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- Why poetry matters, By Jay Parini (Independent)
In 1989, the American poet Dana Gioia lobbed a grenade into the cosy world of the US creative-writing industry. His essay, "Can Poetry Matter?", spoke wittily and despairingly of "poets" graduating from courses who teach and produce fresh multitudes of versifiers, publish in the same magazines and reverently review one another's books, most written in the same chopped-up free verse that has ...
- Charged teacher's computer tower missing, court hears - Windsor Star
The computer tower prosecutors say would have proved a sexual relationship between high school teacher Mark Baggio and two of his students was missing from his home when police searched it, Superior Court heard Tuesday. The central processing unit ...
- FCPS Modifies Admissions Test - Falls Church News Press
FCPS Modifies Admissions TestFalls Church News Press, VA - 3 hours agoStudents can express themselves in words, artwork, poetry, or song, and each grade level has its own national winner. The top four high school students ...
- Coup de grace (Deccan Herald)
The strength of this book lies in its irreverence and the wry tenor employed in referring to, at times the inanity, at others the brutality or hypocrisy of the men in positions of power.
- Senior Olympics held - Pasadena Star-News
Senior Olympics heldPasadena Star-News, CA - 2 hours agoWho is going to change, the abortion protesters and counselors, the abusive spouses and boy friends, the gang bangers, the free-sex advocates? ...
- Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserve - The Independent
Arresting headlines all last week. "Police arrest Batman" caught the eye. "Police arrest Balls" would have been better, but Ballsing up the education of thousands is not yet considered a crime in this country. Unlike ballsing up your own ...
- Science boldly goes where poetry inspires - Easier (press release)
Science boldly goes where poetry inspiresEasier (press release), UK - 1 hour ago... a poetry magazine celebrating space. At the annual Foundation black tie banquet, Chairman Bob Werb announced the person receiving the award had no idea. ...
- Crab Orchard Review wins literary award - The Southern
Crab Orchard Review wins literary awardThe Southern, IL - 7 hours agoThe IAC Literary Awards go to individual works of fiction, poetry or creative non-fiction. The writers and the literary journals that published the ...
- A Baghdad bookseller, bound to his country (Lat-wp / By Sudarsan ... - Peninsula On-line
A Baghdad bookseller, bound to his country (Lat-wp / By Sudarsan ...Peninsula On-line, Qatar - 11 minutes agoHe bought the poetry book. He anticipates lending it to at least a dozen classmates, who, in exchange, will lend him their books. On a recent day, ...
- Poet C.D. Wright at Central Library (Seattle Times)
Poet C. D. Wright comes through town next week. Wright, a MacArthur "genius grant" award winner who has used her poetry to address topics...
- Buzz: News from the local arts world - Nashua Telegraph
Buzz: News from the local arts worldNashua Telegraph, NH - 4 hours agoPhase I of the project involves these student writers in a journey of discovery that will eventually lead their poetry to be sung by their own high school ...
- No country for old men - guardian.co.uk
No country for old menguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoShe always reads me poems, but I can't stand bloody poetry. But she's very important to me. I depend on her to take me everywhere and I'm very grateful to ...
- Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alive (Post-Bulletin)
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night." So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a b
- Events on Long Island (New York Times)
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- art Till June 20 at Angan Art Gallery, 11 Fern Place, #2461 8899; 3 pm - 8 pm: (The Telegraph)
Udvid presents its first annual exhibition featuring works by Pranamita Das, Dipankar Bhawal, Shalini Chanda and Amit Mukhopadhyay. Till June 21 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by M. Narayanan Namboodiri.
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