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- It's not just YourSpace (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Party photos from sorority days past. A message from a friend with crude language. Sexually explicit jokes. That kind of content on a Facebook or MySpace Web page isn't an issue for many adults who use the social networking sites in their personal lives.
- Author on tour adds a page, but not to this book (Boston Globe)
The terms of the book tour for my new novel, "The End of the Jews," are these: My cellphone must stay on, charged, and within reach. There is only a five-week differential between the book's drop date and my first child's. I am sprinting through seven cities in 11 days, so as to be home in Berkeley, Calif., a se ...
- Poetry of calibrated violence - Daily News & Analysis
Poetry of calibrated violenceDaily News & Analysis, India - 12 hours agoIn ‘Lifeline’, the wonderful long poem that concludes the first section, all these concerns come together to glitter like mineral deposits, like tears.
- The E-List: Great Things to Do Today (Vancouver Province)
Where: The Ridge Theatre, 3131 Arbutus St. Why: Australia is one of the prime breeding grounds for actors (for starters, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts), and you'll likely be hearing more from this movie's star, Shane Jacobson.
- County jobless rate drops (The Ironton Tribune)
Lawrence County’s unemployment rate dipped a bit last month and remained below the state’s unemployment rate. In March, Lawrence County posted a 4.9 percent jobless rate.
- Full fathom five (Guardian Unlimited)
For WH Auden, "the crack in the tea-cup opens / A lane to the land of the dead." Jorie Graham's poetry is all about the vertiginous (and sometimes heady) experience of falling through the cracks - in reason, in consciousness, in time.
- Between Yourself and Me - VUE Weekly
Between Yourself and MeVUE Weekly, Canada - 44 minutes agoShe especially nails the disconnected cadences of the beatnik’s stuttered beat poetry.) Ross is wonderfully cast as Steven. Rather than merely playing up ...
- Book Review - Jason Schindler's The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry that Inspires Them (Blogcritics.org)
This book will help us understand poetry's fundamental vitality and its capacity for inspiration. Paul Guilfoyle not only reads poetry, but writes about it with compassion and imagination. His commentary on the Irish-drenched Seamus Heaney's Casualty is near poetry itself: "This poem reminds me of when I was a little boy in the 1950s. It was different. Starting as a child I remember there was ...
- Jonathan Williams, 1929-2008 (Washington Post)
"Compose aloud: poetry is a sound." The words are by Basil Bunting, a neglected friend of Ezra Pound and author of the great poem "Briggflatts." Jonathan Williams, a poet who never neglected a friend's poetry, took Bunting's directive and printed it on a postcard, because finding words and printing...
- Sharon Owens: Why it’s totally acceptable to tie a knot in the bride ... - Belfast Telegraph
Girls, girls! When will you ever learn? Apparently the average bride in the UK and Ireland now spends a staggering £20,000 on average on her wedding day. Optimistic to say the least when you consider that half of all current marriages will end not ...
- Poet Laureate's archive placed with Lewis & Clark - Media Newswire (press release)
Poet Laureate's archive placed with Lewis & ClarkMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 58 minutes ago“In some instances we see him wrestle with the words and a poem slowly emerges. Most days, though, you see Bill’s natural gift for poetry, where beautiful ...
- Poet Ellen Doré Watson Reads at Haverford - Bi-College News
Poet Ellen Doré Watson Reads at HaverfordBi-College News, PA - 29 minutes ago... going off on a funny aside about the odd tendency of chickens to show up in her poems. Like most books of poetry, Watson’s are not readily available in ...
- A Four Letter Word! - indiainteracts.com
A Four Letter Word!indiainteracts.com, India - 20 minutes agoThis entry was posted on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 at 5:50 pm and is filed under Uncategorized, Writing-Poetry. You can follow any responses to this entry ...
- The Liberian connection - Danbury News-Times
NEWTOWN -- Sometimes it takes a picture from the other side of the world to teach important life lessons here at home. Earlier this year, fifth- and sixth-graders at Reed Intermediate School complemented their classroom studies of Liberia with a ...
- The Big Trail (2-Disc Special Edition) (DVD Talk)
A truly epic Western of staggering proportions, Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930) is a fascinating work on many levels. Technically it was way ahead of its time; its impressive use of an early 70mm widescreen process predates Todd-AO by a quarter of a century.
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