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- Nick Robinson (BBC News)
Cameron's speech - skilled but what of the substance?
- Kenneth Harvey’s epic - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Kenneth Harvey’s epicTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoVoices from the 1800s are lyrical, their poetry easier to follow, whereas the voice in the text message near the end of the book is clipped and difficult to ...
- In small town, an immense loss (Boston Globe)
MASHPEE - An American flag rippled at half-staff yesterday in the center of the town's quiet Veterans Garden, where residents will gather tonight for a candlelight vigil in honor of two servicemen who died on consecutive days last week.
- A new reading of Emily Dickinson. - New Yorker
New YorkerA new reading of Emily Dickinson.New Yorker, United States - 22 minutes agoIn the course of their friendship, Higginson tried to lead this “wayward†sport of nature, whose rhymes were off, whose rhythm he called “spasmodic,†whose ...
- Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st century - Minneapolis Star Tribune
You can say "I love you" to your significant other, but only the Righteous Brothers and their "Unchained Melody" can help you tell that special person, "I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time." Even in bad times, when breaking up puts you ...
- Who Would You Want to Hear Reading the Classics? - mediabistro.com
Who Would You Want to Hear Reading the Classics?mediabistro.com, NY - 2 hours agoAnyway, I'd love to find out the pairings you would come up with—for one thing, I know there's a lot of great opportunities involving poetry that I'm not ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
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 on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He once argued that the public schools of his youth prepared neither blacks nor whites for "life in a multiracial, democratic nation." He called ...
- Picasso's verbal artistry - guardian.co.uk
Picasso's verbal artistryguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoPicasso's interest in poetry comes as no surprise to those familiar with his life. From his earliest days in Paris, he liked to surround himself with poets, ...
- GOP strategists: Attack Obama hard (The Washington Times)
John McCain and Barack Obama slug it out again (tonight, 9 p.m. EST) at a showdown debate in McCain's favored town-hall setting, which gives him his best chance to jump-start his sputtering campaign.
- Nirvana at the Newberry Book Fair - Chicago Tribune
The best way to spend a summer day? Glad you asked: Let us suggest the 24th annual Newberry Book Fair, held within the blessedly air-conditioned confines of one of the most austerely beautiful buildings in Chicago, the Newberry Library at 60 W ...
- Essay: Perhaps death is proud; More reason to savor life - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Essay: Perhaps death is proud; More reason to savor lifeAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 1 hour agoBecause the only antidote to death is not poetry, or drama, or miracle drugs, or a roomful of technical expertise and good intentions. ...
- Uncommon Senselessness | Horacio Castellanos Moya's novel -- his first translated into English -- views atrocity ... (Pittsburgh City Paper)
The genocide that accompanied Guatemala's long-running civil war has been called "the silent holocaust." From about 1960 until 1996, when peace accords were signed, an estimated 200,000 civilians died. Most were indigenous people of Mayan descent, and most perished, often horrifically,... By Bill O'Driscoll.
- Poet Czeslaw Milosz's last days - Los Angeles Times
KRAKóW, POLAND -- DURING A late night in Kraków, nonagenarian Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz was tipping back the vodka with Jerzy Illg, editor in chief at his Polish publishing house, Znak. Late in the evening, a touchy topic dropped on the table ...
- Public praise for 'Read Me Your Writes' - Derry Today
Public praise for 'Read Me Your Writes'Derry Today, UK - 19 minutes agoBy Staff reporter Award winning Derry poet, Joseph MacCarthy's new collection of poetry titled "Read Me Your Writes" is being hailed as his finest ...
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 - Thaindian.com
Konstantin was popular and highly reputed. He became one of Bulgaria’s most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country’s communist regime. Konstantin was 75. Pavlov died on Sunday after a long illness. Konstantin was among the ...
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