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- AnaĂŻs Mitchell: Hitting a High Note (WCAX-TV Vermont)
A Vermont musician is on the rise in the music world, steadily building a base of fans nationally and internationally.
- An Idaho Poet - Boise Weekly
Boise WeeklyAn Idaho PoetBoise Weekly, USA - 1 hour agoHe published a dozen books of poetry, prose and several anthologies, as well as articles for publications across the country. Yet, his focus remained on ...
- Unattended packages - Guardian Unlimited
During high security alerts, we're familiar with the "show of strength", in which tanks patrol the fences at Heathrow and cops wait at the end of railway platforms, machine guns on hip and sniffer dogs at feet. This is part of a psychological battle ...
- Breeding like rabbits - Calgary Herald
One Yellow Rabbit celebrates its 25th anniversary Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Jubilee Auditorium. Tickets available at Ticketmaster. "We love our audiences," says One Yellow Rabbit co-founder Blake Brooker. And the feeling, say OYR audience members ...
- The quality of writing can vary, but we all agree on the subject (The Daily Reflector)
A friend recently shared a poem her teenage daughter had written for her birthday. The poem is lovely as it recognizes and honors the way the mother focuses on what's important.
- Phil Daoust: Radio pick of the day (Guardian Unlimited)
Phil Daoust on Dread, Beat an' Blood: The Dub Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson | BBC Proms 2008
- 1968: Canton had its hippies, trying to change the world - Canton Repository (subscription)
Canton Repository (subscription)1968: Canton had its hippies, trying to change the worldCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 26 minutes agoOpen on Friday and Saturday nights, the Way Out offered free coffee, music and occasionally poetry. Local performers took the stage. ...
- Summer Writers Institute includes Pulitzer winners - Daily Gazette
New York State Summers Writer Institute schedule June 30 — Poetry and fiction reading: Richard Howard (Pulitzer Prize for poetry, “Talking Cures”) and Margot Livesey (fictionist, “Eva Moves the Furniture
- Teasing glimpse inside the bedroom doesn't satisfy - Globe and Mail
Teasing glimpse inside the bedroom doesn't satisfyGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThe first, Song Telling, is not so much a play as performance poetry: King has written various stream-of-consciousness monologues timed to be spoken over ...
- Yankee Notebook: Good fences just make more fences - Rutland Herald
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down," wrote Robert Frost many years ago in "Mending Wall," one of his greatest poems. I never heard him speak, but he recited it; clearly, he liked it too. But because we all tend to find ...
- Indian Rocks Beach Library features something for everyone - Tampa Bay Newspapers
Indian Rocks Beach Library features something for everyoneTampa Bay Newspapers, FL - 44 minutes agoWednesday’s Word, an open-mic poetry reading, will continue throughout the summer, on the fourth Wednesdays at 6:30 pm On Wednesday, June 25, Wednesday’s ...
- Katie Couric shows her 'nerd' side with YouTube channel - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesKatie Couric shows her 'nerd' side with YouTube channelLos Angeles Times, CA - 30 minutes agoThere are glimpses of her singing a duet with Bette Midler for an environmental fundraiser, reading poetry with Meryl Streep and attending a lively ...
- Most Editors Are Failed Writers, But So Are Most Writers - Pinstripe Alley
Most Editors Are Failed Writers, But So Are Most WritersPinstripe Alley, NY - 3 hours agoPete A talks about Springsteen, Joe Posnanski uses asterisks to launch rambling tangents, I make parenthetical reference to modernist poetry. ...
- Nonfiction review: Masters of 'Make-Believe' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Minders of Make-Believe Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature By Leonard S. Marcus Houghton Mifflin; 402 pages; $28 I was a bookish girl, and the heroes and heroines of children's literature were as alive to me as...
- Lou Reed, Royal Albert Hall, London Beck, Guildhall, Southampton (Independent)
The last time I reviewed Lou Reed in this column, I made what I thought was a fairly transparent joke about taking heroin in the toilets beforehand. The credulous media diarist at The Guardian took this at face value, and alerted that newspaper's entire readership to my apparent junkiedom. This time, then, with a face as solemn as Reed's, I shall report that I watch Lou Reed recreate his entire ...
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