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- Charles Osgood - Dallas Observer
From Hillary's recent self-deprecating sniper-fire jokes to McCain's farcical announcement on The Daily Show that The Office 's Dwight Schrute would be his running mate to Obama's, um, dancing on Ellen , presidential candidates are aware of the ...
- This week a calendar for the bibliophile - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Features include readings from the book by John Biguenet, Chris Champagne, Greg Herren and James Nolan, as well as a trivia contest, dramatic interpretations, and specialty drinks.
- Chinese school of rock? Somebody tell Jack Black - Calgary Sun
That sounds like a job for Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, directors of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, the film that took the metal world by storm in 2005. Now, Dunn and McFadyen follow up with Global Metal, an engrossing documentary about the influence ...
- BA English: A major to be proud of - UND The Dakota Student
BA English: A major to be proud ofUND The Dakota Student, ND - 13 hours agoSome may even go as far as to say that the only contribution to society an English major or minor is making is their ability to recite fancy poetry written ...
- Field Guide To Poets - Cleveland Free Times
Field Guide To PoetsCleveland Free Times, OH - 58 minutes ago... Ohio native Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and Ohio Writer was launched by Mary and Susan Grimm. The meat of the book consists of essays ...
- Owen Skye's epistolary triumph (Toronto Star)
I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of the whole "isn't it cute this fictional child can't spell" approach to children's books. But when it comes to Alan Cumyn's Owen Skye stories, I'm willing to hang in there.
- Senior Center plans cookout at bank bistro - Daily Hampshire Gazette (subscription)
Senior Center plans cookout at bank bistroDaily Hampshire Gazette (subscription), MA - 3 hours agoLUNCH WITH THE LAUREATE: Area residents are invited to attend a poetry reading by Northampton Poet Laureate Leslea Newman today from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at ...
- Cast rich in talent enhances musicality of classic - ic Wales
ic WalesCast rich in talent enhances musicality of classicic Wales, United Kingdom - 48 minutes agoBy combining humour and poetry with elements drawn from different artistic disciplines it has really wide appeal. Director Malcolm Taylor should be known as ...
- A Devil Of A Show - SX
A Devil Of A ShowSX, Australia - 26 minutes agoTim Burton, David Lynch, Edward Gorey and the Brothers Grimm are the influences cited in a show that began with the performance poetry of writer/director ...
- The books have won - News & Observer
News & ObserverThe books have wonNews & Observer, NC - 10 minutes agoI bought fiction and poetry. And how-to books from the practical to the psychological, the religious, histories, mysteries, cookbooks, garden books, ...
- Book Review - Jason Schindler's The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry that Inspires Them (Blogcritics.org)
This book will help us understand poetry's fundamental vitality and its capacity for inspiration. Paul Guilfoyle not only reads poetry, but writes about it with compassion and imagination. His commentary on the Irish-drenched Seamus Heaney's Casualty is near poetry itself: "This poem reminds me of when I was a little boy in the 1950s. It was different. Starting as a child I remember there was ...
- Amy Varner enjoys time with family (Keokuk Daily Gate City)
Amy Varner is the office manager for the Keokuk Area Chamber of Commerce, Main Street Keokuk, Inc. and Keokuk Area Convention and Tourism Bureau. “I am originally from Columbia, Mo., but moved to Hannibal, Mo., to attend Hannibal-LaGrange College,†she said.
- Other People's Daughters, by Ruth Brandon - Independent
Other People's Daughters, by Ruth BrandonIndependent, UK - May 6, 2008Most wrote a flawless, vivid prose rarely attained by educational experts now, yet Brandon keeps lamenting their exclusion from learning. ...
- Quartet, guests offer intense reading in Auer - The Herald-Times (subscription)
Quartet, guests offer intense reading in AuerThe Herald-Times (subscription), IN - 4 hours agoTo these, the composer added a zealous devotion for Dehmel’s poetry. What resulted was a one-of-a-kind symphonic poem bewitchingly designed and acutely ...
- Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other' - San Francisco Chronicle
Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoBoth poetry and nature "are occasions for introspection, but not necessarily for happiness," Guterson's narrator observes. Like the author, Neil is deeply ...
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