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- Why making children laugh is a serious business - Daily Telegraph
On Monday the shortlist for the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize will be announced. It's the creation of the Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen, who had a giggly time choosing books with the other judges: Roald's granddaughter Sophie Dahl, the children's ...
- As downtown Raleigh booms, SPARKcon looks to its future - The Independent Weekly
The Independent WeeklyAs downtown Raleigh booms, SPARKcon looks to its futureThe Independent Weekly, NC - 19 hours agoFor something a little racier, there's the After Dark erotic poetry reading at Metro (Sept. 19, 10 pm), where a local news anchor has promised to perform ...
- House Calls With William Carlos Williams, MD - Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
House Calls With William Carlos Williams, MDJournal of American Medical Association (subscription), IL - 58 minutes ago... memoir, and poetry are skillfully fused in House Calls With William Carlos Williams, MD. This charming little book does much more than honor the life of ...
- Long may you run - guardian.co.uk
Long may you runguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoAnd now he has written a book on the subject, covering 400 years of research into prolonging life. The good news is that more of us are reaching our ...
- Google choices - good, bad and ugly (BBC News)
BBC News takes a look at the five best and five worst decisions Google has made in its first ten years.
- Their man in Pari: How Aimé Maeght changed the face of 20th-century art (Independent)
I am sitting in the café of the Fondation Maeght, a private art foundation in the hills above Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera, listening to Isabelle Maeght, the granddaughter of its founder, Aimé Maeght, reminisce about her very special friendship with the artist Georges Braque, co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso. "Though only a child, I was in love with Braque," she tells me. "He was ...
- China is focus of library events - Quad City Times
China is focus of library eventsQuad City Times, IA - Sep 8, 2008Highlights will include dragon dances, moon viewing, poetry reading, vegetable carving, piano music and balloon sculptures for Year of the Rat. ...
- Obama Struggles To Gain Evangelicals' Vote - The Bulletin
A new survey released this month is beginning to cast doubt over Barack Obama's ability to woo white moderate Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants from the Republican Party - a political maneuver that would make it increasingly difficult for John ...
- Budding filmmakers get in on action - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Budding filmmakers get in on actionThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 52 minutes agoIt's about how love is more than just words." Filmed at Boykin's home in Covington, the north shore teen is excited about the premiere of the film online, ...
- 10 things to do this weekend - Crain's Chicago Business
Crain's Chicago Business10 things to do this weekendCrain's Chicago Business, IL - 1 hour agoHBO Def Poet Kevin Coval, founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, celebrates the release of his new book of poems, "EVERYDAY PEOPLE ...
- A-T editors take 'spiritual' journey (Advance Titan)
As the smoke from the third bowl was making its presence known on my psyche, I began to attempt the lighting of a fourth. Lighter on, touch the pipe, nothing. Did I even get close? Oh my God. This stuff is really working. I can’t even discern where my hand is in relation to my body.
- Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 books about civil war - guardian.co.uk
Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 books about civil warguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoWinner of the 2004 Whitbread poetry prize for his collection Corpus, Michael Symmons Roberts has published four highly acclaimed volumes of poetry to date. ...Michael Symmons Roberts's top 10 verse novels guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Poetry review: Armitage maintains colloquialism - San Francisco Chronicle
Poetry review: Armitage maintains colloquialismSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 36 minutes agoAfter one labored reading, I held the poem, "Learning by Rote," up to a mirror and gleefully deciphered the story of young Armitage being ordered to write ...
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors (The Evening Sun)
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly.
- Thomas Dale Vines 1942-2008 (The Toledo Blade)
Thomas Dale Vines, 66, a celebrated photographer who documented the culture and history of Toledo's African-American community, died Monday in St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. His wife, Katherine, said he had been ill since March with an undiagnosed ailment. The official cause of death was pulmonary edema, she said. Mr. Vines was the fourth generation in his family to pursue photography, a ...
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