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- Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City) - Chicago Tribune
Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City)Chicago Tribune, United States - 6 hours agoWhat Berman did always bring was a serious, if often playful, literate acuity (his 1999 collection, "Actual Air," is a well-reviewed book of poetry). ...
- Sect families hesitant to return to ranch - Houston Chronicle
ELDORADO — Mother-and-child reunions continued around the state Tuesday but most families belonging to a polygamist sect are staying away from the windswept ranch they used to call home — at least temporarily. Only about a third of the families ...
- Third anniversary chat with the local scribbler - The Compass
Third anniversary chat with the local scribblerThe Compass, Canada - 1 hour agoI loved writing essays and poetry in school. My first job was in a newspaper (the old St. John's Daily News). I even had my own column for teens when I was ...
- Fantasy Steals and Other All-Star Wisdom - Wall Street Journal
Even the most cold-hearted of fantasy baseball players — those married to the numbers and responding to trade offers with one-word rejections — sometimes feel something that make them act irrationally. There's a reason that volumes of poetry and ...
- Russian police told to improve their image - Daily Telegraph
Worried by the widespread disdain for the force shown by ordinary Russians, Rashid Nurgaliyev, the interior minister, has ordered his errant officers to enrol themselves in a "programme of moral purification". The new initiative came as posters ...
- Major League Eating Hits WiiWare on Monday - 1UP.com
Major League Eating Hits WiiWare on Monday1UP.com, NY - 1 hour agoThese brave men and women are artists of the alimentary canal, warriors who create living poetry with each wiggle of the epiglottis," quipped Bill Swartz, ...
- Leader Page Articles - Hindu
There is probably a good reason Ernest Hemingway is known for his novels, short stories and journalism rather than his poetry, and it can be found in a remarkable first edition of his first American book. Clearly, he was not a great poet
- A Man Asian for every season, for every reason - Tehelka
A Man Asian for every season, for every reasonTehelka, India - 3 hours agoSalma’s prose, as well as her powerful poetry, is rooted in the reality of pain and rebellion. Midnight Tales has been rendered into English by Lakshmi ...
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- Danny Abse wins Wales book of the year (NewsWales)
Poet Dannie Abse has won the ten thousand pounds Wales Book of the Year 2008 for his book The Presence, a journal of his grief after his wife died in a car accident.
- 'Give poetry a chance,' laureate says - Delaware Online
A poem can be a lonely, silent thing. But when it's ready, said JoAnn Balingit, Delaware's 16th and latest poet laureate, "It has to be witnessed, because you want to communicate it." And if there's one thing a poet laureate wants to do, it's tell ...
- Everyday struggles - Taranaki Daily News
Everyday strugglesTaranaki Daily News, New Zealand - 1 hour agoHip-hop has had its share of detractors, but Tek says RES performs street poetry that is relevant to the average person. "We don't rap about cars and women ...
- Jacques HĂ©tu: The Joy of Composing - La Scena Musicale
Jacques Hétu: The Joy of ComposingLa Scena Musicale, Canada - 2 hours agoNelligan’s poetry touches him. He isn’t indifferent to the poet’s pain, which he feels almost as if it were his own. The painful and troubled world of ...
- JANE GLENN HAAS: Poetry, schmoetry! - Olympian
The topic is aging/longevity/life after 50. Keep your entries short and pithy. Homeric epics will not be considered. Furthermore, do not use the word "geezer" because the judge (that's me) doesn't like the word "geezer." Do not rhyme "Viagra" and ...
- What You're Saying - Urbanite Baltimore
What You're SayingUrbanite Baltimore, MD - 2 hours agoIt wasn’t until last year that, through the aid of the National Academy Foundation, I found an incredible motivator for my kids: poetry. ...
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