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- This week - Chicago Tribune
10 Virgins: Laura Jacquin's fanciful new play follows 10 girls who live alone in a swamp. Jacquin, a Chicago writer, recently won the $25,000 Wendy Wasserstein Prize for an outstanding script by an emerging female playwright. Through June 1 by ...
- Playing the common world's melody - Guardian
GuardianPlaying the common world's melodyGuardian, UK - 26 minutes agoAt the close of his Nobel address he spoke of "poetry's power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry's credit": "the power to persuade ...
- A Giant?s Roaring, Faintly Echoed (New York Times)
There is enough in ?John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life,? at the New York Public Library, to hint at Milton?s extraordinary life, and an even more overwhelming afterlife.
- Companion Piece - Philadelphia citypaper.net
Companion PiecePhiladelphia citypaper.net, PA - 25 minutes agoThis book is the centerpiece of Swarthmore College's monthlong exhibit about McFarland's life and career, running through April 4. McFarland, poetry editor ...
- Poetry meets politics at Parthian - The Bookseller (subscription)
Poetry meets politics at ParthianThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoWelsh independent Parthian Books is publishing an anthology of poems chosen by international political figures, including Gerry Adams’ pick of “The Lake ...
- Elsewhere and nowhere - Guardian Unlimited
In his BBC4 series Magnetic North, Jonathan Meades claimed to have distilled the pan-European essence of northernness: beer, herrings, gin, slag heaps, gothic architecture and sex shops. Yet the arbitrariness of the list reconfirms that the true ...
- Sharp Teeth - San Francisco Chronicle
Sharp TeethSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 4 hours agoAt first, "Sharp Teeth" feels as if it's trying a little too hard to be hip, its jangly poetry a bit precious and self-conscious. ...
- Web Exclusives (San Francisco Bay View)
San Francisco Women Against Rape seeks volunteers committed to supporting survivors of sexual assault, challenging all forms of oppression, and developing valuable counseling skills. People of color and people who are bilingual/bicultural are encouraged to apply.
- School Notebook - Amesbury News
School NotebookAmesbury News, MA - 1 hour agoFirst-graders in Ashley Grimes’ class wrote about lucky leprechauns and fourth-graders in Ms. Connell’s class wrote poetry and drew illustrations. ...
- Astros broadcaster gets fresh start at 78 - Houston Chronicle
Astros broadcaster gets fresh start at 78Houston Chronicle, United States - May 6, 2008We use words with sound and feeling and try to add history and poetry to make it sound beautiful. We consider a baseball broadcast a romantic project. ...
- Book Review: A Pattern Garden - Portsmouth Herald News
Book Review: A Pattern GardenPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 2 hours agoThe book contains the most beautiful prose. It reads almost like poetry. The many photographs by three different artists are stunning, and include various ...
- Isaac Rosenberg: the making of a Great War poet, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson (Independent)
In May 2005 the doors of the Whitechapel Library, the street-corner university of so many East End Jewish writers and artists, closed for the last time. Bernard Kops wrote a poem, remembering that "The door of the library was the door into me." Michael Kustow commemorated the library and the Whitechapel Art Gallery next door in a wonderful elegy in the Jewish Quarterly. Of all those who ...
- Art Galleries (Palo Alto Weekly)
"Off The Wall Small" Group show of small works. Show runs Jan. 9-Feb. 10, Free. For more information, call Pixie Couch at 650-701-1018 or e-mail pixiec@mindspring.com or visit www.themaingallery.org . The Main Gallery, 1018 Main St., Redwood City
- Archant Life in North East launch - Brand Republic (subscription)
Archant Life in North East launchBrand Republic (subscription), UK - 20 minutes agoThe title is a replacement for Durham Country Life and will cover subjects including food, wine and poetry. The magazine, which aims to showcase the ...
- Book review by Will Podmore - National Secular Society
Book review by Will PodmoreNational Secular Society, UK - 1 hour agoIt has an introduction, ‘Flicks and this fleeting life’, by Harrison himself and another by his colleague the filmmaker Peter Symes, ‘It’s all poetry to me’ ...
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