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- Simplicity and repetition may explain staying power of songs - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Simplicity and repetition may explain staying power of songsSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - Jul 19, 2008"Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and ...
- A woman of uncommon sensibilities - Boston Globe
A woman of uncommon sensibilitiesBoston Globe, United States - 3 hours agoBy Judith Maas By Elizabeth Maguire The author of fiction, travel pieces, and poetry, Constance Fenimore Woolson is better known as a mystery woman in the ...
- Poetry in motion - SLAM! Sports
Since I don't see any hands in the air, I'll fill you in. Ashley Harkleroad is the 72nd-ranked player on the WTA tour. She has never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam singles event and has exactly zero career titles to her credit. She ...
- Pupils have a reason for their rhymes - Bendigo Advertiser
Pupils have a reason for their rhymesBendigo Advertiser, Australia - 11 hours agoMANY budding Banjos are scribbling away ahead of next month’s Rusty Nail bush poetry festival. The popular event, which carries a total of $1000 in prize ...
- John Lundberg: Why You Should Read Mahmoud Darwish (HuffingtonPost)
When renowned novelist Ahdaf Soueif said that the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was "the last poet who could fill a football stadium," it wasn't hyperbole....
- Eyes wide open - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
The Oregonian - OregonLive.comEyes wide openThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 7 hours agoSo at an impromptu dance party, they taught each other American and African moves. Jones, who loves to dance, said she realized how African dancing was ...
- Pit saga capped with guilty plea - University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel
Pit saga capped with guilty pleaUniversity of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel, NC - 5 hours agoTaheri-Azar sent two notebooks of abstract poetry to Marchbanks from jail. "It's tempting to forget the human in somebody who would do this," Marchbanks ...
- Leonard Cohen ends UK tour at Big Chill - Irish World News
He is set to play London's O2 Arena, having received rave reviews for shows in Manchester, Edinburgh and Glastonbury - but the spectacular setting of the Big Chill festival will be the last chance to see the legendary Leonard Cohen on his first ...
- David Usher headlines the 2008 Junction Arts Festival - Inside Toronto
Canadian multi-award winning recording artist David Usher, the lead singer of the now defunct band Moist, will headline the Junction Arts Festival's main stage show in Junction City Square, Sept. 6. Five-time Juno winner David Usher takes over ...
- RE[3]: Low blow - OS News
RE[3]: Low blowOS News - 15 hours agoI imagine you would have gotten the same comments had you been writing about a poetry anthology or a lawnmower. It was also an old joke that you've used ...
- Community calendar - Arizona Daily Star
Community calendarArizona Daily Star, AZ - Aug 22, 2008Youth poetry and art contest. 9 am-3 pm weekdays through Aug. 29. Free. 615-7855. Chess Club — Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive. ...
- Moving time at Please Touch - Philadelphia Inquirer
Moving time at Please TouchPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 4 hours ago... as well as an Eco Poetry Slam and Eco-Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap. Additional highlights include a 100-mile Organic Vegan Pastry Contest, ...
- Today's Herald - Calgary Herald
What fringe festivals lack in terms of production values, they make up for in other ways, such as words. Words which pour forth in torrents, streaming out of the mouths of fringe performers at a sometimes astonishing rate -- long, short, simple ...
- Julia Roberts' niece jets in for Wild Child - Herald.ie
Julia Roberts' niece jets in for Wild ChildHerald.ie, Ireland - 1 hour agoThe high-profile thespians held the audience spellbound as they read form a selection of prose and poetry by Irish literary legend Samuel Beckett. ...
- Against the day: Adultnapper - Resident Advisor
Against the day: AdultnapperResident Advisor, Australia - 34 minutes agoSebald was focused, obviously, on "How does a German talk about German history, German literature, or German poetry when part of that history is the ...
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