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- Here's some help reading the terrain at US Open - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here's some help reading the terrain at US OpenSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 10 hours agoIt leaves poetry to the Masters, pomp to the British Open and polish to the PGA Championship. The US Open, first played in 1895 at Newport Country Club, ...
- Triumphant magical tour rocks town - Hertfordshire Mercury
Triumphant magical tour rocks townHertfordshire Mercury, UK - 4 hours agoBy Sara Black Hertford's music festival continued to pull the crowds with a magical mystery tour around the town and the first-ever singing weekend hosted ...
- Money Can't Buy Culture - Newsweek
Money Can't Buy CultureNewsweek - 11 hours agoThe recent founding of liberal-arts oriented American University of Sharjah (affiliated with American University in Washington, DC) bodes well for these ...
- Restored 'Once Upon a Time in the West' at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater - Los Angeles Times
Restored 'Once Upon a Time in the West' at the Samuel Goldwyn TheaterLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours ago"Once Upon a Time's" unique opening -- a 10-minute sequence in which three men wait for a train -- has sparse dialogue and little action but is sheer poetry ...
- Clarion University celebrates Juneteenth - Clarion University News
Clarion University celebrates JuneteenthClarion University News, United States - 6 hours agoMusic, poetry, and a drill demonstration by the Buffalo Soldiers of VisionQuest under the command of Lt. Col. Charles Moss were also part of the program. ...
- Flying forward - Southtown Star
Flying forwardSouthtown Star, IL - 1 hour agoHer poetry ranges from open prose to sonnets, and Johnson often will use metaphors to illustrate her life. "When I was transitioning into high school, ...
- Lonely life as commoner for Nepal's former king (AFP via Yahoo! News)
With few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life of Nepal's ousted king as a commoner is by all accounts a lonely, meditative one.
- Joseph Lodge Superior Court Judge (Santa Barbara Independent)
Joe Lodge was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1932. His father was a businessman, his mother a piano teacher. There were no lawyers in his family, but he decided as a teenager that he wanted to become one. His father wanted him to go into the family business, while his mother supported him in his desire to go away to college. His mother prevailed.
- Students tested on Winehouse lyrics (Moldova.org)
Students taking the Practical Criticism class at Cambridge University in England compared Amy Winehouse's lyrics to Sir Walter Raleigh's poetry for an exam. The Daily Telegraph said the third-year students were also asked to compare Raleigh's work with songs by Bob Dylan and Billie Holiday.One student who didn't want to be named until his final examination paper had been graded, said: It was ...
- Bringing beauty to all through surprisingly unrefined language (The Japan Times)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the one most translated into other languages. Yet, until now, no one has gathered into one volume, translated into English, the complete works. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the... Read the full story.
- Memoirist, Poets Speaking at EWU - RedOrbit
Memoirist, Poets Speaking at EWURedOrbit, TX - 32 minutes agoEspada ("The Republic of Poetry"), a Brooklyn-born English professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has won a number of national prizes, ...
- SLV high school poets win ASC creative writing scholarships - Alamosa Valley Courier
Casey Diss, Brettli Decker, and Brittany Brown received scholarships to Adams State College after winning the English Department’s creative writing contest. ALAMOSA — On April 24, a poetry reading in the Adams State College Luther Bean Museum ...
- Condemnation is undemocratic - La Crosse Tribune
My teen son Anthony has a bicycle repair business with bikes and parts all over my garage, porch, yard and even in my dining room. Let’s suppose Fred buys the house next door and wants to put up a basketball court. Fred decides that his teammates ...
- H SELF-HELP - Cherokee Sentinel
H SELF-HELPCherokee Sentinel, NC - 1 hour agoNorth Carolina Writers' Network meets the first Thursday each month at TCCC in the Board room for reading and critiquing of each other's poetry writing. ...
- Rain-soaked patrol for Nazis (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Richard Bausch is one of our country's best short-story writers, and his fine new novel, Peace, has the taut, spare power of the shorter form.
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