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- A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day - ScienceBlogs
A new cognitive psychology article nearly every dayScienceBlogs - 2 hours agoSweet Silent Thought: Alliteration and Resonance in Poetry Comprehension Psychological Science, 19 (7), 709-716 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02146.x.Alliteration improves memory performance ScienceBlogsall 2 news articles
- New Lonely Planet guide urges us to stay green - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
New Lonely Planet guide urges us to stay greenScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 1 hour agoArtsy, dreadlocked wanderers mooch between cafés and coffee-carts, ducking into the Bridge St bars or poetry readings in bookshops." (p. ...
- Bostonist Book Review: Figures and Figurations (Bostonist)
Figures and Figurations is the second most recent husband/wife book published by New Directions (the other being Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop), and it's a worthwhile read: Marie Jose Paz made Cornell-styled collages for little over a decade, and then Octavio Paz wrote poems to, about, and for them, twelve in all. The result is this book, which is coming ...
- More thoughts on TROY - Atlantic Online
More thoughts on TROYAtlantic Online - 50 minutes agoIt was the first poetry I ever knew, the first attempt to capture something deep and unsaid about humanity, and do it in rhythm and in a condensed powerful ...
- Review -- The Middleman 1.12: The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome - Firefox News
Review -- The Middleman 1.12: The Palindrome Reversal PalindromeFirefox News, AZ - 27 minutes agoShe edits the online magazine Afterburn SF, which publishes speculative short stories, and is the editor for the print poetry magazine Illumen. ...
- Voices of awakening - Hindu
Voices of awakeningHindu, India - 32 minutes agoA sample of his poetry: For the crimes they commit in every way. The purpose of his poetry was to ensure that the benefits of India’s independence accrued ...
- Wily Milosevic makes the most of the worst - CNN
(CNN) -- After 72 days of NATO bombing left the Yugoslavian infrastructure in smoldering ruins, many thought the Yugoslav Serbs would rise up and run Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic out of office -- and out of the country -- for good. And ...
- Piney Woods Philosopher: Saluting a driving force - Southwest Virginia Today
Piney Woods Philosopher: Saluting a driving forceSouthwest Virginia Today, VA - 2 hours agoHe started teaching Piney Celtic Breton, and that was of immense value to Piney years later when he translated Irish poetry for a New York publisher. ...
- Valley native has small but huge role in Shepard play - Morning Call
The biggest role of Elissa Piszel's theater career is one of the smallest. The Bethlehem native stands silent for four to five minutes in nothing but a slip and a cowboy hat. Her only act is to hand the hat to the man who tossed it into a self-dug ...
- Movie Reviews (filmcritic.com)
History has not been much kinder to Nixon the movie than it was to Nixon the man. Grossing under $14 million domestically, the $50 million movie was an enormous box office flop (what 1995 family wouldn't want to go catch Nixon on Christmas Day?), though four Oscar nominations (it won none) must have softened the blow somewhat for auteur director Oliver Stone.
- From the invasion of Erbil by Islam (638 AD) to the conquering of ... - Kurdish Globe
From the invasion of Erbil by Islam (638 AD) to the conquering of ...Kurdish Globe, Iraq - 59 minutes ago1224: Many poets in Erbil wrote poetry in the Aramaic and Syriac alphabet. Some of Gorges Warda's most important poems are about Mongolic attacks on Erbil ...
- Mary Washington teacher named Va. poet laureate - Inrich.com
First it was a Pulitzer, then it was a state prize. Now, Fredericksburg poet Claudia Emerson has been named poet laureate of Virginia. "I'm kind of getting used to Claudia coming up with all these fabulous prizes," said Teresa A. Kennedy, head of the ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (Boston Herald)
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice...
- It’s been a long time coming - Washington Post
It’s been a long time comingWashington Post, United States - 7 minutes agoIt was necessary, but it was poetry for auditors. There’sa difference between interesting and inspirational. In contrast, Cooke’s phrase was written to ...
- Exploit and Click - Slate
On the other hand, Greenberg isn't Leni Riefenstahl, either. Small children, as she points out in the PopPhoto interview, often have tantrums, and they usually blow over quickly, and are just as quickly forgotten. To provoke tears in order to take a ...
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