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- Poetic journey through the fantastic (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Poetry, like traveling, involves escape from the ordinary exigencies of life into the enchanting. A poet can achieve this through his skillful and creative use of words, which makes the commonplace unfamiliar, the ordinary bizarre.
- Prague: Then and Now - OhmyNews International
Prague: Then and NowOhmyNews International, South Korea - 24 minutes agoCzech theater productions, poetry and cinema flourished until the Soviet tanks rolled in. Afterward, a new dirty-sounding word became part of the official ...
- Area Briefs, 9/6 (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
BIG SPRING SYMPHONY Symphony concert set in Big Spring BIG SPRING -- The Big Spring Symphony's opening concert is set for 8 p.m. today in the Big Spring Municipal Auditorium.
- Palestinian poet Darwish to be buried Wednesday - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will be buried in the West Bank on Wednesday, a day later than planned, Palestinian officials said. The funeral had initially been scheduled for Tuesday ...
- Favoured mainstays, young talent dazzle - Toronto Star
Favoured mainstays, young talent dazzleToronto Star, Canada - Jun 29, 2008People were snapping up his CD after the show, which is mostly originals and includes poetry. Trane Studio owner Frank Francis is planning to bring him back ...
- Author draws library crowd - Vindicator
A summer reading program has been held every year since the 1970s. BOARDMAN — Five little monkeys helped draw a crowd of more than 250 people to the Boardman library on Wednesday for the summer reading kickoff program. Parents and kids attended the ...
- Cathy Davey (RainbowNetwork.com)
Cathy Davey was always destined to be a musician. Having grown up with parents who were creative types - her mother is a sculptor, her father a musician and composer - conventional means of academia just didn't appeal to her. Having dyslexia didn't help, either.
- Directing history: Alison Carey guides commissioning of new American plays at OSF (The Oregonian)
Your Uncle is having an identity crisis. Uncle Sam, that is. At least that's the view of Alison Carey, the director of an ambitious Oregon Shakespeare Festival project that over the next decade will commision 37 plays about the history of the United States.
- EYEgasim: Iyuana-Nichole - BallerStatus.com
EYEgasim: Iyuana-NicholeBallerStatus.com, CA - 45 minutes agoIyuana-Nichole: Well, I am a fun loving young woman who loves to write and read poetry, along with designing clothes. I stand 5'3", [and my measurements ...
- New Biography Burns With Dickinson's White Heat' - NPR News
Read an excerpt . Brenda Wineapple is the author of Hawthorne: A Life. Fresh Air from WHYY , September 3, 2008 · Conventional wisdom has it you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps. But, what if posterity makes a big mistake ...
- Lyrical terrorist Samina Malik has her conviction overturned - Times Online
The woman who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” won her appeal today against her conviction for collecting information likely to aid a person preparing a terrorist act. Samina Malik, 24, a former Heathrow shop assistant who was given a ...
- Community Calendar - July 8 - Akron Beacon Journal
Community Calendar - July 8Akron Beacon Journal, OH - 54 minutes agoTeen Program: Poetry Cafe — 6:30 pm, Akron-Summit County Public Library, Fairlawn-Bath branch, 3101 Smith Road, Fairlawn. 330-666-4888. ...
- The Crisis of Scottish Broadcasting - Allmediascotland
The Crisis of Scottish BroadcastingAllmediascotland, UK - 10 hours agoScots is a rich and expressive tongue and the vehicle of much of our best poetry and many of our best plays. It used to be one of the pleasures of living in ...
- Ralph Steadman Answers Your Questions - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsRalph Steadman Answers Your QuestionsNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoBy Stephen J. Dubner He graciously fielded your questions about his friendship with the late Hunter Thompson (a “partnership and provocation,” he called it) ...
- McCain charges are absurd - La Crosse Tribune
John McCain’s campaign has been running a television ad blaming Barack Obama for for high gas prices. The absurdity of this commercial is revealed by the facts. A 2005 amendment to raise CAFE standards for cars, SUVs, and minivans to 40 mpg by 2015 ...
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