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- Shirley Smith Patterson - Wichita Falls Times Record News
HENRIETTA, Texas - Shirley Smith Patterson, 64, of Henrietta, Texas, passed away Friday, August 8, 2008, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 10, 2008, at the First Baptist Church, Bluegrove, Texas, with Rev. Joe ...
- Richard Harries: In this faithless age, we must be guided by great ... - The Independent
Poetry and novels take us into a world of their own. But the point is, and this is a key feature of both literature and, say, the Bible, is that they illuminate the actual world in which we live. There are forms of writing which do not do this, which ...
- Burt Glinn, Havana: The Revolutionary Moment - Art Cal
Burt Glinn, Havana: The Revolutionary MomentArt Cal, NY - 14 hours agoIt includes bilingual captions and text panels along with poetry excerpts from José Marti Ernesto “Che†Guevara, and Nancy Morison. ...
- CURIOUS TIMES AUG. 8 EDITION - Boise Weekly
CURIOUS TIMES AUG. 8 EDITIONBoise Weekly, USA - 3 hours agoNASA is not involved in any sort of cover-up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe," said their spokesperson. ...
- Maya Angelou Receives Honorary Doctorate from Shenandoah University - Forbes
WINCHESTER, Va., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Shenandoah University awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to world-famous literary legend Dr. Maya Angelou today, during "A Morning with Maya Angelou," the official kick-off event for the ...
- Writing Outside The Margins hits Toronto's streets (North York Mirror)
Canada's Festival of Queer Literary Arts returns to the city on Sunday, Aug. 24. The all-day festival, Writing Outside The Margins, features an array of activities for everyone, including panel discussions, an open-mic stage, a poetry slam, children's area and exclusive readings.
- Fallen Statues and Febrile Stories (The New York Sun)
Back when CD stores still existed on the Upper West Side, a Juilliard student I knew applied to work in one of them. The manager asked him one question: What opera features the popular aria "O mio babbino caro"? The student continued his job search somewhere else. This incredibly well-known air, heard in spaghetti sauce commercials and Andre Rieu concerts, is from a rather underplayed Puccini ...
- Hailing Casesars With Scrapomatic’s Mike Mattison (jambands.com)
After working with renowned producer John Snyder on their previous two releases, Mike Mattison and Paul Olsen have opted to go it alone this time. Well, not exactly, as the pair, better known as Scrapomatic have enlisted Jeff Bakos to engineer and co-produce Sidewalk Caesars along with Mattison.
- How 'Genius' Bill Walsh brought brains to a brute-force game - Inside Bay Area
For decades, the consensus held that the thinking fan's game was baseball. In its leisurely rhythms were the textures, subtleties and nuances of life itself. Football, by contrast, was the brute sport, a conflict of power and mayhem. That was before ...
- 'Piercingly insightful' 21-year-old in running for Dylan Thomas prize (Guardian Unlimited)
A 21-year-old poet is among six authors shortlisted for the lucrative Dylan Thomas prize
- Thomas comments reflect Obama's bias - The Washington Times
As I sit here in Denver, reporting from a Democratic convention that is turning out to be anything but conventional, I am reminded of the struggle that black conservatives have had to endure by going against the grain. In many ways, Sen. Barack Obama ...
- Speaking out about a bicultural life (Minnesota Public Radio)
Members of one Twin Cities' spoken word group are exploring their love of poetry and performance by writing about what it's like to be Latinos in the Midwest.
- Heaney ‘catches the heart off guard’ - Harvard University Gazette
Heaney ‘catches the heart off guard’Harvard University Gazette, MA - 2 hours agoIntroducing him was poetry scholar Helen Vendler, Harvard’s A. Kingsley Porter University Professor. She called the Northern Ireland native “a poet of the ...
- Still smarting about poetry - Moreland Leader
Moreland LeaderStill smarting about poetryMoreland Leader, Australia - Jul 30, 2008He started performing his poetry as a 20-year-old at a night organised by his sister in Ballarat. Smart loves performing poetry and is looking forward to ...
- Obituary: Hayden Carruth (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: US poet of sorrow and human dignity
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