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- WHAT'S HAPPENING - Leaf Chronicle
What: Woodlawn Elementary School Kindergarten Pre-Registration. Bring birth certificate, proof of physical, Tennessee Immunization certificate, and social security card. When: 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. through Friday. Where: Woodlawn Elementary School, 2250 ...
- Lyric Strategies I - Bookslut
Lyric Strategies IBookslut, IL - 8 hours agoMuch of the poetry I admire uses the materiality of language to unfold “views,” revealing the flux around us. William Carlos Williams’s red wheelbarrow and ...
- Voices from the past - Business Standard
Less story, more memory: new fiction looks back to re-imagine the past. Memory is in. It's the renaissance of the memoir, the biography and autobiography. Even fiction these days is read, and possibly written, as real life-stories transposed to a ...
- UConn program gives 7th-graders an early start (Norwalk Advocate)
STAMFORD - Try solving this on an empty stomach: If there are six people in a room, how many different ways can they be lined up against a wall? On Tuesday, with five minutes left to go, University of Connecticut math professor Rich Watnick posed that problem to his students.
- Boyd Tonkin: A Week in Books (Independent)
If rhyme doesn't pay, then – when it comes to authorial bank accounts – crime more often does. While picking his way through a tangled domestic life (which included, of course, the childhood of his Oscar-winning son, Daniel), the poet Cecil Day-Lewis needed more ample funds than even a Laureate's career in verse will ever supply. Under the pseudonym "Nicholas Blake", he published 20 popular ...
- AP Top News at 10:41 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is ...
- Russell Banks: Class warrior in a club tie - The Independent
Banks hitched to Florida, hoping to join Castro in the Sierra Maestra, and got "as far as Miami. By then Castro didn?t need me, this skinny kid who didn?t speak Spanish." Spend some time with the American novelist Russell Banks, and the phrase "lived ...
- Life's lessons hard - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldLife's lessons hardSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 56 minutes ago"So I'm quite happy to remember her through her poetry and not reality. In reality, she was quite hard to love and live with as far as I've been able to ...
- Tanja Cilia - Times of Malta
Tanja CiliaTimes of Malta, Malta - 1 hour agoTime that could have been spent drawing, or writing fiction or poetry was wasted upon drills, scripting pages and pages of letters written between two blue ...
- AP Top News at 1:26 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Barack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates. The tally put Obama over the top Tuesday, ahead of the results from the day's final primaries in Montana and South Dakota. The Illinois senator becomes the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House. ...
- Barack Obama and the graveyard of hope - East African
Barack Obama and the graveyard of hopeEast African, Kenya - 6 hours agoWe do not even remark on the haunting wastage of all this shining accomplishment — Micere Mugo sings her lyrical poetry for Americans, and we do not even ...
- Arts festival to highlight local seniors (Examiner)
The Strand Theater, 400 Clifton Avenue, Lakewood, will host the second annual Festival of Senior Arts from June 24-26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. The festival is a fine arts and entertainment extravaganza highlighting the spirit, talent and vitality of senior artists from the central New Jersey region.
- How Britain wages war - CASMII
How Britain wages warCASMII, DC - 19 hours agoThe fourth photograph is of a young British soldier, Gavin Williams, who was "beasted" to death by three non-commissioned officers. ...
- Velasco's life lends to unorthodox style - The Santa Clara
Velasco's life lends to unorthodox styleThe Santa Clara, USA - 6 hours agoThis family without running water and electricity is my family, too. In the process of being there, the liberation of the people is bound to your own ...
- Around Boonsboro - Hagerstown Morning Herald
Around BoonsboroHagerstown Morning Herald, MD - 7 hours agoRegistered teens can come share music or poetry with an audience of their peers. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. ...
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