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- Editorial: Try for this kind of verse - Albany Democrat-Herald
With rare exceptions we don’t run poetry in the letters column or anywhere else in the paper. But for the entertainment value alone, maybe we should. I have been thinking about this since Paul Pritchard of Albany handed me a folder last month at ...
- More on “Creative Capitalism” - New York Times Blogs
I blogged last month about a Bill Gates speech on “creative capitalism.” Motivated by the Bill Gates speech, Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke have undertaken an unusual web experiment in which they invited a number of prominent economists to ...
- Poet writes ode to local coal miners’ baseball past - Newcastle News
Poet writes ode to local coal miners’ baseball pastNewcastle News, wa - 1 hour ago“One of my nicest moments as a writer came when I visited the house of a new friend and found that on her refrigerator she had posted a poem of mine that ...
- Out and About: July 2 - 13 - Taunton Call
Out and About: July 2 - 13Taunton Call, USA - 1 hour agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Night Life - New Yorker
New YorkerNight LifeNew Yorker, United States - 1 hour agoJuly 18: Brazzaville is led by the guitarist and singer David Brown, an old friend and sideman of Beck’s. The group started out in the Los Angeles ...
- Elderly poet is well-versed in humor (Leader-Telegram)
Norma Desprez doesn't hide her age. She embraces it. The 88-year-old Eau Claire grandmother writes about her golden years in the new poetry book "Silhouettes of Aging: An Octogenarian's Retort."
- Roger McGough adapts French classic for Liverpool - ChesterChronicle.co.uk
Roger McGough adapts French classic for LiverpoolChesterChronicle.co.uk, UK - 13 hours agoMcGough has honed this since his days with the pop and poetry group The Scaffold, through years as one of the Liverpool poets with Adrian Henri and Brian ...
- Al-Ghafori celebrates his new novel - Yemen Observer
Kod blue is the new novel by the Yemeni author Murwan al-Ghafori and was published recently. This is the third novel for al-Gahfori, yet his first published work. The novel comes with great praise as it recently won the Naji Noman Prize for ...
- Sci-fi author, poet Thomas Disch dies (Pioneer Press)
Thomas M. Disch, who has been called one of the most important science fiction writers of his generation, died Saturday in New York.
- Mehmet Bal: A Turkish-Sri Lankan story - Groundviews
Mehmet Bal: A Turkish-Sri Lankan storyGroundviews, Sri Lanka - 36 minutes agoI took with me the vivid descriptions they had made of their land and the poetry of Nazim Hikmet; I brought back a few stones from the beach by way of ...
- I Am My Own Dragon by Linda Thompson - WTNH.com
(WTNH) - We all have a dragon deep inside. Because we all have the power to make anything we want happen. That's one of the messages of a new book called "I Am My Own Dragon." The idea behind the book written by motivational speaker and author, Linda ...
- Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln Journal Star
For an energetic start, you could take in Lincoln’s 5K run; run a half marathon, 5K or 10K at Brownville; or choose between 2-mile and 10K runs at Seward. Also on Seward’s calendar: a Great Plains Bicycling Club ride to Brainard/Dwight or a ...
- Kenya: Putting On the Kwani Lit Fest - AllAfrica.com
Kenya: Putting On the Kwani Lit FestAllAfrica.com, Washington - 31 minutes agoA whole 360 publishing houses specialising in science, poetry, fiction, turn out hundreds of wonderfully designed, immaculately executed books for a 100% ...
- Lou Reed, Royal Albert Hall, London - The Independent
Lou Reed's performance of his 1973 album in its entirety shows that some things are better left in the past The last time I reviewed Lou Reed in this column, I made what I thought was a fairly transparent joke about taking heroin in the toilets ...
- Turkish Olympics exhibition offers taste of world culture - Today's Zaman
Today's ZamanTurkish Olympics exhibition offers taste of world cultureToday's Zaman, Turkey - 36 minutes agoA young student standing in front of the South African exhibit shouted excitedly to his friend several meters away, "Look, look UÄźur, a real ostrich egg! ...
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