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- Poetry in music: Paula Sinclair to sing William Stafford poems Sunday - TheTimes
TheTimesPoetry in music: Paula Sinclair to sing William Stafford poems SundayTheTimes, OR - 1 hour ago... Book Award and Shelley Award winner, is often regarded for the significant contributions he made in the field of poetry before his death in 1993. ...
- And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it - MySanAntonio
The best writers are those that give you a sense of who they are — as men and women, as fathers and mothers, as warriors and peacemakers. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was that kind of writer. No matter how lean or clinical the prose, his nobility ...
- Chaucer's Tale (Kirkus Reviews)
Burton Raffel has made two key decisions in his rendition of Chaucer’s greatest work.
- Class Action - New London Day
This has to be one of the nastiest little high school movies ever, and that's a compliment, given that nasty is a subgenre unto itself. Reese Witherspoon gives an Oscar-worthy performance as Tracy Flick, the friendless overachieving geek girl ...
- Open-air poetry reading today - Haringey Independent
If the sound of lyrics in the open-air catches your fancy, pop along to today's courtyard poetry reading. Tipped as one of 12 new poets to watch by the Guardian, Kathryn Simmonds will be reading a selection of her work at Hornsey Library, Haringey ...
- The Iliad and The Odyssey remain awesomely true - The Chronicle Herald
IN ITS BOOKS THAT SHOOK the World series, Vancouver publisher Douglas & McIntyre properly includes the Greek poet Homer’s epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and enlists the consummate belle-lettriste Alberta Manguel to give us the "biography ...
- Honor America Days - Observer-Dispatch
The city will showcase why it’s great to grow up in Rome during its annual Honor America Days events beginning this weekend. Honor America Days is designed to showcase the community through a series of family-friendly events, attractions and ...
- How's He Doing? (Gay City News)
Performance Space 122's freewheeling spirit has only been fast-forwarded by its newish artistic director, Vallejo Gantner. There've been changes in programming. "The Avant-Garde-Arama" showcase is nearing 30, and a family-friendly version was recently added.
- Judge denies request to reduce teen's bond - Hartford Courant
A judge has denied a teenager's request for a bond reduction before his murder trial. District Court Judge John S. Mackey on Wednesday denied a request to reduce 18-year-old Andre Wells' bond. Wells is one of three teenagers charged with the Aug. 24 ...
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- Johnny Flynn has troubadour style - New York Daily News
The latest buzz star out of England isn't a sassy teen girl with a hit MySpace page or a neo-R&B singer who pines to be the next Amy Winehouse . It's a ye-olde-British-style folkie who uses a middle English term for his album title, writes of knaves ...
- How Kev Choice and Ise Lyfe Get Down (Low) - East Bay Express
How Kev Choice and Ise Lyfe Get Down (Low)East Bay Express, CA - 6 minutes agoSome have advanced from slam poetry to staged monologues or solo shows (in the Danny Hoch or Sarah Jones vein). And some, like celebrated Oakland poet Ise ...
- Jessica Boone Delivers a Charmed Performance in Cymbeline (Houston Press)
The Houston Shakespeare Festival is now lighting up the evening sky over the grassy hill at Miller Outdoor Theatre. In this bucolic setting, the great bard's poetry and the actors' energy spin like fairy dust through the miasma of the warm night. The stage lights come up, the sun goes down and all t ...
- Old 97's bassist solo effort is not your typical church music (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
PRESTON JONES Before settling down in earnest to record his first solo album, I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m on My Way , Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond found himself spending a lot of time in church. Yes, Hammond is on the spiritual side — one of his hobbies is playing "roots gospel" music weekly at a church near his Burbank, Calif., home — but frequenting the church had more to do ...
- The Cowboy Way: 20th symposium to bring new display, familiar images ... - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Descendants of the pioneers will begin gathering at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center on Sept. 4 to celebrate the legendary life of the cowboy through music and words that create images of the Old West. The 20th edition of the National Cowboy Symposium ...
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