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- A high-speed read (Guardian Unlimited)
Liberties can be taken, and sometimes have to be. One of the liberties that poetry takes, and that prose can't, is temporarily to break up or interrupt a sentence with a line ending.
- Out In History (RainbowNetwork.com)
If you need some inspiration for LGBT History Month, then look no further than Thom Nickels who has just published Out in History , a lovely collection of essays and mini-biographies of prominent gay people from the past.
- Cambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse song - Reuters
LONDON, May 28 (Reuters Life!) - They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time. Final year English students were asked to compare a ...
- CCI charter school takes on big challenge (Rocky Mountain News)
Some of the families who've flocked to one of the last mostly black schools in Denver returned to Challenges, Choices & Images charter school Monday night for a town hall meeting that felt at times like a Sunday church service.
- Community center opens ‘Nerve Center’ Saturday (The Daily Mail)
CATSKILL — The long-awaited “nerve center” concept at the Catskill Community Center will cut the ribbon and open it’s doors this weekend, featuring a smorgasbord of new and interesting activities.
- Honorable mention - Foster's Daily Democrat
Honorable mentionFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - 5 hours agoWalker was the first African American woman millionaire in the United States, an entrepreneur who started a successful woman's personal care products ...
- Women Writers Event Features Joyce Carol Oates - UK News
UK NewsWomen Writers Event Features Joyce Carol OatesUK News, KY - 45 minutes agoOver the next 45 years, Oates produced more than 700 short stories, numerous novels and volumes of essays, poetry and plays, and even a few children's books ...
- Pens and Lens - resident’s photos published - Leduc Representative
Pens and Lens - resident’s photos publishedLeduc Representative, Canada - 46 minutes agoBelcourt took up photography as a hobby and last year when Fay told him he was writing a book with Haiku poetry, Belcourt decided to send his friend some of ...
- Local wordsmith heads off to Vegas for poet of the year competition - The Herald Eastern Cape
Local wordsmith heads off to Vegas for poet of the year competitionThe Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 1 hour agoHe started writing poems in the mid-80s. “My poems are influenced by what is happening in society and the message I want to put across,” he said. ...
- YouTube shows Couric’s fun side (The Fayetteville Observer)
NEW YORK — Every weekday evening, Katie Couric is the picture of sobriety on the “CBS Evening News”: buttoned-down and earnest.
- Desperadoes Steelpan Great Frank "Crawl" Findley Passes - PanOnTheNet.com
PanOnTheNet.comDesperadoes Steelpan Great Frank "Crawl" Findley PassesPanOnTheNet.com, NY - 6 hours agoTrinidad - Frank "Crawl" Findley was pure poetry in motion. His effortless movements hid even the most difficult passages from the uninitiated eyes. ...
- Art Melt makes final call for entries - Tiger Weekly
Art Melt makes final call for entriesTiger Weekly, LA - 15 hours agoLocated behind The Broadmoor Theatre, Insomneeacks is one of the premiere locales in the city for poetry readings that you won’t mind sitting through. ...
- Mid-summer fair - Emporia Gazette
Mid-summer fairEmporia Gazette, KS - 1 hour ago“Where the Sidewalk Ends,” directed by Nancy Boyce, will feature the children reading and acting out selected works from Shel Silverstein’s 1974 poetry ...
- Author's book a masterpiece – just ask him - Charlotte Observer
Author's book a masterpiece – just ask himCharlotte Observer, NC - 55 minutes agoLike at 4 pm Saturday, July 12, when I'll be at the office of Main Street Rag, signing copies of my book, “The Best of the World's Worst Poetry – 20 Very ...
- Verses by a Scot dubbed the world's worst poet sell for £6K - Mirror.co.uk
Verses by a Scot dubbed the world's worst poet sell for £6KMirror.co.uk, UK - May 17, 2008William McGonagall had food thrown at him during public readings and was mocked for his awful verse including a poem about the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster. ...
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