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- Andrei Codrescu, NPR Biography - NPR News
Poet, essayist and novelist Andrei Codrescu has been contributing commentaries to NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered since 1983. During this time, he's also reported from Romania, Cuba and New Orleans. In 1989, Codrescu returned ...
- Gagetown's octagon barn hosts is annual Fall Family Days - MLive.com
Rural Electrification and quilting are the themes this year at the Thumb Octagon Barn's 13th Annual Fall Family Days. The two-day event celebrating farming and rural life in the early 1900s runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6-7, in ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan - Las Cruces Sun-News
I'll Take the ManhattanLas Cruces Sun-News, NM - 17 hours ago... poetry is like playing tennis without a net. Or, in the words of one wise friend, "Dude, every once in a while can I just get something to drink? ...
- Ted's Picks: Five things to do in Denver and nearby (Vail Daily)
The Drunkard National Convention, sponsored by Modern Drunkard magazine, is this weekend in Denver. Everybody’s talking about the DNC — the candidates, the speeches, the parties and whether or not that salt-and-pepper-haired dude at the Tattered Cover really was George Clooney.
- Time-warp tunes - Auburn Citizen
Time-warp tunesAuburn Citizen, NY - 3 hours agoThe “wordplay†theme is a prelude to next year's 30th anniversary, for which organizers created a poetry contest. “The text (from the winning poems) will ...
- The up side of down - Financial Times
Complaint: From Minor Moans to Principled Protests By Julian Baggini Profile Books £10.99 224 pages FT Bookshop price: £8.79 We are all chasing happiness. We talk of it as if it were real, a place the budget airlines will surely soon be flying to ...
- • Collins' Ballistics' manages to pierce the heart, if not always ... - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
• Collins' Ballistics' manages to pierce the heart, if not always ...The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 24 minutes agoBut I have been consistently disappointed that the poems are rarely more than clever. Like John Berryman, I believe that poetry should wound, ...
- Esurance ICER AIR 2008 Announces Diverse Musical Line-Up - MSN MoneyCentral
ICER is pleased to announce the musical line-up for Esurance ICER AIR. This year's event will feature a bigger and more diverse musical line-up than past events, showcasing a wide range of musical acts and performers including: The Cool Kids, K'Naan ...
- Dufferin centenarian Bea Moore marks milestone - Orangeville Citizen
Dufferin centenarian Bea Moore marks milestoneOrangeville Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoShe is a "voracious reader," says her granddaughter, and keeps her mind bright by memorizing and reciting poetry. "It is hard to sum up my grandmother" said ...
- Offer us Brits sympathy? It's just asking for trouble - Guardian Unlimited
Sports do not build character, the great American journalist Heywood Broun once said. They reveal it. And who could fail to agree this week, surveying the reactions to both London's part in the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony, and a Manchester ...
- The Poet as Everyman - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The Poet as EverymanChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 12 hours agoMr. Schug, who has published four collections of poetry, is also the recycling and deliveries coordinator at the College of St. Benedict, in St. Cloud, ...
- Thrills and spills but fewer bloody kills - Irish Independent
Thrills and spills but fewer bloody killsIrish Independent, Ireland - 3 hours agoHe tried his hand at poetry, he dabbled in journalism and also practised as a lawyer. "I suppose my early life was really a way to find something to do to ...
- Emerging artists on shortlist for most valuable poetry prize - guardian.co.uk
Emerging artists on shortlist for most valuable poetry prizeguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe others are Christopher Buehlman for Wanton; Catherine Ormell for Campaign Desk, December 1812; Don Paterson for Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze, ...
- SFA grad to release his first book of slam-poetry - SFA The Pine Log Online
SFA grad to release his first book of slam-poetrySFA The Pine Log Online, TX - 34 minutes ago"It was then when I decided I liked the art of poetry." It was seven years later when Moore found himself writing once again. With a pen and pad in hand he ...
- Review: Ways of Life by Andrew Motion - Daily Telegraph
Andrew Motion has been a great success as Poet Laureate. He faced a difficult brief in following on from an indisputably great poet, Ted Hughes, whose poetry was reinvigorated by the demands of public myth-making that the job imposed. And at a time ...
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