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- Thanks for proving it but ... didn't we know this? - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesThanks for proving it but ... didn't we know this?Los Angeles Times, CA - 8 minutes agoWhen researchers from Macalester College and other institutions asked study participants to read poetry and prose both with and without alliterative sounds, ...
- Developing & editing - Guardian Unlimited
Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Ted Hughes There is much that is practical and logical about writing a poem. You find yourself wanting to describe the gesture someone makes as they lean out of a train window to wave goodbye ...
- How Burns lit the way for Lincoln - Scotland on Sunday Online
HE IS Scotland's national bard, whose timeless verse is venerated around the globe. But now it has been claimed that the stirring words of Robert Burns exerted such influence that they played a key role in helping Abraham Lincoln win the American ...
- Embrace an Artist Week: October 19-25 - News Spoiler
Embrace an Artist Week: October 19-25News Spoiler, TX - 28 minutes agoHe’s published 25 poetry chapbooks and teaches a three-hour creative-writing workshop in colleges, bookstores, and other venue including private homes. ...
- Bills' writer walks fine line (The Buffalo News)
When a sportswriter needs to track down Trent Edwards to get a comment for a story, he might stand waiting for the Bills quarterback to come off the field or out of the shower. When Chris Brown of Buffalobills. com needs Edwards, he can just slip a note into his locker.
- Poetry class helping break down walls (The Oklahoman)
McLOUD — If not for the black block lettering across the back of their gray shirts saying "INMATE,” the women in the poetry workshop could be mistaken for creative writing students at any local university. Heads down and hands feverishly writing across the page of a composition book, words spill from their pencils. Some women wipe tears away as they empty thoughts onto a page. Others appear ...
- Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California's same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday.
- 'On the Road' to the first Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest - California Aggie
On the road to hosting the sixth annual Davis Jazz Artists Festival, the John Natsoulas Center for the Arts will be looking for the next generation of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsbergs and Jack Kerouacs. The gallery will debut the first annual Jack ...
- Teaching and Learning - Baltimore Sun
Members of the summer government class at Annapolis High School succumbed to public speaking jitters when they testified against a proposed curfew in Annapolis in front of several members of the city council. Many testified in quiet voices, stared ...
- Let’s Jazz it up - Hindu
HinduLet’s Jazz it upHindu, India - 1 hour agoSitting in his office above his residence at New Delhi’s swish Neeti Bagh, a relaxed Sorabjee adds that he has another weakness: English poetry. ...
- Regional arts and entertainment events (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Sunday Music by Rodgers Here are two chances to consider work by a master of the stage musical, Richard Rodgers. One of Rodgers and Hammerstein's best musicals, State Fair, wasn't written for the stage at all, but as a 1945 movie (they truly don't make those lik
- Community Calendar - Houma Courier
Community CalendarHouma Courier, Louisiana - 1 hour agoThe event, sponsored by the Thibodaux Main Street program and the Houma Regional Arts Council, features visual art, live music, poetry readings, food, ...
- Nights in Satin - C-Ville Weekly
C-Ville WeeklyNights in SatinC-Ville Weekly, VA - 41 minutes agoBY DOUG NORDFORS Needled by the thorns of flowery 19th century poetry and its grip on the first years of the 20th century, Ezra Pound made a now-famous ...
- Home at last - Irish Times
Home at lastIrish Times, Ireland - 2 hours ago"I was very quickly caught up in the city's poetry," says Cooke. "It was just such an interesting place that I ended up not leaving for five years. ...
- LOCAL BOOKS ROUNDUP: SLO COUNTY WRITES (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
What do you get when you combine a World War II pilot with a biblical truth seeker and photos of the Central Coast? If you guessed a local books roundup, you’re correct. San Luis Obispo County has its fair share of local authors, which means the features desk regularly receives a fair share of books from local authors. The most recent batch includes works from the well-established Solo Press to ...
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