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- It's Happening - Scarborough (Etobicoke Guardian)
CHARITY YARD SALE to benefit missionary team from First Alliance Church heading to Ndola, Zambia, South Africa. Funds raised will help with plane fare and costs of building a new library, soccer camp and other programs in the South African village.
- Time to 'fess up about data you've lost (BBC News)
At least that's how it seems with stories about missing memory sticks and mislaid CD-Roms becoming almost daily news fare. (The latest at least comes with a happy ending after an NHS stick containing the names of 200 patients was found in a street.)
- Mom and dad's lives -- real and imagined (Miami Herald)
ALFRED & EMILY. Doris Lessing. Harper. 274 pages. $25.95. Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books -- novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction -- became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This year, she has published a clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction. Alfred & Emily is a culmination of ...
- Literature Center reviews poetry of France - MehrNews.com
Literature Center reviews poetry of FranceMehrNews.com, Iran - 16 minutes agoThe early poems in French had a religious theme and most of them were religious epics on the theme of death and martyrdom, he added. ...
- Countdown to major literary festival - Hebdenbridge Today
Countdown to major literary festivalHebdenbridge Today, UK - 3 minutes agoTwo days later, Frieda Hughes, Ted Hughes’ daughter and herself a poet, will announce the winners of the Elmet poetry awards, which has attracted entries ...
- Dialect expert has the last word - Journal Live
Dialect expert has the last wordJournal Live, UK - 55 minutes agoBill Griffiths was also a poet of high reputation and visiting professor in poetry at several universities. From 2000, he was a fellow and researcher at the ...
- Cobblestone Festival revives play about turn-of-century Paris ... - Brantford Expositor
Cobblestone Festival revives play about turn-of-century Paris ...Brantford Expositor, Canada - 3 hours agoAn eccentric figure, West performed waltzes and marches, sang and recited poetry at garden parties and Sunday school picnics. The son of Scottish immigrants ...
- Publisher's focus on exiles benefits Cuban poet - MiamiHerald.com
Publisher's focus on exiles benefits Cuban poetMiamiHerald.com, FL - 6 hours ago''The poem [Balsero I] asks for an equestrian statue -- often dedicated to the martyrs that die in battle -- for people who lost their lives searching for ...
- BUSINESS PROFILE: Origins Dance Academy, Crown Point (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Amity McKiddy-Korey and Jennifer Edmond grew up together as young dancers in Northwest Indiana. Throughout the years, however, their paths took them in different directions.Ă‚Â
- Vermont Reads: Robert Frost - An Unconventional Teacher - Vermont Public Radio
Vermont Public RadioVermont Reads: Robert Frost - An Unconventional TeacherVermont Public Radio, VT - 2 hours ago(Mitch Wertlieb) Robert Frost brought everyday language into his poetry -- an innovation for his time. As part of our series this week, we examine Frost's ...
- Special night to Beat racism - Birmingham Post
Special night to Beat racismBirmingham Post, UK - 3 hours agoWith a style which mixes dub and hip hop, Dreadlock Alien was Birmingham Poet Laureate in 2005-06, host of Radio 4’s Poetry Slam in 2007, and is founder of ...
- Kunstmuseum Bern - E-Flux
Kunstmuseum BernE-Flux, NY - 22 minutes agoThe Kunstmuseum Bern is now devoting a large survey exhibition to this American artist. James Lee Byars loved what was imaginary and fleeting, equating the ...
- Did Batman smack his mum? Plus Kid Rock's Waffle House comeupance ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Kid Rock has been sentenced to a year's probation and fined $1,000 for his role in a fight at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House last fall. The very dapper Mick Jones. Foreigner's Mick Jones says the band's new career retrospective "No End in Sight: The ...
- 'Nightwood,' A Hymn To The Dispossessed - NPR News
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, two books of essays and four novels, most recently, The Sorrows of an American. She has been known to sing in her sleep, loudly. Her last known somnambulant outburst was a raucous rendition of the Mary ...
- Thursdays at the Library to present award-winning author - Macon County News
Thursdays at the Library to present award-winning authorMacon County News, NC - 44 minutes agoHe has published nine volumes of poetry and has published poems in many magazines. His book “Boone” is the 2008 Together We Read selection. ...
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