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- American Life in Poetry: Night Dive - Morris Sun Tribune
American Life in Poetry: Night DiveMorris Sun Tribune, MN - 1 hour agoBy Ted Kooser I've lived all my life on the plains, where no body of water is more than a few feet deep, and even at that shallow depth I'm afraid of it. ...
- • Thomas Disch; Sci-Fi Writer Was Part of 'New Wave' - Washington Post
Washington Post• Thomas Disch; Sci-Fi Writer Was Part of 'New Wave'Washington Post, United States - 41 minutes agoLast year, he published a book of poetry, "About the Size of It," which included many poems about being overweight. "He was writing for the first time in ...Thomas M Disch Telegraph.co.ukThomas M. Disch, 68; prolific science-fiction author Los Angeles TimesThomas M. Disch | 1940-2008 Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide Columbus DispatchEntertainment Weekly - San Francisco Chronicleall 438 news articles
- Gulzar's translated poetry released - Screen Weekly
NDTV.comGulzar's translated poetry releasedScreen Weekly, India - 4 hours agoLaunched on Tuesday evening at Delhi's ITC Maurya Hotel, the book has a selection from five volumes of poetry, mainly Raat Pashmine Ki and Pukhraj. ...Gulzar 'booked' for life NDTV.comall 2 news articles
- Go ahead, laugh if you must - Lower Hudson Journal news
Go ahead, laugh if you mustLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 3 hours agoThe title "The New Poetry," for example, could be ripped from the hand-cut pages of any one of several dozen little magazines. ...
- Hookah bar slated to open in August in Northampton - The Republican - MassLive.com
Hookah bar slated to open in August in NorthamptonThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 3 hours agoCalled shisha, the tobacco comes in a variety of flavors including coffee, strawberry, watermelon and kiwi, according to information from the American Lung ...
- Female Poet Laureate contenders rule themselves out - Daily Telegraph
Wendy Cope, Fleur Adcock and Ruth Padel said the post of poet to the Queen was "archaic", "terribly hard work for very little pay" and could stifle their writing. The incumbent, Andrew Motion, is due to relinquish the post next year. Although being ...
- Gordon Parks counted poetry among talents (Lawrence Journal-World)
Editor’s note: In her Ad Astra Poetry Project, Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low highlights historic and contemporary poets who resided in Kansas for a substantial part of their lives. Eventually, she will collect the biweekly broadsides into a book, to be published by the Center for Kansas Studies at Washburn University, in cooperation with Thomas Fox Averill.
- Lecture on Robert Frost's influence on renowned Irish poet turned into a book (The Eagle-Tribune)
LAWRENCE — Six years ago, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney came to the city to speak about Robert Frost's influence on his poetry. Those words uttered to a sold-out audience have been immortalized in the book, "One on a Side: An Evening with Seamus Heaney & Robert Frost." The 54-page book was published by The Robert Frost Foundation.
- Tale of torn lives connects emotionally - Denver Post
Tale of torn lives connects emotionallyDenver Post, CO - 3 hours agoAnd with "Jellyfish," he and his partner, Shira Geffen, with whom he shares writing and directing credits, have produced a little piece of cinematic poetry. ...
- Silver Jews' latest album mostly loses its way - Chicago Tribune
David Berman, frontman for the Silver Jews, never had much of a voice. "Like a message broadcast on an overpass / all my favorite singers couldn't sing," he intoned on the band's 1998 masterpiece "American Water," aligning himself squarely in the ...
- County library - Charleston Post & Courier
Catch the Reading Bug: Children's Summer Reading Program (ages 11 and younger). Through July 31. Children are awarded prizes for reading or being read to at levels of 5, 10 and 30 hours. Prizes include the S.C. reading medal, passes to community ...
- Taliban using text messages, ring tones - MSNBC
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia’s views through songs available as ring tones, according to a ...
- Kids get off on write foot (EveningTimes Online)
WHEN it comes to reading his audiences Children's Laureate Michael Rosen is always spot-on. Michael had youngsters hanging on his every word when he visited Glasgow's Mitchell Library recently as part of his tour of Scotland.
- Hey Wii Owners ... It's Time to Eat! - GameZone
Hey Wii Owners ... It's Time to Eat!GameZone, MI - 1 hour agoThese brave men and women are artists of the alimentary canal, warriors who create living poetry with each wiggle of the epiglottis. ...
- Silver Knight honors for 60 devoted Broward students (Miami Herald)
The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald are celebrating current and past Silver Knight winners this month to mark the 50th anniversary of the program that recognizes extraordinary high school seniors.
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