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- Who's bard? Burns fans shock over Jacko "show tunes" covers (BBC News)
Experts on Rabbie Burns react to reports that Michael Jackson has put the Scots Bard's work to music.
- A home for the heart, in a small frame (The Oregonian)
I' ve been going up to my aunt and uncle's second house at Black Butte Ranch in central Oregon for 16 years. It is my childhood home. My aunt and uncle don't know that. They think it is their vacation investment property.
- A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ... - Hartford Courant
A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ...Hartford Courant, United States - Jul 16, 2008Both Billington and Ryan referred to parallel traditions of American poets — the expansiveness of Walt Whitman, and the reclusiveness of Dickinson. ...
- Shh. Hammershøi Is on Display - New York Sun
Shh. Hammershøi Is on DisplayNew York Sun, United States - 20 hours agoAnd now, at London's Royal Academy, in his first solo show in Britain since 1907, a major retrospective promises "The Poetry of Silence. ...
- Hollywood star Rhys joins druids - BBC UK News
"I was brought up as an 'eisteddfodwr' and the robes are so unique, it has a big effect on you as a child," he said. "It's one of the big things that you remember." "It's fantastic to come home to Cardiff, to the home town where the eisteddfod is ...
- Pair celebrate 60 years together - Amherst Bee (subscription)
Pair celebrate 60 years togetherAmherst Bee (subscription), USA - 1 hour agoJohn is employed at Ed Young's Hardware and enjoys poetry and woodworking, and Jane is retired from Sears and enjoys knitting and baking.
- You promised me poems - Guardian Unlimited
In his epic poem Omeros, a retelling of the Odyssey in a Caribbean setting, Derek Walcott imagined that his father was named "in love or bitter benediction / ... for Warwick. / The Bard's county". Warwick Walcott, the offspring of a white plantation ...
- Scorched Jimi Hendrix guitar sells for £280,000 - Daily Telegraph
The rock legend torched his 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of a show at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March 1967. The stunt sent roadies rushing to put out the flames and left Hendrix needing treatment for minor burns. But amid ...
- On the bank of benevolent river - Punch
When tourists from different parts of the world gathered in Osogbo, Osun State, on Friday for the grand finale of the Osun Osogbo Festival, several popular artistes stood to be counted. Even the state Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, had to turn ...
- Obama & the Conquest of Denver - The New York Review of Books
Obama & the Conquest of DenverThe New York Review of Books - 1 hour agoThe question on Wednesday night, therefore, as Bill Clinton was introduced by Kendrick Meek, a young African-American congressman from Miami, ...
- Green Thumb: New dwarf male cultivars keep time-tested beauty ... - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Green Thumb: New dwarf male cultivars keep time-tested beauty ...Memphis Commercial Appeal, TN - 43 minutes agoYou can also learn how to fold origami, make a kanja fan and write haiku poetry. Japanese items will be sold in a marketplace. ...
- Crossword, Sudoku Plague Threatens America! - Slate
If I can be said to have a favorite kind of column, it's one in which I can bring to your attention an exciting literary development—one whose importance has not received the notice it deserves outside the ivory tower—and then tell you what to ...
- Sewickley Heights screenwriter earns success with series of honors (Sewickley Herald)
All of Janyce Lepore's characters have a little part of her in them.  read more »
- Q&A: Former poet laureate Billy Collins cracks wise in verse - Kansas City Star
Q&A: Former poet laureate Billy Collins cracks wise in verseKansas City Star, MO - 4 minutes agoYour message seems to be, “Life is short, stop and smell the roses.†That’s the message poetry has delivered since Roman times. ...
- No City for Smart Men - Washington Post
Washington PostNo City for Smart MenWashington Post, United States - 40 minutes agoThere is the blowing fedora in "Miller's Crossing," and its elegiac score, lending a visual and aural poetry to offset the tommy-gun violence. ...
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