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- Doing Battle With the Bard (The New York Sun)
"Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare?" asks Nigel Smith in the title of his new book (Harvard University Press, 240 pages, $22.95). The obvious answer is no: It would be hard to dispute that Shakespeare's plays are more powerful, and more central to our culture, than Milton's biblical epics or his artfully classical lyrics. Around the world, when people dream about true love, they think of Romeo ...
- A festival like no other - Dispatch Online
A festival like no otherDispatch Online, South Africa - 6 hours agoThey will explore how to be a convincing actor, performance poetry, the intricate rhythms of gumboot dancing and writing scripts for films and TV shows. ...
- Culture club - indy.com
Culture clubindy.com, IN - 12 hours agoThey play West African drums and Irish flutes, they dance Russian ballet and Cuban Rumba, and they eat jerk chicken, spanakopita, and (yes) gigantic breaded ...
- Writers share views on tolerance, creativity - The Daily Yomiuri
Writers share views on tolerance, creativityThe Daily Yomiuri, Japan - 1 hour agoI found poetry in Mr. Pamuk's novel "Snow" and in Mr. Oe's "Routashi Anaberu Rii Souke Dachitsu Mimakaritsu" (The beautiful Annabel Lee was chilled and ...
- Our view: Busy City Council shouldn't have role in choosing laureate - Gloucester Daily Times
Our view: Busy City Council shouldn't have role in choosing laureateGloucester Daily Times, USA - 2 hours agoThat panel screened nine applicants and recommended Collinson, a Gloucester native who has written poetry most of her life and who works in book development ...
- Tribute: Jeremy L. Harris “was like a giant teddy bear†- Kansas City Star
Tribute: Jeremy L. Harris “was like a giant teddy bearâ€Kansas City Star, MO - 39 minutes agoZemelman described Harris as a “Renaissance man†who wrote poetry, enjoyed performing and even liked the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. ...
- Zombies, James Frey, Bob Dylan and Leonard Nimoy -- It's Pop Ten - Cleveland Plain Dealer
They're back in "Diary of the Dead." The zombies are back! So is Chris Farley, though not as one of the living dead. Glenn Close guests on "The Simpsons" as Homer's long-lost mom, back to win his love. James Frey whines that the media were mean to ...
- No plea from NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list (Boston Globe)
An FBI most-wanted fugitive charged with molesting the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him is being held without bail after his years on the lam abruptly ended with his arrest in Mexico.
- Book Review: The Earth in the Attic by Fady Joudah - Institute for Middle East Understanding
Institute for Middle East UnderstandingBook Review: The Earth in the Attic by Fady JoudahInstitute for Middle East Understanding, CA - 3 hours agoIn her forward to the book, poet Louise Glück says that Joudah "confuses [the] rituals of classification" associated with poetry. The poems cannot simply be ...
- Author ‘not very creative’ with uni students’ marks (Wandsworth Guardian)
Kingston Uni's creative writing course is at the centre of controversy following the revelation that leading novelist Hanif Kureishi, a research fellow on the course, awards all his students distinctions regardless of the work they produce.
- Self-published novel snags Leacock medal - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Self-published novel snags Leacock medalTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 4 hours ago"His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation ...
- Seen and heard - Quillblog
Seen and heardQuillblog, Canada - 6 hours agoThree winners will get to choose three Rattling titles each from their wide selection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and kids’ books – not a bad prize for ...
- Free Music Program For Rockford Youth - WIFR
Free Music Program For Rockford YouthWIFR, IL - 1 hour ago23 News Reporter Natalie Kaplan is here to tell us about a free program that's here to help. All summer long tunes are going to be coming from Brown's ...
- Poetry constest winners announced - Muscatine Journal
Poetry constest winners announcedMuscatine Journal, IA - 2 hours agoThe top three winners in each category received a T-shirt stating, “Don’t read my lips, read my poem,†along with gift certificates. ...
- Community Calendar - Houma Courier
Community CalendarHouma Courier, Louisiana - 41 minutes agoThe Louisiana State Poetry Society’s Bayou Chapter meets from 7 to 8:30 pm the first Thursday of every month at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, ...
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