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- BCM announces fifth annual DeBakey Poetry contest winners - BCM News
BCM announces fifth annual DeBakey Poetry contest winnersBCM News, TX - 10 hours agoHOUSTON -- (July 1, 2008) -- Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has announced the winners of the fifth annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry ...
- New bookstore caters to the spiritual side of Stauntonians - Staunton News Leader
New bookstore caters to the spiritual side of StauntoniansStaunton News Leader, VA - 3 hours agoThey include everything from poetry and various traditional spiritual texts, as well as books on feminist theory and animal rights. ...
- On the cusp - Cleburne Times-Review
On the cuspCleburne Times-Review, TX - 36 minutes ago“My mom was heavy into poetry at that time, and I started writing poetry as well,” Johnson said. Johnson also began emulating the sounds and lyrics of his ...
- Where Children Fight the Wars, Innocence Dies First - New York Times
New York TimesWhere Children Fight the Wars, Innocence Dies FirstNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoIt is, for one thing, beautifully shot, with an impressive feel for the poetry of faces and natural phenomena. Mr. Mundruczo’s deft use of sound — lapping ...
- Griffin rewards elder statesmen (Toronto Star)
It was a night for honouring octogenarian legends at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards. Jointly, John Ashbery and Robin Blaser have spent more than a century publishing poetry.
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' - New York Sun
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get ...
- "The Pearl": a nobleman defies social conventions (Seattle Times)
"The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia" by Douglas Smith is a love story between the richest nobleman in Imperial Russia and a young serf with a spellbinding operatic voice — the scribbler of a bodice-ripper romance novel could not ask for better stuff.
- Interview: Anthony David, Singer and Songwriter (Blogcritics.org)
R&B sensation Anthony David will be the first artist to release an album under SoulBird Music, India.Arie's new banner. This article is part of a series in celebration of a new, dynamic voice in Black America: the NUBIANO Exchange. Brace yourself for the NUBIANO experience. Legend has it that one day the souls of Bill Withers and Mos Def would intertwine. On that glorious day a man by the name ...
- Baroness Michie of Gallanach: Lib Dem peer committed toScotland and the Gaelic language (Independent)
On 31 October 2001, a small but important piece of history was made when Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, became the first person ever to take the oath of allegiance in the House of Lords in Gaelic. In doing so, she was true to her inheritance. Her father, Lord Bannerman of Kildonan, had spoken the first words of his maiden speech in the Lords in Gaelic.
- The eccentric genius of JMW Turner - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comThe eccentric genius of JMW TurnerThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 55 minutes agoTurner was indeed a Romantic painter, tied all his life to the Thames or the sea. He did his rocky Alpine crags, but it was water, light and fire he loved, ...
- 'A tiny bit of adventure' - Guardian Unlimited
'Is this your first time on the sleeper?" says the middle-aged woman in charge of my coach as she shows me to my tiny compartment. "Yes." "OK, I'll give you a quick run-through." She shows me how the sink unfolds, the blind pulls up, the door latch ...
- Three Poems - New York Times
Students from the Santa Fe Indian School will be competing in July at the National Youth Poetry Slam Festival in Washington D.C., an event that pits the country's top young spoken word poets against each other
- Jean-Luc Godard - New University Online
Jean-Luc GodardNew University Online, CA - 3 hours agoA lot of the poetry in rap has been watered down to an obnoxious bass line, along with a rapper that rhymes the word “grill” repeatedly. ...
- Toronto's Literary Events: June 24-30, 2008 - blogTO
Toronto's Literary Events: June 24-30, 2008blogTO, Canada - 9 hours agoDavid Day, Lee Maracle, and Mel Sarnese feature at the Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's at 8pm. Being so close to a highly polluted Lake Ontario, ...
- It's only verse 'n' rhymes, but pop festivals like it - The Observer
It's only verse 'n' rhymes, but pop festivals like itThe Observer, UK - 7 hours ago... held next month near the Suffolk village of Southwold, while Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Adrian Mitchell will top the festival's poetry bill. ...
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