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- Professor's life takes unexpected turn toward literary, poetic world (Penn State Collegian)
This is the fourth story in a four-part series of profiles about published Penn State English professors.
- "The Wind in the Willows" at 100 - Salon
In his quiet extremis, by a kind of miraculous fictional alchemy, Grahame was able to take everything that had gone into his half-century of life, painful and pleasurable, comic and tragic, and turn it into gold. There are the four animals, each a ...
- CD: Best Loved Goodnight Tales (RainbowNetwork.com)
After a year of playing live and writing music, Northampton’s acclaimed seven-piece The All New Adventures Of Us, aka TANAOU, have now finished work on their full length debut, Best Loved Goodnight Tales . Far from the headquarters of Northampton, England, the landscapes and narratives are constructed deep in the Umeå snow, in the north of Sweden, with the northern lights glowing overhead and ...
- SF Library Hosts Reading of Jack Spicer’s Poetry (The Berkeley Daily Planet)
Forty-three years after the poet’s death in San Francisco, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, a handsome 496-page volume, easy to hold and to read, has been issued by Wesleyan University Press ($35), with Spicer’s poetry arranged in chronological order, including several of his “serial poems†previously unpublished.
- Iranians celebrate 'victory of light over darkness' in longest night ... - Hartford Courant
TEHRAN, Iran (AP)  Iranians recited poetry, shared stories and ate fruits and nuts Saturday during all-night celebrations of the longest night of the year, a tradition going back thousands of years to when Zoroastrianism was the predominant ...
- Rawi Hage wins best novel award from Quebec writers' group - CBC.ca
CBC.caRawi Hage wins best novel award from Quebec writers' groupCBC.ca, Canada - 37 minutes agoAM Klein Prize for Poetry: Peter Richardson, Sympathy for the Couriers. Translation Prize: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, for Big Bang, ...
- Expect spontaneous groove at Sunburned Hand of the Man show - MLive.com
Courtesy photo Expect plenty of improvisation when Sunburned Hand of the Man takes the stage Wednesday at the Crofoot in Pontiac. Musically speaking, anything goes at a Sunburned Hand of the Man show. Eschewing standard song structure, the Boston ...
- Librado Romero/The New York Times - New York Times
New York TimesLibrado Romero/The New York TimesNew York Times, United States - 2 hours ago... the way poetry is: one piece matched to one reader, a reader willing to be “lit with piercing glances into the life of things,†to quote Marianne Moore. ...
- Another triple whammy for Rawi Hage with second novel, Cockroach (The Globe and Mail)
Montreal author nominated for Governor-General's Literary Award for excellence in English-language fiction
- First person: 'I spend Christmas Day helping others' - Independent
First person: 'I spend Christmas Day helping others'Independent, UK - 12 hours agoOne man does a turn on his flute every year, and another recites poetry. At 3pm, we all watch the Queen's Speech, with a cup of tea and a mince pie, ...
- Final call for Tidal Echoes submissions - Capital City Weekly
Final call for Tidal Echoes submissionsCapital City Weekly, AK - 5 hours agoAs in past years, Tidal Echoes will feature poetry, prose and all forms of artwork ranging from photography and paintings to sculptures, pottery, carvings, ...
- The spiritual emerging from the poetry - The Daily Star
The Daily StarThe spiritual emerging from the poetryThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 59 minutes agoIt is said that great and lofty ideas can only be expressed in parables (Oslu).The epic poem Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi is a book of such parables. ...
- Tacoma Arts Commission funds 20 projects (Tacoma Daily Index)
The Tacoma Arts Commission today announced the award of $50,000 in 2009 Arts Project funding to 20 different Tacoma organizations in support of public outreach projects in the fields of music, dance, theater, poetry and the visual arts.
- Poem tells of hurt felt by residential school survivors - Wawatay News
Poem tells of hurt felt by residential school survivorsWawatay News, Canada - 18 hours agoHair once jet black betray strands of white. Lined with age the face mirrors a life gone astray. He waits, and waits, not knowing what it is he waits for. ...
- Leave Message for Dance Score. Beep. - New York Times
New York TimesLeave Message for Dance Score. Beep.New York Times, United States - 3 hours agoSuch adoration diminishes both the potential poetry of the music and the movement, which frequently finds its root in the weight of dropping arms and heels. ...
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