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- Cambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse song - Reuters UK
LONDON, May 28 (Reuters Life!) - They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time. Final year English students were asked to compare a ...
- Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing - Times Online
Alfred and Emily by Doris LessingTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoNobel laureate Doris Lessing has lived nearly nine decades of intensely varied life, and has written everything from operas and plays to poetry and ...
- The every man (The Wilmington Star-News)
Ronald McDonald performer. Circus clown boss. Musician in a Cajun/Zydeco band. Actor, wizard, pirate. Stilt walker. Radio man.John Henry Scott's eccentric resume reads like a Roald Dahl children's novel.
- Poetry short list announced - Calgary Herald
Poetry short list announcedCalgary Herald, Canada - 1 hour ago... Prize-winner John Ashbery are among the writers shortlisted for the $100000 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world. ...Short lists announced for $50000 Griffin Poetry Prizes Daily Gleanerall 2 news articles
- Manchester Literary Festival launches poetry prize - Guardian
Manchester Literary Festival launches poetry prizeGuardian, UK - 1 hour agoOne of the biggest open competitions in English language poetry is being launched in Manchester, ahead of the city's literature festival this autumn. ...Write way to win £10000 Manchester Onlineall 2 news articles
- From Folk Music to Rock, Bob Dylan Has Always Followed His Own Path - Voice of America
Voice of AmericaFrom Folk Music to Rock, Bob Dylan Has Always Followed His Own PathVoice of America - 2 hours agoThe young Bob Dylan, with the power and poetry of his folk music, was often called the voice of his generation. Yet he did not appear at his generation's ...
- Moti Lal Saqi remembered ‘Present day poets not well versed’ - Etalaat
Moti Lal Saqi remembered ‘Present day poets not well versed’Etalaat, India - 10 minutes agoIn his brief address chief guest Prof Rehman Rahi said, “Saqi is alive in his poetry and in his essays.†On the occasion two papers was presented on the ...
- Of verse and violent crime - Toronto Star
Of verse and violent crimeToronto Star, Canada - 1 hour agoSo why shouldn't the luridly topical be a subject for poetry, too? These new collections by a pair of West Coast writers trade partly on our cultural ...
- REVIEW: 'Patience' pleasing to theatergoers of all types - Bellevue Leader
Once every five years, the Bellevue Little Theatre puts on an operetta. This is one of those years and "Patience" is not to be missed. The comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan is about a simple milkmaid named Patience who is courted by two poets ...
- Fiction and Poetry Reading - Chaparral (subscription)
Fiction and Poetry ReadingChaparral (subscription), CA - 17 minutes agoCreative writing students from Professor Amy Dibello's English 005 class will share their poetry and fiction in a public reading on Wednesday, May 14. ...
- 'Laugh-In' host Martin, 86, dies - The Washington Times
Dick Martin (right) was probably best known for hosting "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" with Dan Rowan (left) in the late 1960s to the early '70s. Mr. Martin died Saturday night at age 86. (Associated Press) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Martin, the zany ...
- Mughal Miniatures Melding East and West - Wall Street Journal
Whether Ajanta's first-century murals, Rajasthani storytellers' scrolls, or contemporary abstracts now hanging in London and New York galleries, paintings have been produced in India for millennia. Yet of all its pictorial output it is the Mughal ...
- Searching for Hollywood? It's closer than you think - Las Cruces Sun-News
Searching for Hollywood? It's closer than you thinkLas Cruces Sun-News, NM - 14 hours ago... based on Johnson's book "Alternative Ed," which McCall said "is about a kid in danger of becoming a gangbanger who ends up being saved by poetry. ...
- Friends of the Harvard Public Library announce 2008 poetry award winner (Harvard Hillside)
HARVARD -- Experience in a student musical gave Amanda Robinson the inspiration for her poem "Production Week Blues," this year's winner of the John F.
- Winners Announced for First-Ever AFL-CIO Online Video Competition (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Videos take creative, edgy look at what's wrong with America and suggestions for change
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