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- Summer Choir concert spotlights American poets (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
For its depth and meaning to be truly experienced, poetry should also be heard, and not just read. As evidence, the blossoming of spoken word, open mics and poetry slams are bringing the joy and power of poetry to a new generation.
- Long chair transforms into lounge - Las Vegas Review - Journal
Long chair transforms into loungeLas Vegas Review - Journal, NV - 10 hours ago... returning the chaises to be made firmer and less comfortable because instead of writing poetry when they reclined, they actually fell asleep instead! ...
- Can he stop the sprawl that’s eating Hong Kong’s harbor? - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorCan he stop the sprawl that’s eating Hong Kong’s harbor?Christian Science Monitor, MA - 2 hours agoIn his spare time, he reads nuclear physics, plays snooker, and has written a book of poetry in English – a diversion the native-Chinese speaker developed ...
- Musicians Perform for Pope One of His Favorites (Zenit News Agency)
VATICAN CITY, AUG. 26, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- The city of Castel Gandolfo offered its honored guest -- Benedict XVI -- a classical music concert in his honor, featuring one of the selections the Pope says is among his favorites.
- Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It? (New York Times)
The prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene.
- They're tagging in praise of Jesus - HeraldNet
They're tagging in praise of JesusHeraldNet, WA - 28 minutes agoRaquele plans to lead painting, drawing and poetry-writing sessions, including a couple of community murals and collages and poetry readings, ...
- Library news - Duxbury Reporter
Library newsDuxbury Reporter, USA - 2 hours agoThe teens have planned look-alike contests, a contest to dress Bella as a bride in toilet paper, an open mic for poetry, music, and what might happen in ...
- Feeding the Spirit and the Mind at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music (The New York Sun)
England's Coventry Cathedral is best known in the history of 20th-century music as the bombed ruin whose restoration inspired the creation of the Benjamin Britten masterpiece "War Requiem." But other pieces were commissioned for this miraculous architectural project, including the "Missa Brevis" of Sir William Walton, which was featured Sunday at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. ...
- The words sent down through centuries (The Herald)
A darkened room in a quiet corner of a city library is showcasing a vital part of Scotland's cultural heritage that is usually kept under lock and key.
- GRSF sonnet winners announced - Winona Daily News
The Great River Shakespeare Festival announced July 26 the winners of its first ever City-Wide Sonnet Contest at the Acoustic Café. Doug Scholz-Carlson, GRSF associate director and veteran actor, and James Armstrong, Winona’s poet laureate, hosted ...
- Nico Muhly looks for that radical sound - Los Angeles Times
THE FIRST vocal lines of young composer Nico Muhly’s new album, "Mothertongue," consist of a seemingly arbitrary list of numbers and addresses. Sung by mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer over aching strings and a distorted sub-bass synthesizer, the ...
- Cowboy poet's observations on daily life positive, uplifting - Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - When Don Wudel recites his poetry on stage, it is not uncommon to hear members of the audience mouthing the words along with him. "And if I forget a line, people will holler it from the crowd," the cowboy poet said with a laugh. Wudel took ...
- Princess trouble - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphPrincess troubleCalcutta Telegraph, India - 3 hours agoGiven the utterly prosaic nature of her administrative duties, Vasundhara Raje can certainly be excused, even admired, for letting her love of poetry show. ...
- Scotland ready to celebrate with Homecoming Year - micebtn
Scotland ready to celebrate with Homecoming Yearmicebtn, Australia - 31 minutes agoFrom Celtic Connections to book, film, theatre, golf, comedy, poetry and music festivals, Scotland is expected to be a 2009 ‘must visit’ destination for ...
- You can take the man out of Big Easy - Guardian Unlimited
When Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006 for what are, in essence, crime novels, it underscored the fact that the oft-asked question about whether crime fiction is 'literature' misses the point. The question should ...
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