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- A lesson in verse (Guardian Unlimited)
Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Carol Ann Duffy's work on violence is ideal for classroom discussion. It's a poem, not a memo
- CRITICAL MASS: Henry Poole flows with lyricism - Arkansas Online (subscription)
CRITICAL MASS: Henry Poole flows with lyricismArkansas Online (subscription), AR - 21 hours agoPoetry is the purest form of writing; it is the sidelong glance that reveals, if not everything, at least something interesting and true. ...
- Yeshiva U. prof on indefinite leave after sex change - Jerusalem Post
Yeshiva U. prof on indefinite leave after sex changeJerusalem Post, Israel - 1 hour agoJay Ladin, an expert in Modernist American poetry, now goes by the Joy. Right: Ladin before beginning his gender transformation. ...
- Finding comfort alongside Maya Angelou (Concord Monitor)
Maya Angelou published her blockbuster memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in 1969, when she was in her early 40s and I was a 17-year-old white Southerner trying my luck in New York City. Catching her on late night television, I fell utterly under her spell.
- Fêted poet Ahmed Faraz laid to Rest - Pakistan Times
Fêted poet Ahmed Faraz laid to RestPakistan Times, Pakistan - 29 minutes agoAround 15 collections of his poetry were published during his life and all of his popular poems and Ghazals were sung by prominent singers. ...
- Two dead, four injured in W. Phila. playground shooting (Philly.com)
A tearful Sandra Mack remembered how her son, Miles, would tell her, "Mom, this is my neighborhood and these are my people."
- Upcoming shows (Detroit Free Press)
Saving Abel: with Ashes of Soma, 7 p.m. Aug. 28. Clutch Cargo's, $10.01. Huey Lewis & the News: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28. Freedom Hill Amphitheatre, $13-$51. The Dells & R Thompkins: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28. Chene Park Amphitheatre, $25-$100.
- Music, words and memories at Kerouac festival - Taunton Daily Gazette
Music, words and memories at Kerouac festivalTaunton Daily Gazette, USA - 23 minutes agoNoting one of the festival’s events, a high school poetry contest, Amram said, “There are kids from Central America, Southeast Asia…supporting each other in ...
- Church has heart for art - Greenville News
Church has heart for artGreenville News, SC - 5 hours agoI wrote poetry. I like singing, I like artwork." Now, as he approaches his 47th birthday, the "American African Warthog," as he styles himself, ...
- Posted -4 sec ago - Brantford Expositor
Posted -4 sec agoBrantford Expositor, Canada - 4 hours agoHis greatest love was poetry, being able to quote 100 - 200 lines from major poets. Often he quoted the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam which he knew by heart. ...
- Marcus Tanner: Karadzic, the psychiatrist who became a genocidal ... - Belfast Telegraph
I will never forget the first time I met Radovan Karadzic – because I got him so wrong. Standing in a tatty Sarajevo school room, I encountered what I thought was a rather dotty-looking school teacher parading in front of an ethnic map of Bosnia ...
- Exhibit kicks off Mongolian celebration in Middletown - Middletown Journal
Exhibit kicks off Mongolian celebration in MiddletownMiddletown Journal, OH - 2 hours agoLocal school children have created peace flags made of paper or cloth, which carry themes of peace expressed in pictures, prose and poetry. ...
- Discover the writer that is hidden away inside you - Whitehaven News and Star
Rugby players help out: Shona Pattinson, 11, Marc Bainbridge, Ellie Fitchett 10, Ellis Armstrong 10, Ade Adebisi, and Robert Armstrong, 12 EVERYONE has a story to tell. Autobiographical or creative, writers don’t require qualifications, a private ...
- As far as elections go - St. John's Telegram
As far as elections goSt. John's Telegram, Canada - 2 hours agoLabrador can be considered to have its own native literary sub-genre, as can be seen in such works as Lydia Campbell's "Sketches of Labrador Life," Alice ...
- Celebrating the life and work of Vernon Scannell - yorkshirepost
Listen online: A unique celebration of the life and work of the poet and pacifist Vernon Scannell, recorded live at the 2008 Ilkley Literature Festival . Vernon Scannell, spent the last 25 years of his life in Otley, where this programme was recorded ...
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