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- A 'reformer' who knows how to toe the party line - Independent
Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama addressing a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute awards gala in Washington earlier this week IT'S funny how the harder you look at something, the harder it can be to understand it. I can't ...
- Winners and sinners - The Phoenix
The PhoenixWinners and sinnersThe Phoenix, MA - 12 minutes agoSavage Detective lovers: ROBERTO BOLAÑO saw himself as a poet first, so grab his poetry collection, The Romantic Dogs (New Directions; November 28), ...
- Bringing literature to the stage - Log Cabin Democrat
Bringing literature to the stageLog Cabin Democrat, AR - 6 hours ago"To enhance musically is my specialty," she said, adding that her subspecialty is setting music to poetry. The composer said the selection of the opera's ...
- Peter Oresick's Warhol-O-Rama is a tour-de-force homage, in verse. (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Warhol-O-Rama By Peter Oresick Carnegie Mellon University Press, 102 pp., $16.95  Peter Oresick's Warhol-O-Rama is as much performance as poetry collection, and in the best way possible. The Pittsburgh-based poet's pop-epic suite of 53 verses -- just published on what would have bee... By Bill O'Driscoll.
- Dovetailed Corners - Budgeteer News
Dovetailed Corners" a reading of prose poetry by Jim Johnson and exhibition of photography by Marlene Wisuri. Marlene also incorporates images from glass plate negatives by her grandfather, Jesse C. Hendricks. They depict the struggle of Finnish ...
- The Unforeseen - Boston Globe
As frustrating as it is welcome, Laura Dunn's "The Unforeseen" is an appeal to our emotions on a subject that needs the coldest, hardest facts. The subject is land development - specifically, what 30 years of profit-bent private sector building has ...
- A drop of the art stuff in the lake district - News and Star
William Wordsworth’s love of Grasmere inspired some of the Romantic movement’s most memorable poetry. Wordsworth spent his happiest years there. Tourists today travel from across the globe to marvel at the fells and bask in its beauty.Steve is ...
- Poetry recitation contest launches fourth competition (Ironwood Daily Globe)
Poetry Out Loud offered for fourth year by Michigan Humanities Council
- Letter from Parliament - Paul Rowen MP - Rochdale Online
Letter from Parliament - Paul Rowen MPRochdale Online, UK - 14 hours agoIf you would like to get involved in the many activities including the parade itself, the poetry competition and the other activities then please contact ...
- Thousands expected at funeral for Palestinian poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Thousands of Palestinians were expected to attend the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle.
- Bumbershoot: Theater makes a fast break for its 10 minutes of fame (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Theater at Bumbershoot is dance with puppets, or a bump-and-grind grounded in literary theory and self-help. It's a high-tech slide show and fake poetry. When real playwrights and actors are involved, they have 10 minutes to make good.
- The Meaning of Karadzic - Huffingtonpost.com
With a dark character. Such poetry failed to win renown for the ambitious Karadzic. Psychiatry, too, disappointed. He turned to wild financial schemes; in the 1980s, he was convicted of embezzlement and fraud. Then politics and plotting, leading to ...
- Combat rock - Guardian Unlimited
A gleaming black-and-white Fender Stratocaster is an unusual item to find in a soldier's kit bag, but for Sergeant John Dobbins it is one of his most treasured possessions. This isn't just any shop-bought axe. Dobbins built his guitar from scratch ...
- 'Patti Smith: Dream of Life': Chronicle of Patti Smith's life worth ... - Chicago Tribune
Patti Smith recalls that she once found herself face-to-face with a Modigliani portrait, and the poet, artist and rock goddess couldn't help herself: She had to touch it, to "feel the texture." Smith herself, in the days of "Horses" and now ...
- Obama vows to renew America's promise (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
DENVER, Colorado (AFP) - Barack Obama savaged John McCain and "broken" Republican politics, vowing to restore America's promise in a tumultuous climax to the Democratic convention before an 84,000 strong crowd.
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