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- New DVDs: Early British Cinema (New York Times)
Two recently issued collections offer strong evidence of life before the work of David Lean and Carol Reed in the British film scene.
- Pioneering Social Network for Authors Re-launched - PR Web (press release)
Pioneering Social Network for Authors Re-launchedPR Web (press release), WA - 34 minutes agoThe website aims to connect writers and readers and allows them to share and comment on each others literary and poetry works. ...
- Get to Hilton's five-star festival - Tonight South Africa
Firstly there's that long, expensive trek to get there and then it's usually freezing … As wonderful as the Grahamstown Festival is, it is beyond the pocket of many, hence the Witness Hilton Arts Festival, a short trip up the N2 and held on the ...
- Political activist Buchanan dies at 62 - Statesman Journal
Political activist Buchanan dies at 62Statesman Journal, OR - 14 hours agoAs a small boy, he could recite poetry from memory. In high school, college and community-theater productions, he played leading roles in plays including ...
- Why not ban Shakespeare then? Poet strikes back after knife verse was dropped from GCSE (Daily Mail: World News)
Her poem was dropped from the GCSE syllabus because it describes the thoughts of someone with a knife who plans to kill - but now Carol Ann Duffy has struck back against the ban with a new poem.
- Harvest of fall films promises quality stories, stellar casts - MLive.com
Star power: Brad Pitt appears in the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading." Summer blockbusters? Totally overrated. Well, usually. This summer was different, considering it produced two of the year's best films, "WALL-E" and "The Dark Knight." But ...
- Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
By MARK KENNEDY Associated Press Writer NEW YORK | It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the ``Today'' show and soon faces a second round with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. Crowding around are fashionably dressed ...
- Riverfront park with a view and poetry, too - Calgary Herald
EDMONTON - Walking through the city's river valley is about to get more poetic. Forty poems mounted on 40 light poles will be unveiled on Friday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Louise McKinney Riverfront Park, located south of the Shaw Conference Centre ...
- Latitude Festival, Southwold, Suffolk - The Independent
In its three-year lifespan, Latitude has gone from being a boutique event and a reasonably well-kept secret to a major date on the festival calendar. With its "more than just a music festival" motto – it also hosts theatre, comedy, poetry and film ...
- The Poetics Of Professional Tweeting (WebProNews)
Let’s assume we’re on the same page that says Twitter is good for something. Now let’s romanticize it and equate to a modern limerick; let’s make it vulgar and call it Limerick 2.0. (The number of characters bars it from Haiku status—keep all that meaning under 30 characters and that’s serious art.) What should your little poem—the professional tweeter’s poem—say to the world? read more ...
- Brock's Centre for the Arts bringing top talent to Niagara students (St. Catharines Standard)
Gypsies, a Runaway Bunny and the dangers of crystal meth are some of the professional presentations being offered to Niagara students through Brock University's Centre [...]
- Deals: Laird to Viking - Publishers Weekly
Deals: Laird to VikingPublishers Weekly, NY - 1 hour agoLaird’s acclaimed first novel, Utterly Monkey, was published by Harper Perennial as a paperback original in 2006, and his first collection of poetry, ...
- Three years later, poems are still putting the impact of Hurricane ... - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Poetry lends itself to all occasions, happy and sad, everyday and rare. It offers a multitude of forms -- the exquisite slenderness of a haiku, the sprawling pages of an epic, the rigor of a sonnet, the bouncing rhyme, the grace of free verse -- but ...
- Manifesto - Washington City Paper
Washington City PaperManifestoWashington City Paper, DC - 3 hours agoOh, and did I mention that MANIFESTO! is funny? Sure, Judd Apatow flicks are funny, reruns of Seinfeld are funny, this Onion video is funny, but MANIFESTO! ...
- Young writers inspired by island culture - Virgin Islands Daily News
ST. JOHN - Tales of mocko jumbies, speaking trees and reflections on freedom take center stage in "Words Dancing in the Wind," a 60-page kallaloo of poetry and prose produced by 13 students after three weeks in the Virgin Islands Young Writers Camp.
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