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- Kudos: San Francisco's Mission district lights up with flowers and song (The San Francisco Examiner)
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Wordsmiths will find some choice cuts Thursday through Saturday at this year's "Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry" in San Francisco's Mission District.
- Virgin Festival? Who Needs It? (Washington Post)
The Virgin Mobile Festival kicks off today in Baltimore, but what are we doing? Not going to Virgin Festival.
- Books: "Unpacking the Boxes" (The New Yorker)
Most memoirs begin with a birth, but Hall’s starts with another sort of becoming: “At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which is what I have done.” Soon Hall moves from suburban Connecticut, where “nothing happened,” to Exeter, Harvard, and Oxford, his time line marked indelibly by . . .
- Andrew Davidson's $5-million voyage - Globe and Mail
Andrew Davidson's $5-million voyageGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour ago“I've spent my entire life writing unpublished stuff,” Davidson laughs, noting that over the years he has been obsessed, variously, with writing poetry, ...
- Review: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: The Diving Pool by Yoko OgawaTo read Yoko Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with nightmare, writes Joanna Briscoe
- Bringing Lincoln to life - Clanton Advertiser
Bringing Lincoln to lifeClanton Advertiser, AL - 1 hour agoReaders also get a look at pages from young Abe’s sums books and bits of poetry he composed: “Abraham Lincoln, his pad and pen. ...
- Is there any rhyme or reason to the poet laureate? - Sunday Herald
Is there any rhyme or reason to the poet laureate?Sunday Herald, UK - 3 hours agoMotion initially said his appointment would give him a platform to promote poetry and he concedes there are aspects of the post which are valuable: "I ...
- An 'Office' worker takes to rock - Philadelphia Inquirer
An 'Office' worker takes to rockPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 2 hours agoThere's no poetry to it, no pretension to artistry. Just the act of rockin'. " Did playing the role change his opinion of percussionists? ...
- San Diego datebook (San Diego Union-Tribune)
If you love big dogs, come out to Fiesta Island from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow for a special adoption event featuring more than 100 large breed dogs and puppies from 25 local shelters and rescue groups. The largest adoption event of its kind.
- Book News: Releases just hitting the shelves size up financial crisis - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Book News: Releases just hitting the shelves size up financial crisisPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 8 hours agoFour days earlier he wrote President Clinton suggesting he give him a medal "for service in art or poetry." "The Selected Letters of Thorton Wilder" edited ...
- Brief Encounter With … Juliette Binoche & Akram Khan - WhatsOnStage.com
WhatsOnStage.comBrief Encounter With … Juliette Binoche & Akram KhanWhatsOnStage.com, UK - 1 hour agoThere is also a retrospective season of films, and a collection of poetry just published. Is this a stock-taking of your career so far? ...
- America Loses Newman - The Ledger
Paul Newman, the well-known movie star and irreverent cultural figure who created a model philanthropy fueled by profits from a salad dressing that became nearly as famous as he was, has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday at his home near Westport ...
- Strong campaign slogans do it with poetry, imagery - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Strong campaign slogans do it with poetry, imageryAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 2 hours ago“It’s the economy, stupid,” began life as a note at Bill Clinton’s campaign headquarters and was adopted as a rallying cry. “The unofficial slogans can have ...
- Our Place in Newfoundland: Music and Readings - St. John's Telegram
Our Place in Newfoundland: Music and ReadingsSt. John's Telegram, Canada - 43 minutes agoMichael Boyle, who hails from Ireland and arrived on the island at a time when most were leaving, will be reading poetry reflecting that theme. ...
- Pushkin's The Little Tragedies dir. Slava Stepnov - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Pushkin's The Little Tragedies dir. Slava StepnovScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 1 hour agoEncompassing themes of vice and virtue, money and rivalry, love and death, Pushkin’s poetry has long been considered particularly difficult to approach in ...
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