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- Safe-T-City classes start next month at Scott Park - Toledo Blade
Applications are being accepted for this season's Safe-T-City classes to begin June 11. Sponsored by the Toledo Police Department, Safe-T-City is a free safety program for children about to enter kindergarten. There is also a section for ...
- Hartford County - Morning Call
Merrick Dennis, 6, of East Hartford, mimics presenter Richard Skoler as he watches the effects of air pressure on an empty soda bottle. The demonstration was one of several activities organized by the Connecticut Public Health Department as part of ...
- J.E. Braun, Author of Paranoia - A 9/11 Novel, Pledges to Donate 10% of All Profits from Sales of His Debut Novel to ... (PR.com)
NJ Author, J.E. Braun is promoting his debut novel, Paranoia, a tale of a 9/11 survivor whose life begins to self-destruct as he allows his vigilance and patriotism to devolve into fear, hatred, and all-encompassing paranoia. [PR.com - May 09, 2008]
- Popularity punctuates poetry slam; Fans fill local brewery for energetic events (The Bulletin)
Don‘t go to the Bend Poetry Slam expecting to hear tender love sonnets or haikus about the beauty of flowers.Go expecting to hear a lot language that would get bleeped out on network television; go expecting to hear frank talk about the joys and awkwardness of sex; go expecting to hear about the potent powers of alcohol. But above all, go expecting to have fun and to listen (for the most part, ...
- Book brings 'sense of community' - Lincoln Journal Star
HENDERSON — On stage, the girls wore aprons, either hand-me-downs or ones sewn specially for the occasion. The boys wore overalls, brightened with red or blue kerchiefs. Eyes sparkled. Excitement danced across every young brow. Heartland Community ...
- Contest aids literacy - Tahlequah Daily Press
Contest aids literacyTahlequah Daily Press, OK - 4 hours agoIt was interesting to examine the numbers in each of the entry categories and see that poetry is still the preferred genre of most writers – except those in ...
- Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble - Independent
Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumbleIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoThe scene is a packed community hall in Yokohama, outside Tokyo, which is hosting heats for Japan's annual poetry boxing tournament, a decade-old ...
- Rochester graduates accomplish much, hear cheers - Democrat and Chronicle
Saturday afternoon, June 7, presented us with something many of us dream about throughout the year — a languorously hot summer day. The afternoon also presented us with a more precious gift that seemed even more surreal — the third annual ...
- Mexico captures U.S. sex offender on FBI wanted list - Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police captured a convicted U.S. sex offender on the FBI's list of 10 most-wanted fugitives, who is accused of molesting a boy in a family he befriended while in prison, authorities said on Friday. Jon Savarino ...
- A journey on the King Castle trail has the columnist waxing poetic - The Register-Guard
A journey on the King Castle trail has the columnist waxing poeticThe Register-Guard, OR - 3 hours agoAs evidenced by my newspaper hack prose you wade through each Tuesday, poetry isn’t exactly my thang. Coincidence or not, my daughter Taylor has been ...
- A seminar on literature and culture held at Ghalib Academy - Indian Muslims
A seminar on literature and culture held at Ghalib AcademyIndian Muslims, CA - 4 hours agoRashid Anwar Rashid in his paper on ‘Common Culture and Contemporary Urdu Poetry’ argued that the representation of composite culture in Urdu verse is ...
- 'Exiles': Hansen gets inside poet Hopkins' head (San Francisco Chronicle)
Exiles By Ron Hansen Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 227 pages; $23 Ron Hansen's best novels, "Mariette in Ecstasy" (1991) and "Atticus" (1996), probe the realms of religion and ethics with uncommon intelligence and deeply felt characterizations of people in crisis....
- The Art of Assimilation - Brooklyn Rail
The Art of AssimilationBrooklyn Rail, NY - 14 minutes ago“Everywhere I went, I had a knapsack full of texts—philosophy, Jewish texts, poetry, fiction,” Seidman explains, which he began terming “my traveling ...
- New translations tie eternal bond between Turkey, Pakistan - The News - International
New translations tie eternal bond between Turkey, PakistanThe News - International, Pakistan - 51 minutes ago“What Faiz has done in Urdu poetry, Nazim did the same in Turkish poetry by touching the same topics and feelings, as if the souls of both poets travelled ...
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare.
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