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- Chicago's Symphony Center has free music marathon (Post-Tribune)
The music will be good, and the admission price will be music to your ears at Saturday's 12th annual free music marathon at Chicago's Symphony Center.Ă‚Â
- Lumley attacks 'obscure' new poetry - The Observer
Lumley attacks 'obscure' new poetryThe Observer, UK - 50 minutes agoReaders of the new collection by Cowley, an advertising copywriter who has been writing poetry since she was a girl for herself and her family, ...
- Book Review: Duck Duck Wally: A Novel by Gabe Rotter (Blogcritics.org)
As a humorist, debut author Gabe Rotter has made a comedic grand entrance on the pop culture sha-zeeny! Everyone wants to know what's up with this book's title. Two sources come readily to mind: the children's game, "Duck, Duck, Goose" and the rude gesture of goosing another person. But you must read clear through the last chapter of Duck Duck Wally to get it. No cheating, either, because you ...
- Poetry, Ping-Pong, All in a Day?s Work (New York Times)
A personal essay recollects China?s invitation to the U.S. table tennis team, which led ultimately to Nixon?s mending of ties with China.
- Hallowed halls - Detroit News
It's easy to think of the White House as another of Washington's chalky monuments: an impersonal, 208-year-old structure of brick and stone. But that would be wrong, as a new book by 108 writers and illustrators proves. "Our White House: Looking In ...
- After the Dancing Dogs - Guardian Unlimited
After the Dancing Dogs by Michael Henry Enitharmon Press, Ă‚ÂŁ8.95 Some of the most memorable pieces in After the Dancing Dogs are those written about Michael Henry's experience of being a grandfather - "In my convalescence / I call them my doctors ...
- Students will benefit from what teachers learned about the arts (Macon Telegraph)
With the kids heading back to school this week and next, this is a good time to acknowledge one of the unsung success stories of the summer, Macon Arts' annual Bibb Institute for the Arts.
- Darwish painted Palestinian dreams in his poems: translator - MehrNews.com
Darwish painted Palestinian dreams in his poems: translatorMehrNews.com, Iran - 4 hours agoDarwish is the author of thirty books of poetry and six volumes of prose. Over 20 volumes of his works have been translated into Persian. ...
- Review: Out of the Blue by Chris Yates - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukReview: Out of the Blue by Chris YatesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 55 minutes agoDay after day - and it is written almost as a consecutive series of daily accounts - he conveys an air of calm. There is no soapbox (beyond a mildly ...
- Pardon Our Monsters - Ottawa Citizen
Pardon Our MonstersOttawa Citizen, Canada - 8 hours agoHood mines the flotsam and jetsam of trashy suburbs, highways, garage sales and, of course, high schools, often finding poetry in the mundane details. ...
- Join the Circle - Egypt Today
On stage stand a saxophonist, a bass guitarist and a drummer. A fourth man kneels before a strange, long wooden instrument, something resembling a large xylophone. He grabs hold of a stick and begins to play. Notes gush, then flow down like a river ...
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- Strut your (poetry) stuff for cash! - FreeportJournal Standard
The Dubuque Area Writers Guild is giving poets a chance to strut their stuff for cash. On Oct. 18, the writers guild will host the first Dubuque Poetry Slam, with $1,350 in prizes for the evening's top performers. The slam movement started in Chicago ...
- A killer reaps - Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarA killer reapsMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 2 hours agoConnolly also writes very well, with a lyricism and poetry with which this genre is rarely associated (although James Lee Burke is a glorious exception). ...
- Muslim Film Festival - Boston Phoenix
Now that the main Republican talking point has been refined from “Osama is an elitist" to “Osama is a terrorist,” it’s only a matter of time before they bring up the old canard about him being a Muslim. Which begs the question -- so what if ...
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