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- Action News Extra: Local Libraries Offer Freebies (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh)
PITTSBURGH -- Gas prices gouging, the stock market dipping, subprime mortgages sinking. These are the days of wallet tightening. But there’s a quiet place of refuge where one simple card holds the key to a ton of free stuff.
- Honorary doctorate for noted poet - Stuff.co.nz
Honorary doctorate for noted poetStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 30 minutes agoShe has published 10 volumes of poetry, including several award-winning books. Her first volume won the Jessie MacKay Award and the New Zealand Book Award ...
- Writer Bill Holm's ship comes in (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The poet and essayist, who splits his time between Minnesota and Iceland, is known as "an American original."
- Choreographing An ‘Uprising’ - New York Jewish Week
Choreographing An ‘Uprising’New York Jewish Week, USA - 4 hours agoPoetry, Robert Frost famously wrote, offers “a momentary stay against confusion†— an ordered poem taming a chaotic, unruly world. ...
- Love in a Tsunami's Aftermath: Assarat's 'Wonderful Town' (The New York Sun)
'Wonderful Town," directed by Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat, takes place in a seaside town in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Though tourism has tanked, some rebuilding is in progress, and yet a certain malaise seems to have settled after the storm. This potent setting and mood is the backdrop for a fragile love story, but the stillness and vaguely drawn characters doom the movie to ...
- Hugs, Kisses, Poetry, and Verka - Feministe
Hugs, Kisses, Poetry, and VerkaFeministe - 3 hours agoThis is my (loose) translation of a Mikhail Lermontov poem. I often find it useful when contemplating the universe and its less savoury elements: We drink ...
- In the Limelight - China Daily
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- Far from the brave new world - Newindpress on Sunday
Far from the brave new worldNewindpress on Sunday, India - 2 hours agoHowever, the first recorded Oriya woman writer was Madhavi Dasi, a devotee of Sri Chaitanya, who wrote religious poetry in the mid-16th century. ...
- How Russia's baby-boosting policies are hurting the population. - Slate
ULYANOVSK, Russia—On a humid Sunday afternoon in late June, about 100 couples clutching newborn babies filed into the Lenin Memorial overlooking the wide banks of the Volga River. This mammoth concrete slab of Soviet constructivism was erected in ...
- It's Not My Party - Boston Globe
It's Not My PartyBoston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoJuly 10 is Clerihew Day, celebrating quite possibly the silliest form of poetry ever invented - four-line biographical poems in AABB rhyme scheme, ...
- Where for arts now? - Daily Telegraph
There’s an art to commissioning high-brow television at the BBC. It has to satisfy politicians and journalists who are on the lookout for dumbing down. Sir Michael Lyons and his BBC Trust are watching, particularly in the annual report, whether the ...
- Ali museum offers trip down memory lane - Frederick News Post (subscription)
Ali museum offers trip down memory laneFrederick News Post (subscription), MD - 16 minutes agoThere were other areas of the center that including hands-on activities, a short film on Ali's life and some of his poetry. But I didn't have time to see ...
- POET’S GENIUS HAS NO BOUNDARIES - Turkmenistan.ru
POET’S GENIUS HAS NO BOUNDARIESTurkmenistan.ru, Turkmenistan - 8 hours agoThe Stavropol Turkmens marked the approaching national holiday, Makhtumkuli’s Poetry Day, by opening of the first in Russia monument to the prominent poet ...
- Hendrix photographer captures diversity of Islamic culture - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)Hendrix photographer captures diversity of Islamic culturePR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 1 hour agoThe photography is interspersed with world poetry and verses from the Holy Scriptures of different religions. The book gives the reader an opportunity to ...
- Hanemaayer can't put price on pain (Toronto Star)
Almost every day for the last 20 years, Anthony Hanemaayer has thought about one thing: The albatross tossed around his neck, the crime he didn't commit.
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