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- Veterans' words in poetry - Ashland Daily Tidings
Most people who filled the Angus Bowmer Theatre on Memorial Day to hear veterans recount their experiences were moved to tears. Veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam and their families used poetry and stories to help the audience understand what ...
- CRITICAL MASS: Henry Poole flows with lyricism - Arkansas Online (subscription)
CRITICAL MASS: Henry Poole flows with lyricismArkansas Online (subscription), AR - 21 hours agoPoetry is the purest form of writing; it is the sidelong glance that reveals, if not everything, at least something interesting and true. ...
- Memories collide with contemporary realities at Venice - Daily Star - Lebanon
Daily Star - LebanonMemories collide with contemporary realities at VeniceDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 3 hours ago"When I translated my dream it was about being displaced, unable to live up to your peasant life, your peasant family and at the same time reconcile [that] ...
- Bits and Pieces Brought Together: Ashbery and Naves (The New York Sun)
Collage is inextricably linked in historic consciousness with poetry, in no small part because of the intimacy of its artistic inventors with poets. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the inventors of the medium, were championed and inspired by poets such as Blaise Cendrars, Pierre Reverdy, and Guillaume Apollinaire, the last of whose verbal experiments invariably entailed play with typography — ...
- African writers to read from work - Princeton University
African writers to read from workPrinceton University, NJ - Sep 17, 2008... of a Fictional Nomadic Character)," is considered to be the finest living poet of the Afrikaans language. Nigerian-American author Iweala's first novel, ...
- 'Black Rider', Award-Winning Musical Play by Burroughs, Waits and Wilson, to Make Toronto Premiere (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The Black Rider, The Casting of the Magic Bullets, the folk tale-inspired avant-garde play with music by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs, seen in Europe, the U.S. and Canada, will make its Toronto premiere at Tarragon Theatre's Mainspace Oct. 8 toward an Oct. 15 opening.
- Lost Hendrix Guitar To Be Auctioned - Showbiz Spy
Lost Hendrix Guitar To Be AuctionedShowbiz Spy, UK - Jul 16, 2008... the last surviving drum kit belonging to late Led Zeppelin star John Bonham and Jim Morrison's final notebook of poetry written before his death in 1971.
- Letters: Oxbridge admissions (Independent)
David Blunkett, discussing Oxbridge admissions (report, 21 July) falls into the same trap as most commentators in assuming that the problem of a high proportion of independent-school admissions to Oxbridge lies with the universities themselves.
- Music Preview: The Last Poets still on a mission to open minds - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteMusic Preview: The Last Poets still on a mission to open mindsPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 17 minutes agoOyewole had a good friend, David Nelson, who came up with the concept to form a group that performed poetry at the Malcolm X birthday commemoration in Mount ...
- 'We need to take the Bible back from the bigots' - Independent
'We need to take the Bible back from the bigots'Independent, UK - 4 hours agoIn the guide, the Bible is explained as a collection of poetry, legal documents, eyewitness accounts and advice, written on papyrus and leather scrolls over ...
- The art of love: William Hogarth - Independent
The art of love: William HogarthIndependent, UK - 10 hours agoBut the scene has one of Hogarth's weird bits of visual poetry, the spots of light that the watch's lantern throws on the ceiling above it: an observation ...
- Hooked On Books: Saturday's the day for everybody - Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem JournalHooked On Books: Saturday's the day for everybodyWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 1 hour agoIt was one of the things that happened when I had my first child … it was really hard to write poetry. About the time I was really, really struggling, ...
- Gordon Brown's Heathcliff fixation and why we are web crash dummies - The Canberra Times
Gordon Brown's Heathcliff fixation and why we are web crash dummiesThe Canberra Times, Australia - 1 hour agoThe US Chronicle of Higher Education has commented on a curious amalgam of poetry and boxing in Japan. "In a crowded Yokohama hall, boxers file into a ring ...
- José Garcia Villa’s poetry now part of Penguin Classics - Inquirer.net
José Garcia Villa’s poetry now part of Penguin ClassicsInquirer.net, Philippines - 55 minutes agoStill, he yearned to be more, moving on to meditating on the very nature of writing as expressed by the Xocerisms such as: “The meaning of a poem is danced ...
- Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserve - Independent
Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserveIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoAs Anne Elliott cautions Captain Benwick in Jane Austen's Persuasion, "It [is] the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it ...
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