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- Plainfield woman waxes poetic about her life - Batavia Sun
No matter what is happening in Clara Johnson's life, the 87- year-old Plainfield woman will write a poem for it. "It's a way for me to express myself," Johnson said. "For example, I just lost my husband in January; we were married 66½ very happy ...
- 31 years and counting - Metro Boston
31 years and countingMetro Boston, MA - 1 hour agoThe cities on this tour are cities I’d hit for SXSW or for a poetry reading or an art show or the Knitters would play or W would play or one of my other ...
- Book briefs: May 11, 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Book briefs: May 11, 2008Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - 33 minutes agoAward-winning poet and novelist Jimmy Santiago Baca will lecture and facilitate a poetry workshop at Cabrillo College Friday. The lecture begins at 1:30 pm ...
- My Verona - Washington Post
My VeronaWashington Post, United States - 5 hours agoThis vast rectangular piazza, which in Roman times served as the public forum and remains a center of Verona social life, is lined with stately, ...
- British actors feel right at home at C-U fest (The Champaign News-Gazette)
British actor Timothy Spall finds the Illini Union intriguing. That's where he and his wife, Shane, and other guests of Roger Ebert's Film Festival are staying. "My wife and I, we both feel about 195 because the average age around there is 19," he said. "We feel like we're from 'Jurassic Park.'"
- Paul Batou Demands Audience and Respect for Iraq - AINA
A colorful book about Iraq's history and legends, people and traditions, religions and famous sites, war and disaster. While a pharmacy student at the University of Baghdad, Paul Batou and his buddies did not know that war awaited them at the turn of ...
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- Step out to refresh with sweet music and see something new - Tryon Daily Bulletin
One of the things I love about Polk County is escaping after work on one of these hot days to cool off by the Pacolet River or even jump in a lake. Then once your cooled down and dried off your ready for an evening adventure with the wonderful local ...
- Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester - New Scientist (subscription)
Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterNew Scientist (subscription), UK - 4 hours agoHowever, the west used to see it as a curiosity, an intellectual backwater: there was some nice art and some poetry worth translating, but the Chinese were ...
- Poetry, politics and political killings (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Two days after a peasant leader was gunned down in front of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) office in Ma-a District in Davao City, a poet’s words read before a small gathering of writers, students and teachers in a university came to life
- Prince working on first book as he turns 50 - MSNBC
Discover which actors, athletes and musicians still have their charm after all these years. Then vote for your favorite older man. Prince has been known by various names, including an unpronounceable symbol and The Artist Formerly Known as Prince ...
- A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ... - Baltimore Sun
A poet goes to Washington: 'Hermit' Kay Ryan of California named ...Baltimore Sun, United States - 4 hours agoThe Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, ...
- Paul Russell: Say nothing but good of the dead; enough about abortion - National Post
Paul Russell: Say nothing but good of the dead; enough about abortionNational Post, Canada - 8 hours agoA few correspondents even turned to poetry to make their statements. Here's a short excerpt from writer/ poet Dennis Hayes: "Beguiled and foolish, ...
- Midrash love - Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
When I think of Torah, the first thing that comes to mind is a divine, rigorous system of laws that guides an ethical and holy way of life. The last thing I think about is whimsy and romance. Yet, over the past few weeks, as part of the B'nai David ...
- Tiny fiction strikes with poetic energy - News & Observer
News & ObserverTiny fiction strikes with poetic energyNews & Observer, NC - 2 hours agoJapanese haibun openly combines elements of both prose and poetry. Haibun are very brief prose narratives, usually personal, interspersed with one or more ...
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