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- James R. McDermott - Warren Times Gazette
James R. McDermottWarren Times Gazette, RI - 54 minutes agoHe also enjoyed writing poetry commemorating events in his family’s life. Among his hobbies were studying German and Latin, woodworking, and baking Irish ...
- Motion: Laureate job is 'thankless' - The Bookseller (subscription)
Motion: Laureate job is 'thankless'The Bookseller (subscription), UK - Sep 11, 2008The last thing I did was for her diamond wedding anniversary. I came up with a poem and had to go along to Westminster Abbey. It was read beautifully by ...
- The 2008 Book & Author Festival Poetry Reading (Santa Barbara Independent)
Sights and sounds from the 2008 Book & Author Festival’s Poetry Reading
- Art scene: Masterpiece in a day - indy.com
Art scene: Masterpiece in a dayindy.com, IN - 23 hours agoThe writing competition, in prose or poetry, offers $600 to each category winner, $250 for second and $100 for third. The pieces must be written that day. ...
- Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releases - Buffalo News
Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releasesBuffalo News, United States - 4 hours agoMore clever than erotic, the songs are missing a certain soul, and the whole project has a gimmicky, attention-grabbing aura that makes me uncomfortable. ...
- 'Nick & Norah' a likable dose of disposable romance - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Kat Dennings and Michael Cera in 'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.' There really is no central playlist, infinite or otherwise, in the new teen romantic comedy " Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist " -- the cryptic title is presumably pseudo poetry ...
- Celebs at book festival Sept. 27 (The Naperville Sun)
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- Beatniks and Hollywood Royalty Descend Upon Edmonton Edmonton Festivals Create International Flavour (Hospitality Net)
Edmonton Festivals bring life to the streets for poetry lovers. If to you poetry means the stuff you did in high school English, think again: this is combat in the form of "blink poetry," a yell-a-thon with megaphones, a funkified jazz soundtrack, and multiple battles to the (poetic) death. It's nicknamed "The Word Party in Downtown E-Town" for good reason: it's three days of manic, comic, ...
- Osama Bin Laden's poetry to be published - Melbourne Herald Sun
Mid-Hudson NewsOsama Bin Laden's poetry to be publishedMelbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 3 hours agoProf Miller, of the University of California Davis, said bin Laden was a skilled poet and many people taped him and passed the recordings around like pop ...Pray silence for Bin Laden the wedding poet Times OnlineBin Laden's prowess as poet examined United Press Internationalall 18 news articles
- Marquez on my mind - Livemint
Marquez on my mindLivemint, India - 24 minutes agoAs coffee hissed on her percolator, she said: “You foreigners can think of poetry. We live with explosions.†Then she expertly poured out the coffee, ...
- Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Artistdirect.com
Something happened to Nick Cave last year with the release of his side-project Grinderman . Maybe he's in a better mood, now that he's exonerated those pussy blues he had, because Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is easily his most accessible work in a long time ...
- NEA Chairman Is Moving On - Washington Post
Dana Gioia , chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since March 2003, plans to announce today that in January he will leave the federal agency he is credited with helping revitalize. Gioia, a prize-winning poet and critic, said he will ...
- Provocative Pacific prose - New Zealand Herald
When Robert Louis Stevenson died at 44 in his Samoan home, half a world away from his birthplace of Edinburgh, he left a remarkably diverse body of work. In fewer than two decades he turned out popular romantic novels (among them Kidnapped and ...
- Teachers’ union backs decision to drop poem from syllabus (The Herald)
A leading teachers' union in Scotland has backed a controversial bid to remove a Scottish poem featuring a blade-wielding killer from a school syllabus amid fears over teenage knife crime.
- Marching to their own drummer (Cape Cod Times)
While children who think outside of the box may go through an uncomfortable time when they are young, by the time they are older - in high school, say - they see the benefits of independent thought.
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