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- Walt Whitman's poems are still relevant to America - Toronto Star
Walt Whitman's poems are still relevant to AmericaToronto Star, Canada - 3 hours agoOver the next four years, he burned through various editorial positions with many New York publications, including the Tattler, Daily Plebeian, ...
- Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation (Arts Journal)
Saxophonist and Love of Life Orchestra leader Peter Gordon gave one of the most lucid presentations at the recent Experience Music Project's Pop Conference -- being the only person over three days to perform a note of music within their allotted 20 minutes.
- No dictionary needed: Emporia girl can spell - Topeka Capitol-Journal
Nishat Yasmin loves words. She pores over them in books, stories of fiction she can't put down until she has reached the other cover — perhaps a natural thing for a kid on her way to her first national spelling bee. But ask the 13-year-old to study ...
- Lowe Foundation Information Center opens to public - Dowagiac Daily News
Lowe Foundation Information Center opens to publicDowagiac Daily News, USA - 5 hours agoBut Lowe, whose 88th birthday is coming up (July 10-1920-Oct. 4, 1995), was a multi-faceted individual with diverse interests, from bringing Jones back to ...
- Family & Self Digest (The Salinas Californian)
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is offering behind-the-scenes tours, sailing and scuba adventures, deck shows, extended weekend hours and no-wait online ticketing this summer.
- Letters to the Editor (Portsmouth Herald)
This isn't the Wild West
- Enjoy the Sunshine, and Celebrate 'Poem In Your Pocket Day' In ... - City Guide Magazine
Enjoy the Sunshine, and Celebrate 'Poem In Your Pocket Day' In ...City Guide Magazine, NY - 4 hours agoThis year, the Poetry Society of America and the New York Public Library are working to bring John Waldman’s writing project to New York City. ...Bloomberg Taps His Inner Shakespeare New York Daily Newsall 2 news articles
- Deaths Elsewhere / Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Indian literature advocate (Pioneer Press)
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong — and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses.
- With cast of 'History Boys,' a lesson in good chemistry - Boston Globe
At a recent rehearsal for SpeakEasy Stage Company's production of "The History Boys," the eight actors playing British high school students joke and tease one another with a comfortable familiarity. It's hard to believe they've only been working ...
- Anger and handstands (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Award-winning poet Luke Kennard on the unusual passions that drive his writing
- W H Auden struggles for the conch - Daily Telegraph
A face disguised as a dried riverbed. I met Auden at dinner shortly after he moved to Christ Church from St Mark's Place in New York. Photographs of that iconic, seamed face didn't prepare me for the distressed reality. It was past plastic surgery ...
- Words of welcome: Festival honoree makes poetry accessible - Newburyport Daily News
poets NEWBURYPORT — Rhina Espaillat believes a poem should welcome readers in, not push them away. Newburyport's best known and most respected poet is the honoree of this year's Newburyport Literary Festival, which kicks off this evening. She's ...
- like nothing else in art - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uklike nothing else in artTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoWith hindsight, it is obvious that it was the only city in the world where an artist so temperamentally attuned to the art and poetry of the ancient world ...
- Best bets for the week - Florida Times-Union
Best bets for the weekFlorida Times-Union, FL - 6 hours agoThe event begins at 8 pm Saturday and includes performances by Akia Uwanda and Amanda Finch, spoken word poetry and visual art pieces. ...
- William Shakespeare a woman in disguise, claims expert - Press Trust of India
William Shakespeare a woman in disguise, claims expertPress Trust of India, India - 5 minutes agoShe has been known only as the first woman to publish a book of poetry ("Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" in 1611) and as a candidate for "the dark lady" referred ...
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