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- Jack White's Poetic Apology - Huffingtonpost.com
White Stripes rocker Jack White came under fire recently for disparaging his home town of Detroit, so he decided to prove his love for the city in a rather unorthodox way -- by writing a poem. This wasn't your everyday means of damage control -- let ...
- Raised in cane (The Columbus Dispatch)
L OS ANGELES -- When Americans think of 1950s Cuba, they tend to picture Fidel Castro ranting in tattered fatigues about the revolution.
- The Power of Poetry : Boy Beaten to Death Over Love Poem - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
16 year old Surjit Singh wrote a love poem in praise of an older girl. The problem was the girl was an "upper caste girl" and such cross-caste appreciation is taboo in India. "When the teacher came to know about the Surjit's love poem, he caned him ...
- Pumped up through a volume of music - Newsday
Pumped up through a volume of musicNewsday, NY - 3 hours agoGreenlaw is best known as a poet, and her memoir has the precision and intensity of prose poetry. Her mother's madrigal choir fills a room with "a noise ...
- Father, daughter reunion - Idaho State Journal
Kenneth Call, a retired painter from Pocatello, arrived at Salt Lake City International Airport Wednesday night to pick up his 45-year-old daughter, Carolyn. The last time he'd seen her, she was in diapers. The Pocatello man waited for Carolyn in the ...
- A PHONE CALL TO THE FUTURE - New York Times Blogs
A PHONE CALL TO THE FUTURENew York Times Blogs, NY - 41 minutes agoWhile her first book, “Henry Purcell in Japan,†is introduced here with a poised villanelle about King Lear’s daughters, it once began with a poem far more ...
- Russian Romance, the Art of Sentimental Art Song - Russia-InfoCenter
Russia-InfoCenterRussian Romance, the Art of Sentimental Art SongRussia-InfoCenter, Russia - 1 hour agoRussian romance means intimate lyrical songs that touch the soul, feelings set to music, and poetry that makes one cry and smile. Romance as music genre is ...
- Tigerman Sees Red (and Topaz) - Metropolis Magazine
Tigerman Sees Red (and Topaz)Metropolis Magazine, NY - 2 hours agoForget his actual poetry, which sucked. But was he really interested in building, in transcending paper architecture? Absolutely not. ...
- Crackergrass, Hippiegrass and Beautiful Losers (The Durango Telegraph)
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- Webster Defines it an Author Refines it, "Womanhood" a Poet's Perspective (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
What happens when the human spirit endures loss, betrayal, addiction, depression, and self-doubt? Poet/Author Yolanda Merz answers these questions and more in her book The Words I Speak: A Poet's Perspective.
- Look what we found in the bric-a-brac - South Manchester Reporter
Look what we found in the bric-a-bracSouth Manchester Reporter, UK - 1 hour agoThe shop also has a selection of first edition books on literary and poetry criticism – with prices reaching as high as £85.99 per book – as well as first ...
- Community calendar - May 22 (Akron Beacon Journal)
Area community events for the entire family
- What's Happening (Oroville Mercury-Register)
Dinners * First United Methodist Church will host a barbecued rib fundraiser dinner from 5-7 p.m. June 7 at 45 Acacia Ave.
- Country and Western Round-up Days scheduled - Ventura County Star
Country and Western Round-up Days scheduledVentura County Star, CA - 12 hours agoIn addition to food, the event will offer live music and other entertainment, cowboy poetry by Gorham, karaoke, clowns and face-painting by National Charity ...
- With Celtics, it's back to the future (Lowell Sun)
After I was left hanging on The Sun's waiver wire, the kind folks at the Sports Department reeled me in to join their gallant squad and I found myself beaming back to the future, returning to the "fun and games" that kicked off my journalism career in another century.
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