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- POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay Ryan - San Francisco Chronicle
POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay RyanSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 13 minutes agoRyan's work has appeared in four editions of "The Best American Poetry" and in three Pushcart Prizes anthologies. She has also received a 2004 Guggenheim ...
- The way they were (Greater Milwaukee Today)
Whatever your label was in high school — brain, beauty, freak, geek, jock, teacher’s pet — there was a certain type of music or specific singer/band that spoke to you.
- Currently Hanging - New York Observer
Felix Nussbaum’s Self in Concentration Camp (1940), a painting included in the exhibition “Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait With Horn” at the Neue Galerie, is as bleak as the title implies. Wearing a wool cap, a tattered jacket and a lean beard, the ...
- The A-list - The Villager
The A-listThe Villager, NY - 2 hours ago... Parker’s death, and mulitple high-energy concerts. A day-long street fest on August 29 features a free block party, artist flea market, poetry open mic ...
- Ryan reading to kick off literary season (UPI)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading.
- Because Elections Are Determined by the Median Voter - New York Times Blogs
The folks at the Census Bureau have just finished compiling the most recent data on income distribution. I’m betting that the following chart will get a lot of political play: Yes, median real household income was lower last year than in 2000. And ...
- Usain Bolt electrifies Beijing, winning the 200 in a world-record time - Seattle Times
Jamaica's Usain Bolt reacts after his remarkable win in the 200. Wallace Spearmon, left, who was third, and Churandy Martina, right, who was second, were DQ'd. BEIJING — This time he ran every meter of the race. He didn't sightsee. He didn't ...
- D. Nurkse’s Poetry, the Product of Metaphysical Battles - Nymag.com
The ravaged settings in which many of D. Nurkse’s new poems take place — including New York on 9/11 — seem perfectly matched to the grizzled, Herman Melville–esque visage in his author photo. Clearly, Nurkse’s been through a battle or two ...
- Madonna caps a year of change by turning 50 - Hindustan Times
It seems to be happening to everyone at the moment: Prince, Michael Jackson, Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin and Paddington Bear are all turning 50 this year with Madonna also blowing out her birthday cake candles next month. Indeed, the Material Girl ...
- Ex-reporter offers help for the grieving (St. Clair County Journal)
As a newspaper reporter, Mark Hodapp wrote his share of sad stories. But unlike some who deal with death and heartbreak on a regular basis, Hodapp never could forget many of the stories - or the people behind the stories.
- David Shribman: Humphrey gave greatest convention speech you've never ... - Newburyport Daily News
MINNEAPOLIS — If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium on Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F ...
- Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- TBA DIARY: Lemon Made Good Made Bad - Willamette Week
TBA DIARY: Lemon Made Good Made BadWillamette Week, OR - 1 hour agoWe learn this only when Lemon Anderson, best known from Russell Simmons's Def Poetry Jam, bursts into archaic flow and histrionic gesture before he has even ...TBA DIARY: Lemon Andersen—Another Perspective Willamette Weekall 2 news articles
- Yesterday's Tomorrow - WA today
Yesterday's TomorrowWA today, Australia - Sep 15, 2008However, his publisher did him no favour by including one of his own "erotic" poems here. Mercifully, it occupies only four pages. ...
- Thomas Rain Crowe gets set to rock the boat - Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Much - if not all - of Crowe's writing reveals a deep love of the land and the people who inhabit it. Crowe is the author of more than 20 books, including "The Laugharne Poems," "Zoro's Field:
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