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- New 'Indiana Jones' movie is a fun, silly romp - Cleveland Plain Dealer
David James/Paramount Pictures/Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford, center, as Indiana Jones, with Shia LaBeouf, left, as Mutt Williams and Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood. You may have heard of this one: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ...
- The Ode Man of the Mountain (Concord Monitor)
Americans of a certain age might remember Robert Frost as the white-haired codger at JFK's inauguration, a very old New Frontiersman struggling against the January cold and sunlight to read a poem composed for the occasion. Between the glare and the paper-rattling wind, the old man wasn't up to the task.
- J.E. Braun, Author of Paranoia - A 9/11 Novel, Pledges to Donate 10% of All Profits from Sales of His Debut Novel to ... (PR.com)
NJ Author, J.E. Braun is promoting his debut novel, Paranoia, a tale of a 9/11 survivor whose life begins to self-destruct as he allows his vigilance and patriotism to devolve into fear, hatred, and all-encompassing paranoia. [PR.com - May 09, 2008]
- Popularity punctuates poetry slam; Fans fill local brewery for energetic events (The Bulletin)
Don‘t go to the Bend Poetry Slam expecting to hear tender love sonnets or haikus about the beauty of flowers.Go expecting to hear a lot language that would get bleeped out on network television; go expecting to hear frank talk about the joys and awkwardness of sex; go expecting to hear about the potent powers of alcohol. But above all, go expecting to have fun and to listen (for the most part, ...
- Effort on to restore Ga. poet Byron Herbert Reece's farm - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Effort on to restore Ga. poet Byron Herbert Reece's farmAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 2 hours agoReece was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, but he stayed close to home to care for his parents, who were both stricken by tuberculosis, ...
- Contest aids literacy - Tahlequah Daily Press
Contest aids literacyTahlequah Daily Press, OK - 4 hours agoIt was interesting to examine the numbers in each of the entry categories and see that poetry is still the preferred genre of most writers – except those in ...
- Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble - Independent
Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumbleIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoThe scene is a packed community hall in Yokohama, outside Tokyo, which is hosting heats for Japan's annual poetry boxing tournament, a decade-old ...
- Rochester graduates accomplish much, hear cheers - Democrat and Chronicle
Saturday afternoon, June 7, presented us with something many of us dream about throughout the year — a languorously hot summer day. The afternoon also presented us with a more precious gift that seemed even more surreal — the third annual ...
- Mexico captures U.S. sex offender on FBI wanted list - Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police captured a convicted U.S. sex offender on the FBI's list of 10 most-wanted fugitives, who is accused of molesting a boy in a family he befriended while in prison, authorities said on Friday. Jon Savarino ...
- A journey on the King Castle trail has the columnist waxing poetic - The Register-Guard
A journey on the King Castle trail has the columnist waxing poeticThe Register-Guard, OR - 3 hours agoAs evidenced by my newspaper hack prose you wade through each Tuesday, poetry isn’t exactly my thang. Coincidence or not, my daughter Taylor has been ...
- Wachner's 'Proud' Debut With Washington Chorus - Washington Post
What was originally scheduled as a guest appearance proved to be an inauguration. Julian Wachner's program with the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center on Sunday afternoon was his first concert as the group's music director-designate. As I noted ...
- 'Exiles': Hansen gets inside poet Hopkins' head (San Francisco Chronicle)
Exiles By Ron Hansen Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 227 pages; $23 Ron Hansen's best novels, "Mariette in Ecstasy" (1991) and "Atticus" (1996), probe the realms of religion and ethics with uncommon intelligence and deeply felt characterizations of people in crisis....
- Holocaust Remembrance concert builds musical bridges over time (Seattle Times)
Sixty-three years ago this month, horrified Allied troops entered the Nazi concentration camps of Europe and brought to a close one of the...
- New translations tie eternal bond between Turkey, Pakistan - The News - International
New translations tie eternal bond between Turkey, PakistanThe News - International, Pakistan - 51 minutes ago“What Faiz has done in Urdu poetry, Nazim did the same in Turkish poetry by touching the same topics and feelings, as if the souls of both poets travelled ...
- Community Calendar - The Gazette (Montreal)
Community CalendarThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 1 hour agoOriginal poetry, prose, music and more. Call 514-457-3144. Ste. Anne de Bellevue Art Expo will run from June 5 to Sept. 1. Looking for professional and ...
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