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- Guardian profile: Sebastian Barry, favourite to win this year's Booker (Guardian Unlimited)
Guardian profile on Sebastian Barry: History and family fuse in the work of the author tipped to win the Booker
- Palestinians bury poet Darwish in emotional funeral (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man who articulated their sense of loss, exile and defiance.
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music (The New Yorker)
OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA Last season’s opening-night attraction was Mary Zimmerman’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor,†whose combination of fantasy and verisimilitude delighted the daring but left traditionalists unmoved. Diana Damrau (who could definitely give 2007’s Lucia, Natalie Dessay, a run for her money) takes the title role . . .
- Sidewalks are for poets - Minnesota Public Radio
Sidewalks are for poetsMinnesota Public Radio, MN - 1 hour agoSo he organized a citywide sidewalk poetry contest, limiting the poems to 150 characters or less. Judges selected 20 winners from more than 2000 submissions ...
- Headlines ... well, just read below (The Gleaner)
As you may know, there's a town in Southern Illinois called Oblong. Another in the central part of the Prairie State bears the name Normal. And so it is that a friend swears he once saw this headline in a local newspaper: "Normal man marries Oblong woman."
- 'Ironic Iconic America' book becomes Bravo special - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
'Ironic Iconic America' book becomes Bravo specialPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 5 minutes agoAP Refaeli's trip, taken with poet Rives (of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry"), was documented for the Bravo TV special "Ironic Iconic America," ...
- Historic find shows Samuel Hobbs was the Staples of his day - Trading Markets (press release)
Historic find shows Samuel Hobbs was the Staples of his dayTrading Markets (press release), CA - 6 hours agoA teacher of poetry, he will discuss Frost poems and end the night with a resounding reading of "The Death of the Hired Man." Mark it on your calendar, ...
- Eriksdale stock dog trials romping good time - Interlake Spectator
Eriksdale stock dog trials romping good timeInterlake Spectator, Canada - 14 hours agoSaturday featured open qualifying trials during the day and a roast beef supper and cowboy poetry in the evening. A border collie puppy was given away as a ...
- The Beauty of the Disregarded - Buzzle
The Beauty of the DisregardedBuzzle, CA - 3 hours agoJust like poetry, only with images - the right pictures in the right order and no other possible order. Flicking through the book, you feel as if you are in ...
- Dance that fulfils - West Online
Containing both thematic links and variety, this intelligently conceived six-part mixed bill grew in satisfying complexity from elegant neoclassical divertissements to sharp satire. Ambitiously, it also incorporated an exploration of gender roles ...
- Word up for festival poll - Portsmouth News
Word up for festival pollPortsmouth News, UK - 8 hours agoFrom September 25 to 28, visitors can choose from talks with famous authors, readings, theatre, book signings, poetry, art, workshops and walks – and they ...
- I'm not one to crow, but my pet's a rook... - Daily Mail
Daily MailI'm not one to crow, but my pet's a rook...Daily Mail, UK - Aug 8, 2008Perhaps wild rooks depend too much upon one another to adjust well to human friendship. However, the Scottish writer Esther Woolfson has proved that the ...
- NEWSÂ Mafia 'poet' attacked for being gay - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)
Rome - The Sicilian Mafia's honour code doesn't bar members from being poets, but a jailed suspect's penchant for writing verse led his fellow mobsters to assume he was gay, so as punishment, they gang-raped him. ...
- Wit, Alumnae Theatre Company’s 2008/09 season opener - TheBulletin.ca
Wit, Alumnae Theatre Company’s 2008/09 season openerTheBulletin.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoWhen a scholar whose life’s work has been attempting to instill an appreciation for the poetry of John Donne in her university students discovers that she ...
- Which bits of Michael Jackson turn 50 today? - guardian.co.uk
Which bits of Michael Jackson turn 50 today?guardian.co.uk, UK - 15 hours agoBut what of the Boo Radley of pop, who remains in seclusion following his acquittal on child molestation charges? His public have had to survive on whatever ...
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