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- What's in a Name? - Slate
On frozen winter nights in Minneapolis, I used to lie in the dark and listen to the high-school hockey scores. They were read out on the radio—hockey is always news in Minnesota—but I didn't much care who won. I was 10 or 11 years old, a little ...
- Iran honors great poet Omar Khayyam - PRESS TV
PRESS TVIran honors great poet Omar KhayyamPRESS TV, Iran - 3 hours agoHe is best known for his poetry and his quatrains, dubbed “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, which was popularized among other nations through Edward Marlborough ...
- Salem area welcoming to diverse groups (Salem Statesman Journal)
M. Lee Pelton was named president of Willamette University in 1998.
- Elinor Lyon: Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled ... - The Independent
Author of 20 well received children's novels, Elinor Lyon ceased writing in 1975, at a time when the new emphasis on urban social realism in junior fiction had made her own stories seem increasingly out of date. But for many older readers, her ...
- Shakespeare in a Hawaiian setting (The Record)
Shakespeare, these days, has something in common with TV's "Survivor." And that thing is: location, location, location.
- Summer reading lists just got longer with new books by local writers - Cape Cod Times
Summer reading lists just got longer with new books by local writersCape Cod Times, MA - 1 hour agoThe New York Times Book Review has written of Toby Olson that "nothing can detract from (his) ability to conjure gorgeous prose passages that celebrate the ...
- Book Reviews: Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People; National Anthem (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People: New and Selected Poems 1979-2007. By Susan Firer. The Backwaters Press. 163 pages. $16. National Anthem. By Kevin Prufer. Four Way Books. 82 pages. $15.95. Susan Firer and Ke...
- Events for the family (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Special Events Philadelphia Battle on the Runway Invited guests include Eva Marcille & Jaslene Gonzalez, Winners of 'America's Next Top Model.' Tickets & info: 646-881-0324. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St.; 215-418-4700. www.mmmmodelmanagement.com. 6/29 noon-10 pm.
- Robert Greacen: Ulster poet of considerable gifts - The Independent
In the years just before and after the Second World War, the north of Ireland was thought of, if at all, as a province culturally in the doldrums and religiously on the boil. "There was an almost complete blank in poetic utterance and in drama ...
- 'Step outside the box': Immaculate grads urged to pursue their dreams (The News-Times)
DANBURY -- Immaculate High School Principal Richard Stoops gathered his 99 seniors outside the Danbury school after their graduation Wednesday so they could toss their caps into the air in unison.For them, it was his final show of leadership, and in their joyful exuberance the class of 2008 revealed their sense of community for the school most of them had attended for the past four years.
- North Smithfield High salutes top grads (The Woonsocket Call)
NORTH SMITHFIELD — Corey Brier is the valedictorian and Jennifer Brodeur is the salutatorian for the North Smithfield High School Class of 2008, Principal David S. Silva has announced.
- Interview: War Child, Rapper Emmanuel Jal « - Village Voice
Interview: War Child, Rapper Emmanuel Jal «Village Voice, NY - 1 hour agoThere’s poetry. There’s all kind of different, different sound. And sound vary from different village, from different place. But there’s also the music that ...
- Arts in Brief - Fort Worth Business Press
Arts in BriefFort Worth Business Press, TX - 7 hours agoReservations ($5-$10) for the Advertising Federation event can be made online at www.sunsummerkickoff.com. The Kimbell Art Museum will present Part No. ...
- MLC PR SIGNS INDIE SOLO ARTIST MICHAEL JAMES - openPR (press release)
openPR (press release)MLC PR SIGNS INDIE SOLO ARTIST MICHAEL JAMESopenPR (press release), Germany - 13 hours agoHis music is poetry in motion, and the indie music scene really needs more music with substance right now,” says president of MLC PR, Mona Loring. ...
- The Broken Word, by Adam Foulds; Mandeville, by Matthew Francis; For All We Know, by Ciaran Carson (Independent)
The Broken Word is Adam Foulds's first published poetry (he has written a well-regarded novel). It shows a young man, Tom, fresh from "the bark/ and whine and snivel/ and brag" of school, plunged into service against the 1950s "Mau Mau" uprising in Kenya. The blurb explains this – a pity, because Foulds lets us find out decade, place and bloody context by degrees. The poem quietly initiates ...
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