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- Science-fiction author Thomas M. Disch mastered a wide range of styles and tones (Los Angeles Times)
- Wisdom comes from strange places in Hoffman’s poetry - Somerville News
Wisdom comes from strange places in Hoffman’s poetrySomerville News, MA - 35 minutes agoI’m no scholar and I respond to poetry on a very gut and emotional level. So a poem like “Summer Job†speaks to me. It brings out my sense of longing: for ...
- "Getting it Write" theme of 2008 JRW conference - Richmond Times Dispatch
"Getting it Write" theme of 2008 JRW conferenceRichmond Times Dispatch, VA - 1 hour agoClaudia Emerson's "Late Wife" won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Adriana Trigiani is best known for her "Big Stone Gap" series. ...
- Fringe Must-Sees - Washington Post Blog
"Dorks on the Loose: It I Awkward" is just one possible winner at this year's Fringe Festival. (Delusions of Spandex) The Capital Fringe Festival kicked off yesterday, and I celebrated by hitting up "Dorks on the Loose: It I Awkward." I chose the ...
- AP Top News at 6:12 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois sealed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. A defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket. Obama's victory set up a five-month campaign with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a race ...
- Gordon Parks counted poetry among talents (Lawrence Journal-World)
Editor’s note: In her Ad Astra Poetry Project, Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low highlights historic and contemporary poets who resided in Kansas for a substantial part of their lives. Eventually, she will collect the biweekly broadsides into a book, to be published by the Center for Kansas Studies at Washburn University, in cooperation with Thomas Fox Averill.
- Finalists for 21st Annual Trillium Book Award announced - CNW Group
17 Ontario Authors short-listed for Ontario's Prestigious Literary Prize NEWS TORONTO, May 23 /CNW/ - Six English books and six French have been short-listed for the 21st Annual Trillium Book Award/ 21e édition du Prix littéraire annuel Trillium ...
- LAFF Review: Big Heart City - Cinematical
LAFF Review: Big Heart CityCinematical, CA - 49 minutes agoBig Heart City's not just an acting showcase, though; director of photography Peter J. Scalettar finds poetry and grandeur in the barren wastes of LA and ...
- WORLDVIEW: The stars in their courses - BP News
WORLDVIEW: The stars in their coursesBP News, TN - 4 hours ago... that life is a cosmic coincidence, that love is a chemical reaction, that the poetry of the Psalms and the music of Bach sprang from the primordial ooze ...
- Events for May 8-15 - Oregonian
PICK OF THE WEEK: Migratory birds rely on Oaks Bottom and other natural areas in Portland to nest, winter, rest and refuel. In celebration of these hardy feathered friends, head to the Festival of Birds on Saturday, where you can take a guided bird ...
- Bards of New Brighton poetry group finds a new home - Liverpool Daily Post
Bards of New Brighton poetry group finds a new homeLiverpool Daily Post, UK - 12 hours agoA WIRRAL-BASED poetry group has found a new home – and is urging more poets to join them. The Bards of New Brighton had met monthly for the past year in the ...
- Bear tale is a perfect storm of drama - National Post
Bear tale is a perfect storm of dramaNational Post, Canada - 51 minutes agoMarty, an author and former park warden whose poetry and essays are as integral to the Canadian Rockies as the fiction of Alistair MacLeod is to Cape Breton ...
- Iraqi Premier Says New Al-Najaf Airport Erases "Era of Injustice" - RedOrbit
Iraqi Premier Says New Al-Najaf Airport Erases "Era of Injustice"RedOrbit, TX - 5 hours agoThe celebration then continues with poetry and songs. The prime minister then leaves the inauguration site and the live relay ends at 0807 gmt.
- Sometimes I Wonder What I'm Gonna Do! (cmi valparaÃso)
The Who wrote the best version of Summertime Blues, but the final verse needed work, so I wrote a new final verse. This should be folk music by now. Wouldn't you like to honor the last of the Jesus Freak Kid's clan? Well here's a third verse that The Who or you might want to do!
- Performers boost China's profile - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Chinese singing sensation Da Pou, who grew up speaking one of his Yunnan province's many dialects, did not start performing until he learned the official Chinese language at age 17. On April 29, Da Pou, 25, wowed some 200 audience members in the ...
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