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- Survey Says: Time for a Change - Washington Post
Survey Says: Time for a ChangeWashington Post, United States - 4 hours agoThe actor-director was here to talk up a youth slam-poetry program sponsored by his foundation on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," which tapes at the Newseum. ...
- L. Rust Hills, 83; Edited Renowned Fiction Writers for Esquire - Washington Post
Washington PostL. Rust Hills, 83; Edited Renowned Fiction Writers for EsquireWashington Post, United States - 3 hours ago"In density of language, in multiple use of the sound and sense of words, the short story is comparable to lyric poetry." An early marriage and a second ...
- Zimbabwe: Mairosi's Poem Published in Che in Verse - AllAfrica.com
Zimbabwe: Mairosi's Poem Published in Che in VerseAllAfrica.com, Washington - 31 minutes agoBy having his poem featured in the book, the 31-year-old Mairosi automatically qualified to rank as one of the finest poets on the globe. ...
- Porter Web site expands features - Westlake West Life
Westlake West LifePorter Web site expands featuresWestlake West Life, OH - 6 hours agoWhen Porter held a poetry contest for students in kindergarten through grade five this spring, the entries were posted on the library Web site — in audio ...
- How to fly without fear (Independent)
Last week's "terror plunge" to an emergency landing by a Qantas jumbo jet will have done little to soothe the intense fear of flying suffered by one in five of the UK population. Boarding an aeroplane may actually be the safest form of travel, but being stuck in a metal tube, 39,000 feet in the air, can exacerbate so many other phobias: fear of crowds, heights, confined spaces and loss of ...
- Short Comings (The Shawnee News-Star)
Today Individual Artists of Oklahoma will sponsor an open-mike poetry reading at 7 p.m. at Benedict Street Marketplace. Jennifer Kidney, Ph.D., director of literature for the Oklahoma Humanities Council, will be the featured reader. ••• Overeaters Anonymous meets at 11 a.m. at First Christian Church, 1625 N. Broadway, Shawnee. For more information, call Oteka Ball at 275-2594. ••• Disabled ...
- Much Ado About A Stolen Shakespeare Folio - CBS News
(AP) It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it ...
- Wandering Visions Settles In For A While At Boltax - Hamptons.com
Hamptons.comWandering Visions Settles In For A While At BoltaxHamptons.com, NY - 1 hour agoIn some cases the drawing, done in black ink, is filled in with etching marks; in other cases, the ink is erased and the etching outline appears shiny white ...
- Mona Hatoum at Parasol Unit - the Sunday Times review - Times Online
In the Chapman brothers’ staggeringly good recreation of hell at White Cube - if you haven’t seen it yet, consider yourself spanked by head teacher Januszczak - there’s a strange and sad little figure living in a cabin on a hilltop outside all ...
- Adrienne Sichel's hot tips - Tonight South Africa
Cape Town Edge, a collection of professionally produced edgy (like the title suggests) mother city theatre, puppet and dance companies sharing the same venue, is back for a second year at Princess Alice Hall, in African Street, with its own mini ...
- Ancestral Journeys - New York Times
Ancestral JourneysNew York Times, United States - 46 minutes agoHe is also a polemicist on behalf of the mongrel life. His 1998 book “Les Identités Meurtrières” (translated into English two years later as “In the Name of ...
- Time Out at 40 (Guardian Unlimited)
How an arts magazine born on a kitchen table became the bible of the hip crowd
- George Michael's revealing dancetopia is must-see stuff - OCRegister
George Michael's revealing dancetopia is must-see stuffOCRegister, CA - 52 minutes agoAll alone to sing "A Different Corner" (pop poetry worthy of Smokey Robinson), he remains utterly compelling; encircled by his backing vocalists for a ...
- "I Put No Stock in Religion" - Northern Daily News
"I Put No Stock in Religion"Northern Daily News, Canada - 41 minutes agoMuch of the bible is poetry and there are also predictions (prophecy) full of imagery that can be difficult to appreciate without some study; there are also ...
- The Broken Word, by Adam Foulds; Mandeville, by Matthew Francis; For All We Know, by Ciaran Carson (Independent)
The Broken Word is Adam Foulds's first published poetry (he has written a well-regarded novel). It shows a young man, Tom, fresh from "the bark/ and whine and snivel/ and brag" of school, plunged into service against the 1950s "Mau Mau" uprising in Kenya. The blurb explains this – a pity, because Foulds lets us find out decade, place and bloody context by degrees. The poem quietly initiates ...
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