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- Laurie Solheim: From her grief came a reason to sing (Seattle Times)
It took years of searching, but it was song that helped Laurie Solheim reconcile her brother's 2005 fatal highway accident. "I'm a Christian and...
- HERBIE HANCOCK - New York Post
June 22, 2008 -- Piano man speaks of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and how winning that Grammy really was all that jazz. Your impression of Herbie Hancock probably stems from when you grew up. If you're a child of the baby boomer generation, then you ...
- Ladies rule the stage at Calabash 2008 - Jamaica Observer
Ladies rule the stage at Calabash 2008Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 18 minutes agoWHETHER they were reading passages from their new novels, offering excerpts from their life stories or sharing some lyrical poetry, the female presenters at ...
- Liberty Belle chimes in - The Canberra Times
Liberty Belle chimes inThe Canberra Times, Australia - 1 hour agoAs well as the race meet, pigeon poetry involves an online form guide and sweep, allowing people to pick a pigeon and a poem to win. ...
- Shalom Auslander (Guardian Unlimited)
Some mornings I like to take my laptop and go and write in the local coffee shop near my office because I have low self-esteem and imagine that people will admire me from afar. And they do. I live in a village in upstate New York that prides itself on being a "community of the arts". Writers, artists, musicians - these are just some of the people who don't actually live here. The houses cost ...
- Bestival | Sep 5-7 2008 (My Village City of London)
Latest - My Bloody Valentine to Headline Bestival Cult 80s band My Bloody Valentine are set to headline Bestival with Aphex Twin, The Breeders and CSS. And if those unmissable names aren’t enough how about the funksome George Clinton, Gary Numan, The Human League, Foals, DJ Yoda and, continuing the retro vibe The Wedding Present.
- Above all, "Wire" is about transcendence (Denver Post)
The young man walks across a wire stretched between two platforms in a grassy field in France. A woman with dark hair rides his back.
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston.
- A list of exhibits currently on display at area galleries June 5-11 - The Free Lance-Star
A list of exhibits currently on display at area galleries June 5-11The Free Lance-Star, VA - 2 hours agoArts Center in Orange, 129 E. Main St. "Poetry of Color," paintings by John J. Fitzsimmons. Through Saturday. 540/672-7311. Atrium Gallery Art Studio, ...
- Crave | Black Light - Australian Stage Online
Crave | Black LightAustralian Stage Online, Australia - 3 hours agoIt situates itself somewhere in between poetry and music yet is still very theatrical." Sarah Kane completed Crave just before her death in 1999, aged 27. ...
- In Brief (The Salinas Californian)
Monterra Ranch Properties, owned by Roger and Basil Mills, was granted its fifth extension on back interest payments Friday by the oversight committee for a city employee retirement fund - the Deferred Compensation Fund.
- Making A Buzz (Queens Courier)
A few dozen residents came to the final candidates' forum before the 30th City Council District's Special Election to replace disgraced councilmember Dennis Gallagher and some left with their minds made up about who they were going to vote for in the June 3 race, while others remained undecided.
- Bookworms asked to go green - Exmouth Herald
Bookworms asked to go greenExmouth Herald, UK - 25 minutes agoEXMOUTH bookworms are being asked to go green and buy a bag for life - as part of a national reading campaign. This year is the National Year of Reading ...
- Griffin rewards elder statesmen (Toronto Star)
It was a night for honouring octogenarian legends at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards. Jointly, John Ashbery and Robin Blaser have spent more than a century publishing poetry.
- We talk with acclaimed poet Mark Doty in advance of his Pittsburgh reading. (Pittsburgh City Paper)
"What I really want to do is make a poem that is as involved as it can be in how it feels to live." By Paul Ruggiero.
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