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- 'Audiences want to laugh' (News 24 South Africa)
Egoli actor Gideon van Eeden says audiences want to laugh, which is why he focuses on comedy with social commentary in his play Steriel .
- Alum's Passion for Poetry Pays Off - Bates Student
Alum's Passion for Poetry Pays OffBates Student, ME - 48 minutes agoWorking as a book critic for Publisher's Weekly, he enjoys a well-connected literary lifestyle, makes poetry one of his top priorities and recognizes that ...
- Boardwalk in Durban - August 6, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk in Durban - August 6, 2008Tonight, South Africa - 8 hours agoBAT Centre Functions Room: Every Wednesday from 5.30pm to 7.30pm set your soul free with live poetry sessions. Call 031-332-0451. BAT Centre Functions Room: ...
- Palestinian poet and icon Darwish buried - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesPalestinian poet and icon Darwish buriedLos Angeles Times, CA - Aug 14, 2008Zabin said he and many other Palestinians identified so strongly with Darwish because the poet's life experiences, which he wrote about directly, ...
- Carruth found his voice in New England - Concord Monitor
Carruth found his voice in New EnglandConcord Monitor, NH - 13 minutes agoLike Frost's, his poetry transcended his region. The voice he found was an American voice. Carruth's strongest poems borrowed the vernacular of the society ...
- The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose ... - PhysOrg.com
The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose ...PhysOrg.com, VA - 9 hours agoFrom nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just ...
- Elizabeth Withey, The Edmonton Journal - Edmonton Journal
Elizabeth Withey, The Edmonton JournalEdmonton Journal, Canada - 55 minutes agoSpurs and sonnets collide this weekend at the Stony Plain Cowboy Poetry Gathering. It's the 31st anniversary of rock 'n' roll icon Elvis Presley's death. ...
- Michael Jackson goes into studio with Robert Burns (Guardian Unlimited)
David Gest claims to have collaborated with pop legend on album setting poems to music
- Q&A with author Ursula K. Le Guin (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Readers have been wandering the shores of Ursula K. Le Guin’s vividly imagined landscapes for more than four decades, and they continue to be inspired by the way LeGuin melds fantasy and science fiction to explore the human condition.
- Regional arts and entertainment events - Philadelphia Inquirer
Regional arts and entertainment eventsPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 34 minutes agoPolitics and poetry Two former national security advisers, Zbigniew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter's) and Brent Scowcroft (George HW Bush's), talk about current ...
- John Lundberg: Turning Poetry Into Music (HuffingtonPost)
Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald...
- Too Much of a Good Thing - Minneapolis City Pages
Too Much of a Good ThingMinneapolis City Pages, MN - Aug 12, 2008By James Norton Isaiah Berlin cataloged a pantheon of writers and thinkers using this bit of old poetry, but it's also a fine starting point for thinking ...
- Maker of Schlafly beer sees opportunity in InBev takeover - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Walking through the Schlafly Bottleworks brewery a few weeks ago, Dan Kopman found himself half-apologizing for what looked like controlled chaos. Hoses snaked across the floor. Water gushed from equipment and spilled onto the floor. Pieces of a ...
- Poetry peepshow staged for literary voyeurs at Toronto arts festival (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - The 16th annual Junction Arts Festival is offering what it calls a "Poetry Peepshow," giving participants the chance to "peer into an open window of a poet's soul."
- Great grandmother's GCSE joy - This is Wiltshire.co.uk
Great grandmother's GCSE joyThis is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoShe said she enjoyed writing essays as part of her English exam course, but found analysing poetry unusual, as it wasn't something she had done in the past. ...
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