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- Five questions for . . . Neil Rollinson - Metro
MetroFive questions for . . . Neil RollinsonMetro, UK - 39 minutes agoI just finished a new poem that was commisioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to do with space and poetry. I came to Manchester to visit a scientist ...
- Grimshaw wins Montana honours - Stuff
Charlotte Grimshaw is following in her father's literary footsteps, winning the Montana Medal for her book of short stories, Opportunity. Grimshaw, daughter of CK Stead, scooped the $5000 fiction category and the $10,000 overall award. The Aucklander ...
- Solomon Volkov's "The Magical Chorus" (International Herald Tribune)
The only thing missing from Volkov's history of Russian culture is moral outrage.
- Hip-hop in tha House - Anchorage Daily News
A laska's purveyors of hip-hop are stepping up their game with a new, weeklong festival crammed with artists ready to show and prove. At Bernie's Summer Solstice House of Hip-Hop -- which runs Tuesday through June 21 at Bernie's Bungalow -- each ...
- 'Hey, boss, what's your sign?' - Globe and Mail
'Hey, boss, what's your sign?'Globe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours ago"I always thought of astrology as an art, like music or poetry, in which a set of stories describe the way we experience different people and the way others ...
- 2008 Commencement Address by Writer Barbara Kingsolver - Duke University
2008 Commencement Address by Writer Barbara KingsolverDuke University, NC - 14 minutes ago... children’s poetry, butterfly migrations, butterfly kisses, the Grand Canyon, eternity. If somebody says “Your money or your life,†you could say: Life. ...
- Hundreds mourn 'beautiful angel' - Canada.com
Hundreds mourn 'beautiful angel'Canada.com, Canada - Apr 27, 2008Her mother, Deborah Chevalier read some of her daughter's poetry during the one-hour service, including a poem written three months before the teen ...
- Events This Week (The Virginia Gazette)
18th annual Chippokes Steam & Gas Engine Show—9 a.m.-6 p.m. June 7 and 8 at Chippokes Plantation State Park in Surry. $5 adults, free for ages 12 and under. Rain/shine.
- America's Busiest Poet - Time
When the Library of Congress announced Kay Ryan as its pick for 16th Poet Laureate Consultant last week, the poetry community went all atwitter.
- Celebrate and support a valley iconoclast - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Celebrate and support a valley iconoclastIdaho Mountain Express and Guide, ID - 1 hour agoThis evening is a free, open-mic for prose, poetry and song or dramatic monologue. The event is for all ages and participants are encouraged to dress as a ...
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies - Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has ...
- Ontario Celebrates Excellence in the Arts - CNW Group
McGuinty Government Announces Finalists for Premier's Awards TORONTO, May 15 /CNW/ - NEWS One of Ontario's outstanding artists and one arts organization will take centre stage at the 2008 Premier's Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The winning ...
- Two poetry books for children, one new, one a classic (Portsmouth Herald)
My Bent Tree
- The poet inspired by her disease (BBC News)
A poetry anthology - Oops! - inspired by its author's battle with Parkinson's disease is launched.
- Singing the real Baudelaire - Arts Journal
A while ago, I talked about a lieder recital, at which I thought gentility stifled all meaning . My key example was a group of songs based on Baudelaire poems -- the uneasy meaning of Baudelaire didn't come through at all. For an antidote, try Gerard ...
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