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- Fall foreword, or the big books of autumn - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Book-clubbers will tell you that their best attendance invariably comes in the fall. The reason, I think, is that echo, like an old circadian rhythm, we carry from our school days. It nudges us to place a short stack of good books on the nightstand ...
- Culture update - Daily Telegraph
Things are going from bad to worse,/ Our stages flooded with dodgy verse./ It's really getting up my nose,/ Please let's return to decent prose. Preposterous tosh: Fram is a rhymed epic about a Scandanavian polar explorer I'm sorry to sound a ...
- County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly and - Vegas Eye
Vegas EyeCounty Commissioner Lawrence Weekly andVegas Eye, NV - 17 hours agoThe donations will benefit kindergarten through fifth grades and will be distributed to various schools throughout Clark County District D. Poetry Nightclub ...
- Gadanayak remembered - The Statesman
Gadanayak rememberedThe Statesman, India - 12 hours agoSpeaking on the occasion, Governor Mr MC Bhandare said: “Poetry has the power to lead us from darkness to light, from falsehood to truth and from death to ...
- Burberry Prorsum at Milan Fashion Week - Daily Telegraph
All that was missing was the rain: The drip of water on leaves, the splosh as wellie-boot sinks into soggy herbaceous border. The soundtrack, too, was as gloomy as a British summer – The Pogues’ ‘Love You Till The End’, Slade’s “If This ...
- Night After Night, Sept. 25-Oct. 2 - San Antonio Express News
Mark Rubin & the Ridgetop Syncopators at Sam's Burger Joint (6 p.m.) Bassist, tenor guitar picker, singer, songwriter, storyteller, etc. Rubin has played everything from hardcore country to outside music, from traditional Jewish wedding selections to ...
- Poetry invites introspection (The Leader Times)
The American writer William Carlos Williams wrote in his poem "Asphodel, that Greeny Flower": "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
- 'Fast Times at Barrington High' on the bland side - Chicago Daily Herald
'Fast Times at Barrington High' on the bland sideChicago Daily Herald, IL - 3 hours agoThe music is that of a tepid ballad, the lyrics are moderately touching generic love poetry, but the idea that the whole scene goes down before Gabe Saporta ...
- In Nairobi’s slums, E.C. Glass teacher finds hope (The News & Advance)
E.C. Glass teacher Patty Worsham was in an urban slum in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi to deliver supplies donated by Glass students, and to work with children at a school there.
- Plenty of events to bookmark at Wisconsin Book Fest (The Capital Times)
In Madison, if you're patient, your favorite author is likely to stop in the city for an in-person reading. And the chances are strong that this reading will occur at the annual Wisconsin Book Festival. This year's festival, which runs Oct. 15-19 and is free and open to the public, has adopted the theme "Changing Places," a description that the event's director, Alison Jones Chaim, says covers a ...
- 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 ...
- Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It? - New York Times Blogs
Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoSome refer to the prayer as if it were a proverb, while others appear to claim it as their own poetry. None attribute the prayer to a particular source. ...
- Christina Patterson: There is a lot to be said for marrying young (Independent)
My parents met on a hill in Heidelberg. It was, they always told us, love at first sight. My mother was 18. My father was 21. When they went home, three weeks later (she to Sweden, he to England), they continued their romance, in German, by letter. Four months later, my father sent my mother a telegram. "Will you marry me?" it said, in English. My mother's reply was one word: "Yes." By the time ...
- Pop Goes the Prof - People
TALK ABOUT POETRY IN MOTION. IN 1987, when Wyn Cooper published his first (and only) collection of poems, The Country of Here Below, a mere 500 copies of the 40-page paperback were printed. Six years later, one was discovered in a Pasadena, Calif ...
- Bumbershoot's mighty literary lineup - Seattle Times
Seattle TimesBumbershoot's mighty literary lineupSeattle Times, United States - 6 minutes agoCheap Wine and Poetry: There won't be any cheap wine on offer in this special Bumbershoot incarnation of the popular reading-and-imbibing series. ...
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