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- Roger Rees on Shakespeare in one-man show - San Francisco Gate
"That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am," Roger Rees says, perhaps only half in earnest. "I was 36 when I played Nicholas Nickleby," he continues, referring to his breakthrough, Olivier and Tony award ...
- JCC Preps for Annual Used Book Sale - jewishinstlouis.org
JCC Preps for Annual Used Book Salejewishinstlouis.org, MO - Jul 28, 2008The 42nd annual Used Book Sale will open Sunday, August 10 and will run through Sunday, August 17 in the air conditioned comfort of the Ida Pasterak ...
- Writer and artist returns to Koolunga - Clare Northern Argus
Writer and artist returns to KoolungaClare Northern Argus, Australia - 7 hours agoThis year she was invited to attend the Australian Poetry Festival in Castlemain, Victoria, Wordstorm in Darwin and the Queensland Poetry Festival in August ...
- It's Not Just YourSpace - RedOrbit
It's Not Just YourSpaceRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoA Colorado English teacher lost her job because of sexually explicit poetry on her MySpace site. -- And a Nashville teacher was removed from teaching after ...
- 'Hyakunin' translations capture commission prize (The Japan Times)
In the same way that few British people have read all of Shakespeare's sonnets but many can quote at least a few lines of the lyric tradition, any adult who has gone through the Japanese school system is familiar with the Ogura "Hyakunin Isshu." This collection of 100 waka — a classic poetic form written in lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables — has been translated into English before. The first ...
- Arts/mp3s - UI The Daily Iowan (subscription)
Arts/mp3sUI The Daily Iowan (subscription), IA - May 14, 2008(0) comments by Jarrett Hothan - The Daily Iowan Finals got you down?/ Turn that frown upside down/If you are looking for a midweek thrill/Go to the poetry ...
- It's Friday, and the BudBlog belongs to you (and to the poets in ... - The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com
It's Friday, and the BudBlog belongs to you (and to the poets in ...The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com, NY - 4 hours agoAnd it just might have saved the American League's face. As opposed to making empty preseason promises, Syracuse University football coach Greg Robinson ...
- Kate Clanchy's workshop - guardian.co.uk
Kate Clanchy's workshopguardian.co.uk, UK - 21 minutes ago... poetry prize (best poetry collection of the year) and won a Scottish Arts Council book award. Her latest collection is Newborn, a collection of poems ...
- Just Plain Neighbors: Wendell Center World War II memorial gets ... - Recorder
There's a new look on the wide common in Wendell Center. It all happened on Memorial Day this year. According to Anna-Jean Marsh, there are four monuments in a semi-circle -- two for World War I and World War II veterans -- that were moved from a ...
- Angelou, local women honored (The Charlotte Observer)
Renowned poet Maya Angelou urged a Charlotte audience Saturday to “be ashamed if we die before we can do some great favor for humanity.†Angelou, who recently turned 80, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth annual Maya Angelou Women Who Lead luncheon at the Westin Charlotte hotel. The event, which drew 700 men and women, raises money for the United Negro College Fund. It ...
- 'Bachelorette' from Georgia and fiance from Amherst set May 2009 ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
ABC "I never stopped believing in love and relationships," DeAnna Pappas, 26, said after accepting a proposal from professional snowboarder Jesse Csincsak on the finale of "The Bachelorette." The couple assured the media they are really in love ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (The Charlotte Observer)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways - and the redemptive power of poetry. ...
- Reporter's Notebook - Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Reporter's NotebookLancaster Eagle Gazette, OH - 27 minutes agoBy BRIAN SLODYSKO • The Eagle-Gazette Staff • July 23, 2008 But in this case, Eagle-Gazettecorespondent Jack Blankenship, was instructing children in poetry ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet, is dead - International Herald Tribune
RAMALLAH, West Bank : Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The preeminent Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more than 20 ...
- DeLauné Michel finds story of her own - Norwalk Hour
"I always knew I would write, partly because I grew up around writing. It's something I've always known about myself," said DeLauné Michel, author of "The Aftermath of Dream-ing" and "The Safety of Secrets." With her family, it seemed inevitable ...
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