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- Carol Ann Duffy likely to be first woman to follow Tennyson and Betjeman as laureate (Guardian Unlimited)
With the role of writing official verse for the Queen falling vacant, the 400-year-old institution could at last break new ground
- Briefly... CITY/REGION (Philadelphia Daily News)
For gardeners, free compost The city Water Department has EarthMate Compost, a mulch and soil amendment, available for pickup at three sites:
- School board searches for North's top young writers - Timmins Daily Press
School board searches for North's top young writersTimmins Daily Press, Canada - Apr 30, 2008"Poetry, fiction and non-fiction - we want to encourage our students to include all types of writing," said board community relations officer Lynn Fecteau. ...
- HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE (Kirkus Reviews)
Times Literary Supplement columnist Greenberg chronicles his 15-year-old daughter Sally's manic breakdown in vivid yet surprisingly detached prose.
- Rep Clock - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Rep ClockSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 1 hour ago"Best in Show Poetry Reading," Wed, 7:30."Civic Life by the Desperate Optimists," short films, Fri, 8. "Other Cinema": works on Vietnam by Santiago Alvarez, ...Stage listings San Francisco Bay Guardianall 2 news articles
- Roses are red, violets are blue, HSBC investors know what to do - Daily Telegraph
Every year a handful of HSBC's Hong Kong shareholders compose poems praising the bank and read out their masterpieces. This year Mike Geoghegan, HSBC's straight-talking chief executive, will be there to hear the offerings. If only Geoghegan could ...
- Fans, musicians In Hermosa Beach - Daily Breeze
Whodathunk that Bob Dylan, a kinky-haired, whiny-voiced Minnesotan known for his unintelligible singing and profound poetry and lyrics, would win avid fan upon avid fan for decades? Andy Hill and Renee Safier are two of those fans - perhaps as ...
- MEET LEX: A uniquely gifted artist who calls his genre of music 'D-licious Soul.' (Eurweb)
*Honoring his native city of Detroit and its rich contribution to the history and evolution of Soul and R&B music, LEX originates a fresh new sound that resonates his experiences of having roots in the church, living the realities of life in the ghettos, and agonies stemming from the loss of his parents, all while traveling various roads through the music industry.
- 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.
- Mugabe plays the God card - Globe and Mail
In perhaps his sincerest admission of how he has regarded today's runoff presidential vote, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe recently told a group of businessmen in Bulawayo: "Only God, who appointed me, will remove me." The not-so-veiled threat of ...
- The funny side of life - Mail & Guardian Online
Mail & Guardian OnlineThe funny side of lifeMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 1 hour agoAfter 36 rejections (she has kept all the letters) for her previous work -- two completed novels, poetry, short stories, romantic fiction -- she bit his ...
- Evening of poetry, music at Twisted Fig in Mansfield reminiscent of ... - Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD -- Even with a bad phone connection, poet Mark Hersman's passion for words and music, for helping people make connections with themselves and others, comes through loud and clear. He's the emcee and host of A Night for Writers, with Music ...
- Writers retreat steams full speed ahead, despite flooding (Evansville Courier & Press)
Story about weather, flood stages and the effects on the RopeWalk Writers' Retreat in New Harmony.
- Edinburgh 2008 forward planning: The best dance - Guardian Unlimited
Australian dance company Chunky Move have established themselves as pioneers in the arena of new technology. In Mortal Engine a delicately responsive network of lasers and video projection is primed to react to the dancers as they move, triggering ...
- Review: In Person ed by Neil Astley - guardian.co.uk
Review: In Person ed by Neil Astleyguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoAudio recordings have been popularised in the past few years by initiatives such as the Poetry Archive and Oxfam's Life Lines CDs. Audiovisual recordings ...
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