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- Quantum poetics (Guardian Unlimited)
A friend emailed months ago and asked me to contribute to an anthology of "space poems". He was pairing up poets with astronomers in the hopes that new poetry would result, and my counterpart was Paul Murdin, the treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 'Welcome Home Project' honors returning vets - Ashland Daily Tidings
About 30 American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will celebrate Memorial Day a little differently this year. Through The Welcome Home Project, the veterans and their families will attend a five-day retreat starting May 22 at Buckhorn ...
- Lorca Simons delivers in 'The Water Bearer's Dream' at Fort ... - Dallas Morning News
Lorca Simons delivers in 'The Water Bearer's Dream' at Fort ...Dallas Morning News, TX - 6 hours agoThe Water Bearer's Dream is decidedly free-form, what we used to call experimental theater. (By now, it's its own thing, like free verse in poetry. ...
- ALLAH AND THE OCCIDENT - Der Spiegel
The sun sets behind the Yanidze complex in Dresden, the mosque-inspired former home to a tobacco factory. The history of Islam in Germany is believed to date back to the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. In the fabled tales of "1001 Nights," al-Rashid is said ...
- Theater Review (NYC): Henry James's The Aspern Papers, Adapted by Martin Zuckerman (Blogcritics.org)
Henry James' suspenseful tale of duplicity, set in a backwater of Venice, comes luridly to life on stage. Adapting a Henry James story for the stage poses a challenge: how, and how much, to capture, in such an extroverted medium, the exactness and penetration of James' interior eye?The novella The Aspern Papers is a tragedy of personality, and an expert first-person psychological study of ...
- Historically Speaking: Norwich man left literary mark - Norwich Bulletin
Historically Speaking: Norwich man left literary markNorwich Bulletin, CT - 2 hours agoHe was invited by Norwich native Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, to present eight poetry lectures there in 1891. ...
- New Novel Asks Whom Do You Love? Whom Do You Bomb? - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Third World is full of grist for the pulp mill. Adam Kellas is a reporter who wants to sell out, write a rollicking thriller that will earn him scads of cash and put his embossed name on a cover in gold lettering 2 inches high. And though he ...
- Teen's poem wins top award (EveningNews24)
A Norwich schoolgirl's poem describing her fears that the earth is slowly being destroyed has landed her a top regional award. Katie Furniss has won the top prize in the East of England Young Writers competition for her poem based on the theme of I Have a Dream.
- Let there be 'Light' - San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Union TribuneLet there be 'Light'San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 31 minutes agoThere is a kinship with Samuel Beckett in Nauman's neons, a sort of anti-poetic poetry. Nauman has said, “I think that the point where language starts to ...
- Free (Or Incredibly Cheap) Festivals For Summer (The Motley Fool)
Summer is festival season, but they can set you back a small fortune -- that is unless you can find free (or incredibly cheap) ones to attend.
- A Deeper Black - Nation
To say that Barack Obama is our first serious black presidential candidate drastically understates the matter. When Obama greets his political allies, he does not give a simple, firm, businesslike handshake. Instead he offers the sort of dap--a ...
- Something about Mary - Stuff
This story begins at its end, in the nook of a North Sydney chapel where an elderly woman in black kneels on a cushion crocheted with Sturt desert peas, crosses herself and prays with one hand on a white marble tomb. "Trust in God," it says on the ...
- Students’ Work Selected for VSA arts’ Online Literary Journal (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
VSA arts announced today six young writers whose short stories and poems have been chosen for its online literary journal, "Infinite Difference." The journal is part of VSA arts Writing Project and showcases the creative works from middle and high school students living with disability. This years theme was Encounter -- the students wrote about an experience they had with a person or group ...
- Bringing beauty to all through surprisingly unrefined language (The Japan Times)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the one most translated into other languages. Yet, until now, no one has gathered into one volume, translated into English, the complete works. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the... Read the full story.
- DVD releases - Scotland on Sunday
DVD releasesScotland on Sunday, UK - 37 minutes agoBy FIONA LEITH The majestical poetry of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling book about growing up in Afghanistan is transferred to screen with intelligent ...
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