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- Review: 'Port Authority' ... what might have been (AP via Yahoo! News)
NEW YORK (AP) — Is there anything more heartbreaking than what might have been? Recollections of regret are the soul of "Port Authority," a series of three superb, interlocking monologues by Conor McPherson that offers ample evidence why the Irish playwright is one of the finest writers for the stage today.
- Bringing beauty to all through surprisingly unrefined language (The Japan Times)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the one most translated into other languages. Yet, until now, no one has gathered into one volume, translated into English, the complete works. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the... Read the full story.
- 'Freedom Rings' at Diamond Park Thursday (The Meadville Tribune)
June 19, 1865: A Union general delivered news to Texas that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were to be freed — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Eman-cipation Proclamation.
- Cathy Davey - Tales Of Silversleeve - musicOMH.com
Cathy Davey - Tales Of SilversleevemusicOMH.com, UK - 34 minutes agoThe lyrics might be lost at first to the simple pleasure of the swooping vocals, but on subsequent listens the poetry comes to the fore with lines like ...
- From A to F, a 2008 NBA draft report card (Fox Sports)
After all the dust settled, 11 teams received A's on NBADraft.net's report card, including the Clippers. One team earned an F.
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies - Seattle Times
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86 ...
- Words of Wisdom: Myth and its symbols - Marconews
Words of Wisdom: Myth and its symbolsMarconews, FL - 1 hour agoAs poetry, the words of myth are preferential here in explaining and discussing things like this because the words of prose are inadequate to explain these ...
- 'Old War' makes connections amid crises - Boston Globe
Boston Globe'Old War' makes connections amid crisesBoston Globe, United States - 48 minutes agoWhat makes Shapiro so important to American poetry right now is the success with which he's taken over the territory of fiction writers. While his poems ...
- Tagore is read much less nowadays: actor Soumitra Chatterjee (Interview) (New Kerala)
By Madhusree Chatterjee, New Delhi, May 11: Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee believes that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore is very much a part of our present, but he is being read much less these days.
- Video game reviews: "Ninja Gaiden II," "Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Popular fascination with ninjas reached its peak in the late 1980s with the masked and near-invincible fighters featured in movies and television shows. Ninjas exhibited cunning, stealth, discipline and superior fighting techniques. My friends and I ...
- Historically Speaking: Norwich man left literary mark - Norwich Bulletin
Historically Speaking: Norwich man left literary markNorwich Bulletin, CT - 2 hours agoHe was invited by Norwich native Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, to present eight poetry lectures there in 1891. ...
- Writer Branislaw Sprynchan dies after being run over by drunk ... - Belorusskie Novosti
Writer Branislaw Sprynchan dies after being run over by drunk ...Belorusskie Novosti, Belarus - 11 hours agoHe headed the poetry department of the literary journal Nyoman and is known for translations of Belarusian- and Ukrainian-language poetry into Russian. ...
- Milky Bellflowers are beautiful - Times and Transcript
Milky Bellflowers are beautifulTimes and Transcript, Canada - 3 hours agoTry some yoga, tai-chi, Qigong, have a massage, take a horse-drawn wagon ride up the fields to poetry readings. Enjoy brunch on the verandah. ...
- 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.
- The Renaissance Portrait Presented at The Museo Nacional Del Prado - Art Daily
The Renaissance Portrait Presented at The Museo Nacional Del PradoArt Daily - 2 hours ago... to justify the superiority of painting over poetry: “If the poet says he that can inflame men with love, which is the central aim in all animal species, ...
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