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- A Stillwater version of 'Prairie Home Companion' - Stillwater Gazette
A Stillwater version of 'Prairie Home Companion'Stillwater Gazette, MN - 38 minutes agoBy ANDREW WALLMEYER When writers Bill Holm and Freya Manfred get together for an evening of poetry, music and conversation at Trinity Lutheran Church Friday ...
- Poets slam down their rhymes in Brink Lounge bout (The Capital Times)
Their words didn't float down out of the rafters and land on our shoulders. Instead, they slapped listeners across the face and begged for an explanation. This wasn't a flowery, Shakespearean sonnet exhibition with pentameters and rhymes and professions of romantic love. Instead, Wednesday night was the second night of first bouts -- or rounds -- of the National Poetry Slam for four teams of ...
- Slowly Up The Yangtze - Chattanooga Pulse
Slowly Up The YangtzeChattanooga Pulse, USA - 43 minutes agoThese sequences are overpowering and have a larger-than-life quality, lending immediacy and poetry to the rest of the film. The film wisely uses these and ...
- Report: Taliban using sophisticated media network (AP via Yahoo! News)
The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report released Thursday.
- GENERAL INTEREST HEADLINES - Newport Daily News
SHARI ALVANAS: 'I think some writers focus too much on the next book and don't really enjoy the first one.' When someone called Shari Alvanas to tell her Finishing Line Press would publish her first book of poetry, she thought it was a hoax. “I ...
- Demons Inner and Outer - New York Sun
Demons Inner and OuterNew York Sun, United States - 1 hour agoStepan is a liberal of Dostoyevsky's own generation, a man of the 1840s — that is to say, an idealist, a humanist, a lover of art and poetry. ...
- Drug traffickers' digs now gallery (San Diego Union-Tribune)
TIJUANA – Drug traffickers were the first to see opportunity in the oddly shaped house near the border fence in Tijuana, digging a tunnel from the house to a parking lot in San Ysidro. Now artists have taken over, determined to pierce the international boundary in an entirely different way – with painting, poetry and music.
- The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory (PhysOrg)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- Author! Author! back at Elms (Akron Beacon Journal)
Russ Vernon sat in his family-owned West Point Market in Akron and flipped through a cookbook. It wasn't just any cookbook. This one, with more than 250 pages, has special meaning to the man who back in 1960 sensed there was a gourmet trend on its way.
- Meet local author Saturday in Geneva (Daily Herald)
Cynthia Jean Mueller of Plano has been a school bus driver for 20 years. Now also a published author, she got the idea for her novel when she overheard a child's conversation on her bus.
- Modern designer is topic for Art League - Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO -- The Kalamazoo Art League kicks off its 2008-09 lecture season with "Viktor Schreckengost and the Jazz Bowl," featuring guest speaker Henry Adams, at 10 a.m. Oct. 8. The name Viktor Schreckengost may be unfamiliar to many, but it is ...
- Arts Ahead 29 July – 4 August - Londonist
LondonistArts Ahead 29 July – 4 AugustLondonist, UK - 1 hour agoThis week, you can see Peruvian percussion on Wednesday; Athena, who's inspired by the songs and poetry of Greece on Thursday; or Jewish, ...
- Box or Bust - ABC Online
Box or BustABC Online, Australia - 33 minutes agoIts flat, stylised depiction of the world — the streets and buildings of Tehran and Vienna in particular — turns geography into poetry - AO Scott, ...
- Bravo's 'Real Housewives' TV franchise spreads to Atlanta - The Canadian Press
Bravo's 'Real Housewives' TV franchise spreads to AtlantaThe Canadian Press, NEW YORK - 3 hours ago"There are people at poetry readings in the Village and people doing drugs in Washington Square Park - which has nothing to do with our lives - but it's ...
- 'How Fiction Works' (The Christian Science Monitor)
America's top literary critic shares the secrets of the books he loves.
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