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- Roundup: Wikipedia debates child porn - Salon
Rocking us like a hurricane of creepiness: There's controversy raging over at Wikipedia about -- of all things -- a 1976 Scorpions album. The cover of the album, "Virgin Killer," features a naked prepubescent girl. (The album cover was banned in the ...
- Death and loss to be examined - Scoop
People can learn about loss and grief from a poet and world leader on these subjects at a workshop to be presented by Mercy Hospice Auckland, the University of Auckland and the National Association for Loss and Grief. Professor Bob Neimeyer is ...
- Bards averse to top poetry job - Channel 4 News
A new poet laureate will be chosen when Andrew Motion comes to the end of his term. But who wants the job? Every 10 years there is a new poet laureate - that strange job in which one of Britain's leading writers is nominated to produce verse on state ...
- Calendar of events: Starting June 6 - Salem Gazette
Calendar of events: Starting June 6Salem Gazette, USA - 12 hours agoSalem State College will present a free poetry reading by area women who were published in the Red Hen Press 2008 anthology, “Letters to the World: Women ...
- Like his poetry, Cohen is timeless - Waterloo Record
Like his poetry, Cohen is timelessWaterloo Record, Canada - 39 minutes agoWhether writing poetry or songs, Cohen has remained a poet. WB Yeats has been called the Last Romantic Poet. But Cohen deserves the title. ...
- Roethke's Poetry Rooted in Humble Beginnings - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 25, 2008 · The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke's work is known for its clarity, intensity and haunting images. And throughout his life, a major source of inspiration and comfort came from his childhood home ...
- Christa Drigalla: Helping the Nepalese to Help Themselves - American Chronicle
Christa Drigalla: Helping the Nepalese to Help ThemselvesAmerican Chronicle, CA - 2 hours agoIf she´s not trekking in the Himalayas then she´s invariably wandering up and down the Swiss Alps or in the Black Forest Mountains. ´I have it in my genes, ...
- Stone the Crows: In praise of a neglected high flyer - The Independent
Dark, malevolent andmajestic, the crow has inspired endless legends and works of literature. But few realise that they've also shaped Britain's landscape. Rob Sharp meets an author determined to place the corvid on an elevated perch On the Norfolk ...
- Opera Theatre of St. Louis scores a 'revelation' with 'Troilus and ... - Dallas Morning News
Opera Theatre of St. Louis scores a 'revelation' with 'Troilus and ...Dallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour agoOne even relaxes into the libretto's purplish poetry. Roger Honeywell's potent but expressive tenor and vivid declamation are perfect for Troilus. ...
- Grimshaw wins Montana honours - Stuff
Charlotte Grimshaw is following in her father's literary footsteps, winning the Montana Medal for her book of short stories, Opportunity. Grimshaw, daughter of CK Stead, scooped the $5000 fiction category and the $10,000 overall award. The Aucklander ...
- UConn program gives 7th-graders an early start (Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD - Try solving this on an empty stomach: If there are six people in a room, how many different ways can they be lined up against a wall?
- The conundrum of Slessor's sixth bell - Sydney Morning Herald
FIVE BELLS , Kenneth Slessor's elegy for his friend Joe Lynch, who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927, is arguably the most famous poem written about Sydney. But Slessor's own rarely seen notebook, meticulously written in his neat handwriting and ...
- Postcard from Zinnlandia - Brussels Journal
Brussels JournalPostcard from ZinnlandiaBrussels Journal, Belgium - 1 hour agoAmong them are public transportation, recycling, French poetry readings, yoga, coffee, artisan food and arthouse cinema. Would it that the counterscale were ...
- Weekly Music Agenda - DCist.com
DCist.comWeekly Music AgendaDCist.com, DC - 5 hours agoTake the skill of a classically trained pianist, mix in a colorfully kitschy stage show and the emotion evoked at a coffee house poetry reading and you have ...
- Dispatch from The Philadelphia Urban Seminar: Day 5 - Penn State Live
Dispatch from The Philadelphia Urban Seminar: Day 5Penn State Live, PA - 3 hours agoIn the morning we worked on helping three of the girls write their final poems for the poetry contest. The class did another compare-and-contrast reading ...
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