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- Road trip makes geography, nature more real (The Olympian)
Cuba was rattling nerves in the summer of 1962. Everybody was fretting about missile attacks. Which had me wondering why my parents would send me suddenly to Cuba with our neighbors at that particular time in history.
- The Laureate's lament: Being poet to the Queen is thankless and ... - Mail on Sunday
The Laureate's lament: Being poet to the Queen is thankless and ...Mail on Sunday, UK - Sep 9, 2008I came up with a poem and had to go along to Westminster Abbey. It was read beautifully by Dame Judi Dench. 'Afterwards the Queen stopped me and said, ...
- Seattle Symphony violinist Ralph Heino dead at 91 - Seattle Post Intelligencer
SEATTLE -- Ralph Victor Heino Sr., a Seattle Symphony violinist, composer and longshore worker, has died of a stroke at age 91. Heino continued to play the violin in retirement until his stroke. He died a week later, on July 26, symphony spokeswoman ...
- My city Sialkot - Nation
I did not want to leave Sialkot city. This was my home. I was born and brought up here. Why could not I, a Hindu, live in the Islamic State of Pakistan when there would be hundreds of thousands of Muslims residing in India? True, the religion was the ...
- Williamsport Civic Chorus celebrates music - Williamsport Sun-Gazette
The Williamsport Civic Chorus will present three concerts during the 2008-09 season, the chorus's 65th season. The theme of the season is "Celebrate." The chorus will celebrate three occasions - Mendelssohn's 200th birthday, Women's History Month and ...
- ‘Uncle and maestro’: Friends remember George Garrett (The Hook)
Writers gathered at the UVA Chapel on Monday to remember George Garrett. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR At a memorial service on Monday, September 22 for writer and UVA professor George Garrett, who died after a battle with bladder cancer on May 25, UVA president John Casteen called the author of 11 novels, eight short story collections, eight [...]
- This week's guide contains: - The Independent Weekly
This week's guide contains:The Independent Weekly, NC - 3 hours agoOne has been refining her poetry licks and playing regionally with her band, Mosadi Music, while the other has been touring the country promoting her new LP ...
- Thabo Mbeki's downfall: a Shakespearean tragedy - PR Inside
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Thabo Mbeki is fond of packing his speeches with passages from Hamlet and Macbeth, so it is perhaps fitting that his downfall had all the hallmarks of a Shakespearean tragedy. Mbeki devoted his life to the African ...
- Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue' (International Herald Tribune)
Sylvain Trudel's acid novel "Mercury Under My Tongue," tartly translated from the French by Sheila Fischman, is a tale told by a 16-year-old named Frédéric Langlois who is dying of bone cancer in a Montreal hospital.
- Belfast Poets visit Wellington, hosted by RAM - Scoop
The Belfast Poets Touring Group, widely acclaimed as the world's best performance poetry group, are playing in Wellington as part of their latest world tour. Across four continents, the three-women, two-men BPTG have won international critical ...
- NEWSÂ Mafia 'poet' attacked for being gay - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)
Rome - The Sicilian Mafia's honour code doesn't bar members from being poets, but a jailed suspect's penchant for writing verse led his fellow mobsters to assume he was gay, so as punishment, they gang-raped him. ...
- Photograph by Zeitgeist Films - Silicon Valley's Metro
Silicon Valley's MetroPhotograph by Zeitgeist FilmsSilicon Valley's Metro, CA - 4 hours ago... the best of this forceful street poetry; point by point, Kim preserves the outline of the kind of life that too often gets knocked aside or blown away. ...
- DCist Interview: Martha Reeves (DCist)
For those of us who spent our childhood (or adulthood) glued to oldies radio stations, reliving a mythical golden era, Martha Reeves is more than just a household name. Her years with the Vandellas constituted one of the most successful runs during Motown's halcyon days in the mid-'60s. You can't flip on BIG 100.3 FM or go to a wedding these days without hearing "Dancing in the Street" or ...
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference: A job where tips aren't monetary - Seattle Times
Gerald Maa, 27, center, of Washington, D.C., and Christian Anton Gerard, 26, right, of Norfolk, Va., refill food trays during the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. RIPTON, Vt. — It's billed as the oldest writers conference in the nation, a gathering ...
- Convergys Employees Support Outreach Projects - Yahoo
Convergys Employees Support Outreach ProjectsYahoo, Thailand - 5 hours ago... and included songs, poetry reading, and the symbolic turnover of books from Convergys employees to the school principal, teachers, and students. ...
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