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- Touching Base: Weak ending in store (New York Daily News)
Instead of October drama to punctuate the legendary history of Yankee Stadium, it appears the final act on the grandest stage will be a meaningless anticlimax with the Yankees and Orioles playing out the string.
- MQM chief condoles demise of renowned poet Ahmed Faraz - Associated Press of Pakistan
MQM chief condoles demise of renowned poet Ahmed FarazAssociated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - 2 hours agoIn a condolence message, he said that the death of Ahmed Faraz was a big loss for Urdu poetry. Altaf Hussain recalled the immense literary contributions of ...
- Macbeth as Othello, and other players - Daily Telegraph
Nick Laird reviews The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah, Selected Poems by Bernard O'Donoghue, and The Broken Word by Adam Foulds The Lost Leader, the first full-length collection in 20 years by Mick Imlah, the poetry editor of the Times Literary Supplement ...
- I'll take (a) Manhattan - South Coast Today
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme ...
- Local writer wins award (The Chelsea Standard)
Jennifer Riemenschneider of Chelsea, a member of the Chelsea Writer's Workshop, has won the top prize in a University of Michigan writing competition.
- Why Raymond Carver's legacy keeps on growing - Daily Telegraph
It was 20 years ago today that Raymond Carver died from cancer aged just 50. Although his final years were marked by warm attention from the literary establishment, few would have predicted how central and secure Carver's place in the story of 20th ...
- Del Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activist - San Jose Mercury News
The Associated PressDel Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activistSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 2 hours ago... couple and six other women in 1955 founded the Daughters of Bilitis, a social support group named after a 19th-century French book of lesbian poetry. ...Lesbian activist Del Martin dies Gay.comSF: UPDATE: LESBIAN AND FEMINIST PIONEER DEL MARTIN IS MOURNED CBS 5US lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 Monsters and Critics.comBgay.com - International Herald Tribuneall 304 news articles
- It's Happening - Scarborough (North York Mirror)
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- Rock solid! - Malayala Manorama
Malayala ManoramaRock solid!Malayala Manorama, India - 6 hours agoAvial takes Malayalam folk poetry on a 'rocking' rollercoaster ride, embellished with the turntable in sync with the synthesizer. ...
- A Beautiful Disappointment - Washington Post
It's possible. Even dull pizza somehow tastes better when it's eaten in view of ruins in Rome, and wine that you might dismiss at home becomes more intoxicating when it's sipped at a sidewalk cafe in Paris. Similarly, the same brand of hot dog you ...
- Zandra McMillan - Birmingham News
Description: A Spoken Word CD reception at 6:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Local poet Zandra McMillan will recite poetry from her new Spoken word CD and Book, "I've Got Something to Say.
- Meet the man who has had sex with 1,000 cars! - Newstrack India
Melbourne, Aug 1 (ANI): A stunning woman won't set his heart racing but a car is more than enough to leave Edward Smith gasping for more. Smith claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars insisting that he would prefer a car over a woman any day. Smith's ...
- A classic cruise of another kind (Troy Eccentric)
Once, crossing the Atlantic in style meant an ocean voyage on a luxury liner. Most people make the trip today aboard a cramped airplane, but Bloomfield Township resident Diane Bert sampled the elegance of ocean travel aboard the Queen Mary 2. Not to be confused with a vacation cruise ship, the QM 2 represents traditional high-class traveling. Here is her story.
- In search of a more global curriculum - The Heights (subscription)
In search of a more global curriculumThe Heights (subscription), MA - 2 hours agoSure, poetry class will feature the usual British pantheon of poets, and sure, Philosophy of the Person will start with some good old Plato and Aristotle ...
- Will it be 'The September that Was?' - Boxing Herald
Will it be 'The September that Was?'Boxing Herald, MA - 53 minutes agoYes when we cast our memories back to six months ago we saw the most beautiful poetry and prose being written before our eyes. ...
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