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May. 22, 2008 | Has the role of the professional critic become obsolete in an age of book clubs, celebrity endorsements and blogs? A new book, "The Death of the Critic," says no, and argues that there are still reasons to regard some opinions as ...
- Call for female poet Laureate - Ledbury Reporter
First PostCall for female poet LaureateLedbury Reporter, UK - 3 hours agoBy Gary Bills-Geddes LEDBURY Poetry Festival has written to the Queen and Gordon Brown in a bid to ensure that the next Poet Laureate will be female, ...Ledbury Poetry Festival launches campaign for female Poet Laureate Hereford Timesall 4 news articles
- The Girl in the Tower - The New York Review of Books
The Girl in the TowerThe New York Review of Books - 47 minutes agoShe learned poetry from a Greek epic poet, and storytelling from an African griot. Sugar Cane, like the Grimms' version of the story, unites the lovers ...
- How to read Cicero's gobbets - Times Online
How to read Cicero's gobbetsTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoThis is well known to be the case with, for example, the later speeches in the series “Against Verres”; for Verres had seen the writing on the wall and ...
- July 4 is more than a holiday - La Crosse Tribune
Another July 4 is upon us. In addition to fireworks, flags and hot dogs on this day, each one of us should take it upon himself or herself to read the Constitution and the first 10 amendments to it — the Bill of Rights. These are precious gifts ...
- Art and artifacts of black experience come to Norton - MiamiHerald.com
Art and artifacts of black experience come to NortonMiamiHerald.com, FL - 2 hours agoThere's a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, a bronze bust of Frederick Douglass, a 1773 first edition of Phillis Wheatley's first poetry collection; ...
- Motorcyclist jailed in passenger’s death - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Pier 1's top executive tells shareholders he's on the right track Love and marriage bloom in one man’s garden The longtime teacher who wrote poetry was her church’s historian Barnett Shale drillers work overtime to recruit college graduates ...
- Unorthodox station's voice may be muted - New Zealand Herald
With no front teeth, Pacotillo is an unlikely radio sensation. And his patter with members of his on-air posse sounds more like a group therapy session than a Saturday show. But then the broadcast is coming from the inside of a Buenos Aires ...
- Shabazz grads celebrate marching to their own drummer (The Capital Times)
Instead of flinging mortar boards into the air, students playfully batted around a beach ball. "Pomp and Circumstance" was replaced by an all-staff rendition of Crosby Stills Nash and Young's "Teach Your Children." One student even replaced the traditional cap and gown with a tie-dyed bandana, peace sign T-shirt and pearl white blazer. It was just another normal graduation for Shabazz City High ...
- Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book Award - CBC News
Barbara Gowdy is one of the newest winners of Ontario's Trillium Book Awards, announced at a midday ceremony in Toronto Thursday. The Toronto-based Gowdy won the $20,000 English-language Trillium Book Award for her seventh novel, Helpless , which ...
- E Jane Dickson: A generation that must control its expectations (Independent)
"The only antidote to mental suffering," said Karl Marx, " is physical pain." It wasn't true when he said it, and it's not true now, but it has a kind of catchy authority, catchy enough, at any rate for Marx to be included with Princess Diana and Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers in a pantheon of self-harmers on a website devoted to the cult of self-injury.
- For Princeton, with love (The Star-Ledger)
For most of living memory, the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood in Princeton, beginning just on the far side of the Princeton Public Library from the main gates of the university, has been the leafy college town's African-American district.
- LitTO: May 27–June 4 - Torontoist
TorontoistLitTO: May 27–June 4Torontoist, Canada - 14 hours agoLocal indie poet (and Torontoist fave) Emily Schultz is up for the $10000 English language poetry prize for her collection Songs for the Dancing Chicken. ...
- Mission Chicago - Catholic New World
St. Peregrine Feast Day Mass: 2 p.m. May 4, with blessing of pilgrims with relic of the cancer saint; nurses and nursing students will be honored on 50th anniversary of the last Chicago Nurse Parade, at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica, 3121 W. Jackson ...
- Writers and poets fuel the muse - Rutland Herald
Writers and poets fuel the museRutland Herald, VT - 6 hours agoEllen Baileybrown of Rutland said she was looking forward to seeing how Dawsen's advice affects her poetry. Ellen and her partner, Sallie Baileybrown, ...
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