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- Scenes From New York (Metro Pulse)
It is perhaps an illusory dream—the dream of artists to create works that distill the expansiveness of America into a singular essence, the dream of writing the great American novel or of capturing the nature of American life in painting or photography.
- A road paved in nightmares - Barrie Advance
A road paved in nightmaresBarrie Advance, Canada - 43 minutes agoLegere’s Nightmares from Hell, the author’s first published novel, was born out of its writer’s love of poetry. “I used to write poetry all the time, ...
- Piney Woods Philosopher: Saluting a driving force - Southwest Virginia Today
Piney Woods Philosopher: Saluting a driving forceSouthwest Virginia Today, VA - 2 hours agoHe started teaching Piney Celtic Breton, and that was of immense value to Piney years later when he translated Irish poetry for a New York publisher. ...
- Bill Bailey: 'People are obsessed by how I look' (Independent)
You have to be careful what you say about Bill Bailey. The journalist, for example, who wrote that "his head resembles a large egg and his hair flows down his back like a shower curtain", has found fame of a sort, as his words are tossed out, with a half-shrug, half-sneer, to nightly audiences of thousands. "People are obsessed by how I look," said Bailey in his last touring show, before ...
- Poetry contest could be store's last - The Orion
Poetry contest could be store's lastThe Orion, CA - 1 hour agoIt was within these comfy confines, more like a friend's living room than a store, that Wednesday evening's Halloween and Day of the Dead poetry contest ...
- Mad Cat Theater Company's stirring it up with 'Mixtape' - Miami Herald
Remember the mixtape? Before we started downloading music and burning CDs, a personalized tape of carefully chosen, precisely ordered songs was a way to make an artistically expressive personal statement. Some mixtapes said ''I love you.'' Others ...
- The Art of the Remix - Pulse Niagara
The Art of the RemixPulse Niagara, Canada - 2 hours ago... motion sequences to beautiful little nuggets of video that I have shot and it’s all mashed up into a skateboard video style flow of poetry for pixels.”
- 'Patti Smith: Dream of Life': Chronicle of Patti Smith's life ... - Chicago Tribune
'Patti Smith: Dream of Life': Chronicle of Patti Smith's life ...Chicago Tribune, United States - 8 minutes agoIt's a story of an artist's itchy search for expression, in poetry, travel, motherhood, political activism, the whole American pop ball of wax. ...
- Buzz Briefs: Kimmel, Springsteen (CBS News)
Jimmy Kimmel to host the American Music Awards. Bruce Springsteen sings in support of Obama. "American Idol's" LaKisha Jones gets hitched. It's official: Paramount and DreamWorks split.
- Laurie Spate-Smith, Jefferson Junior High English teacher - Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Daily TribuneLaurie Spate-Smith, Jefferson Junior High English teacherColumbia Daily Tribune, MO - 4 hours agoFor extra credit, students can dress like the person they’ve studied or add a musical performance or poetry recitation. And if the class drama isn’t enough ...
- Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did - Huffington Post
Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We DidHuffington Post, NY - 4 hours ago... (who) said that the day was not a day for speeches and 'scarcely a day for prose.' Rather, he said, 'it is a day for poetry and song, a new song. ...
- Nicholas Lezard: The public shouldn't have a say in choosing the laureate (Guardian Unlimited)
The news that the public will be asked for their opinion when considering who will be the next poet laureate might have been welcomed by Andrew Motion himself, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. Of course, being laureate can have a catastrophic effect on the quality of one's verse (it's pretty much been a poisoned chalice of a job since 1730, when Colley Cibber , whose ...
- Second Sunday Poetry Reading to feature Ken Hada - Norman Transcript
Second Sunday Poetry Reading to feature Ken HadaNorman Transcript, OK - 32 minutes ago... Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, among others. His new book collection,?"The Way of the Wind,"?is available from Village Books Press. ...
- License plates offer unique method to tell GR8 stories - Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
That's the Cowboy State vanity plate challenge. Thanks to space taken up by the bucking bronco symbol -- mandated by law -- and county numerals, four is your maximum character allotment. You can use numerals and letters only -- no punctuation, no ...
- BURMA: Polls in View Junta Stifles All Dissent - Inter Press Service
BBC NewsBURMA: Polls in View Junta Stifles All DissentInter Press Service, Italy - 1 hour ago"The blogger’s sentence reflects the greater level of threat they see in postings on the Internet compared to poetry." Even more worrying, before Nay Phone ...Pro-democracy activists sentenced in Burma Independentall 23 news articles
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