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- Books in Brief // Spiritual (Baltimore Sun)
Summer often brings vacation days, trips to flee the routine and extra "me" time.
- Doing Battle With the Bard (The New York Sun)
"Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare?" asks Nigel Smith in the title of his new book (Harvard University Press, 240 pages, $22.95). The obvious answer is no: It would be hard to dispute that Shakespeare's plays are more powerful, and more central to our culture, than Milton's biblical epics or his artfully classical lyrics. Around the world, when people dream about true love, they think of Romeo ...
- Prince working on 'photographic essay' titled '21 Nights' to be ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune
NEW YORK - Prince the musical auteur is becoming an author. "21 Nights," a "photographic essay" that offers "a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics, and mystique" of the maker of such hits as "1999" and "Purple Rain," will be published worldwide come ...
- Vilhelm Hammershoi's show at the Royal Academy proves he should be better known (Independent)
An empty room. An open door, giving a glimpse of another empty room. Bare walls. Bare tables. Bare polished boards. A cold, clear light coming in, casting a slant of brightness on to a wall or floor. A woman in a long dark dress, standing alone and motionless. Her back turned. Whites, greys, blacks, browns so deep they're near-monochrome. A geometry of straight edges. The odd gleam. Stillness. ...
- The Man Who Has Sex With Cars - Anorak.co.uk (satire)
The Man Who Has Sex With CarsAnorak.co.uk (satire), UK - 2 hours agoI’ma romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what’s in my heart and I have no desire to change. ...
- Zinedine Zidane, all-star team for Sydney exhibition match - News.com.au
THREE-time world footballer of the year Zinedine Zidane is coming to Australia with a star-studded international team for a June exhibition match. Zidane will lead a team featuring a number of his teammates from the French side that won the 1998 ...
- DePaul University School of Education Showcases Student Artwork ... - Media Newswire (press release)
DePaul University School of Education Showcases Student Artwork ...Media Newswire (press release), NY - 2 hours agoThe network is supported by the Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust, the Oscar G. and Elsa S. Mayer Family Foundation and the McDougal Foundation. ...
- Remembering MAKHFI (Deccan Herald)
Though I am the Laila of Persian romances/My heart loves like the ferocious Majnun, wrote princess Zebunnisa, the eldest daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb.
- McConnell Center: Volunteers are key to Children's Center success - Fosters Daily Democrat
Dover Children's Center at the McConnell Center is enjoying spring. The new playground space at the corner of Atkinson and St. Thomas streets is a fun place now that all that snow is gone. The classrooms are taking learning outside with sand and ...
- 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.
- Praise the Lloyd - Age
The incomparable Harold Lloyd. The everyman comedy of a slapstick legend retains its poetic perfection, writes Jake Wilson. THE COMEDIES OF Harold Lloyd, it's tempting to predict, will endure for at least as long as the United States. Other silent ...
- In Brief - Forward
In BriefForward, NY - 1 hour ago... certainly not for poetry, or when counted per verbum. When Representative William Scherle (Republican, Iowa) read the poem — it was, apparently, ...
- Durrell and I - Egypt Today
W hen the name Lawrence Durrell is mentioned, one immediately thinks of his Alexandria Quartet, the series of novels that brought the writer his greatest fame. Durrell was also a poet; in fact, his poetry emerged long before his novels, the first of ...
- Poetic Justice: Spike in sales for Kay Ryan, the next poet laureate (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall.
- Ruth Padel's top 10 women poets - guardian.co.uk
Ruth Padel's top 10 women poetsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoEveryone today knows and loves The World's Wife and the recent love poems in Rapture, but she made her name by much more political work (and a different ...
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