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- Ted Hughes (Guardian Unlimited)
'Every work of art stems from a wound in the soul of the artist... Art is a psychological component of the auto-immune system that gives expression to the healing process. That is why great works of art make us feel good. '
- Monica Yant Kinney: An artistic transformation of kids-vs.-cops ... - Philadelphia Daily News
If Capt. Larry Nodiff had his way, the DVD in his hand would be required viewing for every recruit and officer in the 6,600-member Philadelphia Police Department. It's not a how-to film on the proper use of force. It's a three-minute summary of a ...
- ‘No matter where I went, he was there behind me’ - Irish Independent
Irish Independent‘No matter where I went, he was there behind me’Irish Independent, Ireland - 10 hours agoHe thinks it's romantic.'' That delusion may be the common thread, but unlike Thurman's experience, or that of Emily Maitlis, Vanessa Mae, David Walliams ...
- WALLACE STEGNER AND THE AMERICAN WEST - New York Times
New York TimesWALLACE STEGNER AND THE AMERICAN WESTNew York Times, United States - 39 minutes agoA loyal friend, immensely generous to former students, he was also a great keeper of grudges, a man who could never forget a slight. ...
- Colombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro Wolf - Upside Down World
Upside Down WorldColombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro WolfUpside Down World, NY - 37 minutes agoHe has also written, edited or translated a half dozen other books of poetry, fiction, interviews and translations from Latin America. ...
- Looking for a 'healthy and stable' democratic process - The Daily Star
Looking for a 'healthy and stable' democratic processThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 16 hours agoLike Dryden I believe that the fault lies not in poetry but in the bad poets. There is also the question of mindset. Any analysis of the political ...
- Poems mark hard paths - Raleigh News & Observer
Harcourt, 104 pages Now here is a subject one doesn't see addressed in poetry all that often -- especially with such a warm, complicated embrace. To Philip Schultz, recent co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, failure is not a pejorative but a ...
- More of today's best - Detroit Free Press
Jam Samich: 7 p.m. The Crofoot Ballroom, 1 S. Saginaw, Pontiac. 248-858-9333. $8. Maria Taylor: 8 p.m. Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward, Detroit. 313-833-9700. $10. Pat Benatar: 8 p.m. GM Riverfront Plaza, Renaissance Center, Detroit. 313-568-5600. Free ...
- What's on in Hounslow - Hounslow Chronicle
What's on in HounslowHounslow Chronicle, UK - 1 hour agoSinging, dancing, yoga, poetry, storytelling and more. £2.50. 11am-3pm. Call 0845 456 2840. ■Meet at the Junction on Lampton Road and the High Street. ...
- Crossing the Sea, at Wilton's Music Hall, E1 - Times Online
To come across a new work that's carefully conceived for a mixture of different media - film, dance, theatre, a singer and a string quartet - is a rare and rewarding thing. With her husband, the theatre director Lou Stein, the Belfast-born composer ...
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif (Trentonian)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
- Bedside reader for inconsolable widowers - DAWN Group
In the fifties to which septuagenarians retreat at the faintest smell of good, our cozy city of Rawalpindi had only one lady who was known to be a practising poet. She was Rabia Fakhri, a slight person, fragile and in decrepit health, you would see ...
- Johann Hari: As life flies on, don't let poetry pass you by (Independent)
I used to think poetry was a rotting art form, waiting only for its own Eleanor Rigby funeral. In an age that gets faster and faster and faster every day – where great gallons of information are spewed all over us constantly – what place was there for these compressed, opaque little patches of words that required us to slow down and incessantly re-read?
- An ode to Joy Division, where Wordsworth met punk - Globe and Mail
Ian Curtis. 18 - 5 - 80. Love Will Tear Us Apart. Some time early this month, an unknown thief stole this bleakly worded headstone from the former Joy Division singer/songwriter's grave in a Cheshire cemetery. Both Curtis's widow, Deborah, and former ...
- The Cynical Optimist 12/05/08 - Moviehole
The Cynical Optimist 12/05/08Moviehole, Australia - May 12, 2008The stigma of “good family fun†will no doubt make teen and young adult viewers hesitant, and the comic relief within will appeal mainly to children. ...
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