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- My life is Women's Glee Club (The Lantern)
I'm sure you've seen it, the trail of beautiful women dressed in black gowns and pearls walking across campus. Every couple of weeks they glide through the Oval holding black folders, hustling to their meeting place. You have perhaps wondered who they are. Are they a cult on their way to a séance? A group of Amish women who have forgotten their bonnets? Do they belong to the Renaissance club?
- Reconnecting with reading at county libraries (Cleveland Jewish News)
At least three times a week, Debby Rubin and her three young children head over to the Beachwood library after dinner. “When I was a kid, my library was my home-away-from-home, and I want my children to develop that same comfort zone,” she says.
- Books In Brief: 07/06/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
TRAVERSE CITY -- "Journey to a Dream, the First Portal" is the debut novel of Traverse City resident Stephen J. McKolay. The novel is a story about the love a man has for God, his family, his country and himself.
- Saddam feared disease in prison, his 'diary' says (Daily Herald)
Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings.
- Parents Launch Website Protesting Against 'Suicidal' Emo Music - Gigwise
GigwiseParents Launch Website Protesting Against 'Suicidal' Emo MusicGigwise, UK - 5 hours agoTheir music, poetry, and dress are all telling us something. When are we going to pay attention to what they are telling us?”
- Deaths Elsewhere / Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Indian literature advocate (Pioneer Press)
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong — and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses.
- Star Poets pen from deep within (Honolulu Advertiser)
No one ever said growing up is easy, but if you're curious about its modern-day complexities, joys and
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- Around Town - New Richmond News
Around TownNew Richmond News, WI - 5 hours agoPoetry Reading, 6:30 pm, Martell Town Hall, Pierce County Road Y and Highway 63, 12 miles east of River Falls. Free will offering. Refreshments served. ...
- Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerity - Democrat and Chronicle
If you want a good poem and a good apology, ask a kid. Young people, fourth-graders to be exact, have emerged as the stars of the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. The first-place winner, drumroll please, is Leah Warth, 10, of ...
- Eminent critic Kashfi dead - Pakistan Dawn
Pakistan DawnEminent critic Kashfi deadPakistan Dawn, Pakistan - 12 hours agoBorn in 1932 into a family that had a tradition of scholarship and literary tastes, Kashfi had a chance early in his life to meet the subcontinent’s ...
- Notes on despair - Buffalo News
Notes on despairBuffalo News, United States - 23 minutes agoIt’s the difference between writing poetry and scribbling in your diary. This is nominally country music, and most of the songs proceed at somnolent, ...
- A lost weekend in the north - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukA lost weekend in the northguardian.co.uk, UK - 42 minutes agoThe novel is exciting for its language - it plays with poetry, magical realism and metaphor in genuinely daring ways - and for the way it embraces themes ...
- Film reviews: The Waiting Room, Let's Get Lost and more - Daily Telegraph
For a while, this seems the most apposite title of the week. Watching Roger Goldby's romantic drama, we sit and wait to make connections between individuals passing by in the manner of rush-hour commuters: there's a single mother (Anne-Marie Duff ...
- The unlikely Lydia Lopokova - Telegraph.co.uk
The unlikely Lydia LopokovaTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoAs a dancer, trained in the Maryinsky tradition, she lacked the classical elegance and poetry of the greatest imperial ballerinas such as Pavlova and ...
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