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- Gardening: Time of balance approaches (Muskogee Phoenix)
The autumn equinox began at 10:44 in the morning on Sept. 22. In poetry, this time of year is called the crowning time for our gardens. Only daffodil season is better according to the poets.
- Robert X. Cringely - Wired
"There's nothing wrong with blogging or podcasting, but they feel to me a bit like CB radio. What I think will happen is that the best bloggers and podcasters will eventually be subsumed into the professional media. After all, every blogger I know is ...
- Nice Office Mad Men returns for a second season. - Slate
Mad Men (AMC, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) is not just about marketing, it's also a triumph of it. You can set the matter of the show's near-excellence—its patient pacing and self-possessed performances, its yards of assertive style—on the Saarinen ...
- Putting Antigone's World in Context - Wall Street Journal
Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, is making his opera directing debut in London with "Burial at Thebes," which is the Antigone story retold by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney -- who himself won the Nobel prize in 1995. The ...
- Day two scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison - Isthmus Daily Page
Day two scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in MadisonIsthmus Daily Page, WI - Aug 7, 2008The second night of preliminary competition in the National Poetry Slam kept downtown Madison stages and clubs busy as the first round of bouts wrapped up ...
- Dr. Henry Morgentaler and "the Goddess with the Golden Breasts" - Lifesite
Dr. Henry Morgentaler and "the Goddess with the Golden Breasts"Lifesite, PA - 48 minutes agoSo writes Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Canada's father of abortion, in one of the poems found in his self-published book of poetry, "Freedom is my Passion. ...
- TAKEN BY STORM (New York Post)
MANDY Patinkin's performance in "The Tempest" is absolutely melodic - and not only when he bursts into song. As the sorcerer Prospero, he delivers Shakespeare's poetry with lilting vocal cadences and swirling hand movements in what isn't so much a...
- UI Press releases poetry by John Isles in Kuhl House Series - Media Newswire (press release)
UI Press releases poetry by John Isles in Kuhl House SeriesMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 53 minutes ago"Inverse Sky " will be available at bookstores or directly from the UI Press by phone at 800-621-2736 or online at http://www.uiowapress.org. ...
- Edinburgh festival: Daniel Kitson - Guardian Unlimited
Daniel Kitson's new standup theatre show, 66a Church Road, is about his longest ever relationship - not with a human being, but with his house. The experiences we share with homes, he argues, are just as special as those we share with our loved ones ...
- Fair is 99 times better than the first time - Prince Albert Daily Herald
Fair is 99 times better than the first timePrince Albert Daily Herald, Canada - 15 minutes agoBlair calls him a walking encyclopedia, saying Smith has a powerful memory of the poetry of Robert W. Service and many other poets. ...
- NEA Chairman Dana Gioia to leave in 2009 - Forbes
The confident baritone of Dana Gioia sounded a little hoarse during a recent telephone interview, as it often has since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a job that has exhilarated and exhausted him. "I have traveled nearly ...
- 'Bartholomew Fair, NJ,' hits home (The Star-Ledger)
Bartholomew Fair, NJ. Where: DeBaun Auditorium Front Lawn, 5th and Hudson streets, Hoboken. When: Saturday and Sunday at 3 and 6 p.m. How much: Free. Call (201) 216-8937 or visit debaun.org .
- In poetry, author finds way to express the horror of 9/11 (Cape Cod Times)
"Bikeman" is a gripping page-turner that captures all of the harrowing moments and fear of 9/11 in a memoir that Thomas Flynn had never imagined himself writing.
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Rottentomatoes.com
1/4 Abandon (2002) "The film gets so bogged down in style that its lack of substance is all the more apparent." Mack Bates 3/4 About a Boy (2002) "A safe harbor for anyone needing relief from the season's cruder offerings." Duane Dudek 4/4 About ...
- Simon Gray; playwright noted for wit; 71 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays such as “Butley,” “Otherwise Engaged” and “Quartermaine's Terms” about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself, died Aug. 6 in London. He was 71.
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