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- Poet Laureate Andrew Motion got writer's block - Belfast Telegraph
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion got writer's blockBelfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - Sep 11, 2008[And] when I composed a poem for Prince Charles and Camilla's wedding, she sent me a handwritten letter as well," he said. ...
- Surprise comes as shake-outs begin on 'Dancing with the Stars' - Grand Rapids Press
Chemistry: Rocco DiSpirito and Karina Smirnoff sizzle. Rocco is safe to saute another week. On "Dancing With the Stars," isn't that all that truly matters? And that lovable-yet-slightly-loony Cloris Leachman will be back as America's favorite batty ...
- Five authors at the library - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Five authors at the libraryMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 34 minutes agoThe Romanian poet and novelist has a new collection of poetry, "Jealous Witness," published by Coffee House Press. Nov. 11, Garrison Keillor. ...
- Book Review: "Marrying Anita" explores love in the "new India" (San Jose Mercury News)
Frustrated with the singles scene in New York, already in her thirties with no fianc e in sight, under constant pressure from her parents to find someone, Anita Jain takes action, moving back to India for a year. But is the new urban Indian culture in which she's searching really all that different from America?
- Scott Wannberg Thanks for the Poetry - Santa Monica Mirror
Santa Monica MirrorScott Wannberg Thanks for the PoetrySanta Monica Mirror, CA - 1 hour agoScott Wannberg has been writing and performing his free-ranging, often hilarious, poetry, for 30 years, at Beyond Baroque and other venues, while working as ...
- Vermeer's Hat, by Timothy Brook (Independent)
Tmothy Brook is a Canadian historian of China who has taken up the Shaw Chair of Chinese Studies at Oxford. His many publications range widely across the last half dozen centuries in China: the history of Buddhists, book collectors, Christian converts, and collaborators with the Japanese, just to name a few. His approach is not merely eclectic, but shows a consistent ability to depict the lives ...
- Who is Joe Biden? (The Desert Sun)
Few people in this town know the world like Joe Biden.
- 13 (cool) things to do this weekend - Dispatch Online
13 (cool) things to do this weekendDispatch Online, South Africa - 8 hours agoA Mdantsane-born artist and a finalist in SABC2’s Lentswe Poetry Project, Simbone, is launching his new traditional poetry album titled Unendlebe ...
- COLUMN: Now it's the WAC's turn to get rolling (The Times-News)
It may come as a gentle shock that the college football season has begun.
- Former poet laureate - All Around Philly
Former poet laureateAll Around Philly, PA - 2 hours agoAs laureate, he spearheaded the Poetry 180 program to have high school students read a poem a day, and through his own accessible and engaging poetry, ...
- Casper Calendar for August 15, 2008 - Casper Star-Tribune Online
Casper Calendar for August 15, 2008Casper Star-Tribune Online, WY - 30 minutes ago18, 7:30 pm, Artcore Music & Poetry with Rod Mahaffey at The Jazz Spot. * Aug. 20, 12:15 pm, Bach's Lunch Organ Recital at First United Methodist Church. ...
- Bold English: Anglo-Saxon Poetry (The New York Sun)
Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to "What" or "Listen now." Old English is largely Germanic, its brusque sounds ungussied by the softer French words that would later mix into Middle English. It is the language of conquerors: The Roman Empire, finally crushed by the Vandals and Goths, ...
- Critics question focus, rationale behind arts cuts - Globe and Mail
Government criticized for not being forthcoming with information about cuts to a slew of arts-and-culture programs ... Read the full article Political Junkie from Canada writes: A problem for the conservatives in doing the right thing is that ...
- National poet to be remembered - Malta Independent Online
National poet to be rememberedMalta Independent Online, Malta - 2 hours agoThere will be poetry reading, wreath laying, and a speech by the parliamentary secretary, Clyde Puli. The national anthem, written by Dun Karm, ...
- Palestinians plan 'state' funeral for poet Darwish - AFP
Boston GlobePalestinians plan 'state' funeral for poet DarwishAFP - 3 hours agoHe penned over two dozen books of poetry and prose in a career spanning nearly five decades that captured the Palestinian experience of war, exile, ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishDeaths elsewhere Baltimore SunMahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet, is dead International Herald TribuneReuters - Los Angeles Timesall 479 news articles
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