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- Parting gifts for Martin's mate - BBC News
What's the power of poetry? As a parting gift, Martin McGuinness presented Ian Paisley with a couple of hand-written poems. Mr McGuinness wrote one of the poems himself One was a passage from Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy in the laureate's own ...
- Stories that won't go away - Irish Times
Stories that won't go awayIrish Times, Ireland - 55 minutes agoHer trade unionist father, Jon, as he drove around Cork and Connemara, told stories of Ireland's struggles to become a Republic and recited the poetry of ...
- FRINGE STARS ENCOURAGED TO JOIN CELEBRATIONS IN SCOTLAND IN 2009 - TravelVideo.tv (press release)
FRINGE STARS ENCOURAGED TO JOIN CELEBRATIONS IN SCOTLAND IN 2009TravelVideo.tv (press release) - 1 hour agoSee and electrifying, illuminated art car parade featuring such sights as a Robert Burns Poetry van, a Burke and Hare barrow, a golf car, a whisky truck and ...
- Shakespeare gets groovy in Kingsmen's comedy - Simi Valley Acorn
Shakespeare gets groovy in Kingsmen's comedySimi Valley Acorn, CA - 28 minutes agoThere's some clever business of Touchstone mocking Orlando's syrupy love poetry and "Ganymede" teaching Orlando how to pitch woo to a lady. ...
- 'Fear Itself' - Los Angeles Times
'Fear Itself'Los Angeles Times, CA - 4 hours agoBrad Anderson -- who made the horror flick "The Machinist" and the lovely "Next Stop Wonderland" -- directed, with less poetry than I would have expected. ...
- Bring back Poetry Corner - Northwest Herald
For many years it was an enjoyable feature of the Saturday Neighbors section. It was a page or two of local poets’ works. I found it to be a wonderful venue for students’ poems as there is nothing quite as rewarding as seeing your poems in print ...
- A Treehouse With Charm - Martha's Vineyard Times
A Treehouse With CharmMartha's Vineyard Times, MA - 2 hours agoThirty years later, she opened up a book of children's poetry and read a random selection to her class of second-graders in New Hampshire. ...
- Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It? - New York Times
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change ...
- Teachers get refresher on creativity - Spartanburg Herald-Journal
A group of 21 teachers is participating in the college’s Creativity Institute this week, which is funded by the South Carolina Department of Education. This is the third session the college has organized in three years, and its long waiting list is ...
- Poet Tony in line for title push - The Sun
Poet Tony in line for title pushThe Sun, UK - 1 hour ago... awake in bed until the early hours going over this bout in my mind and to try to get some sleep, I started writing a bit of poetry about my girlfriend. ...
- Ha Jin wants to visit China (AP via Yahoo! News)
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.
- Kapil Sibal turns poetical on a BlackBerry - SINDH TODAY
Kapil Sibal turns poetical on a BlackBerrySINDH TODAY, Pakistan - 48 minutes ago‘In a sense, that’s the argumentative Indian who is finding his voice in poetry. These verses are written from many viewpoints - from those of a bureaucrat ...
- Blog Post, News - Webware.com
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as time-sucking procrastination tools, but a new study from the University of Minnesota says au contraire : Social networks build beneficial technological, creative, and communication skills ...
- Guest Essay: Tim W. Brown on the History and Future of Zines - mediabistro.com
mediabistro.comGuest Essay: Tim W. Brown on the History and Future of Zinesmediabistro.com, NY - 41 minutes agoFrom 1982-1999 he published Tomorrow Magazine, a poetry zine featuring the work of underground and performance poets from across the US.
- Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral Sea - Pitchforkmedia.com
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral SeaPitchforkmedia.com, IL - 3 hours agoBut poetry was not just her first medium-- you could argue that it remained her primary gig even after music made her famous. Because in her best songs, ...
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