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- The Roustabout (New York Times)
What kind of poetry does the British cultural polymath Clive James write? It involves, as you might expect, a little bit of everything.
- Obama, McCain pumpkin mugs go head-to-head in O.C. (Orange County Register)
Halloween Festival at the Orange County Market Place this Sunday will also feature trick-or-treating and a hearse show.
- Top talent line up at Irish women's group - Irish World News
IRISH journalist and feminist, Nell McCafferty, will visit the London Irish Women’s Centre (LIWC) at Toynbee Hall in east London on Saturday October 25 to help celebrate its 25th anniversary. McCafferty, renowned for her outspoken approach, will ...
- Book, booker, booked - Express Buzz
Express BuzzBook, booker, bookedExpress Buzz, India - 3 hours agoWhen Arundhati Roy captured the poetry of Ammu’s brownness against Velutha’s blackness, we learnt about love’s limitless potential to challenge the love ...
- The Hit List: Cool beans - Colorado Daily
Although attempted on occasion, it's pretty hard to study when belly-up to the bar. Whether used as a library, an office or a place to party, the slew of coffee shops in this town won't disappoint. Most have free (and pretty good) Wi-Fi, many have ...
- Poetry in motion - Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarPoetry in motionMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 3 hours agoWith daily practice, the tricks are not that hard to master. All a beginner needs is to get the hang of it,” explained Kee Jet Shon, president of the Penang ...
- Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet - International Herald Tribune
Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poetInternational Herald Tribune, France - 3 hours agoBy Haresh Pandya The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. ...
- Grand Terrace celebrates late poet laureate - Redlands Daily Facts
Grand Terrace celebrates late poet laureateRedlands Daily Facts, CA - 21 minutes agoIn his spare time, Teorey wrote poetry. He printed his verses on yellow cards that he gave to anyone he met. Besides poetry, Teorey gained notoriety for ...
- Paul Newman: Ice Cream Cones, Salad Dressing, and The Hole in the Wall ... - OpEdNews.com
Extolling the newly departed is an expected part of the life cycle. Eulogies often gloss over major personality flaws and exaggerate good deeds. That’s the way the game is played. But Paul Newman really was one of a kind, in the best sense of the ...
- Senior poets, well versed in life’s rhyme and reason (The Villager)
Poems, alive and thriving, flew around the fourth-floor room at Greenwich House on Tuesday afternoon as they do the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month when “Poetry for You and Me,” the Greenwich House Senior Center poetry workshop, meets.
- Western gal shares her knack for poetry - Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
Debbie Simpson listens as Robyn Schuppan, a local poet and storyteller, recites some of her poetry at the Plains Hotel Friday morning in Cheyenne. Schuppan is performing as part of the "Americana Music" festival. The festival ends today with a ...
- Japan Times 08/31/08 (Arts Journal)
Is Poetry Untranslateable? "I have often read that poetry is untranslatable, that 'nothing is lost in translation except the poetry.' Yet, if this were true, we would hardly be able to read, let alone appreciate, poets writing in other languages than our own.
- Matthiessen, Robinson among book award finalists (Boston Herald)
NEW YORK - Talk about second chances: Eighty-one-year old Peter Matthiessen has received a National Book Award nomination for "Shadow Country," an 890-page revision...
- David Hawley - Minnpost.com
Photo by Michal Daniel Charity Jones on playing Joy Davidman Gresham: "I was afraid that I wouldn't like her. I did quite a bit of research on her over the summer — and, wow, she's a tough one. But when I read her writing, I decided — hey, I like ...
- Half-dozen young writers to vie for $120K Dylan Thomas Prize - CBC News
A half-dozen young writers hailing from three continents are in the running for the Dylan Thomas Prize, organizers announced in London on Tuesday. Three British authors and one each from South Africa, Vietnam and Ethiopia have made the short list for ...
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