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- The image at center of presidential race (The Record)
We seem to be at the classic moment: One generation of stars directly confronts the next generation, each with entirely different traditions.
- Memorable Speech: An Interview with David Yezzi - Magic City Morning Star
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include " The Hidden Model ," and "Sad Is Eros ." His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The ...
- The write stuff - Danbury News Times
The write stuffDanbury News Times, CT - 58 minutes ago... the top writing prizes for students from Fairfield County in the 11th annual IMPAC/Connecticut State University System prose and poetry competition. ...
- Len's Last Laugh - Sunday Herald
Len's Last LaughSunday Herald, UK - 43 minutes agoFive years later, inspired by Lorca, Camus, Sartre and Yeats, he published his first volume of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. After an abortive year at ...
- Neil Diamond - The Thank You Australia Concert: Live 1976 - DVD Talk
Neil Diamond - The Thank You Australia Concert: Live 1976DVD Talk, OR - 33 minutes agoThe forty-seven minute program features Neil discussing his press shyness and sabbatical from music, his work process, his childhood, early career, poetry, ...
- The quality of writing can vary, but we all agree on the subject - Daily Reflector
A friend recently shared a poem her teenage daughter had written for her birthday. The poem is lovely as it recognizes and honors the way the mother focuses on what's important. Here are a few lines: A beautiful woman puts others before her always ...
- Thanks for the Poetry - Slate
This abortion ruling strikes me as a lot like the religious culture-war debates, where we spend a lot of time fighting about symbolics and very little about things that matter (a creche vs. faith based funding, abortion language vs. actual access ...
- Paintings, poems therapy for daughter's death - Edmonton Sun
Paintings, poems therapy for daughter's deathEdmonton Sun, Canada - 1 hour ago"I think poetry is really the language of grief. A lot of families seem to reach a point at which they write a poem for their loved one. ...
- Apply for a fellowship in crafts or playwriting - Daily Press
Apply for a fellowship in crafts or playwritingDaily Press, VA - 1 hour agoParker's poetry explores themes of love and the joys and struggles of everyday life. Parker's book is available through online bookstores or through the ...
- Mark Morris dancers return to Berkeley - San Jose Mercury News
Mark Morris dancers return to BerkeleySan Jose Mercury News, USA - 29 minutes agoMorris also brings back 1988's "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," set to the music of Handel and the poetry of John Milton. ...
- A short-hand guide to the Printers Row Book Fair - Chicago Journal
A short-hand guide to the Printers Row Book FairChicago Journal, IL - 1 hour agoYCA teaches youth how to write poetry and prose, and how to perform their works with intensity and feeling. The warning about this event is that it might ...
- Shocking Attitudes To Great War's Wounded Revealed, UK (Medical News Today)
Diaries written by working class soldiers wounded in World War One have revealed how they silently endured brutal treatment by military nurses, doctors, physiotherapists and stretcher bearers. Historian Dr Ana Carden-Coyne from The University of Manchester says the material penned by British and Australian squadies explodes an officially sanitised view of military service in the Great War.
- Listen to the prize-giving at the recent Griffin gala, as well as an ... - CBC News
(Photo credit: Lynn Davis) This week’s podcast features recordings from the Griffin Poetry Prize event. Along with the awards presentations and acceptance speeches from the gala in Toronto in early June, there’s also a new interview with John ...
- Olmert in Moscow - OpEdNews
Olmert in MoscowOpEdNews, PA - 4 hours ago... Kipling's God of Fair Beginnings and skies above and beyond. And the only way for a writer to make peace with the Deity is through the language of Poetry.
- 5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage DayPR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - Jun 18, 2008Although the creators of folk Spirituals are unknown, scholars suspect they were folk poets, Black preachers, and slave communities. ...
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