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- Paxman outrages Scots by calling Burns' poetry 'sentimental doggerel' - Daily Mail
Daily MailPaxman outrages Scots by calling Burns' poetry 'sentimental doggerel'Daily Mail, UK - 23 minutes agoBy Daily Mail Reporter Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has sparked fury after he dismissed Scotland's national bard Robert Burns as 'no more than a king ...
- She's a real Sometimes girl - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
She's a real Sometimes girlThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 3 hours agoSometimes began writing poetry as a child and made the transition to song writing at 14. "It came pretty naturally," she says. ...
- Glass-blowing guru: young artist impresses with ability to shape vases ... - Kalamazoo Gazette
Jennifer Harnish | Kalamazoo Gazette Casey McCoy, 14, of Delton, makes a glass vase at the West Michigan Glassblowing Society Hot Shop Tuesday. McCoy started blowing glass at age 11. It's a bright, early-September day, and sunlight is streaming ...
- Ballerina adds new roles to busy life - Post-Star
There cannot be any more demanding occupation than dancing at the highest level of the New York City Ballet. "Single-minded devotion is almost a job description. Life is dance, dance is life. Class, rehearsal, performance, eat a little, sleep a ...
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish - AFP
AFPTens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet DarwishAFP - 2 hours agoDarwish penned over two dozen books of poetry and prose in a career spanning nearly a half-century, writing searing verses that captured the Palestinian ...
- Garbage crews loafing -- to tune of $14.3 million (Chicago Tribune)
- Hearts in the write place - Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Hearts in the write placeArkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 1 hour ago“I write for the sheer love of it,” Lake says. “If a crystal ball told me I was never going to get rich and famous, I’d still write poetry. ...
- The Pre-Modernist Church - The Bulletin
Roman Catholic Church architecture has changed radically in the last two decades. New churches tend to have a Spartan, bare-bones look, which architecture and art critic Michael Rose calls "Ugly as Sin." The new designs - with their "kitchen tables ...
- Poetry and music fuse in former professor's art (The Red and Black)
When former English professor Coleman Barks taught at the University from the '60s to the '90s, he suggested combining poetry and music into one class, believing the two art forms work together to create deeper meanings. He will be demonstrating that synergy Friday at the UGA Arts Festival.
- Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid - San Francisco Gate
Simon Armitage's latest poetry collection, "Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid," winds down with a touch of bravado, publishing a penultimate verse that is, at first, completely unreadable. The text is printed backward, and the joke is on us ...
- Seeking to be a role model for the young - South Asian Focus
Seeking to be a role model for the youngSouth Asian Focus, Canada - 6 hours agoShe also loves figure skating and writes poetry. Presently Aziza Mohammad is seeking pageant sponsors. Serious sponsors can contact her at ...
- Strut your (poetry) stuff for cash! - FreeportJournal Standard
The Dubuque Area Writers Guild is giving poets a chance to strut their stuff for cash. On Oct. 18, the writers guild will host the first Dubuque Poetry Slam, with $1,350 in prizes for the evening's top performers. The slam movement started in Chicago ...
- Peace Dances and Rumi Poetry - Myrtle Beach Online
As adults bow in a unity circle, Molly Maloney, 6, rests on the floor watching at Unity Christ Church in Surfside Beach on Sunday. About 50 people participating in the Rumi poetry reading and universal peace dances. Rumi was a poet in the thirteenth ...
- Heritage questions answered (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - A welcome addition to the scarce resource material on conservation in the Philippine context is “Balangkas,” a book focusing on the care of built heritage published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
- Stately mansions of a bygone era - Hindu
Stately mansions of a bygone eraHindu, India - 18 minutes agoA love for Persian and Urdu poetry, a disposition toward Sufism, elaborate, graceful manners characterised the inhabitant of the deodis. ...
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