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- 'War Requiem' tugs heartstrings (The Star-Ledger)
One of the most acute moments in a performance of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" on Saturday at the Presbyterian Church in Westfield came when the parts for children's voices were heard. It brought home the fact that there are soldiers in Iraq who five years ago were the age of the choir's oldest.
- Shades of grey - Metro
MetroShades of greyMetro, UK - 22 minutes agoNo one can describe clothes, people and atmosphere with such wit and poetry. Denzel Washington played the role in an underrated film but the book has many ...
- I'm Pretty Sure I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - The Onion (satire)
I'm Pretty Sure I Know Why The Caged Bird SingsThe Onion (satire), NY - 1 hour agoBy Madeleine Schumann I must admit that, at first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like the African-American Lit class I signed up for. ...
- Bobby Socks, Hard Knocks - Newsweek
Bobby Socks, Hard KnocksNewsweek - 25 minutes agoIn the book's most erotic scene, a barely teen Mary gives her boyfriend a massage while he and his dad watch "Monday Night Football. ...
- A Poignant Journey From Christianity to Sin and Back Again -- New ... - Primenewswire (press release)
A Poignant Journey From Christianity to Sin and Back Again -- New ...Primenewswire (press release), CA - 26 minutes agoMr. Thompson was usually in some kind of depression and found expression in poetry at an early age. He continued to write poems while in college and on into ...
- Robert Stock Drowns in the Snake River; Sonar Used to Search for ... - KIDK
KIDKRobert Stock Drowns in the Snake River; Sonar Used to Search for ...KIDK, ID - 7 hours agoA few of them, Stock's friends, they told me off camera that Stock had two loves in life, his 13 year old daughter and his poetry. ...
- Words of war - Statesman Journal
Words of warStatesman Journal, OR - 2 hours agoThere are novels such as “All Quiet on the Western Front†or memoirs like Robert Graves’ “Good-bye to All That,†or poetry by people like Siegfried Sassoon ...
- Connect the dots, follow the arrows: Humboldt Hip Hop - Times-Standard
Connect the dots, follow the arrows: Humboldt Hip HopTimes-Standard, CA - 1 hour agoAmong other cross currents that blow through the Accident Gallery have been the recent spate of slam poetry contests run by the feminist and verbally-savvy ...
- To Floyd Skloot, poetry emerges from emotional intensity and 'insistence' (The Oregonian)
L onger than he's lived in Oregon, longer than he's written essays, longer than he's penned novels, Floyd Skloot has been a poet.
- NU to Offer MFA in Creative Writing (Daily Northwestern)
Starting in Sept. 2008, Northwestern will offer, for the first time, a Master of Fine Arts program for students who write poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. A part-time, evening MFA program will allow students to write a longer thesis, closer to book length, than the part-time MA program.
- Cover Stories: strong debuts on prize list; the Bhutto perspective; Linley deal; Doyle's farewell (Independent)
* Good to see that "sparkling new fiction" doesn't necessarily equal chicklit and beach reads. The shortlist for the first Desmond Elliott Prize, announced this week, highlights some strong debuts: there's Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh of this parish (Fourth Estate); Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking); and Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster). The 1/2 favourite, it is set in ...
- Teens put their lives in verse for poetry contest - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post IntelligencerTeens put their lives in verse for poetry contestSeattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoFor Rachel M. Wiegand, winner of the 16-and-younger division of the PI's poetry contest, her poem "Mukilteo Beach" reflects on accepting those transitions. ...
- Get Smart! Please! - MSN Entertainment
A supershamus like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe negotiates incredibly tangled plotlines as well as mean streets. Along the way, colorful rogues mislead and every devious frail makes a play for the hawkshaw. Detoured down one blind alley after another ...
- Frederick, Md. poet, painter inspire each other - Examiner.com
Frederick, Md. poet, painter inspire each otherExaminer.com - 54 minutes agoThe poetry in the book is visually oriented, said Jankowski, a Poolesville resident, noting he understands graphics as owner of Jankowski Associates, ...
- The Storyteller - Richmond Style Weekly
Richmond Style WeeklyThe StorytellerRichmond Style Weekly, VA - 28 minutes agoAs we survey the lives George touched — the many readers enchanted with his wealth of poetry and prose; the countless students who learned to take their ...
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