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- 'Up the Yangtze' director 'conflicted; about his project - Northwest Asian Weekly
Northwest Asian Weekly'Up the Yangtze' director 'conflicted; about his projectNorthwest Asian Weekly, WA - 3 hours agoYet it isn’t all visual poetry. Chang doesn’t shy away from jarring encounters on either ship or shore, including moments that seem painfully xenophobic. ...
- 'The Bell Jar' brings fresh insight for today (The Bismarck Tribune)
Title: "The Bell Jar" Author: Sylvia Plath Pages: 244 Available: Online and booksellers It was with some trepidation that I began reading "The Bell Jar," for a blurb on the cover warned me that it was "a heartbreaking story of a talented young woman who descends into madness."
- FLANAGAN: The joys of gluttony - Sun Chronicle
Did anyone else pause this week to remember Episode 9 of the first season (1955) of "You'll Never Get Rich" (better known as "The Phil Silvers Show" and even better as "Sgt. Bilko.")? That's the one where Fred Gwynne, later immortalized as TV's ...
- Finding the sacred in the mundane (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
My grandparents were not big readers. Their English was slightly accented but fluent -- they both left Poland in their early teens and came to America in the 1920s.
- Pop songs banned from funerals - BBC News
BBC NewsPop songs banned from funeralsBBC News, UK - 53 minutes agoLeaflets handed out on its behalf at Saint Mary's Church in Castleblayney on Sunday said pop music and poetry had no place in funeral ceremonies. ...
- Literary North Carolina - Rocky Mount Telegram
Literary North CarolinaRocky Mount Telegram, NC - 39 minutes agoOn the other side of the state, pick up Thomas Wolfe, and then go to the Wolfe house or read some Carl Sandburg poetry and go to Sandburg's house," said ...
- Beauty as a liability (Manila Standard Today)
On the second day of school, my daughter Sophia came home gushing at being elected muse of her third grade class. I was pleased to hear this and promptly congratulated her. Any mom would be happy to hear her daughter was adjudged prettiest.
- OutLoud Open Mike at the Beebe Estate features local writer Tom Sheehan (Melrose Free Press)
OutLoud at The Beebe Open Mike Coffee House will feature Thomas F. Sheehan on Wednesday, July 16. Sheehan is a local and internationally published poet and writer from Saugus; author of fiction (“Death for the Phantom Receiver”); nonfiction (“A Collection of Friends: Memoirs”) and poetry (“This Rare Earth and Other Flights”).
- THROUGH URBAN EYES - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphTHROUGH URBAN EYESCalcutta Telegraph, India - 4 hours agoThe quotations from the poetry of Amiya Chakrabarti, Samar Sen or Sankha Ghosh, while adding an imaginative dimension to the images, distracted a bit by ...
- Bodies of Water - Chicago Tribune
The buzz of an outboard motor sends pelicans skyward as Charlie Hopkins' skiff glides along the Ohio River to paddlefish nets placed beneath the murky surface. The snowy-white birds watch from a distance as Hopkins pulls aboard huge, ugly fish, their ...
- Dipping into gossip or Greeneland - The Age
Dipping into gossip or GreenelandThe Age, Australia - 12 minutes agoThe only poetry that has excited me anything like so much since has been the work of that revelation of a classicist, Ann Carson - in particular in her two ...
- Sales spike for next poet laureate (Erie Times-News)
NEW YORK -- Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet.
- New venue for GOVAC - Explorer News
Explorer NewsNew venue for GOVACExplorer News, AZ - 1 hour agoThe first event in the series is a performance by cowboy poet Bud Strom and country musician Jack Bishop. Strom says he encapsulates the cowboy way of life ...
- The world's oldest jokes revealed by university research - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukThe world's oldest jokes revealed by university researchTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoBy Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent They found the wry observation in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter ...
- David Edgar: This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent lives (Guardian Unlimited)
David Edgar: The glorification clause of the Terrorism Act has created a climate where artists and academics must watch their words
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