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- The Insider: Peter Finch - WalesOnline
The Insider: Peter FinchWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 14 hours agoPoetry of the moment. On the spot. Right now. A wide swathe of contemporary rappers now sail in his wake. Non-rapper RS Thomas’ approach was markedly ...
- Books in Brief (Baltimore Sun)
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin By Bill Kauffman
- Making their case (The Times of Acadiana)
Norma Harman sits outside the Lafayette High School cafeteria surrounded by a handful of her students from Cecilia High School. They’re not dressed in uniforms, they’re dressed in suits — ties, heels, tasteful blouses, neatly-pressed shirts.
- Reporter's Notebook: Hampden Township budget - Cumberland County Sentinel
Hampden Township commissioners have a tentative 2009 budget that estimates $30 million in spending for the year. The new budget does not require a tax increase, said township Manager Mike Gossert. “We’re still able to operate within the same ...
- Palestine ISD gets superior rating on FIRST - Palestine Herald-Press
PALESTINE — Palestine Independent School District trustees heard a glowing report about their finances during a public hearing Monday to discuss the Texas Education Agency’s Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) rating. PISD Director ...
- Actor to take part in Remembrance event - Hereford Times
Actor to take part in Remembrance eventHereford Times, UK - 10 hours agoOn Remembrance Sunday, he will read poetry and prose by, among others, Sassoon, Owen and Kipling. “One of my long-term jobs has been at Tonbridge School and ...
- Rod Dreher: Wendell Berry's time is now - Dallas Morning News
Rod Dreher: Wendell Berry's time is nowDallas Morning News, TX - 4 hours agoHe is a Christian who can't be understood apart from his deep religious conviction that humankind is under divine command to be good caretakers of creation ...
- Obama Tapped Hal Prince, Michael Chabon to Craft Culture Plank (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Barack Obama writes poetry, gets props from Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, and is the first White House contender to include a far-reaching arts plank in his platform.
- THE ENGLISH MAJOR - New York Times
New York TimesTHE ENGLISH MAJORNew York Times, United States - Oct 17, 2008To Harrison’s credit, he does more than play the situation for laughs, finally pointing up the emptiness of erotic engagement as a sole criterion for ...
- Pupils' words hang in the air - Bath Chronicle
Pupils' words hang in the airBath Chronicle, UK - Oct 14, 2008Prior Park College pupils wrote poems about the environment to mark National Poetry Day, and their work was written on leaf-shaped cards and hung on a tree ...
- Soldier-poet reads to Madison High students (Daily Record)
MADISON -- Before soldier-poet Brian Turner visited Madison High School, senior Yuqing Meng never expected to think poetry could be cool.
- Weekend events (Detroit Free Press)
Dally in the Alley: With poetry, art, vending and music, noon. Cass Corridor, Second and Forest, Detroit. Free. Esham: 8 p.m. Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward, Detroit. 313-833-9700. $12, $15. Faithless Hero: 7:30 p.m. Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth, Royal Oak. 248-399-2980. $10.
- Something to Bragg about in a recession: sport and music will survive any crisis (Times Online)
It was Amanda Palmer, singer with The Dresden Dolls, the self-described Brechtian punk cabaret group, who proved there is an umbilical chord between sport and music by calling her new single Leeds United . In between lines about Southern Comfort and wicked sandwiches, the bisexual American maverick namechecks the much-loathed Leeds as a way of showing that a loosener from David Batty is, indeed, ...
- Poetry, please! - Daily Telegraph
What is it that makes a poem memorable? Stephanie Plentl asks a selection of famous readers for their favourite verse. Funny, moving, engaging, sad and even intriguing – in the past five weeks, since we launched our Poetry for Performance ...
- Lamarissimo! season opener Nov. 6 - Lamar University
Lamar UniversityLamarissimo! season opener Nov. 6Lamar University, TX - 5 hours agoThe performance is dedicated to the memory of Raul Sosa Ornelas, “our mentor, colleague and friend,” on the anniversary of his birthday, Nov. 6, 1941. ...
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