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- The Monitor: Coals, Newcastle, get it? (BBC News)
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press. All week the Guardian's giveaway is pamphlets on how to write. Obviously the nation's journalists have been squirreling away How to Write: Fiction and How to Write: Poetry, since this is what newshounds secretly would prefer to be doing.
- CHINA: All the World's Stage - Inter Press Service
BEIJING, Aug 9 (IPS) - All the world is a stage and for a few mesmerising hours on Friday night that stage was China’s. Doubts over China as Olympic host faded away, at least temporarily, as the organisers delivered a fitting tribute to the mystery ...
- Where to start with Tom Waits - Drowned In Sound
Where to start with Tom WaitsDrowned In Sound, UK - 9 hours agoLots of weird poetry and eerie production. Rain dogs is considered his best and it's quite bluesy but with growly vocals and romance and all that. my ...
- Charlotte Kohler, Quiet Influence on American Writing, Dies at 99 (New York Times)
Ms. Kohler was a longtime editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review.
- Pigs, peas, potatoes and people - the JSR ethos - Nafferton Today
Pigs, peas, potatoes and people - the JSR ethosNafferton Today, UK - 1 hour ago... to become one of John's lifelong friends helping to bring out his love of the finer things in life, including philosophy, poetry, literature and art. ...
- Sick girl gets wish to build wardrobe - Inside Toronto
Sick girl gets wish to build wardrobeInside Toronto, Canada - 29 minutes agoElena, who also enjoys writing poetry, hopes to be a well-dressed doctor or artist when she grows up. Lipo said her daughter has been looking forward to the ...
- Artists put positive spin on mental illness - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
In a small studio in downtown Elgin, a community of artists and writers is painting a fresh picture of mental illness. These creative types come together every week to work on their craft and share camaraderie. Some are self-taught, and at least one ...
- Garbage crews loafing -- to tune of $14.3 million (Chicago Tribune)
- Old-Time Country Music fest brings hundreds of performers to Le Mars - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Old-Time Country Music fest brings hundreds of performers to Le MarsLe Mars Daily Sentinel, IA - 25 minutes agoThere will also be contests, such as the Over-50 Singing Contest; Cowboy Poetry & Storytelling Contest; Open Yodeling Contest; Acoustic Bass Contest, ...
- The wealth of hard times - Chicago Tribune
J ob insecurity, high gas prices, intimations of scarcity in the American land of plenty. So it went in 1976 when then young chanteuse Bette Midler released her third album, cheekily titled "Songs for the New Depression." In place of her trademark ...
- Mid-Michigan students plant pinwheels for peace - Lansing State Journal
OKEMOS -- The messages written on the tiny pinwheels are equally tiny, but powerful. "Love." "End War." "Peace." Those are some of the messages scrawled on more than 100 pinwheels students at Chippewa Middle School in Okemos planted in the ground as ...
- Giller Prize long list unveiled - CBC News
New novels from Austin Clarke, David Adams Richards and Rawi Hage are in the running for one of Canada's top literary awards, organizers of the $50,000 Giller Prize revealed Monday. Past Giller winners Clarke and Richards made the cut for their ...
- The Way I Feel Now Death Is - Filter Magazine
The Way I Feel Now Death IsFilter Magazine, CA - 4 hours agoWell, if you take poetry as an example, it has to self-reference itself. Poetry always has to speak of Oedipus or some other human universality, ...
- Can Atilla: The real reward is being appreciated by society - Today's Zaman
Today's ZamanCan Atilla: The real reward is being appreciated by societyToday's Zaman, Turkey - 3 hours agoSince Mevlana's verses were full of meaning, the artist felt that his poetry and popular sayings cannot be used simply as an ingredient in songs. ...
- The gospel according to Job (excerpts) - Zen and Zion - CanadianChristianity.com
CanadianChristianity.comThe gospel according to Job (excerpts) - Zen and ZionCanadianChristianity.com, Canada - 3 hours agoIn a couplet of indifferent poetry that has become strangely famous, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, 'The world is so full of a number of things, ...
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