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- New translation of 'Aeneid' restores Virgil's wordplay, in original meter (Cornell News Service)
The Roman poet Virgil spent the last 11 years of his life writing "Aeneid," an epic poem of a hero's journey from Troy to Italy, styled on Homer's "Odyssey" and "Iliad."
- On far too many issues, Obama's poetry doesn't rhyme (Seattle Times)
Barack Obama is such a stand-up guy that he'll stand up twice — once for each side of an issue. The poetry reading on change and hope...
- Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place - Georgia Straight
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of PlaceGeorgia Straight, Canada - 1 hour agoNevertheless, despite this seeming discrepancy in rhetorical skills, all their recollections are equally eloquent, as if poetry were a kind of virus that ...
- Book Notes - Burlington Free Press
• Middlebury College and a Weybridge resident. In his book "Why Poetry Matters" (Yale University Press, $24), Parini wrote, "Poetry matters because it serves up the substance of our lives, and becomes more than a mere articulation of experience ...
- Hitler's in the Basement Mixing Up Your Medicine! (Indymedia Chiapas)
That Which "Bugs" a Bush Nazi: Could it be something I wrote? Bob Packer's Gonna "Fix Your Face"!....if you mess with this Gad damn article! He's gonna make your mother wish she never had you! 7/1 Was Hitler the King of the South? Hitlerites use "pesticides" to dispose of anyone "bugging" them!
- Why Zimbabwe Will Not Resist - The Zimbabwean
Why Zimbabwe Will Not ResistThe Zimbabwean, Africa - 46 minutes agoYes the poetry of politics articulates the problem as inflation, the rise of the parallel market, the loss of democratic practices, human rights abuses. ...
- Milarepa Rangers ride again in Ponca - Sioux City Journal
Milarepa Rangers ride again in PoncaSioux City Journal, IA - 3 hours agoThose friends often are inducted into the Rangers during a weekend that includes yoga, meditation, poetry readings, "and just enjoying each other's company ...
- Humanising Israel and vilifing Palestinians - New Nation
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you Scuba Steve! If you're going to ...
- Write here, write now: Naropa writing program encourages young artists ... - Colorado Daily
Since the summer of 1974, the Summer Writing Program (SWP) at Naropa University has embraces a unique heritage of fostering a conglomeration of artists on the cusp of breaking their own mold. In the spirit of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S ...
- Shakespeare shows up downtown - Knoxville News Sentinel
Shakespeare shows up downtownKnoxville News Sentinel, TN - 5 hours agoThe play has the most poetry of Shakespeare's comedies and is loved for its word play, puns and literary allusions. "All of which I cut out," says Parkhill, ...
- Food/Wine events for June - Arizona Republic
Food/Wine events for JuneArizona Republic, AZ - 15 minutes agoTeen Boot Camp: 10 am-1 pm Thursday, Monday through Wednesday, June 9-13. Teens spend a week learning kitchen skills and preparing dishes. ...
- And you, too, Mr. Rawlings?! - GhanaHomePage
It is rather risible for the man who meticulously and systematically supervised the assassination of Akan-Ghanaian Supreme Court judges, as well as hundreds of thousands of other innocents, to be calling for “thorough investigations†into the ...
- Police make arrest in slayings, sex assaults - AZCentral.com
A combination of tips from the public and swift work by the Mesa police crime lab led to an arrest Wednesday of a suspect in a series of sexual assaults and two strangulations in Mesa and Phoenix, authorities said. "We want to let the community know ...
- MOVIE REVIEW: 'Jellyfish' (The Charlotte Observer)
A beautifully strange movie, "Jellyfish" - from the Israeli author, and now director, Etgar Keret - tracks the perambulations of three Tel Aviv women. Though they are unrelated, and their paths cross by chance, they share a common bond: a profound sense of disconnection - from family, from loved ones, from themselves. The mesmerizing Sarah Adler is Batya, a young woman whose boyfriend has left ...
- Amy Winehouse lyrics are academic - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukAmy Winehouse lyrics are academicTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoIt also quotes Ruskin's maxim 'lyric poetry is the expression by the poet of his own feelings'." Tackling a question like this with the critical rigour ...
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