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- Strange days: Fired by ancient zeal in Cornwall - Daily Telegraph
At the end of a long journey into Cornwall, crumpled into a corner of a train, I was longing to get out on the open moor. Standing around the midsummer bonfire at Madron, near Penzance Aside from the cattle-truck stylings of rail travel, the journey ...
- All's fair in this poetry – even the livestock potty (The Sacramento Bee)
The State Fair, we like to say, is a fair to remember. Poets and versifiers from around the area gave us dozens of ways to remember the fair in response to our invitation.
- Groovy boy and his version of reality - Guardian Unlimited
A man comes up to me in a bar and says, 'This is probably a bit of a crap thing to do, but I like your poems.' And we get talking, and it turns out he's Stephen Fretwell. And if you think you haven't heard his stuff you're probably wrong, because his ...
- Alice Fulton explores family-based fiction in new book (Cornell News Service)
For her first work of fiction, poet and Cornell professor of English Alice Fulton had to look no further for inspiration than her own Irish Catholic family and her hometown of Troy, N.Y.
- North Texas Events, October 3 (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
CARIBFEST 5 p.m. today, Sunwatcher Plaza, MSU. Annual cultural display of Caribbean heritage through food, music and dance. For information, call Yona Hunte at 642-8681.
- Transported by the art of Motion - Guardian Unlimited
Andrew Motion has made this personal selection of autobiographical and critical writing from an astonishing 2,000 pages of lectures, essays and reviews. Most recently in the news discussing the negative effects of a decade's Laureateship on his ...
- NORM: Lawsuits spring up in local club scene - Las Vegas Review - Journal
NORM: Lawsuits spring up in local club sceneLas Vegas Review - Journal, NV - 2 hours agoPoetry nightclub at the Forum Shops at Caesars has been joined by Wolfgang Puck's Chinois restaurant in alleging racial profiling by Caesars Palace and the ...
- Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by ... - Blogcritics.org
Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by ...Blogcritics.org, OH - 57 minutes agoHe questions aloud why James would sacrifice his brilliance and poetry that flow when he writes about Harlem and its people and its struggle to the mere ...
- Sally Paxson Davis, 68, the Academy of Vocal Arts chair - Trading Markets (press release)
Sally Paxson Davis, 68, the Academy of Vocal Arts chairTrading Markets (press release), CA - 12 minutes agoMrs. Davis enjoyed the symphony, museums, fiction and poetry. Though she had tremendous love for the Academy of Vocal Arts, her family came first, ...
- Classical review: Pfitzner: Von Deutscher Seele, Kringelborn/Stutzmann ... - Guardian Unlimited
When the Nazis presented their infamous exhibition of "degenerate music" in Dusseldorf in 1938, documenting all the composers who had been proscribed as well as the musicians who performed them, they also organised a parallel series of concerts in ...
- "Iran-Persia: The Gate of the Orient" in Spain - Payvand Iran News
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 ( Mehr News Agency ) -- The Iranian festival entitled "Iran-Persia, the Gate of the Orient" is underway in the Spanish city Vitoria. The event is held by the Vitoria municipality and cosponsored by Iran's cultural attaché office in ...
- 'Mad Men': Smart, subtle character study (San Francisco Chronicle)
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)Mad Men: Drama. 10 p.m. Sundays on AMC. In the first episode of the second season of "Mad Men," there's a great moment - in fact, many great moments - that immediately justify the runaway critical acclaim for this series while...
- 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 ...
- Tom Perrotta to headline first Portsmouth Literary Festival - Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH  This October, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project kicks off its 20th anniversary celebrations by bringing a three-day literary festival to Portsmouth as part of the New Hampshire Writers’ Trail. On Oct. 23, 24, and 25, the ...
- Nirvana at the Newberry Book Fair - Chicago Tribune
The best way to spend a summer day? Glad you asked: Let us suggest the 24th annual Newberry Book Fair, held within the blessedly air-conditioned confines of one of the most austerely beautiful buildings in Chicago, the Newberry Library at 60 W ...
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