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- Looking for clues to a pianist's afterlife - Boston Globe
Glenn Gould is everywhere. Literally. As I type this sentence, his posthumous presence is spilling over every inch of my desk. A cinderblock-size, 80-CD box set of recordings by the often revered, still-controversial Canadian pianist sits imposingly ...
- A pilgrim's progress - Haaretz.com
Ilana Blumberg must have felt a moment of bittersweet satisfaction when her autobiographical "Houses of Study" was shortlisted for the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature earlier this year. Bittersweet, because although the nomination ...
- US poet Gary Snyder wins US$100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - MSN UK News
Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the US$100,000 (euro64,000) Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago ...
- Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral Sea (Pitchfork)
The new album from Patti Smith (that's good!) is two discs long (that's bad), and it's a collaboration with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields (that's good!!) built around live performances of her 1996 book-length poem (that's ba...actually it turns out to be pretty good). read more
- Kelvis Ochoa, a modern-day minstrel - Granma International
Kelvis Ochoa, a modern-day minstrelGranma International, Cuba - 7 hours agoAnd Kelvis sums it all up: the minstrel world (with its fantasies of variety), the trova world (with its Santiago-inspired poetry), changui and son (with ...
- Every school every Thursday -- D.M. West (The Des Moines Register)
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- The Darkness Of This House Has Got The Best Of Us (Wiscasset Newspaper)
I'm thinking old Mike Ahmadinejad may not be such a bad guy.
- Kelso grad self-publishes memoir of rise from rock-bottom (The Daily News)
Publishing your own book has the whiff of ego about it. But when Royce Lawyer printed his humble, spiral-bound story, he put a photograph of himself on the cover, showing him when he weighed more than 500 pounds. Across the top of the photo is the title: “Stop and Look.”
- Our Daily Bleg: Wall Street Proverbs, Please - New York Times Blogs
Our Daily Bleg: Wall Street Proverbs, PleaseNew York Times Blogs, NY - 48 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Dropout Dilemma: Parkway Spends Big to Keep Kids Coming to School - KSDK
(KSDK) -- Parkway's Fern Ridge High School is a public school with a proven track record of reaching out to students "at risk" of quitting school. Shatara Parker is a graduating senior at Fern Ridge High School. She says a during-school poetry slam ...
- Listening to Global Voices - NHPR
listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf). Our main goal on Word of Mouth is to try to find the stories that you may not get to hear anywhere else – to capture and curate the bits of information that zip around the Internet every day ...
- Everyone has something to say - Austin Herald
Everyone has something to sayAustin Herald, MN - 1 hour agoI think my interest in poetry surfaced in sixth-grade in Miss Frost’s class when she asked that we illustrate a poem that included lines from the poet. ...
- Shelton students get chance to read, write their poetry - Shelton Weekly
Shelton students get chance to read, write their poetryShelton Weekly, CT - 38 minutes agoTopics covered America and immigration, social issues, life, love, friendship, and more. Senior Justin Mbaswa, 17, dedicated a poem to two Shelton High ...
- A tragedy is unfolding, but not at Westminster - Telegraph.co.uk
A tragedy is unfolding, but not at WestminsterTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 6 hours agoNever a fan of pulp fiction, he has been reading The Brothers, a study of Robert Kennedy's anguish, and the First World War poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and ...
- Bevan plaque for NHS anniversary - BBC UK News
The National Health Service began work on the 5th July 1948. This scene from the 1960s is featured in an exhibition around Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust hospitals A plaque to mark 60 years of the NHS is to be unveiled in Tredegar, the birthplace of the ...
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