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- the has-been - Slate
Someone's Better Off: With a deep recession looming and the government going bust, the widespread consensus is that the financial crisis strikes a bitter blow to the presidential candidates' grand policy ambitions. As Ted Widmer asked in the Outlook ...
- Event gives musicians, artists forum to respond to naysayers - Stockton Record
Event gives musicians, artists forum to respond to naysayersStockton Record, CA - 12 hours agoThere will be a live mural painted by Can Huynh, and the local poetry-slam group With Our Words will perform. The hip-hop comes courtesy of the Icarus Jones ...
- Platform for aspiring writers - Deccan Herald
Deccan HeraldPlatform for aspiring writersDeccan Herald, India - 5 hours agoChandini Santosh from Kerala, Devika Rajan and Anindita Sengupta from Bangalore won prizes for their poetry. Those who wish to enter the annual writing ...
- Madonna caps a year of change by turning 50 - Economic Times
Madonna caps a year of change by turning 50Economic Times, India - Jul 28, 2008Andriy, who takes an interest in philosophy and poetry, is happiest when out on the streets promoting his Ukrainian gypsy punk band with the hope of ...
- Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize (AP via Yahoo! News)
Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday.
- The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross - Guardian Unlimited
On April 30, 1945, the day of Hitler's suicide, "zero hour" in modern German history, the 103rd Infantry and Tenth Armored divisions of the U.S. Army took possession of the Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which the war had hardly touched ...
- 93 Year Old Publishes First Novel - Mass Media Distribution LLC (press release)
93 Year Old Publishes First NovelMass Media Distribution LLC (press release), FL - 1 hour agoLorna Page says: ``I started writing as soon as I could hold a pencil; fairy stories, poetry, short stories, and my novel, a who-done-it, which my American ...
- "Dust and Dreams" a Reality for Musical's Creators - WGIL Radio News
"Dust and Dreams" a Reality for Musical's CreatorsWGIL Radio News, IL - 4 hours ago... Sandburg poetry, then people wrote songs in response,' it's a tough thing to encapsulate," Hudson said. "But once people come in, they really love it. ...
- writee on! - The Ledger
that I thank God you're my mother each and every day. You have been here for me from the very start. Smothered me with love straight from your heart. Listened to my problems with silent ears Watched as I grew up throughout the years Taught me right ...
- A $1 Trillion Rescue Plan? - The Bulletin
A government rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would require taxpayers to pay "way'' more than the $25 billion estimated by the Congressional Budget Office, potentially as much as $1 trillion, Sen. Jim Bunning said. Treasury Secretary Henry ...
- BIPARTISAN BULL - New York Post
CONTRARY to nearly all received wisdom in DC, not to mention the rhetoric of the presumptive nominees of both major parties, the scariest moments in US politics are often its most bipartisan. Some would say this was demonstrated in the wake of 9/11 ...
- Letter: Solzhenitsyn leaves great legacy behind (Appeal-Democrat)
The passing of a great writer and the creative thinker in Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918, through Aug. 3, 2008) gives opportunity to appreciate and try to put in perspective his contributions. Solzhenitsyn was a personal hero in our family.
- Latitude 2008: DiS's festival picks - Drowned In Sound
Drowned In SoundLatitude 2008: DiS's festival picksDrowned In Sound, UK - 1 hour agoToday, he stitches his delicately crafted songs together with threads of poetry, whilst members of his band, The Sussex Wit, grant both sparse accompaniment ...
- Book reviews: '187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border' and 'Half of the World in Light' (International Herald Tribune)
Most of Juan Felipe Herrera's many books evoke at once the hardships that Mexican-Americans have undergone and the exhilarating space for self-reinvention that a New World art offers.
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors? (Independent)
There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an oversized book called Love Letters of Great Men, and entertains Mr Big with flowery passages from Byron and Bonaparte. It's a scene that had SATC fans rushing out to bookshops, only to discover that while the letters quoted were real, the book was never more than a Hollywood prop.
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