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What Would D. H. Lawrence Make Of Blogging And Tweeting?

Telegraph | Michael Deacon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Edith Sitwell, Thomas Hardy, Twitter, Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, New Writers, Ezra Pound, Blogging, Authors, Books News

A biography of the poet Edith Sitwell, published this week, shows what a roaring snob she could be. It seems that she looked down her (startlingly lar...

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My Ex Published A Poetry Collection--About Me!

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Poetry Magazine, John Hennessy, Lisa Catherine Harper, Yeats, Love Poetry, Keats, Love Poems, Clarence Major, Poetry, Books News

The Poetry Foundation: Poems From My Ex After the love affair, there were poems. By Lisa Catherine Harper Fifteen years after we broke up, my ex-boy...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day: Celebrating Great Irish Writers (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: James Joyce, St. Patrick's Day, Samuel Beckett, Slidepollajax, Colm Toibin, Irish Writers, John Banville, Books, Ireland, Happy St. Patrick's Day, Irish Authors, Yeats, Bestsellers, Literary Prizes, Authors, Books News

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Though Ireland is a small country, it has had a huge impact on the English-speaking world over the course of its history. Som...

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For the Seriously Faithful, Choosing Resistance as an Organizing Principle (and becoming Glenn Beck's worst nightmare??)

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Read More: Supreme Court, The Bible, Bible, Populism, Dignity, Fascist, An Inconvenient Truth, Second Coming, Sarah Palin, Fascism, Safe Space in Tough Times, Apocalypse, Safe Space, Resistance, Glenn Beck, Yeats, Firestorm, Religion, Religion News
Rev. Peter Laarman

it seems to me that the only way forward for leaders who fully understand the dangerous nature of these times is to be both persistently reasonable and persistently theological.

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Stage, Screen Stars Record Poetry Album

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Cynthia Nixon, Yeats, Poems, Poets, Jason Alexander, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Poetry, John Lundberg, Pablo Neruda, Hollywood, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

One hundred Hollywood and Broadway stars, including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cynthia Nixon and Jason Alexander, are recording their favorite poems for a ...

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The Best Lack All Conviction

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Arkansas, Soylent Green, Mark Sanford, Underpants Bomber, John Ensign, Party of No, Dan Krotz, William Butler Yeats, Daniel Krotz, Bookseller, Larry Craig, Barack Obama, Yeats, David Vitter, Berryville, Politics News
Daniel Krotz

President Obama seems to be having a rocky time steering the Ship of State lately. He tacks right, he tacks left; he sails in an ever widening circle. We've been given many explanations for this reality.

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Al's Poem

William Petrocelli | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Al Gore, Global Warming, Science Writing, Climate Science, Al Gore Poem, Climate Change, Our Choice, Science, Our Choice Poem, Books, Al Gore Our Choice, Yeats, Books News
William Petrocelli

Al Gore keeps reassuring nervous audiences that we have the tools to solve the crisis. Time is short, he says, but it hasn't run out yet. And with all that, he had time to write a poem - one that Yeats might have been proud of.

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Unrequited Love: Is There Ever an Upside?

Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Read More: Court, Unrequited Love, Suitor, Love, Henry James, Yeats, Courtship, Suit, Style News
Robert Fuller

No suitor wants to admit it, but those who don't return our love often give us something as valuable as those who do.

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Sarah Palin In Verse

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Sarah Palin Speech, Yeats, Poetry, Sarah Palin, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

I was wondering what kind of mother, being an avowed evangelical and knowing that her underage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock, would choose to ac...

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