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- Her Own Society (The New Yorker)
In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of . . .
- New York Fashion Week: Fluid, Sexy Lines for Spring 2009 - TheImproper.com
TheImproper.comNew York Fashion Week: Fluid, Sexy Lines for Spring 2009TheImproper.com, NY - 1 hour agoOmnilou: Beauty blossoms were the signature of the designer; poetry in motion set to the theme of the collection. Not to be worn for any occasion, ...
- CHILDREN TO GET FREE BOOKS - Ed Exec
CHILDREN TO GET FREE BOOKSEd Exec, UK - 4 minutes agoPrimary schools are set to benefit from free poetry books, according to a new charity initiative. The charity, the Booktrust scheme, will send 750000 packs ...
- Willa Cather, 1873-1947: She Celebrated Europeans Who Settled in ... - Voice of America
Voice of AmericaWilla Cather, 1873-1947: She Celebrated Europeans Who Settled in ...Voice of America - 6 hours agoIt was a book of poetry. Two years later she published a book of stories called "The Troll Garden." The owner of a New York magazine, SS McLure, ...
- On being 100, 'regretflix', and blurbing poetry - Slate
Yet again , I bring special qualifications to the week's Fraywatch subjects: I too was charmed by 100-year-old Diary geezer Leon Despres, and I too have a copy of Hotel Rwanda sitting unwatched near my TV. We were all in it together this week, with ...
- Back to School - Wall Street Journal
As a kid, going back to school was never quite like this. As part of a shipboard education program, Marty Zafman, a retired human-resources consultant, worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta and dined in Havana -- while Fidel Castro spoke to him and ...
- Travel briefs - Times and Democrat
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival for Sept. 27 on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady ...
- Slamming at the Library - Listen & Be Heard
Slamming at the LibraryListen & Be Heard, CA - 1 hour agoI look forward to experience more poetry slams in the future. JFK will host another poetry slam on Monday, August 26. That event will feature teen poets of ...
- I get distracted by the Internet when I try to write - Salon
I am taking a creative nonfiction writing course, and I'm supposed to be working on a piece about what I ate for breakfast. The problem is, every time I sit down at the computer to work, I start compulsively reading the election coverage online ...
- Brave cancer victim dies days before wedding - Edinburgh News
A YOUNG lung cancer sufferer who vowed to beat the disease to make it to her wedding day has died just days before she was due to be married. Laura Mackenzie, 24, of Dalmeny, South Queensferry, had been set to wed fiance Richard Hagger this weekend ...
- Sing along to ‘Mamma Mia' (The Kansas City Star)
Are you one of those people who went to “Mamma Mia!” and irritated your neighbors by singing out loud to all the ABBA songs?
- Free culture in London - Evening Standard
“Don't be such a cheapskate!” I hiss at my friends when they complain about the price of West End tickets. “You'd pay that for a haircut or a football match.” I am the original London culture vulture. An embarrassing proportion of my salary ...
- Frieda C. Freedman, Hebrew school teacher - Philadelphia Inquirer
When she was 90, Frieda Cohen Freedman taught her last student, reading children's poetry from the time of the Holocaust. The student was a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, studying for her bat mitzvah. On Monday, Mrs. Freedman, 92, a Hebrew ...
- Karaoke Night - The Vail Trail
Karaoke NightThe Vail Trail, CO - 1 hour agoLet your creativity flow on this fantastic five-day writing and canoeing retreat with acclaimed author of fiction, memoir, essay and poetry Page Lambert. ...
- Piece educates, performs - Whitworthian
Piece educates, performsWhitworthian, WA - 5 hours agoHer poetry, which was performed with confidence and charisma, speaks for social change. Piece is an educator as well as a performer. ...
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