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- Slam turns poetry into performance (Owen Sound Sun Times)
Edgy, energetic, gutsy and invigorating were some of the words used to describe the poetry slam competition held in Durham on the weekend. “I’m getting goosebumps listening to it,” Dianne Ramsay, a poet from Owen Sound, said during a break in the competition Saturday. “I had no idea [...]
- More to Hadrian than a wall - Daily Telegraph
Far from the Adriatic being named after Hadrian - (H)Adriatic - Publius Aelius Hadrianus (Roman emperor ad?117-38) took his personal name from the Adriatic - or rather, from Hadria, the port in the Po delta after which the sea was named. The reason ...
- Graduate wins literary prize with poetry, essays from blog - Examiner.com
Graduate wins literary prize with poetry, essays from blogExaminer.com - 2 hours agoShe also submitted poetry and critical essays. The prize, which is worth $67481 this year, is awarded annually at Washington College to the graduating ...
- A Modern Mass With Notes of Messiaen - New York Sun
A Modern Mass With Notes of MessiaenNew York Sun, United States - 4 hours agoThe fast opening section was divided between bouncy choral writing and odd meanderings at the organ, unfolding tendrils of surrealistic poetry disappearing ...
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream - SFStation.com
A Midsummer Night’s DreamSFStation.com, CA - May 16, 2008The heterogeneity of Indian culture, wedded to the characters’ utter inability to communicate coherently with one another, accentuates the beauty and poetry ...
- Sindh University vice chancellor slams United Nations role in Iraq - Pakistan Daily
Sindh University vice chancellor slams United Nations role in IraqPakistan Daily, Pakistan - 3 hours agoHe said that he had worked on Sindhi literature, short stories and poetry, adding that there is no poetry like Bhitai in Thar or Bhit. ...
- Egyptian star Angham makes guest appearance on Prince of Poets - ArabianBusiness.com (press release)
Egyptian star Angham makes guest appearance on Prince of PoetsArabianBusiness.com (press release), United Arab Emirates - 17 minutes agoYou brought poetry from the dark into the light” quoted judge, Dr. Salah Fadhl. The only Emirati contestant of the night, Saeed Al Mansouri, ...
- Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (BBC News)
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's prison system, dies at the age of 89.
- The race to succeed Gordon Brown - Economist
EconomistThe race to succeed Gordon BrownEconomist, UK - 11 hours agoTHE poetry of Alfred Tennyson is the kind of thing Gordon Brown, perhaps Britain’s most literate prime minister since Winston Churchill, takes with him on ...
- PEI Book Award shortlist announced - Quill & Quire
PEI Book Award shortlist announcedQuill & Quire, Canada - 13 hours agoThe shortlist for the 2008 PEI Book Award has been announced. Charlottetown-based Acorn Press swept the nominations in both the fiction and poetry ...
- User Login (Weekly Dig)
Foss hill—which was swarming with thousands of spectators on Sunday—acquired a certain historical significance last weekend, but it's had some personal significance to me for the past five years.
- Google Trends and the ghost of T.S. Eliot (Los Angeles Times)
How "The Waste Land" became one of the most Googled poems in America.
- CD Review: Mraz continues to defy definition on 'We Sing - Tri County Journal
CD Review: Mraz continues to defy definition on 'We SingTri County Journal, OH - 25 minutes agoOn "Coyotes," Mraz jumps back and forth between singing and his unique, poetry-slam style of rapping. Electronic overtones, flourishes of strings and a ...
- Have you missed me? - HamptonRoads.com
In case you’ve wondered where I’ve been it’s actually pretty simple. I’ve been depressed. Actually, not so much depressed as just plain sad. Even though I no longer have my uterus I still tend to get those monthly blues and bloating. We’ll ...
- Peggy Lee: Girl in the Middle - eJazzNews
Peggy Lee: Girl in the MiddleeJazzNews, Canada - 39 minutes agoThe young Swedish girl was writing poetry as a child; by the age of 14 had decided she wanted to be a singer. She didn’t waste much time in day dreams. ...
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