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- Bookworms like to be beside the seaside - Shields Gazette
Bookworms like to be beside the seasideShields Gazette, UK - 1 hour agoFrom 6.30pm, the venue will play host to a 'Poetry Slam', featuring some of the north east's best-known poets, including Kate Fox, of Radio 4's Saturday ...
- State Round Up - Michigan Outdoor News
THIS WEEK WE GET TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS to one of our young readers - Anna Schneider, of New London. Back in December, Anna won the Wisconsin Outdoor News Youth Writing Contest in the junior prose division. Anna's winning entry, along with the ...
- Reasons to believe in Bruce (The Florida Times-Union)
Through all the years, all the changes, Bruce Springsteen has still remained singularly Bruce.
- SF State professor documents the undocumented - Golden Gate [X]Press
SF State professor documents the undocumentedGolden Gate [X]Press, CA - 7 minutes agoby Kate Lemley, staff producer Peter Orner, a creative writing professor and fiction writer at SF State, read from his new novel, “Underground America: ...
- Complete List of Nominees for 2008 Emmys (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
The pedigreed HBO miniseries John Adams nabbed a leading 23 nominations this morning for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys, followed by 30 Rock with 17 nominations and Mad Men with 16.
- Michael Jackson goes into studio with Robert Burns (Guardian Unlimited)
David Gest claims to have collaborated with pop legend on album setting poems to music
- Luyolo Mkentane HERALD REPORTER - Herald South Africa
A GROUP of dedicated inmates from a maximum facility at St Albans Prison are set to fight the scourge of crime in Port Elizabeth even if behind bars. An awareness campaign, dubbed a “Friendly demonstration walk against crimeâ€Â, was staged in the ...
- Britain's Gordon Brown Fights for His Political Life - Time
If Britons harbor doubts about their politicians  and surveys suggest they trust them only fractionally more than they trust tabloid reporters  the annual conference of the governing Labour party may have reinforced their skepticism. For the ...
- Bundarra Pony Club celebrates 50 years - Inverell Times
Bundarra Pony Club celebrates 50 yearsInverell Times, Australia - Sep 29, 2008There will be a baked dinner at 7pm at a cost of $15 for adults and $10 for children. Bush poetry by Jim Brown and music by Max Turner and Glenys Webber ...
- Fall for ISU Museums - Nevada Journal
Intricate textile sculptures and contemporary paintings will dominate the four featured exhibits at Iowa State University Museums this fall semester. The main exhibit at the Brunnier Museum will focus on the work of Ames artist Priscilla Sage, a ...
- Writer finishes his masterpiece, a love story (Lincoln Journal Star)
Jeff Dodd wrote many things. He wrote love letters, more than 50. His wife keeps them in an airtight box. He wrote poetry. He proposed to her years ago during a picnic date at Holmes Lake, then recited Shakespeare’s 18th Sonnet, comparing her to a summer’s day. But better.
- Poets perform rapid-fire rhymes (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Buddy Wakefield is serious about the spoken word. So serious, in fact, that he once sold everything he owned and toured the country, living in his car for two years, to bring performance poetry to the masses. His Junkyard Ghost Revival, a spoken word theater experience, will make its way to the City Opera House Oct. 4.
- Musical rules were made to be broken at An die Musik event (Baltimore Sun)
Music history is filled with composers who methodically followed the rules - this chord can't follow that chord, this type of theme must be balanced by that type of theme, this structure must be built only that way.
- Fifty Years of Carry On by Richard Webber - Times Online
Times OnlineFifty Years of Carry On by Richard WebberTimes Online, UK - 26 minutes agoThe heartbreaking sight of Williams, in Carry on Nurse, called on to have a crush on a woman wearing a beat-poetry- fan beret. ...
- Mutual admiration radiates from the pages of 'White Heat' (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The French writer, Émile Zola, in an essay on Édouard Manet from 1868, ecstatically proclaimed that “beauty is now no longer absolute.†He was referring to the artist's then-radical painting, “Dejeuner sur l'Herbe,†and crowed that beauty had now become but a “preposterous universal standard,†untenable and unreliable.
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