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- GET OUT: What are you doing this weekend? (The Jackson Sun)
There are plenty of things happening in West Tennessee this weekend. Here's a roundup of what's going on. To find more events, visit jacksonsun.com/getout and click events or click in the "Things to Do" box in the top right corner of the home page of jacksonsun.com.
- Meet Keiko! (Payvand Iran News)
A year after we had met, Keiko died - suddenly - of lung cancer. "I didn't know Keiko smoked!" I said to the teary-eyed friend who brought the news of her death. "She didn't," he said rather hurriedly, and added after a silence, "she was born in Hiroshima." Neither of us said much after that. -A poem by Fatemeh Keshavarz
- 'These Shining Lives' Fine script and acting make tragic tale worth watching (Pioneer Press)
"These Shining Lives" is the best thing I've seen at History Theatre. In fact, it's one of the best shows I've caught anywhere in quite a while.
- As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free speech, got him in trouble with authorities and forced him to leave Moscow last year for neighboring Ukraine. "Ukraine is just great," said the ...
- Letter of the day: From Bill Holm, with truth and conscience - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Letters to the editor for Thursday, May 15 Letter of the day: Police should be warier of high-speed chases Letters to the editor for Wednesday, May 14 Netlets for Tuesday, May 13 Letter of the day: U.N. must get tough with Myanmar thugs One of the ...
- Women's Week keynote speaker says women need to stay focused
Star-Press - An Evening with the Arts, 6:30 p.m., Pruis Hall. Featuring music, dance recital and poetry. Free. March 27 Women's Studies Essay Awards Ceremony, 5 p.m., Student Center.
- Children's book deals with school disaster - Morning Sun
Now the 73-year-old Mt. Pleasant resident has not only authored a book she's had it published. "Life is Fragile: One Girl's Look at the Bath School Disaster" is a children's novel written from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl who grew up on a ...
- Diaz captures fiction prize
Columbus Dispatch - The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer ; poetry, Mary Jo Bang for Elegy ; and criticism, Alex Ross for The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
- Nomadic educators carry earthy message (Register Pajaronian)
LA SELVA — Students beat on drums and planted trees as a caravan of earth-loving ecology educators rolled into Renaissance High School.
- Muslim women counter stereotypes (The Argus)
NEWARK — One stereotype pinned to Islam is the second-class status of women, illustrated by burqa-clad members of the fairer sex who stick out in the post-women's-lib Western world.
- Contest deadline extended to end of day Sunday - Akron Beacon Journal
Contest deadline extended to end of day SundayAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 47 minutes agoRita Dove to judge Akron's national poetry book competition this year. Former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer winner will judge the Akron Poetry Prize. ...
- Shortlisted for poetry prizes (Toronto Star)
Writers making the short lists for two national poetry prizes were announced yesterday at a launch event for National Poetry Month.
- He shows no signs of a Beckian slip - Philadelphia Inquirer
He shows no signs of a Beckian slipPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 34 minutes agoAccording to Alice Beck Dubow, 49, a Philadelphia Family Court judge, her father can quote poetry he read in high school. ...
- Wordsmithing in the Blue Room - Lake Country Calendar
Lake Country CalendarWordsmithing in the Blue RoomLake Country Calendar, Canada - 4 hours ago... a hard or soft cover book. Other participants at the workshop also brought ideas to share about how they had incorporated their own poetry into gifts. ...
- Paraded for propaganda
Asia Media - The sad irony is that long before Western feminists discovered the "plight of the Afghan woman" as one of their favorite ... These women are commemorated in poetry and literature and entire landscapes are named after them.
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