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- Haste makes waste - Vancouver Sun
Haste makes wasteVancouver Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoHis regularly exquisite writing memorably renders the poetry of the waves. But an intriguing subject and a handful of great metaphors do not a story make. ...
- The New Yorker hit a new low - La Crosse Tribune
The New Yorker has hit a new all-time low with its so-called satirical cover. This is a disturbing, disgusting, radical, racist thing. It is not funny. It is sad that there are lots of people who will believe this garbage. The Swift-Boat ads ...
- My Yorkshire: Simon Thackray - yorkshirepost
Simon Thackray runs The Shed, a unique arts venue based in Hovingham, North Yorkshire. He challenges convention by bringing music and poetry to the countryside in some of the most bizarre ways, from a saxophonist playing in a skip to a performance of ...
- Religion Briefs - Pasadena Star-News
Religion BriefsPasadena Star-News, CA - 6 hours agoPASADENA - Golden Poets Guild is sponsoring a Christian poetry contest, which offers a $1000 grand prize. To enter, send a poem of 21 lines or less to Free ...
- American Life In Poetry: A Collective Experience - Yankton Daily Press (subscription)
American Life In Poetry: A Collective ExperienceYankton Daily Press (subscription), SD - 4 hours agoBY TED KOOSER In “The Moose,†a poem much too long to print here, the late Elizabeth Bishop was able to show a community being created from a group of ...
- The Expat Perpetual - Feministe
The Expat PerpetualFeministe - 2 hours agoNo small gift it is also to walk the streets of my neighbourhood at dusk, ducking to avoid the jasmine branches brushing my face, and composing bad poetry ...
- Youth lines: DAR gives awards (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
Two area students were recognized this month by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution for their poetry. Home-schoolers Jessalyn We ...
- O brother, where art thou? - Globe and Mail
O brother, where art thou?Globe and Mail, Canada - 19 minutes agoWe also get painful scenes from her uneasy marriage with Sam, whose brush with cancer works within the formal design of the book as a counterweight to ...
- Festival to rock out with Patti Smith - News.com.au
Legendary writer and 1970s rock performer Patti Smith will perform in Melbourne for the first time in more than a decade. She will also join composer Philip Glass on stage for one performance of music and poetry in tribute to the late beat poet ...
- In Praise of Political Insults - Wall Street Journal
The great American political insult is older than the nation itself. Ben Franklin, writing in 1771 before the States were even United, lamented "Libeling and Personal Abuse, which is of late Years become so disgraceful to our Country." Not even ...
- The funny side of life (Mail and Guardian)
There's a note for the postman pinned to the front door of Marina Lewycka's functional, foursquare house in the rowdy university quarter of Sheffield in northern England. "If no answer," it says, "please put packages behind the wheelie bin. Don't worry -- they're only foreign books."
- Area universities unite for art and literature forum - Tacoma Weekly
Area universities unite for art and literature forumTacoma Weekly, WA - 2 hours agoMany of the participants, representing all five schools, read poetry while others read short stories aloud to the audience. Drawing their inspiration on ...
- Budding Prides (Metro Weekly)
Unity might be key in celebrating Capital Pride. There is, however, also something special about celebrating what might set a group apart, says SaVanna Wanzer, a transgender activist who serves on the board of directors at Whitman-Walker Clinic.
- Sets, dance and rock'n'roll (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: Latitude is just over two years old, but already people have been hailing it as the new Glastonbury
- SMU frat housemother loves job at age 76 - KVUE
The bass of a neighbor's stereo thumped against the thin walls of Lila McCurtain's apartment. Deep voices shouted profanities outside her window. A car alarm went off. Oblivious to the chaos, McCurtain calmly crossed her legs and leaned forward in ...
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