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- Beloved poet, prof, playwright 'an artistic giant' (London Free Press)
James Reaney, a national literary icon who stayed close to his Southwestern Ontario roots during a celebrated, 50-year career as a playwright, poet and professor, has died.
- Scanning religion (Los Angeles Daily News)
Church Basement Road Show: Christian revival meeting with contemporary twists, 6:30 p.m. today, First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills, 10400 Zelzah Ave., Northridge. 818-360-1831.
- How interrogation by CIA made al-Qaeda's plotter turn to poetry - Scotsman
How interrogation by CIA made al-Qaeda's plotter turn to poetryScotsman, United Kingdom - 4 hours agoBy Scott Shane IN A makeshift prison in the north of Poland, al-Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency ...
- So how many ways to love an MP? One backbencher's raunchy Shakespeare ... - Daily Mail
Watching Gordon Brown's ratings tumble ever lower is enough to depress any Labour MP. But veteran backbencher Harry Cohen has found a novel way to restore his spirits: penning raunchy poetry. Mr Cohen started composing sonnets when he went for ...
- Emotional Rescue - Metro Santa Cruz
Metro Santa CruzEmotional RescueMetro Santa Cruz, CA - 14 minutes agoIt is suffused with the kind of richly crafted, poetry-engorged dialogue that never should have left a printed page. As Alex, Pike (Die Another Day) ...
- Alesia: Madison beer fest soaking up popularity (Wisconsin State Journal)
Madison's non-profit, fine beer Great Taste of the Midwest on Aug. 9 has a drinking problem: It's too popular. On a recent Sunday morning, Great Taste sold all of its 5,000 tickets in seemingly the time it takes to pour a tap beer. Despite limiting sales to in-person sites and mail order — nothing online — each $35 ticket was sold within about 30 minutes. The beer fest ticketbuyers needed to be ...
- The Music Lives (Tucson Weekly)
The surviving members of Sun City Girls tour to honor a fallen bandmate
- Double Dreams - LubbockOnline.com
LubbockOnline.comDouble DreamsLubbockOnline.com, TX - 4 hours agoA story about LA’s gangs, lead by a teen girl, taking on the LAPD sounds like something that’d have something to say about racial politics, cop culture, ...
- Out of the blue - Manchester Evening News
Out of the blueManchester Evening News, UK - 16 minutes agoThe extracts comprise an eclectic mix of ideas and formats, including music, comedy, film, drama and poetry. On Thursday, award-winning Manchester-based Ben ...
- Willie Nelson, Hammersmith Apollo, London (Independent)
It's when you see the crowd standing at the side of the Apollo looking towards a huge bus parked up by the stage door that you realise the level of affection that fans have for Willie Nelson.
- INTERVIEW: PHILLIPE PETITE & JAMES MARSH (MAN ON WIRE) - Chud.com
Philippe Petit should be more annoying. Given to flights of poetry while answering the simplest questions and given to praising himself to the heavens, he seems like a self-involved little Frenchman. But after seeing his work, you suddenly get it. He ...
- Blast from the past - Arab News
Arab NewsBlast from the pastArab News, Saudi Arabia - 1 hour agoThe style and rhythm of this form is somewhat similar to the Urdu ghazal (poetry) and najm (verses), something that helped Al-Omari shift gears to Indian ...
- A page-turner on every corner - Brisbane Times
A page-turner on every cornerBrisbane Times, Australia - May 18, 2008Junot Diaz is inspirational. Last here in 1998, he bowled everyone over then with his brilliance. His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, ...
- Simon Fraser prof wins Griffin prize - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Simon Fraser prof wins Griffin prizeTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - Jun 8, 2008The English-language award hands out $50000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50000 to the best book of international poetry published last year. ...
- Dylan Thomas' daughter to appear at MPC (The Monterey County Herald)
Dylan Thomas, considered one of the 20th Century's most influential poets, visited the Peninsula twice. Both times he met with the most famous poet to take up residence locally, Robinson Jeffers.
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