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- Poetry Archive puts American poetry readings online (vnunet.com)
Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeract!ve , Thursday 18 September 2008 at 10:54:00 Rare poetry readings by 20th century American poets gets wider audience The Poetry Archive has added “previously unavailable or difficult to obtain", readings by 20th century American poets to its digital catalogue....
- Between the lines: Andrew Motion's advice to the next poet laureate (Guardian Unlimited)
There is an unimaginable difference between leading a relatively private life and the public life suddenly required of you
- An Irish playwright revisits the American dream (International Herald Tribune)
Ronan Noone has moved to American subjects after the series of Irish ensemble plays, and is taking on New York with a star, Campbell Scott, in "The Atheist," about a compromised, washed-up celebrity journalist.
- Crown Point's Conservative Cafe stirs up business in first year - NWI.com
It's painted on the walls with sayings like, "Work, It Does a Body Good" and "Help Build a Strong America, Discipline Your Children." T-shirts bear slogans not seen in retail outlets: "Silly Liberals -- Paychecks Are for Work" and "The best social ...
- The hustler - Guardian Unlimited
Russell Simmons is in reflective mood. The 50-year-old music mogul, fashion entrepreneur, community activist, jeweller and philanthropist is frequently portrayed as somewhat self-absorbed. Perhaps it's the fast-approaching appointment with his London ...
- Hamilton woman burned in car explosion dies in hospital (The Times of Trenton)
HAMILTON -- A 20-year-old woman who suffered serious burns to her face, neck and arms in a car explosion earlier this year died Tuesday from her injuries.
- Percussionist unleashes a wild Brazilian kind of chamber music - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- Jazz/world music percussionist Cyro Baptista wants Kalamazoo to engage in "anthropofagia." The term literally means "people eating people," Baptista said from his home in Tenafly, N.J. "But in reality, people eat the spirit of other ...
- English goes back to basics at schools - News.com.au
BASIC English and grammar lessons, downgraded decades ago, will be restored in schools to boost students' slipping spelling and writing skills. Traditional lessons are to be reinstated nationwide after complaints that pupils struggle to form proper ...
- Eldred Co., Inc - Antiques and Arts Weekly
Antiques and Arts WeeklyEldred Co., IncAntiques and Arts Weekly, CT - 1 hour ago... two volumes of mostly American autographs of poets, framed collection of signatures of the Duke Ellington orchestra, The Glen Gray Casa Loma orchestra, ...
- Achebe’s Poems Awe Listeners - Harvard Crimson
Achebe’s Poems Awe ListenersHarvard Crimson, MA - 44 minutes ago... “Things Fall Apart” yesterday evening with readings from his poetry and a discussion of his life’s work—both literary and political—in front of a packed ...
- Events Calendar (Port Elgin Shoreline Beacon)
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- Our democracy is only as good as we are (Creative Loafing Tampa)
By Peter Meinke "The medium is the message." --Marshall McLuhan (1964) Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) may be the wisest book ever written about the United States. In it he said that "America demonstrates invincibly one thing that I had doubted up to now, that the middle classes can govern a State. Despite their small passions, their incomplete education, their vulgar habits, ...
- Denis Johnson will read excerpts of his work today - NewsOK.com
Denis Johnson will read excerpts of his work todayNewsOK.com, OK - 4 hours agoHis poetry has been collected in the volume, "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly.” "Denis Johnson is one of those ...
- Are You in Fray for the Million’s Poet? - Khaleej Times
Are You in Fray for the Million’s Poet?Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoIn its third season, the competition invites participants to send in a 20 verse poem in the style of Nabati poetry. Also called the “the people’s poetry” ...
- Letters to the Editor (Santa Fe Reporter)
Euphoria Let us take a moment to pause and use whatever capacity we have to understand the movement that much of this nation has undergone. In my way, I thank the neo-cons for forcing me to ask my own questions as to who I am.
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