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- The icons that have defined a nation - The Herald
The icons that have defined a nationThe Herald, UK - 1 hour ago... emigration, daily life and the voice of the people. Poetry, audio-visual displays and the personal stories of 29 Scots, including singer Amy Macdonald's ...
- (#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net) - ScienceBlogs
(#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net)ScienceBlogs - 2 hours agoStay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest. The introductory schtick to my talk at the Seattle Skeptics ...
- The Revolution Continues: New Art from China - New Republic (subscription)
The Revolution Continues: New Art from ChinaNew Republic (subscription), DC - 35 minutes agoHis artistic talent, calligraphy, poetry, military strategies, philosophy, essays, and revolution[ary] movements deeply influenced my generation, ...
- Atwood nets prestigious Spanish literary prize (CBC)
Spain has named writer Margaret Atwood winner of one of the country's most distinguished arts prizes, sometimes likened to the European country's version of the Nobel Prize.
- Dance review: A turn in the spotlight (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Who knew that Abdo Sayegh is still a virtuosic dancer of tremendous grace, kinetic articulation and emotional complexity? In Minnesota Dance Theater, he's largely sidelined when he's not encased in the "Nutcracker" costume and choreography.
- Libraries hope reading bug spreads - High Point Enterprise
Libraries hope reading bug spreadsHigh Point Enterprise, NC - 8 hours ago... guest speakers this summer will discuss topics ranging from garden poetry to landscaping tips. The reading programs are free to sign up for throughout ...
- Maya Angelou captivates Cleveland audience - Cleveland Plain Dealer
In an age besotted with vacuous adolescent celebrity, 80-year-old Maya Angelou held a packed audience rapt at the Allen Theater in downtown Cleveland Monday night with nothing more than her voice. Frail knees kept her off her feet for much of her 75 ...
- Going from mud to verse at Glastonbury - Whitehaven News and Star
MUD, sun, queues and sheer brilliance; Glastonbury 2008. I’d always wanted to experience the Mother of all Festivals, in the past I’d looked on enviously when university friends had flashed their “Golden Tickets†after spending what seemed ...
- Cameroon: Bate Besong And the Apparent Death of Critical Thought At the University (AllAfrica.com)
Indeed, these are trying times. But what are the men and women in our university and intellectual circles doing to conscientize, energize, create awareness, proffer solutions and chart a course of action? The answer is not far-fetched.
- League to honor 3 for preserving internees' tales - Honolulu Advertiser
League to honor 3 for preserving internees' talesHonolulu Advertiser, HI - 4 hours ago... War II Hawai'i Internees' Experiences Resource Folder," a binder filled with historical documents, personal poetry and letters from the internees. ...
- The art of Al Purdy - Ottawa Citizen
The art of Al PurdyOttawa Citizen, Canada - 37 minutes agoHis poem At the Quinte Hotel showed readers the beauty in a bar fight and left them feeling sad, not from the violence, but because poetry won't buy "beers ...
- King, Mitchell, Simon: A musical journey - International Herald Tribune
Sheila Weller, in her book "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation," which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: "It was the first line of the chorus ...
- In Brief - Forward
In BriefForward, NY - 1 hour ago... certainly not for poetry, or when counted per verbum. When Representative William Scherle (Republican, Iowa) read the poem — it was, apparently, ...
- Poetry Festival in Parma - Adnkronos/IGN
Adnkronos/IGNPoetry Festival in ParmaAdnkronos/IGN, Italy - 13 hours agoParma – The city of Parma is again preparing for its appointment with Italian literature and poetry and the 4th edition of the “ParmaPoesia Festival†is ...
- We Have So Few - Kommersant
Academician Petr Kapitsa (above) waited 40 years for his well-deserved honor. He received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics for work published in 1938. The Nobel Committee responded quickly to Nikolai Basov (below) and Aleksandr Prokhorov’s discovery ...
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