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- Spoken word speaks volumes - Gauntlet
Spoken word speaks volumesGauntlet, Canada - 12 hours agoThe showcase of performance poetry hosts artists from across Canada to celebrate and promote spoken word performance and will see 11 spoken word teams ...
- Local award-winning poet dies at 87 - WSTM
More Local/State News... MUNNSVILLE, MADISON COUNTY (AP) -- Hayden Carruth, a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87. Carruth died Monday at his home in Munnsville ...
- The rhythms of the road - Boston Globe
CAMBRIDGE - Cowboy poets may have been the first to pair chaps with literary ambition, writing rhymed verse about lonely horizons and broken-down Western towns. But now they are being joined by men and women who ride Harleys instead of horses, and ...
- His Back Pages - nextbook
nextbookHis Back Pagesnextbook, NY - 1 hour ago... full of grainy black-and-whites that reveal a kind of flattened bleakness, the hunger and yearning beneath the surface of the myth. ...
- Waving the black flag - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Waving the black flagSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 3 hours agoBY KIMBERLY CHUN PREVIEW First the bad news, straight from the wise-ass, too-literate, poetry-writing punk rocker who once muscled his way through Los ...
- 'The Widows of Eastwick' by John Updike - Los Angeles Times
'The Widows of Eastwick' by John UpdikeLos Angeles Times, CA - 5 hours agoAt age 76, Updike can look back on an oeuvre of more than 30 titles (this rough sub-count excludes his poetry, essay volumes, children's books and other ...
- From virtuous struggle to exotic seduction - The Australian
From virtuous struggle to exotic seductionThe Australian, Australia - 7 hours agoA rapidly flowing, love-foiled-by-fate narrative (employing Armand Renaud's poetry) typifies sensual eastern exoticism: harem, sabre and opium feature ...
- Why did The Examiner print a cheap shot at performing arts? - Blue Springs Examiner
Blue Springs has fallen in love with arts. Music, theater, poetry, architecture and sculptures are flourishing. Why did The Examiner choose that particular cartoon (Moderately Confused) in Tuesday’s paper? I have witnessed so many times that if you ...
- The tranquility and beauty of Hafez's tomb - New Zealand Herald Blogs
It will come as no surprise that in the Islamic Republic of Iran almost every house will own at least one copy of the Koran. More surprisingly however to first-time visitors at least, is that the Koran will almost always be sharing shelf space with ...
- Video artist Bill Viola's vision of Wagner's "Tristan" in last days - MSN Indonesia News
A stunning performance of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" featuring a giant moving backdrop by US video-artist pioneer Bill Viola is playing for the very last time at the Paris Bastille Opera house. First created in 2005, the performance staged ...
- Almanac (The State)
MEETINGS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FORUM ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Swearingen Building at USC. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the USC College of Engineering and Computing and the League of Women Voters of S.C., panelists will discuss the economic and environmental implications of public transportation in the Greater Columbia area. A question and answer session ...
- Mann sisters eye state championship - Greenville News
They've been running for J.L. Mann since the eighth grade, always at or near the head of the pack. This morning, seniors Kate and Emma Borowicz will lead the Patriots' cross country team for the final time in the state meet at the Sandhills Research ...
- The Lost Diaries Of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 is delicious satire - Metro
MetroThe Lost Diaries Of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 is delicious satireMetro, UK - 24 minutes agoThe latter is a stab at post-modernism that proves to be an unwanted distortion in Townsend's otherwise enduringly funny dystopia.
- Events in Life Remembered in I Forgot to Get Old -- One Woman's Journey to a Meaningful Life (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 25, 2008 -- Take a trip down memory lane as Helen Lewison shares with you snapshots of her life and creates a book bound to entertain and inspire you. I Forgot to Get Old is her experiences compiled in one great book.
- Rare book display marks Milton’s 400th birthday - Western News
Western NewsRare book display marks Milton’s 400th birthdayWestern News, Canada - 3 hours agoMilton's powerful rhetoric and prose and the eloquence of his poetry had a strong influence on writers in his time and for decades to come. ...
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