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- A Van Cliburn anniversary (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange price of being a folk hero.
- Rescuers search river for US girl swept away - Niagara Falls Review
Rescuers search river for US girl swept awayNiagara Falls Review, Canada - 42 minutes agoHer book of poetry, "Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections of Love," is in its sixth edition. Tickets go on sale today at noon. at all Ticketmaster outlets. ...
- Garner gratified over gong as Zinc paved with literary gold - The Age
The AgeGarner gratified over gong as Zinc paved with literary goldThe Age, Australia - 11 minutes agoFor Lisa Gorton, who won the poetry prize for Press Release, it has been a productive past year. The poems were published in November, she gave birth to her ...
- Check out ten oldest jokes - The Sun
World's oldest gag ... would Jimmy Tarbuck use it? But British ones are the best, experts claim. The earliest example, above, gets the biggest laugh of historic ribticklers. It was found in a 10th century Anglo-Saxon poetry book. Wolverhampton ...
- Northshore Chamber Society concert - Budgeteer News
Transplanted and Lyrical A song recital by Janet MacDonald, mezzo-soprano, and her son Michael MacDonald, baritone, with Samuel Black, pianist. Music by Reynaldo Hahn and Gerald Finzi, both translplanted conmposers who are exceptionally lyrical in ...
- Adrienne Rich speaks, answers questions at ISU (Mid-Iowa News)
Award-winning author Adrienne Rich's visit to Iowa State University this week inspired a new generation of students and offered faculty and former students a face-to-face encounter with an iconic influence.
- Jessie Baylin hits Newport with folk-rock - OSU - The Lantern
OSU - The LanternJessie Baylin hits Newport with folk-rockOSU - The Lantern, OH - 47 minutes agoFor Baylin, songwriting is derived from poetry and journal-writing, creating an honesty in her lyrics. "When I first got a publishing deal, though, ...
- Darwish to Have a State Funeral - The Celebrity Cafe.com
Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet of Palestine, is to have a state funeral, the first since the death of Yasser Arafat. The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish encapsulated the Palestinian cause and will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank ...
- Seamus Heaney (Guardian Unlimited)
'Necessary poetry touches the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic nature of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed.'
- Kids' books for Halloween - San Francisco Chronicle
Kids' books for HalloweenSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 23 minutes agoIf you've got a taste for Halloween poetry, you can get a heaping helping in Frankenstein Takes the Cake by Adam Rex (Harcourt; 40 pages; $16; ages 5-10). ...
- The Language of Hurricanes - OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat MagazineThe Language of HurricanesOffBeat Magazine, LA - 44 minutes agoIn Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, he writes of the townspeople “trying to give order to the chain of many chance events that [have] ...
- ART; An Old Mall Gets Younger - New York Times Blogs
ART; An Old Mall Gets YoungerNew York Times Blogs, NY - 4 hours agoYucef Merhi's ''Atari Poetry IV'' (2004) plays on an old television monitor in the front window. A cozy circular space carved into the far corner of the ...
- Melvin Dale Hawley (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
Mel passed away peacefully in the middle of the night on September 6, 2008, after a long battle with COPD. He was born in Newbury on April 11, 1935, and raised on a farm in the Sullivan area. Mel was the son of the late Mr. Arthur Hawley; his mother, Hattie Hawley, 95, lives in [...]
- Festival Features Two Readings of Gardley’s Work-in-Progress - Berkeley Daily Planet
Festival Features Two Readings of Gardley’s Work-in-ProgressBerkeley Daily Planet, CA - 1 hour agoThere’s something of the air of another spinoff of Southern Romance (and Gothic), Faulkner’s Light in August, to it. Many of the characters and dramatic ...
- Thursday, October 09, 2008 (Fort Worth Weekly)
Poetry and music with Ken Waldman and Jerry Hagins. 12:15pm Thu. Hurst Public Library, 901 Precinct Line Rd, Hurst. Free. 817-283-3406.
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