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- Library awash in laundry (The Republican)
PALMER - A small green sweater, the color of peas, is mounted on the wall. It shrunk in the wash and now a 4-year-old wears it. A veil with an iron stain is shown against a backdrop of pink, sparkles and pearls. It carries a message: "Don't let Mom iron my veil. She burns everything.
- Gary Snyder awarded $100,000 poetry prize (The Union)
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Gary Snyder, of the San Juan Ridge, Wednesday won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - one of the nation's most prestigious and largest literary awards.
- C'mon Hollywood - JoBlo.com
JoBlo.comC'mon HollywoodJoBlo.com, Canada - 12 hours agoPersonally, I’ll like the guy equally if he spends his weekends reading poetry or snorting coke off hooker’s asses. At this stage in his career, ...
- Poetry Reading: Jean Valentine - BU Today
Poetry Reading: Jean ValentineBU Today, MA - 1 hour agoHer latest book of poetry, Little Boat, was recently published by Wesleyan. Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program of ...
- A voice heard 'round the world (The Doings Oak Brook)
To Joy Harjo, the sun is a relative. "I believe in the sun," Harjo said, quoting from her poem, "A Sacred Connection to the Sun." "In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity." As a recurring theme in her poetry, the sun was mostly absent during Harjo's March 5 visit at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, but she still delivered a luminous performance ...
- They're not who you think they are - Pocono Record
The jock. The outcast. The local. The urban transplant. These and other Pocono stereotypes of students get stretched, prodded and plumbed this weekend at Pleasant Valley High School's multimedia, student-written performance piece called "Pleasant ...
- The Here and Now (winnipegsun.com)
He's still known best as one of the early members of Broken Social Scene, the Montreal indie collective whose second album You Forgot it in People is like a sacred relic in most hipster circles.
- Mike Doughty: 'Golden Delicious' - Student Life
Mike Doughty: 'Golden Delicious'Student Life, MO - 2 hours ago... up alternative electro-pop infused with everything from jazz to rock, DJ loops, and the sharp, spoken-word poetry that became Doughty's trademark. ...
- Reading features changing of the poetry guard - Foster's Daily Democrat
Reading features changing of the poetry guardFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - Feb 29, 2008The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program is dedicated to building community through poetry by appointing and supporting an outstanding local poet as poet ...
- World's worst poetry sold for $12,840 (Toronto Star)
EDINBURGH, Scotland – The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language.
- BOOK REVIEW A Question of Gravity and Light - Windy City Times
BOOK REVIEW A Question of Gravity and LightWindy City Times, IL - 3 hours agoFalconer's poetry is fiercely precise and sharp even when he writes about death. Here, as in “The Given Account,” the enormity and grief of death is ...
- YO! Poetry: Halo Ape Godo Drops Knowledge at City Lights (New America Media)
Robin Black, otherwise known as Halo Ape Godo, talks about his love for poetry and hip hop and drops some verbal game after a performance at the historic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.
- Arts haven (The Pantagraph)
On a Saturday, mid-afternoon, in the University Galleries at Illinois State University, a single person was taking in the latest exhibit, a group show by teachers from the College of Fine Arts.
- CD: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Guardian
GuardianCD: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!Guardian, UK - 11 hours agoWhile the latter song found Cave vainly attempting to woo a young lady by sucking his gut in and quoting poetry, here he's confronted by distaff spectres ...
- Bush vows to help McCain win U.S. presidency (CTV.ca)
U.S. President George Bush has officially endorsed Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain, saying the Arizona senator has what it takes to keep Americans safe.
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