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- Sorted for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics (Independent)
On a recent trip to Brazil, I commented to the bossa nova-era songwriter Carlos Lyra that so many of the great Brazilian songs contain the word coracao – heart – in them. "It's so romantic," I said to Lyra. "It seems that Brazilians can't help but sing of the pain and the joy in their hearts." "Actually," Lyra replied, "there's another reason. Coracao is the easiest word in the Portuguese ...
- First national poetry Web site on stream - Sun St.Kitts/Nevis
First national poetry Web site on streamSun St.Kitts/Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis - 26 minutes ago... he saw the need for people who write to have a forum of presenting their work to the public. He said that poetry is a means of expressing oneself, ...
- Friendship fuels recovery for four World Trade Center widows (Southampton Press)
There’s something inherently childlike about the way Pattie Carrington goes through life these days.
- Briefs: Around the region (Los Angeles Daily News)
LANCASTER - An investigation into a rash of commercial burglaries in which businesses' front glass windows were smashed has led to the arrest of a Lancaster man.
- Power Pop Poet (University of Melbourne University News)
When he hears a new kind of song, or is particularly excited by one, poet Michael Farrell starts thinking about how to create an equivalent in poetry. Farrell has been obsessed with pop music since he was around seven years old; his first published poem around this time was based on a hymn.
- Drama to honor Holocaust heroes and victims - Fitchburg pride
Drama to honor Holocaust heroes and victimsFitchburg pride, NJ - 4 hours agoThrough hauntingly realistic dialogue, imaginative staging, and timeless poetry written during the Holocaust, this play introduces audiences to brave men ...
- At 70 is the Wessex Scene old news? - Wessex Scene
Celebrating Seventy Years of the Wessex Scene Nick Brown looks back to the very first issues in 1936 In celebrating the Wessex Scene’s ‘70th anniversary’, it made a great deal of sense to look back at where we had come from. With seventy ...
- A pure thrush word (Guardian Unlimited)
The shell blast that stopped Edward Thomas's heart on the battlefield at Arras stopped his pocket watch, too, at 24 minutes to eight on the morning of Easter Monday, 1917. That frozen timepiece is an appropriate image for a poet whose best work seems to still time, to suspend a moment of clear-sighted observation.
- Wordsinhere: Take five (and six - Expatica Netherlands
Expatica NetherlandsWordsinhere: Take five (and sixExpatica Netherlands, Netherlands - 19 minutes agoEditor Natasha Gunn rekindles a love of poetry and prose at the launch of wordsinhere's fifth volume of the international literary journal Versal, ...
- New song, new president, new era - MPNnow.com
New song, new president, new eraMPNnow.com, NY - 1 hour agoTwo winners of a college poetry contest, student Erin Parker and Barbara Murphy, associate professor of developmental studies, read their poems, ...Cheers and Jeers MPNnow.comall 4 news articles
- Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Llanfachreth results - Daily Post
Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Llanfachreth resultsDaily Post, UK - 3 hours agoPoem under 25 years: Medi Vaughan Wilkinson. St David's Day hymn: Mari Roberts, Deganwy. Harp penillion: Llelo. Parody: Valmai Williams, Aberdesach. Poetry ...
- Preparing for departure - The Columbus Dispatch
SEVILLE, Ohio -- When the nights get warm in this northeastern Ohio town, Lawrence Bartter sleeps on his screened-in back porch, cozying up beside his coffin. He started laboring on the wooden box years ago. The lid lies off to the side, the hinges ...
- 'Rheingold' lacks luster - TheReporter.com
'Rheingold' lacks lusterTheReporter.com, CA - 6 hours agoHer vision, a co-production with Washington National Opera, couples American imagery with Norse mythology, a new twist on Wagner's metaphor for society and ...
- Writers group open to all - Antelope Valley Press
When you are a writer, you just want to write. Maybe it consumes your life, or maybe you have a full-time job and find time to write on the side. Whatever the case, there's a group of people just like you, and they meet once a month to share examples ...
- Broadsheet, out - Salon
It's a Salon holiday, and your Broadsheet writers are taking the day off. In lieu of our usual critiques and repartee, we offer you this video, which you have most likely already seen five times, of a man dancing around the world. We say, why not ...
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