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- Michael McCarthy: A summer this wet and windy just isn't natural (Independent)
I once arrived in Finland on May Day. As I walked into my Helsinki hotel, a big Finnish bloke attacked me. Luckily, it was with a balloon. However, the fear flashed through my panicking brain that even though he was not a gunman or a knifeman, merely a balloonman, he still meant to do me harm, and it was with some difficulty that I extricated myself – only to find that everyone in the whole ...
- I get distracted by the Internet when I try to write - Salon
I am taking a creative nonfiction writing course, and I'm supposed to be working on a piece about what I ate for breakfast. The problem is, every time I sit down at the computer to work, I start compulsively reading the election coverage online ...
- Back from the wilds and emotionally altered – Eden to Addo hikers ... - CXpress
Back from the wilds and emotionally altered – Eden to Addo hikers ...CXpress, South Africa - 1 hour agoHike leader and organiser Galeo Saintz, who created the route and designed the hike programme - which included poetry and evening presentations by esteemed ...
- Teen Talk: Weekend reviews: Singing comedians make quite impression - Oneonta Daily Star
Teen Talk: Weekend reviews: Singing comedians make quite impressionOneonta Daily Star, NY - 12 minutes agoI've even heard him perform poetry. Oh, and if you're curious, he plays the piano beautifully. No comparison needed. The only thing I warn is that he can be ...
- Facing the music - Tulsa World
Facing the musicTulsa World, OK - Aug 31, 2008I read Pablo Neruda poetry for fun, and secretly loved bluegrass music — not good for street cred. I was lowering the band's stock with cooler bands, ...
- 'Defying Dixie' sheds light on South - Hilton Head Island Packet
'Defying Dixie' sheds light on SouthHilton Head Island Packet, SC - 4 hours agoThere is Texas-native Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the first black to join the party, who wrote poetry and short stories but failed as a labor organizer. ...
- A SONG FOR THE OCCASION - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphA SONG FOR THE OCCASIONCalcutta Telegraph, India - 23 hours agoMamata Banerjee’s paintings may be bad and her poetry worse, but the next time you accuse Trinamul of lacking in culture, think again.
- Cameroon: Homage and Courtship (Romantic Stirrings of a Young Man) - AllAfrica.com
Cameroon: Homage and Courtship (Romantic Stirrings of a Young Man)AllAfrica.com, Washington - 22 minutes agoThe poems in the first part pay homage to icons and beacons at the family and community levels, to places and to significant milestones in the poet's ...
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria's most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country's communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75.
- Poetry recitation at PAL - The Post
Poetry recitation at PALThe Post, Pakistan - Aug 14, 2008Dr Ehsan Akbar said Pakistani poetry was prominent in the sense that it had portrayed the conditions of current times. The poets who read their poetry were ...
- Sean Connery's memoirs no "kiss and tell" (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
By Ian MacKenzie
- On the internet this week (Guardian Unlimited)
Caught By The River, caughtbytheriver.net Jeff Barrett, the boss of Heavenly Records - home of Edwyn Collins, Doves, Beth Orton and numerous other fine British musical talent of the past 18 years - is something of a keen angler. It is hardly the most rock'n'roll of pursuits you would have thought, but at this most laidback of blogs it all meanders along beautifully alongside discussions on ...
- Kittitas County teacher named state teacher of the year - Seattle Times
Susan Johnson, middle, reacts to being named state teacher of the year as finalists Katie Hebner and Dave Gamon applaud. Susan Johnson, a veteran language-arts teacher at Cle Elum-Roslyn High School in Kitsap County, was named Washington state's ...
- South Africa: Musical Concert to Celebrate Madiba's Life (AllAfrica.com)
Some of Africa's best artists will perform at a special music concert to be staged in celebration of Nelson Mandela's life in Johannesburg next month.
- Memories of the Great War - Dorset Echo
Memories of the Great WarDorset Echo, UK - 17 hours agoOne of the highlights of the exhibition - World War One 1914-1918, How Christchurch Survived the Great War - will be an afternoon of poetry and prose ...
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