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- Singer Cave to present Turner Prize - Western Telegraph
Nick Cave, frontman of the Bad Seeds, will announce the winner of this year's Turner Prize. The singer-songwriter follows in the footsteps of Madonna, Yoko Ono and actor and director Dennis Hopper in presenting the controversial contemporary art ...
- Teaming up to give kids a special tour of the White House - ScrippsNews
Let's just say it flat-out: "Our White House" (Candlewick Press, $29.99) is a stunning gathering of children's-book stars, all with a single goal of illuminating a national treasure for young readers. In this new book, more than 100 of the best and ...
- Sarajevo: ethnocracy wins the October elections - cafebabel.com
Sarajevo: ethnocracy wins the October electionscafebabel.com, France - 7 hours agoThe ambassador is speaking after a poetry reading, seemingly unaware of the party atmosphere around him. ‘Nationalism is a problem. ...
- Give me Liberty or give me 'Beer for My Horses' - Kalamazoo Gazette
Willie Nelson, Toby Keith and Rodney Carrington star in BEER FOR MY HORSES. Guilt consumes me. Almost one full week after it opened, I have yet to attend a showing of "Beer for My Horses," now playing at Three Rivers 6. I could blame flooded roads ...
- Local coffee shops offer more than just coffee - Daily Vidette
Local coffee shops offer more than just coffeeDaily Vidette, IL - 16 hours agoSomething else unique to the Coffeehouse is the poetry slams that go on every other Wednesday night from 7:30-9:30 pm These poetry slams consist of local ...
- Poetrydances.com Welcomes Six New Favorite Writers in October ... - PR.com (press release)
Poetrydances.com Welcomes Six New Favorite Writers in October ...PR.com (press release), NY - 46 minutes agoThese links offer to all writers of poetry on WritingRoom.com, an easier method of submitting their poems to Poetrydances.com for review and possible ...
- 'The Writer as Migrant,' by Ha Jin (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Writer as Migrant By Ha Jin University of Chicago Press; 112 pages; $14 paperback In the preface to "Between Silences," his first book of poetry, published in 1990, Ha Jin proclaimed that he spoke for those who suffered and endured, those fooled or ruined...
- Back in the Middle Ages (Hindustan Times)
COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! When I think of Germany’s ancient city of Mainz, four adjectives come to mind — powerful, fascinating, inventive and educational. Unlike pleasure travel, journeying through Mainz carries a cultural cachet of awe.
- Album: Mike Hart, Mike Hart Bleeds (Dandelion/Cherry Red) (Independent)
In the late Sixties, Mike Hart was a member of The Liverpool Scene, the poetry and music collective that had guitarist Andy Roberts and poet Adrian Henri as members.
- On the Floor: Journey brings Project south (Otago Daily Times)
The five-piece Mamaku Project visits the South next week as it promotes its second album. Project co-leader Tui Mamaki says she met co-founder Monsieur Escargot in France in 2004, in a case of "musical love at first sight".
- Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 - Washington Post
Washington PostLesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87Washington Post, United States - Aug 28, 2008... they founded a San Francisco social club for lesbians in 1955 called the Daughters of Bilitis after a book of lesbian erotic poetry published in Paris. ...
- Obituaries in the news - Washington Post
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y.(AP) _ Hayden Carruth, an award-winning poet who wrote about the people and places of northern Vermont, died Monday. He was 87. Carruth, who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 70s, died at his home in Munnsville, N.Y. after suffering a ...
- Wake Forest hosts poetry reading by Harry Clifton - WFU News Service
Wake Forest hosts poetry reading by Harry CliftonWFU News Service, NC - 44 minutes ago“His is a universe of aftermaths, hauntings and returns, in which even God (in the delightful poem God in France) dreams of becoming flesh again, ...
- Stage Review: Kuntu opens season of poetic Penny plays - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Like his younger friend, August Wilson, Rob Penny (1941-2003) was a poet. But Penny was the first to be a playwright, and he served his friend as a theatrical mentor. In fact, in a career as co-founder of Kuntu Rep and professor at the University of ...
- Tears without end: the terrible price of true love - The Independent
Heartbreak has been the subject of so many awful songs that it's tempting to take it lightly. Then, suddenly, it happens to you . Cole Moreton reflects on the appalling human capacity for feeling loss, romantic or otherwise What is it like? It is ...
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