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- Building Peace in Iraq - YES! Magazine
Building Peace in IraqYES! Magazine, WA - 11 hours agoby David Smith Ferri Recently I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in the state of Colorado, giving poetry readings and speaking to communities about a ...
- Senior poets, well versed in life’s rhyme and reason - The Villager
Senior poets, well versed in life’s rhyme and reasonThe Villager, NY - 10 minutes agoLily Georgick comes to the Greenwich House poetry workshop from Jackson Heights. She started writing poems 30 years ago and has been bringing them to ...
- Invest, but where? - Globe and Mail
Invest, but where?Globe and Mail, Canada - 23 hours agoPoetry, but no food. Take the money earmarked for a portrait gallery and redirect it to infrastructure projects. Spend it on job retraining, teachers, ...
- Dogs of Brooklyn - mediabistro.com
Dogs of Brooklynmediabistro.com, NY - 14 hours ago... the mean streets of Prospect Heights, built her Susie's Pet Care business, and written poems about the furry, funny creatures she works with every day. ...
- The necessity of art - Petaluma Argus-Courier
The necessity of artPetaluma Argus-Courier, CA - 16 hours agoIn addition, the Petaluma Poetry Walk will be holding an author event beginning at 10 am Sept. 21 in celebration of the arts center opening.
- Enjoying an unexpected dose of steam - Lake County News Chronicle
Enjoying an unexpected dose of steamLake County News Chronicle, MN - 17 hours agoPoetry in motion. Once again, I'm back to having to wait a whole year for more steam. But now I think I have a large enough collection of photos to get a ...
- Matshikiza's fans say goodbye (The Star)
He was one of a rare breed, but John Matshikiza probably died not knowing how many people admired, respected and loved him. On Friday, however, the bustling scenes at his memorial service at the Bassline in Newtown, Johannesburg, told the true story.
- Paperbacks: Answering Back, Ed. Carol Ann Duffy (Independent)
PICADOR £8.99 (148PP) (FREE P&P) FROM 0870 079 8897Good poetry is always a spirited conversation between then and now. This eye-opening anthology pairs 46 poems from the past with new partners: works by current poets that echo, wrestle, back-chat or otherwise engage with them. The couplings are sometimes odd, but always lively. Wit, mischief and (as Duffy's preface puts it) "electricty" crackle ...
- South Africa: Thabo Mbeki's Downfall - AllAfrica.com
The strident clamour of calls for the ANC to axe the "lame-duck" President Thabo Mbeki is far from the epithets the country's leader once enjoyed as the crown prince who became the philosopher king and was hailed as Mr Delivery. As Mbeki's comrades ...
- Erieville poet to read, sign work today (The Post-Standard)
Poet and photographer Rachael Z. Ikins, of Erieville, will offer a book reading and signing at the Canastota Public Library's Lawson Community Room at 7 p.m. today.
- Poetry and the environment - knox.VillageSoup.com
knox.VillageSoup.comPoetry and the environmentknox.VillageSoup.com, ME - 4 hours agoThe poetry reading and reception celebrating the environment are free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Camden Public Library and the ...
- DVDs: 'Made of Honor' is sweet - Oakland Tribune
DVDs: 'Made of Honor' is sweetOakland Tribune, CA - 4 hours agoThe film bears some similarities to "My Best Friend's Wedding," but where the latter was mean-spirited, this one's sweet as McLuscious. ...
- Faculty Showcase - University of Indianapolis
Faculty ShowcaseUniversity of Indianapolis, United States - 8 hours agoMitzi Westra celebrates the 100th birthday of the revered American Elliott Carter with his Three Poems of Robert Frost from 1942. Harry Miedema unveils his ...
- SARAH VOWELL (The Wichita Eagle)
Writer Sarah Vowell has almost as many former lives as current ones. But they somehow blend together, rather than clash. This makes her far more interesting than she'd be if she'd either stayed in her native Oklahoma or been born in Manhattan, where she lives now. She grew up working class (her father is a gunsmith) in a tiny town near Muskogee, where she spent her early years as a devout ...
- Dallas activists in 1960s struggled against status quo in a time ... - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning NewsDallas activists in 1960s struggled against status quo in a time ...Dallas Morning News, TX - 49 minutes agoThe paper covered the area music scene and printed reviews, letters, cartoons, short stories and poetry. It kept tabs on the local drug trade, from arrests ...
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