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- COMMUNITY CALENDAR (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
MONUMENT INSCRIPTION WORKSHOP — 2 p.m., Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn St. Help preserve inscriptions on Mt. Auburn’s 19th century monuments. Free. For information, call 617-607-1981.
- Katie Couric's old self stars on YouTube - HamptonRoads.com
Every weekday evening, Katie Couric is the picture of sobriety on the "CBS Evening News." Viewers who miss the impish humor the anchor exhibited on "Today" probably don't know that it's still possible to catch glimpses of Couric, unplugged - and in a ...
- Rock Me, Ahmadinejad! - TIME
Rock Me, Ahmadinejad!TIME - 38 minutes agoDe Burgh will share the stage with Iranian pop giants Arian, on whose forthcoming album he has collaborated — in one song, De Burgh even sings "I love you," ...
- Love in this Club - Hartford Advocate
Hartford AdvocateLove in this ClubHartford Advocate, CT - 9 hours agoIt's grown into something of a downtown cultural institution with nights during the week devoted to jazz, poetry, and international styles of dancing. ...
- So Much Depends on a Red Soup Can - Pop City
Pop CitySo Much Depends on a Red Soup CanPop City, PA - 58 minutes agoA companion volume, For a Living: The Poetry of Work (1995) was hailed by the Wall Street Journal. Tackling Andy, Oresick comes to grips with a slew of ...
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' - Idaho Press-Tribune
Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'Idaho Press-Tribune, ID - 6 hours agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her “Zombie†is a brilliant ...
- Paragraph of the week - Chicago Tribune
For 34 years, it did its job quietly and well, without fanfare or melodrama. The Ontario Review, the small but potent literary magazine created by the late Raymond Smith and his wife, Joyce Carol Oates, provided a home for excellent, thought ...
- Beck: Columns forge links with readers - Argus Leader
Editor's Note: Recently Executive Editor Randell Beck was asked to tell other editors for the Gannett Co., which owns the Argus Leader, why he writes a weekly column. This is what he wrote. When I came to South Dakota in 2001 to be editor of the ...
- Political activist Buchanan dies at 62 - Statesman Journal
Political activist Buchanan dies at 62Statesman Journal, OR - 14 hours agoAs a small boy, he could recite poetry from memory. In high school, college and community-theater productions, he played leading roles in plays including ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldAxe victim escaped 'rage' of SydneySydney Morning Herald, Australia - 3 hours ago... playing in the police band and also writing poems, one which was published in a book by the International Library of Poetry titled The Liquid Mirror. ...
- Tunisia launches 44th Carthage International Festival - magharebia.com
magharebia.comTunisia launches 44th Carthage International Festivalmagharebia.com - 3 hours agoSome in the audience, however, did not like the use of popular poetry in the performance. While it was probably meant to bridge the gap between the past and ...
- Festival to celebrate RS Thomas - BBC News
BBC NewsFestival to celebrate RS ThomasBBC News, UK - 3 hours agoA church where the late RS Thomas once preached is holding a poetry festival in his honour. As part of the event at St Michael's Church, Eglwysfach, ...
- At readings, we hear more than writer's words - Boston Globe
Almost any night of the week, authors are reading to audiences. Poetry or prose, fiction or non-, in cavernous ballrooms or crammed into corners behind bookstore shelves, if they read it, we will come. I have an image of us huddling like our distant ...
- Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008: Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide (The Columbus Dispatch)
NEW YORK -- Author, poet and critic Thomas M. Disch -- who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God -- died Friday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 68.
- Heard It At School - Rutland Herald
More than 50 Rutland Middle School students recently read their works to an audience of more than 150 students and parents at the 13th annual Rutland Middle School Coffeehouse. Students presented essays and poems they had written throughout the year ...
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