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- Smitty's Notes - Winston-Salem Journal
Smitty's NotesWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 3 minutes agoTourists, school groups, Gallery Hoppers and Shoppers have all enjoyed this project featuring poetry, honorary phrases, company and business logos, ...
- Poetry Award for Glück (New York Times)
The poet Louise Glück has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
- Byron, ghost and partisans enlisted to save Tuscan villa in ruins (Times Online)
Campaigners are trying to save a ramshackle Tuscan villa where Lord Byron lived towards the end of his life, but which has fallen into ruin despite its rich history.
- Unusual ‘videopera’ deserves a future - The Herald-Times (subscription)
Unusual ‘videopera’ deserves a futureThe Herald-Times (subscription), IN - 5 hours agoThe libretto holds power and poetry. The music, ranging stylistically from exotic avant-garde to lyrical, fits the subject marvelously. ...
- The lure of the lighthouse - Scotsman
The lure of the lighthouseScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThis piece was dinned into us at school, instilling not necessarily an appreciation of poetry, but a whole gallimaufry of conspiracy theories – the accepted ...
- Can you share a poem? - Domican Today
C'est Magnifique! Mon cousin. That's what I call poetry "au naturel". From the heart and direct. As Bill Clinton was known to say: "I feel your pain". However, the Lord that I know is not deaf that he does not hear the anguish of a repentant sinner ...
- Documentary to explore BASE jumpers' leap of faith - Reuters
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Oscar winner Alex Gibney is taking off with "Gravity," a documentary about the extreme sport of BASE jumping. The director of "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" will executive produce ...
- Council for the Arts moves to new downtown digs - Gaylord Herald Times
Council for the Arts moves to new downtown digsGaylord Herald Times, MI - 2 hours agoThe building will be used to hold small performances, poetry and prose readings, art exhibitions, receptions and meeting space for workshops and other arts ...
- Check It Out - Raleigh News & Observer
Story Tools Back-to-school waders? We love the annual back-to-school-inspired tax-free weekend that commences here in North Carolina today and expires at 11:59 p.m. Sunday. We love it not because of the potential savings; heck, we're not even going ...
- 'The Birthday Party' celebrates a perfect moment - Chicago Sun-Times
It is not at all difficult to see why director Aaron Snook and the Signal Ensemble Theatre decided to stage a revival of Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party†at this particular moment. To begin with, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the ...
- Today in History, Aug. 4, 2008 - Waterbury Republican American
Today in History, Aug. 4, 2008Waterbury Republican American, CT - 10 minutes agoThought for Today: “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.†-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- Funds for the runner-up - Daily Pilot
Friends and family of Spencer Wood, a Newport Beach native who died two years ago at age 22, have created a scholarship fund in his honor to be awarded to one or more Newport Harbor High School students every year. They raised $4,000 at a benefit in ...
- Review: The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd - Telegraph.co.uk
Review: The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter AckroydTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoAckroyd's most deeply felt passage is the Creature's account of his encounter with a labourer and his daughter through whom he discovers the power of poetry ...
- An Antique Song - Hartford Advocate
Hartford AdvocateAn Antique SongHartford Advocate, CT - 1 hour ago"The poetry is beautifully concisely structured. It has a really strange, surreal, dark humor to it, and it's very direct. And all those qualities were very ...
- Ronnie Drew: Lead singer of the Dubliners - The Independent
With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the Dubliners, whose charismatic stage presence and ...
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