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- Where are the gun rights groups now? - OpEdNews.com
Imagine this. John White, a black man from Long Island, NY gets a jail term for defending his home when a white mob arrives to harm his son, yet Joe Horn, a white Texan, shoots two people dead on his neighbor’s lawn who weren’t even bothering him ...
- For better or verse! - Deccan Herald
For better or verse!Deccan Herald, India - 1 hour ago“Modern poetry has lost its universality. You still enjoy a Frost or a Shakespeare. That’s what rhyme does.There is something in human beings that reacts to ...
- Writing Outside The Margins hits Toronto's streets (East 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 disc...
- From Service Function to Discipline - Inside Higher Ed
As thousands of the professors who teach writing and rhetoric gather in New York City this week, many of their programs are on a roll. Instructors who long felt tethered in English departments, and relegated to teaching freshman comp or remedial ...
- In praise of perversion - The Independent
We are all sick in our own way," Felix Quinn declares. Felix Quinn is the hero of my new novel, The Act of Love, and he, admittedly, has an axe to grind.
- ‘Why can’t we play together?’ (Malta Today)
Fifteen days ago Mahmoud Darwish died of complications following open heart surgery in a hospital in Texas. Millions around the world mourn the death of this 67 year old Palestinian poet who has been translated in more than 20 different languages around the world.
- It's good old rhyme time (Orange County Register)
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- Lost in Lost in Austen: episode three - Guardian Unlimited
Ding dong dell, Darcy's in the well . Actually, it was more of a pond. Or a small lake. Or some manner of mossy garden lido, with urns. Whatever the identity of the artificial body of water in which Darcy found his hot britches dunked, however, the ...
- Worship is at the core of Linfield United Church of Christ - Pottstown Mercury
Worship is at the core of Linfield United Church of ChristPottstown Mercury, PA - 2 hours ago"I will sing praises to my God all my life long. "Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre. Sing to the LORD a new song, ...
- In 'My Sister, My Love,' Oates fictionalizes JonBenet Ramsey (Boulder Daily Camera)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates. Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Listen to What You're Editing - NewsBlaze
Listen to What You're EditingNewsBlaze, CA - 2 hours agoI wouldn`t suggest casting the idea in cement, however, because some poetry, and sometimes even prose, requires a visual context. ...
- Across the Page: Recent Favorites - AfterEllen.com
Across the Page: Recent FavoritesAfterEllen.com - 1 hour ago... Babyji by Abha Dawesar; Miss McGhee by Bett Norris; and The Niagara River, a collection of poetry by the recently appointed US Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan. ...
- Poem of young Lithuanian poet Lukas to be published in Britain - The Baltic Course
Poem of young Lithuanian poet Lukas to be published in BritainThe Baltic Course, Latvia - 2 hours agoHe does not feel exceptional despite the fact that his poem will be soon read by thousands of poetry fans. The certificate signed by Alison Jones, ...
- Estelle Getty, thank you for being a friend (Salon.com)
The Golden Girl died this morning at the age of 84.
- Nuit, Blanched - Eye Weekly
Nuit, BlanchedEye Weekly, Canada - 9 minutes agoTranscribed as sound and form, the abject text is transformed, animated, and offers itself in an experimental relationship between (non)sense and poetry, ...
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