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- Professor Wilfrid Mellers - Daily Telegraph
Professor Wilfrid Mellers, the composer, critic and musicologist who has died aged 94, caused a stir in both classical and popular music circles by giving as much serious consideration to the music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan as he did to Bach and ...
- Scientist will speak at Authors! (The Toledo Blade)
The 14th season of the Authors! Authors! series continues at 7 p.m.
- Brickbats - but mostly bouquets - for The Times redesign - Times Online
Brickbats - but mostly bouquets - for The Times redesignTimes Online, UK - 7 hours agoYou miss the poetry in times2, still want Business and Sport as a separate section, are warming to the leaders on page 2 (although one reader helpfully ...
- Text of NYT report on Aitzaz - The Post
Text of NYT report on AitzazThe Post, Pakistan - 3 hours agoAfter the declaration of martial law last fall, he was held there under detention for four months, working out on his treadmill, writing resistance poetry ...
- Plant Rights — Gather Essentials: Writing: Humor Monday - Gather.com
Gather.comPlant Rights — Gather Essentials: Writing: Humor MondayGather.com, MA - 2 hours agoWe welcome and articles realting to Memorial Day plus fiction, poetry and anything that tickles your muse — humorous or otherwise. ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (AP via Yahoo! News)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates: Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Donnybrook’s very own write-a-holic - Donnybrook Bridgetown Mail
Donnybrook’s very own write-a-holicDonnybrook Bridgetown Mail, Australia - 4 hours agoJo and her family used to travel to the South West for short breaks. She was impressed with Donnybrook because there was a hospital, police station, ...
- From the Chicago Tribune - Orlando Sentinel
From the Chicago TribuneOrlando Sentinel, FL - 4 hours agoThe Library of Congress announced Thursday that Ryan, whose poetry has been compared with Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th US poet ...
- "Idol" moments with winner David Cook (Seattle Times)
The new American Idol, rock musician David Cook, talks about touring, favorite books, Seattle grunge rock, a Jimi Hendrix/Dylan tune he almost sang on TV, a country star he's listening to, acting in "Phantom of the Opera" and more in this revealing new interview.
- Vermont author writes teen novel of first love - Bay Windows
Vermont author writes teen novel of first loveBay Windows, MA - 49 minutes agoLater, she went back to get a GED and go to Vermont’s Goddard College for a degree in poetry. It was while studying poetry in the MFA program at Vermont ...
- Homeless poet helps buy books for charity - Minden Times
Homeless poet helps buy books for charityMinden Times, Canada - 1 hour agoThe VanderWindts were so inspired by his poetry that they returned to see Crazzy Dave and bought ten more poems. They paid him $10 for each poem and are now ...
- Writer Bill Holm's ship comes in (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The poet and essayist, who splits his time between Minnesota and Iceland, is known as "an American original."
- Poet Zagajewski receives the 2008 Milosz Prize - Thenews.pl
Poet Zagajewski receives the 2008 Milosz PrizeThenews.pl, Poland - Jun 5, 2008In later years, while living in Paris, he was frequently invited to the United States to literary seminars and meetings with American poets. ...
- In StorySlam, strangers go on stage & bare their souls (Philadelphia Daily News)
IF WHAT'S DONE in the dark will come to light, baring your soul to a shadowy room of strangers could end in disgrace. But at First Person Arts StorySlam, where 10 amateur storytellers mount a dimly lit stage to share details of intimate experiences with an audience of unknowns, it usually ends with applause.
- Neuroscientist: Poetry Comes From Synesthesia, Tree-Climbing (Wired News)
A prominent neuroscientist told a crowd at the World Science Festival that the curious phenomenon of synesthesia -- in which some people "taste" colors or "hear" smells -- is simply a consequence of the aptitude humans evolved for abstraction.
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