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- Calendar Event Listings 8-20-08 (City Pulse)
Wednesday, August 20 EVENTS City Pulse Back to School Issue Kickoff. Help your favorite newspaper celebrate its seventh anniversary and the release of the Back to School Issue. 3 – 8 p.m. FREE. The Peanut Barrel, 521 E. Grand River Ave., East Lansing. (517) 371-5600 x 12.
- Poet recites verses - Daily Free Press (subscription)
Poet recites versesDaily Free Press (subscription), MA - 22 hours agoAs Seamus Heaney read his poetry at Harvard University last night, his listeners seemed to have a renewed faith in the power of the written word. ...
- He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesHe's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verseLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoFor him, poetry is as much about hatred as it is about love. Kleinzahler carries himself like a boxer: sure-footed, as if ready to throw a punch. ...
- Stories Behind The Hymns - Gaffney Ledger (subscription)
Stories Behind The HymnsGaffney Ledger (subscription), USA - Jul 11, 2008He had a gift of writing poetry and verse at a very young age in grammar school. He was attending sch... The full version of this story will be available to ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, August 15th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Carl Jung who said, "The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid." Some observations on the news... I know people suffering with dementia whose memory works better than does ...
- Local and State Organizations Collaborate to Hold Press Conference and Rally for Day of Remembrance for Victims of ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Several local and statewide organizations, as well as family and loved ones of homicide victims, will gather at the state capitol to remember those lost to murder and speak to the need for violence prevention.
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate (The Charlotte Observer)
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The Niagara River," "Say Uncle" and "Elephant Rocks" hold the top three spaces on Amazon.com's list of best-selling poetry books, and are out of stock. Meanwhile ...
- PM finds time for daughter's trek into ancient history - Sify
PM finds time for daughter's trek into ancient historySify, India - 7 minutes ago... details ranging from Sangam poetry and hymns of Rig Veda to artfully executed pottery of the Stone Age. Above all, the book-launch event also turned out ...
- Parting Words: The Poetry Of Mahmoud Darwish - NPR
Wall Street JournalParting Words: The Poetry Of Mahmoud DarwishNPR - 4 hours agoAll Things Considered, August 9, 2008 · Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died Saturday in Houston after complications from open-heart surgery. He was 67. ...Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies Ha'aretzPoet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 The Press AssociationPalestinian poet Darwish dies BBC NewsJerusalem Post - International Middle East Media Centerall 307 news articles
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- Gallery DeForest will close - Ashland Daily Tidings
Gallery DeForest, 270 Fourth St., will be the second gallery in two months to close in Ashland’s historic Railroad District when its current show ends Oct. 25. A second gallery in Ashland's historic Railroad District is closing. Cathy DeForest ...
- Scholars Defend American Literature (The Harvard Crimson)
With the announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature expected in the coming days, many literary hopefuls are sure to be on the edges of their seats as American authors like Philip Roth, John Updike ’54, and Joyce Carol Oates are considered for the prize.
- Hard Reds by Brandi Homan - Bookslut
Hard Reds by Brandi HomanBookslut, IL - 51 minutes agoThis confident debut promises much more to come, as Homan herself admits in the opening poem, "Explaining Poetry on a First Date": "It's affliction not ...
- Jensen: Salman Rushdie promotes ‘Enchantress of Florence’ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India’s Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away.
- The rise of Kyte TV - Media Guardian
The rise of Kyte TVMedia Guardian, UK - 9 hours agoIn the same way Twitter has a few uses (poetry, distribution, discussion, organsing meet-ups...) I think Kyte is different things to different people; ...
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