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- Lots of festival fun for kids to enjoy (Daily Dispatch)
THE National Arts festival makes Grahamstown the coolest place in the world. I go to school here, and it is normally a very quiet place. But that all changes once a year when thousands of people come to town. Overnight the place comes alive.
- Bruce Anderson: Ray Lewis and Lord Phillips are both grappling with society's alienated groups (Independent)
There are no easy answers to the question of the other within. Even without his wig and robes, even in a Muslim centre on Whitechapel Road, Nicholas Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, might seem to have little in common with Ray Lewis, who has been obliged to resign as Deputy Mayor of London. Yet both men are wrestling with related difficulties. Both are addressing the vital issue of alienated ...
- Buddhist Community Crosses Barriers - Daily Californian
Buddhist Community Crosses BarriersDaily Californian, CA - 22 minutes ago... which featured poetry by young, non-Japanese American Buddhists, said Reverend David Matsumoto of the temple. Snyder's friendship with Beat Generation ...
- Erudite yet under-rehearsed (The Globe and Mail)
Shakespeare's Sonnets can inspire obsession and Simon Callow is as dedicated to them as any
- The Three Of Us: A Family Story, by Julia Blackburn (Independent)
The trio in the title of this surprising and illuminating book consists of the author and her parents. Thomas Blackburn, the son of a religious fanatic, was a poet who consumed an oceanic amount of booze. He was violent in his cups and for a lengthy period became addicted to the barbiturate sodium amytal. The lethal combination of drug and alcohol exacerbated his tendency to violence and ...
- Poetry meets land rights meets my philosophy on office appearances - Oregonian
I think I'll celebrate at 6:30 p.m. today by wincing and raising a glass of water. It's been seven days since I ruptured the patellar tendon and I feel like I'm finally getting a grasp on the balance between pain vs. prescription narcotics. I spent ...
- Beer-Tossing Antics with the Hold Steady - Village Voice
Beer-Tossing Antics with the Hold SteadyVillage Voice, NY - 10 hours agoNo, it's mostly "Stuck Between Stations," "Massive Nights," "Stevie Nix," "Southtown Girls," etc., all still indisputably great Led Zep/poetry slam anthemia ...
- FIVE THINGS: YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TORONTO THIS WEEKEND - Globe and Mail
FIVE THINGS: YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TORONTO THIS WEEKENDGlobe and Mail, Canada - 14 hours agoStudents from Marca College offer free "retro" haircuts today and tomorrow at the centre's Marilyn Brewer Community Space. What began as an alternative ...
- Interview with Fantasy Author A. F. Stewart (Blogcritics.org)
Fantasy author A. F. Stewart likes to combine history, legend, and mythology in her fiction. Fantasy author A. F. Stewart likes to combine history, legend and mythology in her writing, which include novels, short stories, and poetry. In this interview she talks about her current and future projects, handling negative criticism, her writing habits, and some of her favorite authors.Thanks for the ...
- Studebaker memorial overflows - Southern Idaho Business
Southern Idaho BusinessStudebaker memorial overflowsSouthern Idaho Business, ID - 1 hour agoBut Studebaker was also a writer - with a long line of published poetry, prose and books. Elements of nature, theology and life ring in his writings. ...
- MARK STRYKER: 8 Days counts down; Great Lakes Fest revs up (Detroit Free Press)
Metro Detroit's two major classical music festivals overlap for a few more days, before the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's 8 Days in June bows out Saturday and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival motors on for another week.
- Freaky, flippant Friday - The Register-Guard
Freaky, flippant FridayThe Register-Guard, OR - 5 hours agoTwo weeks ago, I waxed poetic (more wax than poetry) about how our community needs a “black box” flexible theater space. Joseph Gilg, a University of Oregon ...
- Legacy honoured by local poets - Stories of Anzacs spark inspiration of community (Daily Liberal)
Robyn Savage and John Richardson have never met but they have at least two things in common - both were compelled to write poems about Anzac Day and both have ties to the small community of Trangie.
- Rabbi:The new rocker - Times of India
Rabbi:The new rockerTimes of India, India - 15 minutes agoMy mother, a Delhi college principal, has been writing Punjabi poetry for as long as I remember. My sister too writes Punjabi poetry,” says Rabbi, ...
- 'Belle' rings strong - Lynnwood Enterprise
'Belle' rings strongLynnwood Enterprise, WA - 1 hour agoBear in mind, we’re talking about a spinster who lived for 41 years without ever wandering from the family home, yet wrote poetry that makes your hair stand ...
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