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- Bobolinks make long trek to summer in northern tier - Morning Sentinel
Bobolinks make long trek to summer in northern tierMorning Sentinel, maine - 9 hours agoThe Bobolink song has inspired poetry. The American poet, William Cullen Bryant, based his poem "Robert of Lincoln" on the song of the Bobolink. ...
- He's a bad poet, and everybody knows it (Winston-Salem Journal)
The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating, but a collector paid $12,840 yesterday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet to assault the English language.
- Modest proposal, and recommendations - Arts Journal
Saxophonist and Love of Life Orchestra leader Peter Gordon gave one of the most lucid presentations at the recent Experience Music Project's Pop Conference -- being the only person over three days to perform a note of music within their allotted 20 ...
- Heavy metal and violence: More than a myth? (CNN.com)
Violence and heavy metal seem to have been inextricably entwined since the dawn of the metal genre.
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters UK
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- Come home to Scotland Year Long Homecoming Celebrations Beckon ... - TravelVideo.tv (press release)
Come home to Scotland Year Long Homecoming Celebrations Beckon ...TravelVideo.tv (press release) - 16 hours ago... is celebrated with a uniquely Scottish dining experience (called a Burns supper) that features music, poetry readings and an "address to the haggis. ...
- Do your ears a favor! Explore Brazilian pop! - Salon
It pleases me greatly to pass your enthusiastic endorsement on to Salon readers. Too many people think new Brazilian music stopped with the relaxed and delicate samba of bossa nova, gorgeous as that was. But there is a hurricane of music going on in ...
- The journey continues - ESPN
The journey continuesESPN - 2 hours agoI wrote about losing for a poetry class at the University of Colorado. Here it is: "Move your feet … Bend your knees … Spin it … Chip the returns … ...
- Visiting Conan's show (Chicago Tribune)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 review - Den Of Geek
Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 reviewDen Of Geek, UK - 35 minutes agoA book of sci-fi shorts is not the logical home for poetry, and while interesting, the essays would’ve been more at home on the SFWA’s website. ...
- Derek Walcott: 'The Chatterbox' - Jamaica Observer
AN hour was all Derek Walcott needed to remind the large and very diverse gathering of book lovers at the just-concluded Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, why he is one of the world's most celebrated poets and ...
- Filmmakers keep Portland weird, wild and wired with PDX Fest - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Filmmakers keep Portland weird, wild and wired with PDX FestThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 4 hours agoLike some alterna-world Rose Festival, the PDX Fest -- as it's known for short -- blooms with upstart visions, muckraking manifestos and renegade poetry. ...
- Sometimes, the obvious needs to be restated - New Straits Times
Sometimes, the obvious needs to be restatedNew Straits Times, Malaysia - 37 minutes agoThey would have called it elitist; a Harvard man quoting ancient Greek poetry. But even they would not be able to deny the effect that it had. ...
- Downturn affects the traditionally self-sufficient - Herald Tribune
The death of her husband, a World War II veteran, two years ago started a chain of events that pushed Kleiss, 67, into a financial crisis. It culminated with the loss of her job in February, just before she saw a spike in her flood insurance. Unable ...
- Pat West - Guardian Unlimited
During the 1970s, my friend, Pat West, who has died of cancer aged 69, blossomed in Sistershow, as a poet, performance artist and feminist. For at least 15 years from the early 1990s she organised and hosted the poetry and words tent at the ...
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