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Franco family's 'Metamorphosis: Junior Year'
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:29:41)
The result is "Metamorphosis: Junior Year," a novel released in October that combines prose with poetry, short chapters with big themes and mythology with modern-day teenage angst. It is a collaboration between mother and sons: Betsy wrote the text; Tom, 29, did the illustrations; and James, 31, and Dave, 24, recorded the audio version of the book....
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City, police honored by county first
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:20:58)
Walker presented a selection of her poetry and plaques to a gathered crowd of city and Jacksonville Police Department officials at the police station. ...
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Veteran broadcaster dies aged 94
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:09:21)
He was an author and poet, producing several books including the definitive guide to Wimbledon 1877-1977 and The Ballad of Worple Road, a book of poetry with a forward by Peter Ustinov.
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Irvine to host five day Burns extravaganza
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:07:04)
"It was in Eglinton Woods that Burns realised his poetry could be good enough for the rest of the world to read. "And it was a chance meeting with Captain Brown at Irvine harbour that ...
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Cowboy poets gather for weekend performances
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (14:02:17)
Carnal performed before an audience for the first time last year at Grand Junction's Cowboy Poetry Gathering at the Museum of Western Colorado's Whitman Educational Center. He's back for this year's gathering, today and Saturday at the same location....
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Poem Present: Discussion on Poetics with Mary Ruefle
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (12:14:17)
Poetry News: Mary Ruefle is the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently A Little White Shadow , an art book of "erasures", a variation on found poetry; Tristimania , Among the Musk Ox People ; Apparition Hill ; Cold Pluto ; Post Meridian ; Cold Pluto ; The Adamant , winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize; Life Without Speaking ; and Memling's Veil .
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Products
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (07:33:05)
Poetry News: Technology companies are awfully fond of comparing their work to poetry and art .
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Forgotten futures
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:53:53)
Emirati cinephile friend opined over a coffee recently. 'That's when our artists pushed the boundaries, when our poetry was read all over the Arab world.' I almost choked on my espresso. Even many of us well-versed in the longevity of the UAE's ...
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Poetry book 15 years in the writing...
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:49:50)
Poetry News: A book of poems about Northamptonshire collected by a local wandering poet has finally gone on sale...15 years after he started writing it.
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BHS Students Attend Humanities Fair
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:47:37)
Poetry News: ... and a oeThings are Against Us:A The Malice of Inanimates.a The students entered contests in the areas of poetry, short story, and essay.A Andrea Easter placed 1st for her short story, a oeA Burned Past.a A Bernard Smith placed 2nd for his short ...
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A lyrical tribute
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:38:49)
Ludhianvi's songs gave flutter to the dreams and desires of an entire generation and here they were put in context with his life's story. The play drew in a motley crowd, while the stream of silver-haired was heard re-living Ludhianvi masterpieces like “Jaane woh kaise log they jinke pyar ko pyar mila”, youngsters too found their connect with the master lyricist....
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Distinguishing styles with authority
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:36:58)
True, this Kirana Gharana veteran, groomed by martinet Abdul Ghani Khan, has never made a secret of having garnered features from other schools of music. But not haphazardly — after all, he is also the disciple of the master musicologist Thakur Jaidev Singh — but to enrich his presentation. And the audience did get to experience this multi-fold absorption....
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A New Bible Translation, But Only the Fu . . .
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:33:52)
The Bible according to David Rosenberg is a masterpiece of poetry and scholarship, both challenging and rewarding, always invigorating and illuminating. Perhaps the highest praise I can bestow upon “A Literary Bible” is to report that it sent me back to the Bible, again and again, and I invariably returned to the pages of Rosenberg’s book with an even greater admiration for its author and even greater pleasure in his work....
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On Magazine: Good to the last drop
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:32:42)
We’ve got comedian Josh Blue, poet Dan Peters, the Camerata Club Men’s Chorus and a very special Indoorsman Thanksgiving, all coming your way Friday in On Magazine....
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Reading news from your library
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:30:05)
Since I am the library director, the movie inspired me to try to encourage library patrons to delve more into their poetic souls and come to appreciate the expressive language of the five greatest English poets of this era: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and Keats. ...
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A focus on poetry
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:26:24)
Every year, the school organizes events to promote literacy. This year's events all focus on poetry. The Beatnik Cafe was organized to give students an opportunity to hear and perform poetry. ...
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The dearest of all lands to Allah and His Messenger
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:24:41)
Whenever fever attacked Abu Bakr, he would recite the following verses of poetry: A person wakes up among his household-active he is While death is in fact closer to him than his shoelaces Whenever fever eased ...
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Truth be told at poetry workshops Nov. 29 and Dec. 6
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:23:17)
"Telling our truths in writing is really what we're doing already through our weekly event- building a community of writers," volunteer organizer Jennifer Brennock said....
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Who Discovered The Metrical Structure of Somali Poetry: Arale or Gaariye? By Dr.
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:14:06)
Arale and Gariye are great icons in Somali poetry. Each, in his way has deservedly built a reputation for research, creativity and academic excellence. Both of them taught at institutions of higher learning, but Arale authored many books while Gariye didn’t. So, it is with great anguish that I am writing this article to render judgment on their respective claims to the discovery of the scansion of Somali poetry....
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PEOPLE'S Sexiest Man Alive
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (17:41:37)
Johnny Depp walks through his vineyard whispering 18th century Italian love poetry to each vine.A Twice a year these grapes are crushed for wine by Depp playing with local orphan children. ...
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Even bookworms hibernate
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (17:30:31)
Of course, my “book a day” total includes poetry and graphic novels, which many people think don’t “count” as books, because they tend to be slender. ...
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Texas Author Day
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (17:29:29)
These published writers and illustrators will be on hand to sign copies of their books and chat with fans. A variety of genres will be represented including local history, Texana, mystery, horror, memoirs, children’s literature, poetry, history and fiction. ...
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