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- Carol Borzyskowski: The more things change - Winona Daily News
Things have been really busy at the library. We are doing a bumper crop of new library cards for all the incoming freshman college students. I figure someone at the dorms is telling them to make sure they come in and get their free library card. It ...
- Is Eloquence Overrated? (New York Times)
There remains a tantalizingly imprecise link between a great political speech and a great political career.
- 'Mad Men' madness: Second season kick-off lives up to the hype (Pioneer Press)
San Francisco Chronicle In the first episode of the second season of 'Mad Men,' there's a great moment — in fact, many great moments —
- Poet Kay Ryan named next laureate - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will be the nation's 16th poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
- Lenox Library Book Sale - iBerkshires.com
Lenox Library Book SaleiBerkshires.com, MA - 1 hour agoBook lovers will find thousands of children’s books, specialized cookbooks, books on fly fishing, gardening, poetry, art, military and WWII, first editions, ...
- Sarah Palindrome v. Haiku Joe - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsSarah Palindrome v. Haiku JoeNew York Times Blogs, NY - 2 hours agoBy Jennifer Schuessler It’s probably too much to hope that tonight’s vice presidential smackdown in St. Louis will turn into a poetry slam. ...
- KIM NOWACKI/Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima Herald Republic
For the second year in a row, works by local artists -- featured on a pint glass canvas -- will be available to purchase with proceeds benefiting the Allied Arts of Yakima Valley. The second annual Painted Pints Party will be Sept. 3 at the G-Spot ...
- All hail Kay Ryan (Salon.com)
The newly appointed poet laureate aims to "prevent all bad poetry from being published during [her] reign."
- Thousands pay final respects to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish - CBC.ca
CBC.caThousands pay final respects to Palestinian poet Mahmoud DarwishCBC.ca, Canada - Aug 13, 2008Officials buried Darwish next to Ramallah's Cultural Palace, the site where he had frequently given poetry readings to massive crowds. ...
- The Week In Radio: A tribute to the power of love (Independent)
Across the nation, throughout Between Ourselves (BBC Radio 4, Thursday), you could hear the gentle thud of jaws dropping to the floor. In the first of a new run, the common experience uniting Olivia O'Leary's guests was that they were married to people who underwent a change of sex, and the marriage had survived the alteration: Daphne's husband was now a woman; Chris's wife a man. Just that ...
- Tony Jeffries guaranteed boxing light-heavyweight bronze medal in ... - Daily Telegraph
Tony Jeffries guaranteed boxing light-heavyweight bronze medal in Beijing Tony Jeffries, the former nightclub doorman who has spent his nights here writing prose to his girlfriend back home, was poetry in motion as he cruised to a 10-2 victory ...
- Muslim doctor hopes book breaks invisibility barrier - The State
Muslim doctor hopes book breaks invisibility barrierThe State, SC - 53 minutes agoWhere is the poetry? Where are the books to counteract some of this (violent) ideology?” A decade ago, Ahmed, a pulmonologist and sleep specialist, ...
- Songs that will drive you wild behind the wheel - Detroit News
I'm not a cruiser, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate a good driving song. To me, a driving song should rev you up, get your blood pumping and set your adrenaline in overdrive. It's something you want to crank up with the windows down, and it ...
- REAL PEOPLE DOING UNREAL THINGS (Financial Mail)
Once upon a time Jabu Ngwenya was a corporate minion just like you and me. Until one day, during a coffee break, she decided she could take it no more.
- Butcher Boy Is Coming (antiMUSIC)
Butcher Boy's debut album, "Profit In Your Poetry", receives a domestic American release on October 7.
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