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- For better or verse! - Deccan Herald
For better or verse!Deccan Herald, India - 1 hour ago“Modern poetry has lost its universality. You still enjoy a Frost or a Shakespeare. That’s what rhyme does.There is something in human beings that reacts to ...
- Local Talent Wins Going West Poetry Slam - Scoop
Avondale’s Courtney Meredith won the Going West Poetry Slam on Saturday night – the first woman to ever win the event. Courtney secured her spot in the final with her poem ‘Auckland’s Talking About Me’, then won the $500 prize with ‘86 ...
- Tamil writer on Man Asia long list - SINDH TODAY
Tamil writer on Man Asia long listSINDH TODAY, Pakistan - 3 hours agoShe caught public imagination with her feminist poetry collections like ‘Oru Maalaiyum Innoru Maalaiyum’ and ‘Pachai Thevathai’. She wrote her first novel ...
- 10 things to do this week (The News Journal)
"Iron Man" on DVD, poetry in Middletown and Biden vs. Palin on TV
- Remarks by the President at Iftaar Dinner - MarketWatch
Remarks by the President at Iftaar DinnerMarketWatch - 36 minutes agoPeople of all faiths have benefited from the achievements of Muslims in fields from philosophy and poetry to mathematics and medicine. ...
- Tim Seibles strives to build poetry fans with his readings (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA - Tim Seibles has invented narrative and written prose since childhood, but he didn't come to fully identify as a poet until college. While attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Seibles went to a workshop held by then-faculty member and poet Michael Ryan. Ryan read poetry that did more than leave a passing impression on Seibles - it "knocked him out." "The potential for ...
- Bush heritage not forgotten - Irrigator
Bush heritage not forgottenIrrigator, Australia - 1 hour agoMr Graham combines bush poetry, music and comedy to celebrate Australian heritage and culture. “I grew up on a farm, I am fourth or fifth generation ...
- The art of peace - Calgary Herald
Calgary HeraldThe art of peaceCalgary Herald, Canada - 6 hours agoMany pieces incorporate clear glass balls -- look closely, and they reveal Roma Lamb's poetry, a few words at a time: spare, simple, but packed with emotion ...
- Club Notes - Salt Lake Tribune
Distinctive singer/songwriter John Hiatt headlines, but Joan Osborne could handle headlining duties on her own. Best known for singing "(If God Was) One of Us" in the 1990s, Osborne is a bluesy singer who has sung with The Dead and is touring to ...
- Cameroon: Homage and Courtship (Romantic Stirrings of a Young Man) (AllAfrica.com)
Shadrach Ambanasom's creative pen has once more graced our literary shores with a scintillating collection of fifty poems crafted "essentially in a Neo-Romantic mood" and being in the main, "transmutations and commemorations of things, events, and people" (iv) the poet holds dear in his life.
- Marcus Tanner: Karadzic, the psychiatrist who became a genocidal ... - Belfast Telegraph
I will never forget the first time I met Radovan Karadzic – because I got him so wrong. Standing in a tatty Sarajevo school room, I encountered what I thought was a rather dotty-looking school teacher parading in front of an ethnic map of Bosnia ...
- Hendrix's burnt guitar leads rock auction in London (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The first guitar that rock legend Jimi Hendrix burned on stage, the only remaining fingerprints of Elvis Presley and the first contract signed by The Beatles all go on sale Thursday in a major auction of music memorabilia.
- Quantum poetics (Guardian Unlimited)
A friend emailed months ago and asked me to contribute to an anthology of "space poems". He was pairing up poets with astronomers in the hopes that new poetry would result, and my counterpart was Paul Murdin, the treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Java franchise shop is on the go - Hampton Roads Daily Press
At a time major coffee chain Starbucks is closing some of its stores, Daily Grind Unwind, a nationally franchised coffee shop, is certain that lattes and espressos will never go out of style. The company plans to open several new locations in ...
- Community Extra Calendar - Everett Herald
Flashlight Egg Hunt for third- through eighth-graders, 6:30 to 8:30 tonight, Wilcox Park, 5215 196th St. SW, Lynnwood. Free with canned food donation to Lynnwood Food Bank. Call 425-771-4030. Senior exercise at the pool, 10:45 a.m. today, Mountlake ...
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