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- Literary Lives...Noted writers Mark Doty & Paul Lisicky speak about ... - TriVallyCentral
At a crucial moment in Plato's Symposium - perhaps the most celebrated meditation on love bequeathed to us by the ancient western world - Diotima, the enigmatic priestess, at just the instant when she is to reveal her secret doctrine to Socrates ...
- Cold Poem for a Cold Monday - Rake
Cold Poem for a Cold MondayRake, MN - 11 hours agoAnd because everyone is reading, there is a high demand for poetry. And because there is a high demand for poetry, once a week, possibly on Mondays, ...
- The winner of the P-I poetry contest writes about passion that's combustible (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Read the winners of the P-I's poetry competition.
- From Verse to Controversy -- And Fleeting Fame - Wall Street Journal
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America By Gilbert H. Muller (State University of New York Press, 410 pages, $30) When poet and newspaperman William Cullen Bryant died in June 1878, the mayor of New York ordered the city's flags lowered to half mast ...
- New Poetry Collection Launching This Weekend - Scoop
In Continents by Otago poet Richard Reeve will be launched during Invercargill’s May Arts Month Festival. Poet Emma Neale, who is part of a large contingent of writers going to Invercargill for the Readers & Writers Alive! programme, organised by ...
- Illuminate your spirit with enlightening books while vacationing (Centre Daily Times)
Summer often brings vacation days, trips to flee the routine and extra "me" time.
- The Week[end]: May 2 - 4, 2008 (Isthmus)
May kicks off big around Madison this weekend, with the summer preludes of Gallery Night and the Mifflin Street Block Party leading the way. Other events around town include: the Going Green Wisconsin Expo; productions of 'lt;i'gt;The Nerd'lt;/i'gt;, 'lt;i'gt;Lost Track'lt;/i'gt;, and 'lt;i'gt;Multiple O'lt;/i'gt;; performances by Universes, the UW Madrigal Singers, and Martin Espada 'amp; ...
- Inside Out In The Open: A Film by Alan Roth - All About Jazz
Inside Out In The Open: A Film by Alan RothAll About Jazz, PA - 32 minutes agoThe movement came into its own in the 1960s—a decade of ferment, of radical change, of Viet Nam and peace, of free love and poetry, of Woodstock and loft ...
- Have a seat with a professor who can't be beat: John Maddux (The News Record)
After years of political activism, the quandaries of social work and a deep-seated ethic in humanity, John Maddux, a field service associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, still thrives off of positively impacting the lives of others.
- Saginaw's Arthur Eddy Academy students publish poetry book (The Saginaw News)
Poetry students at Saginaw's Arthur Eddy Academy have put pen to paper and paper on a press to express their feelings. The students are publishing a collection of poetry, "Soul Expressions."
- A Thing of the Past - Forward
Objects have power. In my last column I wrote about the power of Christian right-wing trinkets as symbols of identity and values. A Torah is another powerful object; when it’s no longer usable it has to be buried, like a dead body. Then there’s ...
- Art and poetry contest battles substance abuse - SnoValley Star
Art and poetry contest battles substance abuseSnoValley Star, Wa - 1 hour agoBy Laura Geggel Paint and prose can be excellent safeguards against the pressures of substance abuse. Students in grades seven through 12 can now do each by ...
- Edwin Morgan: A very modest magus - Scotsman
Edwin Morgan: A very modest magusScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoOn the Poetry Archive website on which he can be heard reading his poems, he selects his favourite quote: Shelley's dictum that "poets are the mirrors of ...
- Maine sails: A briny breeze and way too much good food (The Charlotte Observer)
We've been stuffed with fresh blueberry pancakes and perfectly-crisped bacon, tempted with salads and pork in barbecue sauce and home-baked focaccia, sated with all the steamed lobster and corn-on-the-cob we can manage in a single sitting. Now we're all staring at our watches, waiting. Twenty long minutes more before one of the galley girls will hoist the huge brass bell and bellow, "dinnah!" ...
- 15 minutes with Mark Kelly - SIU - Daily Egyptian
15 minutes with Mark KellySIU - Daily Egyptian, IL - 2 hours agoMK: I don't know. I can't really think of anything. I don't know. That I like long walks on the beach and I'm a Taurus. DE: Jeez! Do you read poetry as well?
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