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- Books in Brief // Spiritual (Baltimore Sun)
Summer often brings vacation days, trips to flee the routine and extra "me" time.
- Exeter/Hampton/Rockingham area news in brief (The Rockingham News)
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- The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory (Science Daily)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a new study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- Business in a bind - Norton Mirror
Business in a bindNorton Mirror, MA - 1 hour agoBoland, who gives poetry readings from Dylan Thomas and William Butler Yeats, frets that growing numbers of non-readers are “enamored by their computers†...
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: New York Theatre Workshop returns to campus for 17th year (The Dartmouth)
This summer, the renowned New York Theatre Workshop has come to Dartmouth for its 17th annual residency. The NYTW will show works-in-progress on a variety of social, political and religious themes including the role of spirituality in rehabilitation, the impact of the war in Iraq and the trials and tribulations of adolescence.
- Lusher students win literary competition - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Lusher students win literary competitionThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 1 hour agoTwo of these young writers, Dalton Bender and Evan Eyer, also were semifinalists for the Marble Faun Award in poetry, which is open to writers of all ages. ...
- All flood victims will be compensated: CM - Tribune
India is burning. The UPA government should either control or quit the seat of power. These remarks were made by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal while addressing a press conference after the state Independence Day function at Guru Nanak Stadium ...
- Literary event lives again at new Worcester venue - Daily News Tribune
Literary event lives again at new Worcester venueDaily News Tribune, MA - 1 hour agoPerformance poetry has come in for some criticism from those who say a flashy performance style can compensate for writing that would not be as compelling ...
- How does a headteacher cope with a pupil's murder? - Guardian Unlimited
Floral tributes to Ben Kinsella, the 17th teenager to die violently in London this year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Hours before the funeral of knife victim 16-year-old Ben Kinsella late last week, another teenager was stabbed to death ...
- Houses of culture: Wooden cultural iconic edifices of Georgetown - Stabroek News
Houses of culture: Wooden cultural iconic edifices of GeorgetownStabroek News, Guyana - 3 hours agoIt was here that he nurtured the passion that has made him one of Guyana’s greatest performers of poetry. ‘The Big House’ also lays legitimate claim to the ...
- I'll take (a) Manhattan - South Coast Today
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme ...
- June L. Emanuel - Mankato Free Press
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 30, 2008, at Christ The King Lutheran Church. Visitation will be 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday at Woodland Hills Funeral Home and will continue 1 hour before services at the church. Interment ...
- Johnny Temple, Brooklyn Book Festival - Gothamist.com
This Sunday's free Brooklyn Book Festival is a one-day-only explosion of authors, publishers, poets and scholars, all gathering for discussions on four stages about anything and everything related to books, which are those heavy things people drag ...
- Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere - Los Angeles Weekly
A battle in the desert over territory and resources, starring hard-shelled refugees, burger-loving insurgents and a couple of dazed road warriors It might have been the waterlogged and vengeful ghost of Katrina, materialized in the form of Gustav ...
- MOVIE LISTINGS - Kalamazoo Gazette
"Babylon A.D." (PG-13) -- Its own director, Mathieu Kassovitz, has called this Vin Diesel dud "pure violence and stupidity." And who are we to argue? (NYT). Lakeview Square Cinema in Battle Creek. D "Beer For My Horses" (PG-13) -- More indulgence ...
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