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- Poetry: Spelling out the magic of the mundane (Independent)
Choosing the year's best poetry collections begs the question, "What were you looking for?". Answer: poems to make me look out at the world, and think, repeatedly, "I'll never see it the same way." Good poetry takes the familiar, makes it strange, and makes even the mundane memorable. For magic, read Pauline Stainer's Crossing the Snowline (Bloodaxe, £8.95). Stainer's language has a frozen, ...
- Washingtonian Favorites: Meghan Grady - Washingtonian.com
Washingtonian Favorites: Meghan GradyWashingtonian.com, DC - 23 hours agoCan you share a funny or embarrassing anecdote about something that happened to you while performing onstage? I was playing one of the three witches in ...
- Book celebrates grandmothers - Chippewa Herald
The fifth edition of “Poetica Grandma-tica†has been released. The book is written by and is about grandmothers of The Chippewa Valley. The book's co-editors, Nancy Clark Scobie and Judy Bredeson, have collected from more than 100 authors works ...
- Editorial Commentary: A new president for a new American age - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Thus did Barack Obama claim his victory: "It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America." It is a victory that will go down in U.S. history as the ...
- Excerpt: "Speaking for Myself" - ABC News
Excerpt: "Speaking for Myself"ABC News - 1 hour agoHe also wrote poetry and toward the end of his life obtained a degree from the Open University, Britain's state-run distance-learning university for mature ...
- Photo right: Birds in Flight by Carrol L. Henderson - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Photo right: Birds in Flight by Carrol L. HendersonMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 31 minutes ago... includes winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1987, being named Poet Laureate of the United States in 1993 and publishing eight books of poetry. ...
- English department to host poet Fairchild as part of new reading ... - SFA The Pine Log Online
English department to host poet Fairchild as part of new reading ...SFA The Pine Log Online, TX - 3 hours agoThe poetry reading will be held at 7 pm Thursday, Nov. 6, in Liberal Arts North, Room 102, on the SFA campus. The reading is sponsored by the Bachelor of ...
- James Earl Jones to get SAG life achievement award - MLive.com
AP File Photo James Earl Jones on the first day of rehearsal for the new Broadway production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," in New York. LOS ANGELES - James Earl Jones, who has voiced some of entertainment's most memorable characters, will receive the ...
- Sarah-Jane Drummey in Druid Theatre Company's production of "The ... - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesSarah-Jane Drummey in Druid Theatre Company's production of "The ...Los Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago... toward the end -- who seems more real than anyone onstage. But then as always with Synge, it's from the bloody gashes that the poetry of prosaic life flows.
- When dark forces are at their most catchy (Los Angeles Times)
Eban Schletter's 'Witching Hour' brings comics and musicians together to conjure witches, zombies and a goofy good time. "I'm not a warlock," said TV composer Eban Schletter , ensconced in the back room of his Hollywood studio. "Let's just get that straight . . . but I do think the Wiccan religion gets a bad rap."
- Recycling 'Things Too Worthless to Save' - Post-Star
A Kewpie doll skips rope atop a unicorn. A giant monkey and goat overtake a classic European city like Godzilla in Tokyo. An "Our Lady of the Highway" flicker medallion nestles with bottle caps, a disassembled toy gun and flame-shaped light bulbs ...
- Prasoon Joshi pens a poem after terror attacks - Oneindia
Prasoon Joshi pens a poem after terror attacksOneindia, India - 5 hours agoThe sad part however is that, today, it seems that we are not doing enough to make our country proud. After all the untimely attack on Mumbai, the Master of ...
- Kuwait Book Fair opens November 19 - Kuwait Times
Kuwait Book Fair opens November 19Kuwait Times, Kuwait - Nov 12, 2008Several books will be exhibited at the fair, which will also host cultural activities such as lectures, musical performances, and poetry recitals, ...
- Musical Project Seeks To Honor Unique Lives, Culture (The Morning News)
FAYETTEVILLE — A woodcarver who plays the fiddle on top of her head. A farmer who fashions string instruments for children. A woman who nails 500 coffee cups to a tree to mark the passing of her son. The ghost of the Crescent Hotel.
- Women in the New Iraq - Global Politician
Women in the New IraqGlobal Politician, NY - 8 minutes agoOne recipient was Sabiha al-Shaykh Daud who, in 1922 when she was only eight years old, caused a stir by reciting verses at a poetry festival, ...
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