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- Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration - Phoenix New Times
The slogan of the Valley of the Sun Juneteenth planning committee is “Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Future.” Ugh. Strangely, the same folks who cooked up that bland, Chamber of Commerce jingle are responsible for the kickin’ Valley of ...
- Kay Ryan, outsider with sly style, named poet laureate (International Herald Tribune)
A reserved writer who has been compared to Emily Dickinson, Ryan has been chosen to succeed Charles Simic as the nation's 16th poet laureate
- Exhibit a testament to city's visual-arts scene (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The exhibition "Pittsburgh Now" at SPACE, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's largest Downtown gallery, is a tidy showing of works by mature Pittsburgh-area artists.
- A minute silence for Mariama Ba - Nigerian Tribune
A minute silence for Mariama BaNigerian Tribune, Nigeria - 42 minutes agoThis time around, I will suggest you make time to read Ifa Divination poetry. Therein, you will find gems of intellectual thoughts of our fathers. ...
- Tattle: Heart attack sidelines Kelsey Grammer (Philadelphia Daily News)
KELSEY GRAMMER is recovering from a mild heart attack in Hawaii, his publicist, Stan Rosenfield, has told "Extra." Grammer suffered the attack Saturday, and is resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital. He is expected to be released in the next few days.
- Poets provide accounts of early New Braunfels - Herald Zeitung
Poets provide accounts of early New BraunfelsHerald Zeitung, TX - 2 hours agoGovier emphasized the poetry of Goldbeck because he believed that none gave a more complete picture of early life in New Braunfels. ...
- art June 17 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 5.30 pm: (The Telegraph)
Industrialist Sanjay Budhia will inaugurate Bonded Friendship, the 24th group exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures by well-known artists. June 17 - 23 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South (B) Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Colour Jugglers presents an exhibition of contemporary works by Prasanna Chaudhuri, Subhabrata Bose, Sudipta Dutta and Utpal Dutta.
- Best in Verse It's National Poetry Month—what should you read? - Slate
Poets talk about the attention brought by National Poetry Month the way kids talk about food at summer camp—it's terrible, and there's not enough of it. For the rest of the reading world, the initiative has all the appeal of a charity drive. While ...
- Diego Riviera's bicycle pursuit of Frida Kahlo in Hampstead - Hampstead and Highgate Express
Diego Riviera's bicycle pursuit of Frida Kahlo in HampsteadHampstead and Highgate Express, UK - 4 hours agoHampstead also features in a pair of paintings of lovers called Poetry in Motion, with I (pictured) set outside the Holly Bush pub and II in nearby Golden ...
- Fairytale journey for brave little Phoebe - Sunday Life
A brave Bangor youngster paralysed in an horrific hit-and-run accident seven years ago has just had the trip of a lifetime to Eurodisney. Phoebe Lyle (10), her brother Patrick and their parents Jane and Robert travelled to the resort outside Paris ...
- Media Excuse Obama's False Advertising - Gather.com
Media Excuse Obama's False AdvertisingGather.com, MA - 1 hour agoHis "poetry" is viciously anti-American and pro-Soviet. And yet Obama listened to it growing up. All of this has been well-documented in numerous articles ...
- English Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships (Newswise)
Paul Sorrentino was awarded a Guggenheim for his work on the life of Stephen Crane. Bob Hicok, awarded the Guggenheim for poetry, has been called one of the best poets of his generation. He also garnered the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for his most recent collection, This Clumsy Living.
- Local Polish history advocate honored (The Republican)
SOUTH HADLEY - Making people more aware of Polish history has motivated Carolyn C. Topor to a lifetime of good works that recently culminated in her receiving the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
- At girl's memorial, a call to action (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The grandfather of slain 4-year-old Jasmine Owens sent out a clarion call Saturday to the more than 100 attendees at a memorial service commemorating the one-year anniversary of Jasmine's death.
- Jersey Cape Writer's Society invites criticism - Atlantic City Press
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP - You'd think a writer would prefer his work not be critiqued, but members of the Jersey Cape Writer's Society count on it. The group, which meets at 7 p.m. the last Tuesday of each month at the Wetlands Institute, is composed of ...
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