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- Obituary: Elizabeth Bartlett - Guardian Unlimited
The poet Elizabeth Bartlett, who has died aged 84, drew upon her experience working in the NHS and cash-strapped social services to create a body of work characterised by uncompromising honesty in its confrontations with physical and mental illness ...
- Very Private Readings (Washington Post)
For a lot of people, the word "poetry" conjures images of angsty adolescents or finger-snapping, black-clad beatniks. It is an acquired taste, something that a certain type of person (boring?) with unoccupied hours to spare might pursue.
- Mark Payne, Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction. - Fabula
FabulaMark Payne, Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction.Fabula, France - 3 hours agoThe bucolic poetry of Theocritus is the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. ...
- Diverse approach to education in Environmental Month - Barbados Advocate
Diverse approach to education in Environmental MonthBarbados Advocate, Barbados - 6 hours agoShe stated in the prose and poetry demonstrated at the Reading, audiences would get clear and varied illustrations of themselves as a people and their ...
- John Lundberg: Stumbling Upon One Of The World's Most Important Poets (HuffingtonPost)
"In Spanish, there is poetry before and after Rubén Dario," Yale professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria wrote in a February 2006 article in The Nation. And...
- How Healthy Is the Economy? It Depends Where You Get Your News - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsHow Healthy Is the Economy? It Depends Where You Get Your NewsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 32 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- TEMPO: Arizona Folklore Preserve announces its 13th season - Sierra Vista Herald
The Arizona Folklore Preserve is kicking off its 13th season on the weekend of Aug. 23-24 with Saturday and Sunday matinee concerts by Dolan Ellis, Arizona’s official state balladeer for more than 40 years, and founder and artist-in-residence of ...
- At our best: June 9 (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
CVHS student receives scholarship Tony Wu, a junior at Crescent Valley High School studying in Germany as an exchange student through the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program, has been selected as a participant for one of the seminars of this year’s Telluride Summer Program with a full scholarship. The program takes place at Cornell University and is a six week educational experience for ...
- Raw: Draft goes Smackdown's way (Slam! Sports)
It’s that time of the year, again, the WWE Draft, although if the brand split was dissolved, we could avoid all this. Oh, and Vince is still giving money away, this time from San Antonio, Texas. All three announce teams are at ringside for this three hour event.
- A strange career - Daily Pioneer
Its time to write a political requiem for General Pervez Mushrraf. Seven years back, who would have thought such a day would come? Saturday Special's Indo--centric view of the strange successes and astonishing failures of a man a whole generation of ...
- The women he left behind - Haaretz.com
On the door of the house in the village of Makhoul - also known as Peki'in West - there could easily have been hung a sign saying "Here live Mathal, Munib and Jamila Makhoul in happiness." Except that Munib is dead and buried in the yard of the house ...
- AOL and I move on - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
AOL and I move onThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 1 hour agoI e-mailed CoffeeMug, and we talked about our shared interest in writing poetry and fiction. He was in Dallas, and I was in New York, and we became fast ...
- Cortese wins Columbia 300 scholarship (InsideNoVa.com)
Columbia 300 has announced Natalie Cortese, a Hoffman Estates, Ill. resident, as the winner of the 2007-08 John Jowdy Scholarship.
- In Brief - Forward
In BriefForward, NY - 1 hour ago... certainly not for poetry, or when counted per verbum. When Representative William Scherle (Republican, Iowa) read the poem — it was, apparently, ...
- The Possibility of an Island: Critics ridicule Houellebecq's ... - Guardian Unlimited
He has been labelled a sex-obsessed nihilist, a middle-aged misogynist and an Islamophobe with a rotten moral core. But Michel Houellebecq may have just suffered the most hurtful jibe of all: he has been called boring. Critics at the Locarno film ...
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