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- Harper as artist - Globe and Mail
Harper as artistGlobe and Mail, Canada - 5 hours agoToronto -- I was touched to learn the Prime Minister had tried his hand at poetry, the sort of art that nobody wants, but alarmed to learn that he ever ...
- Messages from the conflict zone - Guardian Unlimited
The arrest of Radovan Karadżic has refocused attention on the under-acknowledged part played by poetry in the Bosnian war. In an opinion piece for the London Review of Books, Slavoj Žižek placed the blame squarely on Karadzic's trollish verse for ...
- Post-war hardship led to humour, imagination and innovation - Irish Independent
Post-war hardship led to humour, imagination and innovationIrish Independent, Ireland - 6 hours agoNevertheless, he was a fine teacher, even if he seemed to believe that English poetry ended with Matthew Arnold. He hadn't much time for those writers he ...
- The Rush to Save Timbuktu's Crumbling Manuscripts - Spiegel Online
Spiegel OnlineThe Rush to Save Timbuktu's Crumbling ManuscriptsSpiegel Online, Germany - 4 hours agoThe Ahmed Baba Library alone contains more than 20000 manuscripts, including works on herbal medicine and mathematics, yellowed volumes of poetry, ...
- BooksofSoul.com Launches Website for Authors and Readers of ... - PR.com (press release)
BooksofSoul.com Launches Website for Authors and Readers of ...PR.com (press release), NY - 16 hours ago“We want to provide a free service to authors and poets to showcase their interest in African American culture and African peoples and issues. ...
- Word’s out on heat winners - Central Western Daily
TALENTED poets were discovered at the Australian Poetry Slam regional heat at Orange City Library on Thursday, with rap, poetry and rhymes about love, life and nature. Twelve entrants battled it out in the war of words, expressing their thoughts for ...
- Making opera from the words of Emily Dickinson (San Jose Mercury News)
When her mother gave her a book of Dickinson's work as a birthday present, Dill was so overcome by the imagery that the words seared into her mind. Dickinson's poetry has served as her muse ever since, surfacing again and again in her innovative, text-infused multimedia projects encompassing sculpture, painting, photography, performance art, and now opera.
- Author earns 5th Colorado Book Award (Denver Post)
Boulder author Margaret Coel is going to have to make yet more room on her mantle. For the fifth time, one of Coel's books has won a Colorado Book Award for fiction.
- Joan Aragone: Play games to improve your brain (San Mateo County Times)
As we age, our brains function less efficiently than they did when we were younger.That isn't news to anybody over 50 who knows the experience of forgetting a name immediately on introduction or grasping for words to describe a common object.
- Who tends this? - Maitland Mercury
Who tends this?Maitland Mercury, Australia - 8 hours agoHer artwork was exceptional and she wrote some beautiful poetry. We will miss her so much," they told the Mercury the day after the crash. ...
- Parties, contests scheduled for release of Stephenie Meyer's 'Breaking ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer. When you're dying to know if Bella will choose Edward or Jacob, there's only one cure -- get a fake tattoo, paint your fingernails black and eat a red velvet cupcake. Oh, and party until 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Aug ...
- Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (12:33 p.m.) A convicted sex offender has admitted he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck.
- Musical rules were made to be broken at An die Musik event (Baltimore Sun)
Music history is filled with composers who methodically followed the rules - this chord can't follow that chord, this type of theme must be balanced by that type of theme, this structure must be built only that way.
- 'On the Road' to the first Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest (California Aggie)
On the road to hosting the sixth annual Davis Jazz Artists Festival, the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts will be looking for the next generation of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsbergs and Jack Kerouacs.
- Stratford's 2009 Phèdre Is a Co-Pro With A.C.T.; McKenna Will Star - Playbill
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced Aug. 21 that Jean Racine's play Phèdre will be one of its productions for the 2009-10 season in a first-time co-production with Canada's world-renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival. In recent days ...
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