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- The Week In Radio: A tribute to the power of love (Independent)
Across the nation, throughout Between Ourselves (BBC Radio 4, Thursday), you could hear the gentle thud of jaws dropping to the floor. In the first of a new run, the common experience uniting Olivia O'Leary's guests was that they were married to people who underwent a change of sex, and the marriage had survived the alteration: Daphne's husband was now a woman; Chris's wife a man. Just that ...
- Spoken-word poets take aim at society - Greensboro News Record
Spoken-word poets take aim at societyGreensboro News Record, NC - 4 hours agoThey see a world where Big Brother government protects the status quo, keeps a prison industry in business and oppresses the black and brown, ...
- American Idol alum, LaKisha Jones, to get married Sunday in California - MLive.com
Thomas Simonetti | The Flint Journal files LaKisha Jones performs for a hometown crowd in July at the "Bringing it Home" concert at the Perani Arena and Event Center in Flint. FLINT, Michigan -- Kiki's getting married. Former Flintite LaKisha Jones ...
- Bloggers helping public schools - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Since first hearing of DonorsChoose.org, I've been a fan of the charity, which allows public school teachers to outline small-scale projects online. And then -- you guessed it -- donors choose to support what they want, with the amount that they want ...
- Complete list of Emmy winners, 2008 (Republican-American)
Associated Press Complete list of winners at Sunday's 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
- Globe West arts - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeGlobe West artsBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour ago"Poetry is not up tight. Poetry is not boring. Rather it pushes the edge . . . I'm just trying to add to that great tradition of out-there-ness," said Jojo ...
- Freikeh Festival bears fruit for the first time in three years - Lebanon Daily Star
FREIKEH: The public entered the festival grounds along a tree-lined path, its low hanging branches beautifully illuminated against the darkness. To the left, the black silhouette of the Nahr al-Kalb valley stretches beneath you toward the sea. The ...
- Bostonist Book Review: Figures and Figurations - Bostonist
BostonistBostonist Book Review: Figures and FigurationsBostonist, MA - 3 hours agoCollage would seem to go directly against poetry's goal of reassembly in a place beyond the region of the spirit where signifieds construct and deconstruct ...
- Poetic justice - Morley Observer
Poetic justiceMorley Observer, UK - 1 hour ago... said: "We are very proud that the children from St Francis have been selected to have their poems published in the Big Green Poetry Machine Book. ...
- The Iliad and The Odyssey remain awesomely true - The Chronicle Herald
IN ITS BOOKS THAT SHOOK the World series, Vancouver publisher Douglas & McIntyre properly includes the Greek poet Homer’s epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and enlists the consummate belle-lettriste Alberta Manguel to give us the "biography ...
- Woman’s Will Stages Brecht’s ‘Good Person of Szechuan’ - Berkeley Daily Planet
Woman’s Will Stages Brecht’s ‘Good Person of Szechuan’Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - 1 hour agoIn fact, his praise of classical poetry was not of its venerable antiquity, the admiration of past ages, but its freshness. Virgil and Ovid, he said, ...
- This Is My Letter To the World - Washington Post
This Is My Letter To the WorldWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoJoel Brouwer is the author of the poetry collections "Exactly What Happened," "Centuries" and the forthcoming "And So." He teaches at the University of ...
- Terror poems are terrible poems - Guardian Blogs
It's not often that the Sun gets itself into a lather about poetry. But just six months after the release of the Lyrical Terrorist, Samina Malik , it devoted a full page spread to a YouTube clip purporting to be Bin Laden's youngest son, Hamza ...
- Wiseman leaves Westport Arts Center - Westport Minuteman
Wiseman leaves Westport Arts CenterWestport Minuteman, CT - 45 minutes agoShe expanded the venues for the performing arts and poetry. I think she did a great job of expanding the influence of the arts center. ...
- Scots author hits back at Paxman over attack on Burns’s poetry - Herald
A leading Scottish author, angered by Jeremy Paxman's dismissal of Burns as a "king of sentimental doggerel", yesterday proposed a novel revenge against the controversial broadcaster. Andrew O'Hagan, who was raised in Ayrshire, suggested that the ...
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