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- Jazz on a winter’s day: the best of the festival - Times Online
The opening night’s big bash puts the emphasis on vocals as a gaggle of performers  led by the sublime Melody Gardot  show why it’s the singers who are making the running at the moment. A ‘very special guest’ is promised, intriguing ...
- Arnold Arboretum happenings (West Roxbury Transcript)
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- Donald Finkel, 79, poet noted for juxtapositions, free style - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - Donald Finkel, a noted American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions, which in their unorthodoxy helped illuminate the function of poetry itself, died on Nov. 15 at his home in St. Louis. He was 79. The cause was ...
- Adam O'Riordan: Why the poetry of hip-hop is tragic (Guardian Unlimited)
Adam O'Riordan: The tragedians find their modern equivalents in the dark energy and verbal dexterity of the rappers whose work I was drawn to as a teenager, the Wu Tang Clan
- Vallejo Teen Poetry Slam @ the library - Listen & Be Heard
Vallejo Teen Poetry Slam @ the libraryListen & Be Heard, CA - 2 hours agoThe time is here again for the Vallejo Teen Poetry Slam @ the John F. Kennedy Library in Vallejo, CA. The event is THIS Wednesday, November 5th @ 6:30 pm in ...
- A quarter century of poetry - New Times SLO
A quarter century of poetryNew Times SLO, CA - 2 hours agoDon’t miss the tail end of the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival happening at venues all over SLO County. Language of the Soul 25th Annual San Luis Obispo ...
- The versatile Gulzar - Times Now.tv
Times Now.tvThe versatile GulzarTimes Now.tv, India - 17 hours ago... that he would love to write songs in Marathi. "I am waiting for the moment when if not some poetry at least I cant write a few songs," he said. ...
- Prose knows those things that can't be taught (Contra Costa Times)
Author of 'Goldengrove' has given up on classes in the craft of writing
- Jeff Douthwaite, former legislator and UW professor, dies at 79 - Seattle Times
Geoffrey K. Douthwaite was a voracious reader who loved maritime stories and the poetry of Robert Service. The former Democratic lawmaker could recite "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"  a narrative poem set in the Yukon Gold Rush that was a personal ...
- Stir it up - Colorado Springs Independent
Colorado Springs IndependentStir it upColorado Springs Independent, CO - 33 minutes ago"Many up-and-coming writers work across genres; writing essays, poetry, fiction, drama, screenplays." He says one component of the mixed-genre trend stems ...
- Twelve members of the Knox faculty published books in 2003-04. (Knox College)
During the 2003-2004 academic year, twelve members of the Knox faculty -- more than ten-percent of the faculty -- have published a total of eight scholarly books, a collection of poetry, and a collection of short stories.
- Poet Dylan was 'worked to death' - BBC News
BBC NewsPoet Dylan was 'worked to death'BBC News, UK - 5 hours agoThomas was in New York to take part in a play of Under Milk Wood at the city's Poetry Center. Mr Thomas said Brinnin knew Dylan Thomas was ill, ...
- Gaps in a résumé need not be stigma (Ventura County Star)
The business world was surprised in August 2007 when Robert Nardelli landed the top job at Chrysler LLC after being shown the door as the Home Depot's Chief Executive Officer in January. Not all out-of-work employees bounce back so easily.
- Countdown Continues Until OKLAHOMA! Opens (The Wasatch Wave)
Timpanogos Valley Theatre would like to introduce two of their leading actors in their upcoming production of Oklahoma!, which will be performed in partnership with Heber City’s Cowboy Poetry.
- Sikaman Palaver: Christmas is coming - Joy Online
Sikaman Palaver: Christmas is comingJoy Online, Ghana - 1 hour agoIf I had been a poet when I was young, I would have started writing poetry in school. I didn't know I could be a writer any time in life. ...
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