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- Autumn days are just around the corner - Chicago Tribune
Autumn days are just around the cornerChicago Tribune, United States - 47 minutes agoPoets have always found autumn to be fertile ground for inspirationâ€â€you might find it equally inspiring to open a book of poetry and find a delicious poem ...
- IN IT TOGETHER - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphIN IT TOGETHERCalcutta Telegraph, India - 19 minutes agoLove and physical relations are not activities that are themselves base and sordid  indeed the world would have been immensely poorer in poetry and culture ...
- Wine film sweet, familiar with just a hint of poetry - Edmonton Journal
In 1976, a Chardonnay from the Napa Valley won a blind taste test in France, shattering the perceived invincibility of French wine and setting the stage for an American Revolution. It was, as someone says in the comedy-drama Bottle Shock, "a bunch of ...
- The wonder of Woodstock - The Independent
PD James, the nation's empress of extermination, monarch of murder and queen of crime, will discuss with Kate Summerscale how far crime fiction mirrors the actuality of homicide and detection Literary festivals are seldom held in grand surroundings ...
- Just Asking … Amy Tan (The Kansas City Star)
Next month the San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” based on the 2001 novel by Amy Tan, whose other books include The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife. Tan wrote the opera’s libretto, her first. The music was composed by Stewart Wallace.
- Weekend's Best Bets, Aug. 1 - 3 - NRToday.com
Weekend's Best Bets, Aug. 1 - 3NRToday.com, OR - 10 minutes agoRiverbend Live! continues with Cowboy Poetry by Dan Roberts and RJ Vandygriff. Roberts wrote Garth Brooks’ No. 1 hit “Beaches of Cheyenne†and Vandygriff ...
- Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Juneau Empire (subscription)
Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamJuneau Empire (subscription), AK - 3 hours agoHe wrote about 5000 quatrains, a stanza or poem of four lines, embodying his philosophy of life. In Persian these were called rubaiyat. In 1859, in London, ...
- Bellying up in Wyalusing - Daily Review & Sunday Review
WYALUSING  There were unusual sights and sounds on Main Street in Wyalusing on Saturday, which was blocked off for a street festival. If you strolled down the street, you’d see two 18-inch-tall Pygmy goats in a makeshift pen that a Sylvara ...
- Kimani is Hailed as the Top Notch Poet for PoeticWorks.Com Battle of the Poets 2008 (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
PoeticWorks presented its' 1st radio broadcasted Battle of the Poets on their new radio show this month. Kimani, a Miami native, hailed as the Top Notch Poet.
- Trailer Park musical arrives in Birmingham - Birmingham Post
Trailer Park musical arrives in BirminghamBirmingham Post, UK - 10 minutes agoMorris shifted easily from quoting Clare’s poetry to suddenly becoming one of the characters they met on route. In the play Call for the Condemned, ...
- Folk Tale-Inspired 'Black Rider', by Waits, Wilson and Burroughs, Begins in Toronto (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The Black Rider, The Casting of the Magic Bullets - the folk tale-inspired avant-garde play with music by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs, seen in Europe, the U.S. and Canada - gets its Toronto premiere at Tarragon Theatre's Mainspace Oct. 8 toward an Oct. 15 opening.
- New releases -- Marylandia - Weblogs.baltimoresun.com
Here's a look at several new books with a Maryland connection -- either from local authors or with a local theme. Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball (Alma Books). In unsent letters, diary entries and other snippets, the Baltimore novelist recreates ...
- Thrills and spills but fewer bloody kills - Irish Independent
Thrills and spills but fewer bloody killsIrish Independent, Ireland - 3 hours agoHe tried his hand at poetry, he dabbled in journalism and also practised as a lawyer. "I suppose my early life was really a way to find something to do to ...
- The Theatre - New Yorker
New YorkerThe TheatreNew Yorker, United States - 9 minutes agoManhattan Theatre Club premières John Patrick Shanley’s musical “Romantic Poetry†(Sept. 30); Doug Hughes directs Beau Willimon’s dark election comedy, ...
- Student activist focuses on Congo (Greensboro News & Record)
GREENSBORO -- The running joke about Kambale Musavuli is that he will talk to anybody about his native Congo. And the 27-year-old college student can link anything back to his homeland. Say Musavuli meets a guy who writes poetry. "You could write a poem about the Congo," Musavuli tells the poet. Or maybe he's with friends at a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere -- nothing but ...
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