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- Chopin: Genius or monster? (Independent)
Everyone knows Chopin, yet of all the great composers he's the least well-known. This is thanks partly to the myths that have accrued about him, and partly to the paradoxes in his music and character. The stock images are of the staunch Polish patriot, and of the hypersensitive aesthete coughing his heart out as he pens his romantic melodies. Yet in truth Chopin was a political ...
- Carl Haywood’s Innovative Take on Explorer David Thompson - Newwest.net
Canadian David Thompson is considered by some to be one of the shrewdest explorer-mapmakers to ever chart or trek a course. Following quickly on the heels of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Thompson is widely credited as being the first person to set ...
- Zidane to play in Sydney on June 1 (AAP via Yahoo!7 Sports)
Zinedine Zidane is coming to Australia with a star-studded international team to play an exhibition match at Sydney Football Stadium on June 1.
- Retired Maj. Gen. Delos Burks dies at 91 - Picayune Item
Retired Maj. Gen. Delos Burks dies at 91Picayune Item, MS - 4 hours agoThat patriotism enabled Megehee to submit a piece of poetry that will be inscribed on a plaque and displayed on the Gold Star Mother’s America monument. ...
- Come on Axl Rose and Guns N Roses, release Chinese Democracy album ... - HeavyMetalMusic.biz
Come on Axl Rose and Guns N Roses, release Chinese Democracy album ...HeavyMetalMusic.biz - 5 hours agoThe female artists were so convinced of the message that they traded pop for poetry. Top 40 radio let go of pop only to lean towards rock. ...
- Dann fires agent for misconduct - Columbus Dispatch
Dann fires agent for misconductColumbus Dispatch, OH - 1 hour agoHis firing came as Dann's office opened an investigation into allegations that Anthony Gutierrez, a friend of Dann's who headed the office's purchasing and ...
- Javed Akhtar mixes poetry with management (Calcutta News)
Though he was there to release a book on management, well-known Hindi film lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar gave in to the request of the audience and recited some of his poems here Sunday.
- Entries due May 17 for Oak Hill Poetry Contest (The Canton Daily Ledger)
LEWISTOWN -- Poetry entries are due by May 17 for the Oak Hill Poetry Contest, which is part of Edgar Lee Masters Day on June 7 in Lewistown.
- Poet spent early years in Kansas - Kansas.com
Poet spent early years in KansasKansas.com, KS - May 18, 2008In the 1950s, Hughes wrote about a fictional African-American comic character who dealt with everyday life, Jesse B. Semple, in "Simple" columns for the ...
- Barker on Books - Fort Morgan Times
Barker on BooksFort Morgan Times, CO - 1 hour ago“The Aeneid” is a kind of epic fantasy poem, very similar to “The Odyssey” by Homer, in which the protagonist, along with his family and friends, ...
- 5 questions with... Sina Queyras - Calgary Herald
5 questions with... Sina QueyrasCalgary Herald, Canada - 37 minutes agoI had just finished up a collection of poetry which is due out in the spring of 2009. So I was making the transition from poetry to prose. ...
- Link readers share their thoughts - TheReporter.com
Link readers share their thoughtsTheReporter.com, CA - 11 hours agoWriting poetry is a passion, a hope and a dream that seems to seize my thoughts. I scrabble words together into phrases, creating stories. ...
- Department policy may push out praised professor - Oklahoma Daily
A highly-touted English instructor may lose her teaching position next year because of an English department six-year up-or-out policy, despite the efforts of OU President David L. Boren to save her job. In a complex series of events, adjunct ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers (San Francisco Chronicle)
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of the next...
- Friends of the Harvard Public Library announce 2008 poetry award ... - Nashoba Publishing
Friends of the Harvard Public Library announce 2008 poetry award ...Nashoba Publishing, MA - 27 minutes agoHis love of poetry and the Harvard Public Library led him to initiate and present amateur and professional poetry programs in town. His love of children and ...
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