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- Juneteenth celebrated locally (The Daily Iberian)
Quick, what ended slavery for good in the United States? It might be tempting to answer “The Emancipation Proclamation,†but it wasn’t until two years later, when Union forces reached them in 1865 that slaves in Galveston, Texas, heard the news .
- A Poet's Realm of Myth and Reality - Rocky Mount Telegram
A Poet's Realm of Myth and RealityRocky Mount Telegram, NC - 1 hour agoPure Soria), as Machado described it in a poem — is much changed since he departed in 1912 after the death of his child bride, Leonor. ...
- Summer Writers Institute includes Pulitzer winners - Schenectady Gazette
Summer Writers Institute includes Pulitzer winnersSchenectady Gazette, NY - 27 minutes agoJuly 11 — Fiction reading, at Gannett Auditorium: Joyce Carol Oates (National Book Award, “Them,†“We Were the Mulvaneysâ€). July 14 — Fiction and poetry ...
- Poet Alfred Arteaga, professor of Chicano and ethnic studies, dies ... - UC Berkeley
Poet Alfred Arteaga, professor of Chicano and ethnic studies, dies ...UC Berkeley, CA - 2 hours ago... thought around the meaning of life, the possibility of truth and the uncertainty of the afterlife, concluding that art and poetry triumph over nihilist ...
- Column: Read the day away - U-Wire.com
Long before there were summer blockbusters or huge concerts in Chicago, there was summer reading. The rich and titled sat - no, reclined - on their estates, scanning John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and trying to look like they weren't checking out the ...
- 31 dog days: Blame it on the Roman emperor - New Haven Register (subscription)
31 dog days: Blame it on the Roman emperorNew Haven Register (subscription), CT - 5 hours agoAccording to one Web site I found, today is National Thriftshop Day, Monday is Bad Poetry Day, Tuesday is Potato Day, Wednesday is National Radio Day, ...
- Beach Boys, it's not, but it's got rhythm - Globe and Mail
Beach Boys, it's not, but it's got rhythmGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThe song also asserts that the "bucke verteth," which The Norton Anthology of Poetry translates as "the buck breaks wind." Scholars love to debate the point ...
- George Kimball and the Four Kings - The Sweet Science
The Sweet ScienceGeorge Kimball and the Four KingsThe Sweet Science - 31 minutes agoFrom the mid-1960s he began contributing to the arts-orientated Village Voice and The Phoenix, produced poetry fit for the Paris Review and penned an erotic ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Popmatters.com
“Sometimes I listen to my music,†Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. “And I think, ‘How is it that you have a job? You really suck.’ And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: ‘How come everybody in the ...
- Something for everyone at First Friday - Canton Repository
With music, art, food, theater, poetry, street performers, a parade, puzzle hunt and more, the First Friday arts celebration will enliven downtown Canton tonight from 6 to 10. There's plenty of live music to choose from. Second Wind and Little ...
- Register for Osher summer classes - Galveston County Daily News
Register for Osher summer classesGalveston County Daily News, TX - 1 hour agoUsing videos, music and poetry, he will transport you to a place and time that have influenced many cultures around the globe. During Fiscal Year 2007, ...
- Johnny Flynn: Stirring Up 'A Larum' - NPR News
All Things Considered , August 23, 2008 - A 25-year-old singer-songwriter, Johnny Flynn makes music that seems to draw equally from William Shakespeare and Bob Dylan: He has the ear of a poet and the mind of a storyteller. But the precocious ...
- Duncan Hamilton: Punishment through poetry. Let's teach miscreants ... - Yorkshire Post
Duncan Hamilton: Punishment through poetry. Let's teach miscreants ...Yorkshire Post, UK - 12 minutes ago... Your Life class to the drunken miscreants. Parini's aim is to convey the way in which Frost "was able to speak as a common man" through his poetry. ...
- A twisting career path - Delaware Online
WASHINGTON -- More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. Ryan's appointment as the nation's new ...
- A Feast For Book Lovers (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
Volunteers at the annual Sonoma County Book Festival already know about the power of books to inspire and explain the human condition.
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