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- Horoscope • Jeraldine Saunders (San Jose Mercury News)
BIRTHDAY GAL: Comedian and actress Victoria Jackson was born in Miami on this date in 1959. This birthday gal is probably best known for her long stint as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" from 1986-1992 and for her signature bit of doing a headstand while reciting poetry.
- 'A modern Stonehenge' - Waterloo Record
Waterloo Record'A modern Stonehenge'Waterloo Record, Canada - 1 hour agoAnd, as a work of art, it calls out for a celebratory response: music, dancing, poetry." The distinguished Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer has given ...
- Round Top: Antique haven plus great music in east-central Texas - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning NewsRound Top: Antique haven plus great music in east-central TexasDallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour agoThe August-to-April Series, the International Guitar Festival, the Theatre Forum, the Poetry Forum and the Herbal Forum bring the annual number of events to ...
- In-Flight Internet: Hold the Phone - New York Times Blogs
In-Flight Internet: Hold the PhoneNew York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Seamus Heaney (Guardian Unlimited)
'Necessary poetry touches the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic nature of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed.'
- Youth group experiences life-changing memories during mission trip - North Channel Sun
Shirley Green talks to teens who are a part of Octane Youth Ministry at First Presbyterian Church of Kingwood. The mission group traveled to Jacksonville, Fla., to understand homelessness and help those in need. Along the way, they met Green and were ...
- Elizabeth Bartlett: Poet of the lonely and vulnerable - The Independent
Although her poems were first published when she was only 19, in Tambimuttu's Poetry London, Elizabeth Bartlett did not publish again until her mid-fifties. However, she claimed that she was "not so much a neglected poet as neglectful of the kind of ...
- Doctor Who; Glastonbury TV coverage - Times Online
Doctor Who; Glastonbury TV coverageTimes Online, UK - 45 minutes agoHe had gone mad, spouting romantic poetry in a high-pitched voice. It was a good trick. When the real Davros appeared later, along with some explanation for ...
- Outfront and center: Bad poetry returns! (The Charlotte Observer)
When the Observer's Doug Robarchek retired in 2005, the humor columnist known as the Outfront Guy single-handedly caused a citywide shortage of cheesy jokes that make you laugh in spite of yourself. For readers who've been jonesing for an Outfront fix ever since, great news: A new book, “The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of OutFrontery,” ($14, Main Street Rag). Most of ...
- Elizabeth is top of the speaking class - South Wales Evening Post
Elizabeth is top of the speaking classSouth Wales Evening Post, UK - 53 minutes agoThe examinations required her to read and recite prose and poetry, prepare debates for discussion and take part in impromptu debates set by examiners. ...
- Augustana professor's writing goes international - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Augustana professor's writing goes internationalSioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - 30 minutes agoThe Augustana College professor also uses Midwestern settings in his poetry, even Sioux Falls, for his first international paperback: "Finding the Gossamer. ...
- Andrew Lycett's essential Dylan Thomas - guardian.co.uk
Andrew Lycett's essential Dylan Thomasguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoOccasioned by his father's blindness and imminent death, this is a craftsman's poem, all the more powerful for its tight villanelle form.Dylan Thomas guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road - The Independent
The womanising, the four bottles of wine a day and the five-year retreat in a Buddhist monastery are all behind him. This week, Leonard Cohen embarks on his first British tour for 15 years. And the former poet laureate of despair might even be ...
- Save and share - San Antonio Express
Save and shareSan Antonio Express, TX - 1 hour agoKevin Sandbloom at Luna Poet, singer and songwriter from Pasadena, Calif., crafts soul/folk/poetry and sings that work nicely. Jana Hunter at The Warhol ...
- Rochester poets show poetry is not for sissies - Democrat and Chronicle
Forget Stephen King. You want bone-chilling violence, blood-curdling revenge, read a poem. That's one lesson I learned from going though the 180 or so poems submitted to the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. As announced last week ...
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