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- Bringing the past alive, strings attached - Age
T O LIVE in Venice, agrees Paolo Cognolato, is to live in a museum. Whereas, in the heyday of the Venetian republic, 300,000 people were crammed into the city's alleyways, only 50,000 people act as live-in curators and hosts, servicing 100,000 ...
- Schoolboy poem wins national award - Northern Territory
Schoolboy poem wins national awardNorthern Territory, Australia - 8 hours agoA BOY from Wearyan East, in the Territory's west, has taken on Australia's best in the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. Drago Kalinic won the primary ...
- Poster poems: The root of all evil - Guardian Unlimited
I've been trying to work out just when it was that the economy overtook the weather as our current conversational topic of choice here in Ireland, but I can't be sure. Maybe it was when the property market and the construction industry started to ...
- New season of me and thee - Swampscott Reporter
New season of me and theeSwampscott Reporter, MA - 2 hours agoShe’sa local talent who took third place in the BFF young songwriter’s contest in 2007. On Oct. 24, Lindsay Mac and Natalie Zukerman will share the bill. ...
- Tea Barn owner remembered - Terrace Standard
Tea Barn owner rememberedTerrace Standard, Canada - 4 hours agoYou could tell how much she savored the rhythm, the story and the thought of this old poetry. Like all writers, she possessed a vivid imagination. ...
- Why not ban Shakespeare then? Poet strikes back after knife verse was dropped from GCSE (Daily Mail)
Her poem was dropped from the GCSE syllabus because it describes the thoughts of someone with a knife who plans to kill - but now Carol Ann Duffy has struck back against the ban with a new poem.
- A Kentucky tax exile - La Crosse Tribune
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine visited me here in Wisconsin. He lives in Kentucky. He was amazed and impressed at our infrastructure here in Wisconsin: The roads were in good condition, and everything looked well kept, compared to Kentucky ...
- Leeds poet on a prize rich list - Yorkshire Evening Post
Leeds poet on a prize rich listYorkshire Evening Post, UK - 2 hours agoShe was just 19 when she wrote her collection of poetry, Trouble Came to the Turnip and was the youngest on the long list of 16. She was delighted to hear ...
- Silas Severn - Union
Silas M. Severn died peacefully Sept. 17 at Meadow View Manor, surrounded by his family, after battling a long illness. He was 84. In accordance with his wishes, our beloved father will be buried with military honors at a graveside service in the ...
- Flint Film Festival to show 45 films - MLive.com
Forty-five films -- ranging from shorts to features -- will be shown at the 5th Annual Flint Film Festival this weekend at Mott Community College's Regional Technology Center. Here's the list of films. • "American Piety": Andy is a misguided goof ...
- Obama Targets McCain and Palin on 'Change' - ABC News Blogs
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Senator Obama dusted off an argument from his primary days as he debuted an almost completely new stump speech against John McCain and Sarah Palin in Terra Haute, Indiana today. "Everywhere I go we've been talking ...
- Book Review: Mountain tale told in poet's words - Star News Online
In lots of literary fiction, nothing much happens for 150 pages or so. That's not a problem with "Serena," the fourth novel from North Carolina writer Ron Rash. In its very first chapter, a Harvard-educated timber baron - his name's George, but ...
- Writing for life: James Harms reflects on his art - Daily Anaeum
For James Harms, after teaching for more than a decade, writing is still more than just a profession – it remains a hobby too. A professor at WVU for 15 years, Harms’ work has established a creditable list of critically acclaimed works. A native ...
- Star moments of the 21st Ballet Festival - Granma International
Star moments of the 21st Ballet FestivalGranma International, Cuba - 5 hours agoDancer MarĂa PagĂ©s is in Havana with her Flamenco y poesĂa (Flamenco and Poetry) show. However, in the GarcĂa Lorca Hall, PagĂ©s and her company danced ...
- 10 things to do this week (The News Journal)
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