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- The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory (PhysOrg)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- 'Shel Silverstein Uncensored!' - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times'Shel Silverstein Uncensored!'Los Angeles Times, CA - 48 minutes agoThough the late Shel Silverstein is best remembered as an author of wryly subversive children's poetry, his 40-year career spanned a dizzying array of ...
- Independence Day Special: Meaning of Vande Mataram - Webnewswire.com
Independence Day Special: Meaning of Vande MataramWebnewswire.com, India - 3 hours agoI am afraid if mostly the people know the meaning of such a beautiful poetry. I would like to mention here the meaning there of the poem. ...
- Calls for end to Saudi child marriages - Tehran Times
It was his wedding to a 10-year-old cousin. Muhammad al-Rashidi's marriage was eventually put on hold, his father said, after pressure from the governor of the northern province of Hail, who considered the elementary school student too young to marry ...
- Student news (The Herald-Mail)
HARRISONBURG, Va. - Sarah Beth Pryor of Greencastle, Pa., was named to the dean's list at James Madison University for the spring semester. Sarah is a freshman majoring in marketing and corporate communications.
- Landmark is 'pulsating with artistic life' (The Journal News)
NYACK - The Edward Hopper House Art Center is a living, breathing organism of the arts.
- Actress pursues parallel career as singer-songwriter - Chicago Sun-Times
Actress pursues parallel career as singer-songwriterChicago Sun-Times, United States - 4 hours agoThey're really great poetry." Pidgeon performs with Aimee Mann ("One of my heroes") on June 6 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, Calif., and hopes to take ...
- Osama Anwar Okasha - Egypt Today
Security concerns were reportedly at the heart of Fayoum University’s decision to refuse to allow writers Wahid Hamed and Osama Anwar Okasha to participate in its cultural week, which coincided with Fayoum Day. Sources claim Hamed was told ...
- Teaching ‘poetry slam’ (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Workshop will meld contemporary poetry with modern energy
- 'Food for Thought' theme draws record number of McEntyre submissions - Westmount Examiner
'Food for Thought' theme draws record number of McEntyre submissionsWestmount Examiner, Canada - 1 hour agoThis year a record number — 1225 Westmount students from kindergarten to grade 11 — entered the competition with original poetry, fiction and non-fiction. ...
- Translations from the underground - The Daily Yomiuri
Translations from the undergroundThe Daily Yomiuri, Japan - 3 hours ago"I devoted a lot of time to translating the poems in a proper and elegant way," he says. "So I'd like to publish just the poetry of 'Genji' in a special ...
- ‘Lagos is like a science fiction’ - The Punch
‘Lagos is like a science fiction’The Punch, Nigeria - 5 hours agoBy Akeem Lasisi Chicago-born African American writer, Jeffery Allen, used to believe that New York is the hottest spot for traffic notoriety. ...
- Writers share views on tolerance, creativity - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
What is the Turkish view of the Western world? Istanbul was once the capital of the East Roman Empire [under its former name of Constantinople] and I have the impression that Turkey was strongly influenced, both geographically and culturally, by the ...
- Name new school for AC Mascorro - Brownsville Herald
Name new school for AC MascorroBrownsville Herald, TX United States - 5 minutes ago... his life confined to a wheelchair after having his legs amputated; he was anything but confined as he continued teaching and writing songs and poetry. ...
- Lost Dylan poetry surfaces with '60s Hollywood photos - International Herald Tribune
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, said that this autumn the magazine would publish two of the poems and perhaps a photograph or two. Christopher Ricks, a professor of the humanities at Boston University and the author of "Dylan's Visions ...
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