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- WANSTEAD/LEYTON: MP seeks to publish 'raunchy' poems (Wanstead and Woodford Guardian)
WANSTEAD and Leyton MP, Harry Cohen, has come up with a novel way to alleviate the boredom of backbench life - penning raunchy poetry. Mr Cohen started composing sonnets to overcome the more tedius aspects of life at Westminster - where he has sat as an MP for more than 25 years.
- SIUE to award Redmond an honorary PhD (Belleville News-Democrat)
Eugene Redmond wove letters into words, then words into phrases, then phrases into poems for decades.
- Education Briefs - Batavia Sun
Several local students were named recently as winners of National Merit Scholarships. Glen Ellyn residents Katie S. Steigleder, who attends Glenbard West High School, and Oana A. Toma, who attends Glenbard South High School, are among 1,100 high ...
- Boston Children's Museum Presents Children of Hangzhou: Connecting ... - MSN MoneyCentral
Opening to the public on May 14, 2008, Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China is an exhibition designed to engage children and families in learning about one of the oldest civilizations - and now among the most modern - in the world through some ...
- Before the Pilgrims - Wall Street Journal
Americans write novels and essays, poems and plays, but our quintessential literary form is the road book. We have our Moderns -- Steinbeck, Kerouac, Bryson and Least Heat-Moon come to mind. And we have our Ancients -- Twain, Tocqueville, Crevecoeur ...
- AFS students experience cultural immersion - Sonoma Index-Tribune
AFS students experience cultural immersionSonoma Index-Tribune, CA - 15 hours agoRizna Said, is from Indonesia, and she likes to read, write poetry, listen to many kinds of music and is presently preparing for a major chemistry ...
- Mahakavi Pala dead - Newindpress
Mahakavi Pala deadNewindpress, India - 3 hours agoThe life of Pala Narayanan Nair was dedicated to the cause of poetry, said writer and critic MK Sanu. Expressing grief over the demise of the poet, ...
- John Updike on American Art (US News & World Report)
The writer brings a life of creative and critical labor to the examination of American masterworks.
- Wergeland hailed on 200th birthday - Aftenposten
Wergeland hailed on 200th birthdayAftenposten, Norway - 38 minutes agoSpecial outdoor theatrical performances honoured Wergeland's work, bakeries and cafés around town offered free treats to children, his poetry was read aloud ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale (The Charlotte Observer)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin questionable tales of the emperor playing hide-and-seek with his beautiful queens. And here, within the parched landscape of the ghost city, author Salman Rushdie stood ...
- Hear & Now MP3s: Laura Veirs - San Francisco Gate
Over the past decade, Laura Veirs has fashioned a singular musical vision and sound — not one that has made her a big star, but one that is full of stars — and meteors and constellations and galaxies (as well as oceans, sea grass and flying fish ...
- Excerpts from the finalists of Seattle's Youth Speaks poetry ... - Seattle Times
Excerpts from the finalists of Seattle's Youth Speaks poetry ...Seattle Times, United States - 9 hours agoBy Marian Liu "This is my apology to anyone who says I can't be a poet, because I don't know how to spell. Well, you're wrong. Not only do I write, ...
- The American Debate: Obama-Clinton? Stranger things have happened - Philadelphia Inquirer
The American Debate: Obama-Clinton? Stranger things have happenedPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 34 minutes agoAnd, stylistically, he is the poetry, and she is the prose. We've all heard the arguments about why such a union could never happen. ...
- Off the wall - guardian.co.uk
Off the wallguardian.co.uk, UK - 20 minutes agoHis opposite number, Stalin, wrote poetry as a young man, and Mussolini was influenced by Italy's avant-garde futurist movement. ...
- A Girl and a Gun (New York Times)
A look at the revolutionary achievements and long career of the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.
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