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- Emotions moved writer to take a risk: powerful poem became multi-media project
- The Virginia Tech shootings grabbed me like everyone else. You want to make sense of the senseless. But nothing helps. People typically don't commit suicide unless they're mentally ill. Do they kill themselves, or do they succumb to the disease? I can't answer that. The whole thing was...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- Voyaging Beyond the Classical
- GREGORY T.S. WALKER'S ELECTRIFYING APPROACH TO CLASSICAL MUSIC HAS BEEN ACCLAIMED IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMANCES THROUGHOUT HIS HOME STATE OF COLORADO, THE US, AND ABROAD. BUT HIS INADVERTENT INSPIRATION CAME FROM A TRADITIONAL VIOLIN TEACHER AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, ISRAELI-BORN VIRTUOSO YUVAL YARON. ''WHEN HE PLAYED, YOU COULD CLOSE YOUR...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Longfellow's Bicentennial Honored on U.S. Postage Stamp 23rd Honoree in the 'Literary Arts' Series
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Leisha Palmore-Drummond, +1-202-268-2191, leisha.i.palmore-drummond@usps.gov, or Tom Gaynor, +1-212-330-3570, tom.gaynor@usps.gov, both of U.S. Postal Service WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate the 200th birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow March 15 with the issuance of the 39-cent Henry Wadsworth Longfellow commemorative stamp. Longfellow becomes...
- Research articles 2007-03-14
- "Where power is absolute": Royalist politics and the improved landscape in a poem by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea.(Tribute issue to Professor J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona)("Upon My Lord Winchilsea's Converting the Mount
- Land and trees carry pronounced political weight in the poetry of Anne Finch, who entered the English literary canon as a "nature poet," but has only recently been recognized as a significant participant in political debates regarding the so-called Glorious Revolution and its aftermath. (1) The...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- Poem about Palestinian victim in Norwegian exam makes Israel see red
- OSLO AFP — Israel's embassy in Oslo expressed "surprise and shock" over the decision to include a poem about a Palestinian youth killed by Israeli soldiers in Norway's national junior high school final exams. "The embassy is extremely upset over the decision to include a one-sided political poem in...
- Research articles 2005-05-20
- BOOKS IN BRIEF
- BOOKS IN BRIEFI'll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, by Juan Williams and Dwayne Ashley (Amistad, $35). This informative volume chronicles the founding of historically Black colleges and universities HBCUs after the Civil War, their transformation from being governed by Whites to...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- The New York Times Knowledge Network to Co-Sponsor 'Poem in Your Pocket' Day on April 11 During National Poetry Month; The New York Times Will Publish Poems for Readers to Clip, Share and Enjoy with Their Fellow New Yorkers
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 3, 2003 April is designated National Poetry Month. To celebrate, The New York Times Knowledge Network is co-sponsoring "Poem in Your Pocket Day" on Friday, April 11 in collaboration with the New York City Mayor's Office, New York City Department of Education, the...
- Research articles 2003-04-03
- My Neighbors
- I'm positive the only force holding them up was their own momentum as they leaned forward and in a lovely fluttering manner Venus and Aphrodite glided across the busy boulevard confident of the joy they'd bring to the Lotharios in the local watering holes. They however looked right through me....
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- The Shine Poems. - book review
- Calvin Forbes. The Shine Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana UP, 2001. 64 pp. $22.95 cloth/$15.95 paper. The ghostly rhythms of the blues and the ballad tradition haunt Calvin Forbes's delicately constructed poems. Blues rhythm isn't just a question of beat: It requires syntax that is compressed and truncated to raise...
- Research articles 2002-06-22
- The Adam of Two Edens: Poems
- Mabmoud Darwish. The Adam of Two Edens: Poems. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press and Jusoor, 2000. 206 pages. Paper$16.95. This essential collection could not have appeared at a more crucial time. As the Aqsa intifada rages on against the Israeli occupation, and the brutal assault against Palestinian life...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- International taxation of e-commerce
- The moving larget of e-commerce IN BRIEF Progress in a Global Policy Debate Last year, total sales of goods and services transacted via the Internet were estimated by Forrester Research at $48.3 billion in the United States. Still small but growing fast, e-commerce is viewed...
- Research articles 2001-11-01
- Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony.(Review) (book review)
- Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony. By Sonya Stephens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 181. [pound]35.00. The first chapter of this relatively short but richly suggestive and multifarious assault on Baudelaire's prose poems is devoted to...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- All things censored - National Public Radio program allegedly censored a poem - Cover Story
- I was an NPR poet. In particular, I was an All Things Considered poet. All Things Considered would occasionally broadcast my poems in conjunction with news stories. One producer even commissioned a New Year's poem from me. "Imagine the Angels of Bread" aired on January 2, 1994, in the same...
- Research articles 1997-07-01
- Always a Reckoning and Other Poems. - book reviews
- There are two foolproof ways of getting your unpublishable poetry published. One is to be some sort of irrelevant celebrity, e.g., movie star Jimmy Stewart, wife of a famous aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh, or Pope (Karol Wojtyla, a/k/a John Paul II). If this route isn't available to you, try dual...
- Research articles 1995-02-20
- Billy Sunday and Other Poems. - book reviews
- By Carl Sandburg edited by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick Harcourt, Brace. 144 pp. $19.95, cloth; $9.95, paper. After three-quarters of a century, Carl Sandburg's most controversial poem--a diatribe in free verse against Billy Sunday, the Elmer Gantry-like evangelist who preached fire and brimstone and was a forerunner of...
- Research articles 1994-07-01
- Video: The Don't Quit Poem
- Video: The Don't Quit PoemRE: Video: The Don't Quit PoemI like seeing something that is positive. In this world and at this time, a good challange for us all is to think and speak only in positives. Not ignoring what is happening, but being careful not to "buy...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-12
- An Inspirational Poem About Productivity
- For your Friday reading pleasure, I bring you a poem penned by beighartman at the sieve and the sand. Ponder this, if you will, as the weekend looms. Productivity Is relative To the amount Of work Being done...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Video: The Don't Quit Poem
- Sunday is my "sharpen the saw" day, so I try to post videos that are inspirational in some way. The video below is, I believe, exactly what we need to be thinking about as we face the week ahead. by Geoffrey James
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Public Speaking: Comic Verse
- Often a short poem will illustrate your point better than hours and hours of talk. Poems can be inspiring and motivating as well as funny, and they also add variety to your presentation. You must flawlessly memorize any poetry you use. Any stumbles will ruin the effect of the verse....
- White papers 2007-01-17
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- Pupils challenged to finish Ayckbourn play or McGough poem in new writing contest.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 March 2000-UK GOVERNMENT: Pupils challenged to finish Ayckbourn play or McGough poem in new writing contest C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28032000 Primary school pupils will be challenged to finish a story, poem, play or TV script started by...
- Research articles 2000-03-29
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