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- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (249) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
It's perhaps the most depressing fact of this campaign so far that the first major encounter between McCain and Obama will be presided over by a mega-pastor and in a church. Here's Jeffrey Goldberg's interview with the man who is taking American ...
- Poetry, please! - Daily Telegraph
What is it that makes a poem memorable? Stephanie Plentl asks a selection of famous readers for their favourite verse. Funny, moving, engaging, sad and even intriguing – in the past five weeks, since we launched our Poetry for Performance ...
- My Emblems: - Gamespot News
Rank: Registered Member Convivial Fear the Reaper Public Access Readers' Choice 2007 Chooser Well, I started my Math ****on Thursday, not to thrill about it. It felt too much like a high school **** The other students are too childish, but whatever ...
- Books at home create readers for life - Indianapolis Star
Books at home create readers for lifeIndianapolis Star, United States - 52 minutes agoNor did his mother, of Mexican heritage, though she did read periodicals and recited poetry to him while he was young. He grew up speaking Italian in a ...
- Faces In The Crowd - The Bulletin
"My writing is mine; my work is not someone else's version of my world," says Toni Morrison in an HBO documentary titled "The Black List," premiering on HBO at 8 p.m. on Monday night. And her words represent the documentary as a whole, as this is not ...
- Chicago's Symphony Center has free music marathon - Gary Post Tribune
Chicago's Symphony Center has free music marathonGary Post Tribune, IN - 20 minutes ago"360 Degrees" is a yearlong joint effort between The Art Institute and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, plus the Poetry Foundation and the Chicago Council on ...
- Guest commentary: Poetry topics surround us - Sacramento Bee
Guest commentary: Poetry topics surround usSacramento Bee, USA - 21 minutes agoBut a sharing of life's glories, Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses. Working people the world over made the poem famous. As a tourist, I saw the phrase "Brot ...
- Wordsworth opens for e-books - The Bookseller (subscription)
Wordsworth opens for e-booksThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 46 minutes agoWordsworth Editions is to sell 300 titles as e-books from this autumn with the cheapest priced at £1.75. The titles will include a range of poetry, ...
- Tectonic OBamaChange and MCCain's Cleaning of the Coop:Poetry in ... - Savannah Morning News
“So much depends on the red wheel barrow…†wrote William Carlos Williams, suggesting the problems of not cleaning out the chicken poop from the coop if you are farming eggs—or chickens. Wallace Stevens wrote about chickens too, Chieftain ...
- Lewis Carroll In Numberland, by Robin Wilson - The Independent
We remember him largely for his Alice books, but Lewis Carroll was a man of many parts. The literary wizard was a consummate letter writer, a pioneering photographer and a brilliant mathematician. In this loving mathematician's biography, Wilson ...
- China has must-win attitude in table tennis - Memphis Commercial Appeal
China has must-win attitude in table tennisMemphis Commercial Appeal, TN - 6 hours agoNow some poetry from the late Chairman Mao: "Regard a pingpong ball as the head of your capitalist enemy. Hit it with your socialist bat and you have won ...
- Local vigil planned to remember Hiroshima - Foster's Daily Democrat
Local vigil planned to remember HiroshimaFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - 9 hours agoJim Splaine, a candlelighting ceremony and poetry readings by local poets Marin Tirabassi and Neil English. The event is free and open to the public. ...
- Combat rock - Guardian Unlimited
A gleaming black-and-white Fender Stratocaster is an unusual item to find in a soldier's kit bag, but for Sergeant John Dobbins it is one of his most treasured possessions. This isn't just any shop-bought axe. Dobbins built his guitar from scratch ...
- Eulogising past glories - The Nation, Pakistan
Eulogising past gloriesThe Nation, Pakistan, Pakistan - 2 hours agoThe Muslim contribution to civilisation spanned literature (al Biruni, Jahiz, Ibn Qutayba) calligraphy (Ibn Muqla) poetry (Umar Khayam) art and sciences ...
- Random Acts of Poetry - Kingston Whig
R.D. Roy, Kingston poet, will be performing "Random Acts of Poetry" in our downtown area from oct 1st to 5th. Everyone who gets "poemed" will recieve a copy of Roy's book Three Cities. 25 poets were selected by the League of Canadian Poets to read ...
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