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- Art Smart on appreciating, understanding poetry (The Vanguard)
Poetry is typically used to evoke feeling by expanding the literal meaning of words through a myriad of literary techniques. Although poetry may not be for everyone, poetry is art, and art should be appreciated. In order to learn to appreciate art, you must first attempt to understand it.
- A life salvaged from horror - Toronto Star
A life salvaged from horrorToronto Star, Canada - Oct 11, 2008With my children, there is a sense of friendship that is deeper. Why? Because friends tell each other the truth." Diane Flacks is a writer/actor/author ...
- The green thumb of Jack Blue - Augusta Chronicle
The green thumb of Jack BlueAugusta Chronicle, GA - 12 minutes agoHe enjoys writing poetry, and for 12 years, he designed custom Christmas cards, complete with a poem on the back. In December 1994, he wrote a poem called A ...
- Why don't women write 'Big Ideas Books?' - The Independent
Greer says women are "more interested in understanding than explaining, in describing rather than accounting for." An important issue has been preoccupying the transatlantic blogosphere in this post-Obama world, and it concerns the question: What do ...
- Blackbird delivers nuance of Pinter - The Province
Blackbird delivers nuance of PinterThe Province, Canada - 21 minutes agoBut in the 1950s and '60s Pinter took English working-class speech and transformed it into a bleak poetry. Below the banal surfaces of his dark comedies lay ...
- Readings and Signings - Rockingham News
Readings and SigningsRockingham News, NH - 9 hours ago11 at 7 pm: Poets Charles Pratt and Sid Hall read from their latest books of poetry. Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 6:30 pm: Food writer Lisa Zwirn gives a talk on ...
- The Laureate's lament: Being poet to the Queen is thankless and has ... - Daily Mail
It is a position that has been held with pride by some of our greatest literary figures. But being Poet Laureate has not been an entirely positive experience for the current incumbent, Andrew Motion. He has revealed that the role has left him with a ...
- Andrew Gallix: The new wave of French urban fiction (Guardian Unlimited)
The torrent of urban writing from the banlieues is finally making an impact on the French literary establishment, but may be too challenging for this side of the Channel
- New Book From Laura Chester Explores Culture Shock on the U.S./Mexican Border (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Life on the U.S./Mexican border presents a clash of cultures and expectations that is explored with insight and dark humor in Laura Chester's new collection of short stories, Rancho Weirdo .
- DATEBOOK (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Today Dunmore Senior Center: bus trip to Woodloch Pines for dinner and show, today, departs 3:30 p.m.; Charlie Prose bus trip, Oct. 16, departs 8:30 a.m.; darts, bingo and oil painting, Mondays; card group, guitar classes and word games, Tuesdays; tai chi exercise, chorus and pinochle, Wednesdays; line-dancing, Thursdays; cooking demonstrations, first Friday of every month; 1414 Monroe Ave. ...
- Meet local author Saturday in Geneva (Daily Herald)
Cynthia Jean Mueller of Plano has been a school bus driver for 20 years. Now also a published author, she got the idea for her novel when she overheard a child's conversation on her bus.
- Ronald Bergan: No Country For Old People (Guardian Unlimited)
Old age is rarely depicted in films without sentimentality, says Ronald Bergan, but a clutch of pictures stand out for their frank portrayals of the elderly
- Veterans Day memories recalled - Mohave Valley News
Veterans Day memories recalledMohave Valley News, NV - 1 hour agoBy ALICE POPOVICI/The Daily News BULLHEAD CITY - Illene Nelson's memories of Veterans Day go back to her childhood in Charleroi, Pa., when she would make ...
- Real talent yet to come out of Wapi - Daily Monitor
Real talent yet to come out of WapiDaily Monitor, Uganda - 4 hours agoTekya claims a certain American lady interested in African fashion and design was blown away by the creations she saw and promised to work with some of the ...
- Brian Wilson to share new tunes in Ann Arbor - Grand Rapids Press
Courtesy photo Brian Wilson will play at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. Brian Wilson isn't one to rest on his laurels, despite the fact that his familiar pop catalog continues to please audiences year after year. The erstwhile Beach ...
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