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- Appreciation: Oakley Hall, writers' champion - San Francisco Gate
With the death of Oakley Hall on Monday, the Bay Area - and, by extension, the United States - lost one of its greatest champions of literature. Novelist, librettist, instructor and administrator, Hall, who lived a robust 87 years, maintained an ...
- Grape escapes (Adelaide Now)
AN eclectic guide to the best wineland accommodation in Australia and New Zealand.
- Why Poetry Is More Than Mere Words -- New Anthology is a Profound Expression of the Inner Self (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
MIDLOTHIAN, Ill., July 7, 2008 -- Everyone has his own way of self-expression -- a creative outlet where one can hone his skills. Poetry is one of the most common and creative mediums of self-expression.
- Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festival (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Paulo Cavalcante rode buses for 46 hours from the dusty Brazil northeast to this coastal town for the chance to rub literary shoulders with dramatist Tom Stoppard and other famous writers.
- [Best Bets] Thursday, June 12 (Jackson Free Press)
Rehab plays at Hal & Mal’s tonight at 9 p.m. … Club Total hosts a night of open-mic poetry, rap and comedy at 9 p.m. … A little later in the night, swing by Seven*Studioz at 11 p.m. for open-mic poetry night.
- Top Urdu poets honoured (Gulf Times)
OVER 20 Urdu poets, writers and scholars from India and Pakistan attended the annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab awards ceremony and Aalmi Mushaira (international poetry symposium) over the weekend.
- Senior Recognition Dinner May 20 - Natick Bulletin and Tab
Senior Recognition Dinner May 20Natick Bulletin and Tab, MA - 12 hours agoCome and enjoy hearing engaging, thought provoking poetry, as Tuthill reads from her book "The Linen Man & Other Poems." Tuthill says she is aiming at ...
- User Login (Weekly Dig)
Foss hill—which was swarming with thousands of spectators on Sunday—acquired a certain historical significance last weekend, but it's had some personal significance to me for the past five years.
- Poetry workshops - Hebdenbridge Today
Poetry workshopsHebdenbridge Today, UK - 1 hour agoAn exciting programme of projects and events is planned, including supporting free libraries in train stations and pubs, competitions, workshops, ...
- McGavock student brings philosophy beyond his years - Nashville Tennessean
And "he's much older than his age in the things he's interested in,'' said McGavock English teacher Bob Stackhouse. Richard consumes literature and is a poet himself, even to the point of attending weekly poetry readings at Centennial Park.
- Top authors pick best summer books (CNN.com)
With soaring gas prices and travel costs, the cheapest route to whisk yourself away this summer is through a good book. Ten top-selling authors share their favorite lazy-summer-day reads.
- So to speak - guardian.co.uk
So to speakguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoAs with Burns's poetry, if it looks obscure all you have to do is speak the words aloud. Some accents are thicker than others. "These foreign cunts've goat ...
- The death of meaning - Arts Journal
I went to a vocal recital. Doesn't matter where, or who sang. I'll just say that she's an older soprano, a star in both opera and lieder, nearing the end of her career. The setting and audience were genteel. When the singer and her pianist appeared ...
- 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare recovered a decade after it was stolen; man in custody (USA Today)
It's a case of all's well that ends well.
- Jeff Cohen's Shortlist - MediaRights
MediaRightsJeff Cohen's ShortlistMediaRights - 1 hour agoI've loved films that take us, through depth or poetry or whimsy, into slices of our culture - like Hoop Dreams, Tongues Untied or Super Size Me (a doc even ...
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