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Keats & Fanny: A fashionable affair
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... Jane Campion calls the 'passive waiting fate of any young woman of her time'. Yet she was obviously bright and if poetry was Keats's way of expressing himself and making sense of the world around him, so fashion was Fanny's. It was obviously a ... Comment?
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Worlds collide in 'The Magician & the Geisha'
... 99 hitchhikers, cheap taquerias on Belmont Avenue and Bulldogs who terrorize neighborhoods. In his first book of poetry, "Born in the Cavity of Sunsets," Medrano writes about the city where he grew up, tells stories of the life he's encountered here ... Comment?
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Miami Book Fair: Poet Marie Ponsot
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... more like it, as even the breeziest of poems in the volume contains the lyrical pleasure that much of academic poetry has forsaken. "Poets are stupid to cut themselves off and say, I only write this kind of poem ," Ponsot says. "I love rhyme and I ... Comment?
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Freiligratha " O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst
... many centuries. But this poem, one of the best known of his works, reflects a sort of sentimentalism typical for the poetry of the age. To modern ears it seems a bit trite and even saccharine. But it has a haunting quality. Franz Liszt composed what ... Comment?
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Poetry on the ice inspires poetry on the page
The worlds of poetry and pro hockey rarely intersect. But they did two years ago with the release of Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs, and the result, as late Habs broadcaster Danny Gallivan might have described, was akin to a cannonading slapshot from the point - that is still reverberating today. Comment?
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John Lundberg: New Website Aims To Be An iTunes For Poetry
... spend 99 cents to download it ($1.99 for a video version). The site is, quite literally, banking on your interest in poetry. Here are a couple of the poems for sale: "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" by Emily Dickinson. ... Comment?
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... the late 1980s, is considered one of the best and most versatile Israeli rock bands. Its performance of medieval poetry reflects the larger trend of popular artists turning to the piyutim for inspiration. And according to Benaya, the band plans to ... Comment?
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Writers' fest features 3 UF alumni
... will feature three graduates of the University of Florida who will offer their perspectives on fiction writing and poetry and read from their most recent works. Festival organizer Jill Ciment said the event is a boost for UF writers and the creative ... Comment?
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Inauguration opened a new world for poet
Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day, the inauguration poem that helped deliver Barack Obama into office, was in the making for almost half a century, surely for three generations: The grandmother who sang lullabies, poetry set to music. Comment?
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... Karr uses pregnancy, marriage, parenting and other conventions to buoy herself, but her demons are persistent. Poetry is her spiritual succor, a weapon, even. One that "could blow everybody's head off." But even in this salvation, for Karr, there is ... Comment?
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Q&A with Sarah Bracey White, Greenburgh's director of arts and culture
... and expanded programs for town residents. The self-published author has continued the town staples - an annual poetry contest and an art gallery in Town Hall - while spearheading such new programs as Art at Westhab and the Poetry Caravan. Here's a ... Comment?
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San Francisco's Angel Island captures immigrants' experience
... political slogans. But mostly there are poems. In 1999, the collected, translated poems were published in 'Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940' (University of Washington Press). Long before blogging or ... Comment?
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... author of 'We're in Trouble,' winner of the 2006 PEN/Robert Bingham award for first fiction; poet Eugene Gloria ('90, poetry), whose books include 'Hoodlum Birds'; Margaret Peterson Haddix ('86), best-selling children's and young adult author, whose ... Comment?
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Film: 5 Minutes With.... Ben Whishaw
... try to hone in on what's magical about his personality and try and access that. Are you much of a poet? I don't write poetry myself, no. Like Keats says, 'It should either come as naturally as leaves to a tree or it probably shouldn't come at all', ... Comment?
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Fort Hood shooting: Vignettes of victims, from a pregant woman to a physician's assistant
... and preparing to return home. A friend of Velez's, Sasha Ramos, described her as a fun-loving person who wrote poetry and loved dancing. 'She was like my sister,' Ramos, 21, said. 'She was the most fun and happy person you could know. She never did ... Comment?
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Show Review + Setlist: Leonard Cohen at the Fabulous Fox, November 7
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... rew was Hallelujah," it all came rushing back: the mixture of love and lust and God and doubt and loss. Like the best poetry, Cohen's songs make connections and drive your thoughts someplace unexpected and even shocking Comment?
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A YOUNG bard has seen her composition included in a children's book of poetry. Three-year-old Hannah Entwistle's poem, called All About Me And My Family, made it into a book of poetry by preschool children of the same name. Comment?
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... terary Press, she has published both regionally and nationally, including a novel "Dear M.K."(2002) and a forthcoming poetry chapbook "The Book of Lies." Comment?
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Poet Jericho Brown returns plus two days of New Orleans literary events
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For today and Monday, the New Orleans literary calendar is dominated by poets or poetry readings with an educational lecture and a conservative political activist, Star Parker, in for good measure. Comment?
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The Gen Z Reader: Finding Profits in an Elusive Market
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... Deborah Gould, co-owner of Village Book Shop in Glendora, Calif., told the group that she has held two successful poetry events in her bookstore for students from the local high school. "The kids read their own work, and some of them are amazing ... Comment?
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