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- Big Day for Small Press - Torontoist
TorontoistBig Day for Small PressTorontoist, Canada - 3 hours agoPack up your poetry chapbooks and start flirting with your local copy shop boy/girl – the Toronto Small Press Book Fair is upon us once again. ...
- Man Sues Over Scalping Arrest (The New York Sun)
A security guard who took his wife and two children to hear a poetry reading at Lincoln Center last summer was falsely accused of trying to scalp his tickets and ultimately arrested, the man claims in a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Mohammad Ahmed,49, had gone to Lincoln Center with his family to see a Bollywood star, Amitabh Bachchan, read aloud the poetry of the ...
- Thriving at 90 - MySanAntonio
Kathleen Bonnett puts her trust in a few, simple philosophies. Be honest. Love God. Treat others with decency and respect. Have a courageous heart. And by all means stop and smell the roses along the way. It's a faith that has stood her well during ...
- Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ (The Block Island Times)
Reluctant to sit for interviews, Mary Oliver prefers to be known through her work, which in the end best defines her as an individual as well as a poet. Choosing to deflect interest in herself as a personality, the writer seems happy simply to dissolve into her poetry.
- Alzheimer's Disease - Newsday
ATLANTA -- For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday, although the United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span. The increase is due mainly to falling ...
- Meet a smile in Myanmar's diaspora - Jakarta Post
Meet a smile in Myanmar's diasporaJakarta Post, Indonesia - 7 hours agoBut Nai Nai remembers her student days when poetry, plays and newspapers were heavily censored. It's not only the ethnic groups' identity the junta wants to ...
- Students key to re-enacting past (The York Weekly)
The education and curatorial departments have been particularly busy over the past several weeks as the museum prepares to open for its 108th season. Seasonal staff and volunteers — novice and veteran alike — are being oriented to the museum...
- Knight Rider: KITT's Cylon Laser Saves The Day - io9
Knight Rider: KITT's Cylon Laser Saves The Dayio9, CA - 1 hour agoOh, and the ability to help you pick up the hottest girl in any bar by feeding you exactly the right poetry. Click through for insanely bizarre details from ...
- Funny and sad tribute to lost wife is the Book of the Year (icWales)
A DIARY written by one of Wales’ leading poets, chronicling life after his wife’s death in a car crash, was last night named Wales Book of the Year 2008.
- Ode to a hamster - Seward Phoenix Log
Ode to a hamsterSeward Phoenix Log, AK - 3 hours agoCould we publish his poem? It was for an English class, he explained, and if he couldn’t find a market he would fail the assignment. Being avid poetry ...
- Slam poet chills his audience - Nanaimo Daily News
Slam poet chills his audienceNanaimo Daily News, Canada - 2 hours agoI assure you, Koyczan may have struggled, but the man is far from depressed and he continues to have repeated success with a variety of his poetry, ...
- Of cities and their souls - DAWN Group
If locally-produced entertainment programming is anything to go by, Lahore and Karachi are two different worlds – neither understands the other or even makes the attempt. Wherever on television you come upon a Karachiite and a Lahori in the same ...
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Santa Monica - Times Daily
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86 ...
- SPOTLIGHT (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A tribute to Indian and Middle Eastern traditions will take place during the World Vibration Concert Series at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.
- India: The Place of Sex - The New York Review of Books
India: The Place of SexThe New York Review of Books - 2 hours agoElsewhere, Hindu sculpture can often be explicitly and unembarrassedly erotic, as can much classical Hindu poetry: Kalidasa's poem The Birth of Kumara has ...
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