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- Kathleen Norris battles 'the demon of acedia' - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesKathleen Norris battles 'the demon of acedia'Los Angeles Times, CA - 22 minutes ago"The Psalms are just poetry. There is much more room in them," she says -- metaphor to lift the spirit or simply to lean on. "But really it's trying to find ...
- Review: Out of the Blue by Chris Yates - Daily Telegraph
Fishing is "the contemplative man's recreation", Izaak Walton wrote in the 1650s - a retreat from public life and civil war into a kind of insulated bliss. Angling was Walton's "imployment for his idle time, which was not idly spent". It was a "rest ...
- Ekhaya director in poetry competition - Chronicle
Ekhaya director in poetry competitionChronicle, Zimbabwe - 6 hours agoHe further revealed that he had already initiated work on a dub poetry album with Kwakalulama studios, which he is going to cement on his return from ...
- Rugby reflects trends in racism (Pretoria News)
There is periodically an event which crystallises for all to see what blacks have always known: that racism is both virulent and commonplace, and that millions of blacks continue to suffer because of it.
- Album Review: Brian Wilson, "That Lucky Old Sun" (Capitol) - LiveDaily
Seamlessly swirling together shimmering melodies with spoken-word, autobiographical tales of dreams and love, legendary artist Brian Wilson [ tickets ] makes "That Lucky Old Sun" his personal love letter to Southern California. Optimistic Beach Boys ...
- THE BISHOP’S DAUGHTER: A Memoir, - Providence Journal
Providence JournalTHE BISHOP’S DAUGHTER: A Memoir,Providence Journal, RI - 1 hour agoNow his daughter, the author of three books of poetry and a biography of her maternal grandmother, has written a memoir that is a story about herself in the ...
- Callaloo workshop presents four prominent African-American writers - University of Washington
Four faculty members from the 2008 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops will read from their poetry and fiction at 7 p.m. Aug. 6 in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge. The event is free and open to the public. A reception for the authors will ...
- Hard man in a hard country (Khaleej Times)
Tomorrow, there will be no presidential hopefuls, no hordes of advisers and staff, no senior TV anchors, none of the razzmatazz of an American election campaign. The routine lack of routine that is life in Kabul will have been restored.
- Arts Scene - Nova News Now
Arts SceneNova News Now, Canada - 2 hours agoJacob McArthur Mooney is a Nova Scotian living in Ontario who will be giving a poetry reading Tuesday, Sept. 16 at Acadia University. ...
- Simon Gray - Telegraph.co.uk
Simon GrayTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Aug 7, 2008At Westminster he struck up a friendship with a short, ugly, unpopular Jewish boy named Quass with whom he conducted a lucrative fraud, using Georgian ...
- 'Up the Yangtze' personalizes cost of progress (The Capital Times)
I suppose if they rerouted the Mississippi River and displaced millions of Midwesterners, we'd make a few movies about it, too. On the heels of "Manufactured Landscapes" and "Still Life" comes "Up the Yangtze," yet another film about the aftershocks of China's Three Gorges Dam project. The massive dam is the largest hydroelectric project in the world, and a symbol of China's status as a global ...
- Grit after grit - National Post
Wall Street JournalGrit after gritNational Post, Canada - Jul 15, 2008It has almost become a cliche to call The Hold Steady a true-blue American band. The Brooklyn-based outfit is more like new American cuisine-- traditional ...The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of ... Fort Worth Star Telegramall 66 news articles
- Jamie Oliver chef faces jail over £1million jewellery robbery - Daily Telegraph
Self-confessed drug addict Tom Baisden, 26, was chosen to take part in Jamie's Chef in 2007 and given the chance to win the prize of running his own restaurant. Despite being pipped at the post by contestant Aaron Craze, Baisden credited Oliver with ...
- Don't Let Pride Get In The Way Of Safety - The Bulletin
Question: My father is elderly, but until recently had been in very good health. A few weeks ago while driving in the afternoon, he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his car. He was okay, thankfully, and tests that the doctor ordered as a follow ...
- Poet Kay Ryan named next laureate - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will be the nation's 16th poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
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