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- Poetry, Religion, and that Pesky Paris WiF (Gay City News)
I wish the war for queer rights was more like traditional ones, where we could conquer territory, plant the rainbow flag, then retire from the scene. Unfortunately, most of our battles have mixed results. And the war shows signs of lasting even longer than operation Mired in Afghanistan.
- Small Town Girl - School Library Journal
Small Town GirlSchool Library Journal - 22 minutes agoI was writing poetry then. I remember that in seventh grade I wrote a poem about a Vietnam soldier. One of my friends showed it to my science teacher and he ...
- Collection of Rilke's letters has pride of place beside bed - South Coast Today
New Bedford police officers wade through sewage drain to arrest suspect Heroin overdoses raising concerns among local drug treatment centers Burns remembered as sensitive star Punch lines Recent arrests from Fairhaven, New Bedford With more West Nile ...
- Show is out of this world - The Star
Show is out of this worldThe Star, UK - 12 hours ago... which will be called Space Hoppers and be developed with children at Silkstone Primary School, Barnsley. y, comedy, live music and poetry, in January. ...
- Our Lady Peace frontman delivers poetic solo album - Asbury Park Press
Our Lady Peace frontman delivers poetic solo albumAsbury Park Press, NJ - 3 hours ago... of Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace, has ventured out on an introspective solo disc, "The Hunter's Lullaby," engaging his love of progressive poetry. ...
- Obituary: Emmet Ferguson Jr. was involved in politics and in medicine (The Florida Times-Union)
There will be a memorial service Saturday for Emmet Fewell Ferguson Jr., a longtime Jacksonville physician and community leader who was a friend of former President Jimmy Carter since childhood.
- Poet Laureate to give reading at Plymouth Library (The Patriot Ledger)
Robert Pinsky, who teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University, will appear at the library on Oct. 1.
- Top Books for the Globally Enlightened Student - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just in case your summer reading list has wilted in the heat, my good friend John Nunes, president of Lutheran World Relief , recently posted a booklist of top books for the globally enlightened student . The list was in response to a college ...
- Rochester high school reunion hopes to bridge gap between graduating ... - Democrat and Chronicle
Hundreds of Franklin alumni will head to the Clarion Riverside Hotel on Saturday for a reunion that organizers hope will be as much about the future as the past. All alumni of Benjamin Franklin High School are invited to the evening dinner event that ...
- Five things to do today - Aug 18 - Time Out Chicago
Five things to do today - Aug 18Time Out Chicago, IL - 22 minutes agoHBO Def Poetry Jam vets Tim Stafford and Joel Chmara host one of the city’s longest-running (and most entertaining) poetry slams. 8pm. ...
- Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of the gulag, dies (Boston Globe)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian novelist whose unyielding opposition to Soviet dictatorship made him one of the heroic figures of the 20th century, died late yesterday outside his home in Moscow. The cause of death was heart failure, his son, Stepan , told the Associated Press. He was 89.
- Dufferin centenarian Bea Moore marks milestone - Orangeville Citizen
Dufferin centenarian Bea Moore marks milestoneOrangeville Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoShe is a "voracious reader," says her granddaughter, and keeps her mind bright by memorizing and reciting poetry. "It is hard to sum up my grandmother" said ...
- Some back-to-school kid books for the beach bag - Post-Bulletin
Add some back-to-school buzz to your fun-in-the-sun summer by throwing Yoko, Splat or Wiggles into the beach bag for your kids, especially those prone to first-day jitters. In addition to new and familiar characters to soothe and prepare is a two ...
- Be creative! - Times of India
Be creative!Times of India, India - 3 hours agoYou would like to do some great thing -- great poetry. You would like to become Shakespeare, Kalidas or Milton. It is your ego that is creating the trouble. ...
- Poster poems: Songs of the city - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukPoster poems: Songs of the cityguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoEliot was quite the urban poet, and the seeds of poetry of city life are to be found in earlier poems like Preludes. His view of the city is about as far ...
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