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- The Rogan Boys Find a Friend in Documentary Director Albert Maysles (The New York Observer)
Last December, bearded designer Rogan Gregory and his partner Scott Hahn were invited to a Christmas party at the Midtown home of nonegenarian labor lawyer and free subway advocate Theodore Kheel . Mayor Michael Bloomberg was there, as was Police Commissioner Ray Kelly . ("It was definitely a bit of an older crowd," recalled Mr. Hahn.) The duo, feeling perhaps a bit out of place, ...
- Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and Farsi - Lebanon Daily Star
NEW YORK: Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, thousands of intellectuals, activists and poets have left Iran, many fleeing to Europe and the United States. A new book brings together the work of 18 Iranian poets from this diaspora to share their ...
- Curious journey (The Columbus Dispatch)
More than a decade and a half ago, losing hope that her work would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing a poem about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem gets. Her appointment on July 17 by Librarian of Congress James Billington as the new U.S. poet laureate caps one of the most unusual careers in American letters. Hers is "a very original poetic voice," ...
- Community Notes - Abington Mariner
To send an announcement, write to the Watertown TAB, 254 Second Ave., Needham, MA 02494; fax 781-433-8202 or e-mail watertown@cnc.com. Please keep submissions to 150 words or fewer. The deadline for listing submissions is Friday at 5 p.m. for the ...
- Craigslist romance: How I met my wife with a sofabed - Times Online
It's astonishing how many things you can find to sell on Craigslist, even in a zero-capital home such as my own. So far I've managed to get rid of an old wall mirror (not strictly mine), a couple of foldup chairs, an outdoor barbecue, a coffee table ...
- A family nourished by art, poetry and love - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gus Chan/The Plain Dealer Isis Webb, right, with children, left to right, Consuela Brown, Ricardo Brown and Sequoia Versillee. CREATIVE CLEVELAND This ongoing series explores people, places and events that stir the desire to create. To suggest a ...
- Boy, 6, hailed a hero after saving drowning friend - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Focusing on price fires up Wal-Mart's results Fayetteville, Ark. —- Wal-Mart executives said Friday that a reinvigorated focus on price has allowed the world's largest retailer to beat out competitors in a challenging economic environment... Wal ...
- Go with the floe to 'Iceberg Alley' in Canada - Los Angeles Times
Go with the floe to 'Iceberg Alley' in CanadaLos Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours ago... wedged, domed, pinnacled and dry docked (U-shaped) -- in real life, these glacial carvings are pure poetry: "stupendous ramparts," wrote Edgar Allan Poe ...
- Skip to the heart beat and it's all the more rosy - Sydney Morning Herald
Skip to the heart beat and it's all the more rosySydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoPoetry has long agreed with Baruch, or Moses, or whoever really wrote Deuteronomy. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner is redeemed only when, unthinking, ...
- Whitaker writing for web magazine - Hannibal Courier-Post
The monthly online magazine features a diverse range of content and humor. Cynic Magazine Online, offering high-quality poetry and prose from across the world, also sponsors a number of contests for writers. In addition to the magazine, Whitaker’s ...
- Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism - New York Sun
Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New CriticismNew York Sun, United States - 2 hours ago... what modern poetry had become: an art that, in Tate's words, "demands ... in its writing and in its reading all the intellectual power that we have. ...
- Meditate, Pray and Replenish in Catskills - ABC News
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the ...
- Book Review (Santa Monica Mirror)
Those who have followed the poetry scene in Southern California know about FrancEyE (aka Frances Dean Smith). She has been reading and publishing her poetry since the 1960s and until recently, lived in Ocean Park.
- Rolling By the Book - Cigar Aficionado
Rolling By the BookCigar Aficionado - 14 minutes agoThese readings were enjoyed so much that many workers acquired the capacity to repeat by heart whole chapters of classical works of prose and poetry. ...
- Frankfurt Guide (RainbowNetwork.com)
Frankfurt am Main is Germany’s centre of trade with a city skyline that wouldn’t look out of place in North America.
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