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- Two wheels - Guardian Unlimited
One night, my friend Paul and I were admiring our bikes as they leaned against the pub railings. "Beautiful, aren't they," he said fondly. "Two triangles and two circles." Marcel Duchamp might have agreed: the first of his "readymades", created in ...
- Beating the Drums of Atrophy...a review of Patrick Oguejiofor’s ... - Vanguard
Beating the Drums of Atrophy...a review of Patrick Oguejiofor’s ...Vanguard, Nigeria - 2 hours agoThe third part of the collection Occult Dancers is made up of elegies and sad recall of missed moments. The poems Plotters of our death attacks the odd ...
- Hundreds gather at funeral for Palestinian poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- Shakespeare sonnets hit the stage - London Free Press
Shakespeare sonnets hit the stageLondon Free Press, Canada - Jul 14, 2008But as the work progresses, transformations from theory to poetry marked by the off-stage strumming of a lyre, it becomes more and more theatrical, ...
- Inside Our Schools - St. George Daily Spectrum
Inside Our SchoolsSt. George Daily Spectrum, UT - 26 minutes agoOur fifth-grade students have been busy writing poetry and narratives about - you guessed it - food. The focus of the writing was Word Choice. ...
- On life, literature and Palestine, a tribute to Abdelwahab Elmessiri - Electronic Intifada
Electronic IntifadaOn life, literature and Palestine, a tribute to Abdelwahab ElmessiriElectronic Intifada, IL - 37 minutes agoWhen death came knocking he was putting the finishing touches to his study on the history of English poetry and was planning to write a book on Egyptian ...
- Obama's Failed Fight-Back - Slate
Time magazine's "hot shots" breakfast Tuesday morning Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Rep. Artur Davis, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and D.A. Kamala Harris. 1) Booker and Davis are very impressive. Newsom, who seems kind of goofily egomaniacal, not so ...
- Site navigation (Rochdale Observer)
You are here: Home | News | A feast of culture! A feast of culture! STORYBOOK characters, a huge inflatable whale and a fusion of great music and exotic smells provided Stopfordians with a veritable feast last weekend.
- Dance that fulfils - West Online
Containing both thematic links and variety, this intelligently conceived six-part mixed bill grew in satisfying complexity from elegant neoclassical divertissements to sharp satire. Ambitiously, it also incorporated an exploration of gender roles ...
- An Honest Conversation About Alcohol - Inside Higher Ed
Two months after he finished up as president of Middlebury College in 2004, John M. McCardell Jr. wrote a column for The New York Times called “What Your College President Didn’t Tell You.” In the piece, he discussed how he was “as guilty as ...
- Young writers hone their skills - Worcester Telegram
Young writers hone their skillsWorcester Telegram, MA - 30 minutes ago“We sometimes start out reading poetry and we do different writing exercises,” said Ms. Killoran, who has run the program for the last six summers. ...
- The stranger in my bed - East African Standard
As a young girl my best friend and I loved to dream about getting married one day. We always wanted to have a double wedding because we believed that we would be the best friends forever who would be proposed to at the same time. Unfortunately, life ...
- Serbia: Arts Roundup - Global Voices Online
Serbia: Arts RoundupGlobal Voices Online, MA - 4 hours agoFor the last 10 years our cinema has focused on contemporary issues, on these sad days, on the wars, on the sanctions. The audience has had enough of such ...
- Extract: Corvus: A Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson - Daily Telegraph
Magpies are legendarily aggressive and thieving, the embodiment of evil. So why would anyone adopt a fallen fledgling? In this extract from her book, Esther Woolfson shares her house with Spike and tests his species' fearsome reputation
- A LIFE IN... - Newsweek
Recommended (6) A Life in Books: Robert Hass A Two-Bit, And Fine, Idea Serbia: Radovan Karadzic's Final Days of Freedom A Life in Books: Jane Yolen Poetry: Mary Jo Bang's Dark, Inspirational 'Elegy' Quindlen: The Warrior Returns 1. "The Sound and the ...
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