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- What's on: Thursday October 16 - Scotsman
What's on: Thursday October 16Scotsman, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh, 11am, 2pm, £6 (£22 family), 0131-665 2240 New comedy writing - original short, funny theatre pieces from Scotland's hottest ...
- The Measure of the Country - Middle East Online
Barack Obama has won, in Walt Whitman’s words, the ‘powerfulest scene and show’ - and won it with several majorities - receiving a stunningly clear mandate for change, notes John Nichols . "If I should need to name, O Western World, your ...
- Local professor, radio personality to be honored at WSU (Dayton Daily News)
Conrad Balliet fell in love with poetry at an early age. He remembers his mother used to bounce him on her knee and recite verses to him in Pennsylvania Dutch.
- Performance pair can't stop kicking against convention (Toronto Star)
In a world that's prosaic, poetry is heretical by its very nature – and some poets are more anti-establishment than others. Toronto's Robert Priest and Calgary's Sheri-D Wilson are veteran performance poets who write against the grain of convention.
- Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - International Herald Tribune
Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter?International Herald Tribune, France - 6 hours agoI can only account for seven, but seven is plenty. One of the things I did was make him funny - by my warped sense, anyway. That made him more habitable."
- Imlah heads TS Eliot prize shortlist - The Bookseller (subscription)
The Bookseller (subscription)Imlah heads TS Eliot prize shortlistThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 19 hours agoPoet Mick Imlah, whose The Lost Leader (Faber) won the 2008 Forward Prize for Best Collection, has been shortlisted for the 2008 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry ...
- Poetry workshop: self-portraits - Guardian Unlimited
Self-Portrait, Drawn in Half-Profile to the Right, 1891-1892 by Kathe Kollwitz A portrait – in poetry or painting – will seek to capture a likeness, but a likeness alone (however accurate) is not enough. The best portraits seem possessed by their ...
- Leader offers condolences over demise of Saffarzadeh - Tehran Times
Leader offers condolences over demise of SaffarzadehTehran Times, Iran - 2 hours ago... and the creative poet and writer Dr. Tahereh Saffarzadeh, to her respected family, relatives, and the poetry and literature society of the country. ...
- Navarathri-the festival of nine nights - Ceylon Daily News
Ceylon Daily NewsNavarathri-the festival of nine nightsCeylon Daily News, Sri Lanka - 23 minutes agoShe presides over speech, poetry and the sixty four arts. Two of her hands play, the veena the pranava nadam. In the other two hands she holds the edu book ...
- It is time to move on - La Crosse Tribune
A rose by any other name smells as sweet. We are on the road to recovery. As a nation we are united. Please don’t let arguments start because someone says Indian rather than Native American, or black rather than African American. Study our history ...
- What's next? - Christian Science Monitor
What's next?Christian Science Monitor, MA - 20 hours agoBut many people just want to know what's coming next in their daily lives. While no individual human being – however intelligent, well educated, ...
- Matthew Risch new 'Pal Joey' on Broadway - Kalamazoo Gazette
NEW YORK -- In a time-honored show-biz tradition, the understudy is taking over for the injured Broadway star. Christian Hoff has withdrawn from the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of "Pal Joey" because of a foot injury and has been replaced by ...
- Events: Author, professor Juan Cole to discuss national security - Tampabay.com
Events: Author, professor Juan Cole to discuss national securityTampabay.com, FL - 13 hours agoThe interactive poetry venue invites poets, authors and musicians to participate. Donation is $5; the studio is at 620 First Ave. S, St. Petersburg. ...
- Composer John Adams, Reaching Critical Mass (Washington Post)
Opera can depict the end of the world: We've known that since Wagner's "Götterdämmerung." But the close of John Adams and Peter Sellars's "Doctor Atomic," rather than merely ending a world onstage, creates a space for the hypothetical destruction of the real one. This opera delineates a place of...
- Stereolab language - Metro Canada - Vancouver
Stereolab languageMetro Canada - Vancouver, Canada - 12 hours ago“It becomes this completely surreal poetry that’s (also) funny.†Stereolab employ a structured process to capture their ideas in songs  Chemical Chords is ...
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