom (The Telegraph)
Author Esther Miller firmly believes in taking what life gives you and making the most of it. "The majority of things that we go through on the journey through life are more informative than the destination," she said.
- Rock on, in Malayalam... - Livemint
Rock on, in Malayalam...Livemint, India - 1 hour agoThen, there are those who have discovered that the best source of poetry lies within. Mou Sultana, a Bengali artist who will release her debut Bengali rock ...
- In Middlebury, Garza mystery solved - Burlington Free Press
MIDDLEBURY — The night he vanished, Middlebury College student Nicholas Garza wandered due east from a friend’s residence hall, toward the creek in which his body would be found almost four months later, instead of north in the direction of his ...
- ECU anticipates more than 3000 graduates - Greenville Daily Reflector
ECU anticipates more than 3000 graduatesGreenville Daily Reflector, NC - 1 hour agoThroughout April, professors from ECU's Department of Curriculum and Instruction brought poetry into local elementary schools in honor of National Poetry ...
- In Your Schools - June 2, 2008 - Lynchburg News and Advance
In Your Schools - June 2, 2008Lynchburg News and Advance, VA - 1 hour ago... Steffi Wells, Elizabeth Ware and Seneca Tisdale, honorable mentions, Walter Storozum Awards for poetry; Karl Speer, first place, Catherine Burnett, ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, July 11th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Mark Twain who said, "Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense." Some observations on the news... Most of you are too young to remember the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. That was the legislation that ...
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