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- City starts search 'parties' to recruit foster families (New York Daily News)
"Fosterware parties," where foster parents recruit others, is part of a parent recruitment frenzy happening across the city this summer as officials work to find homes for 300 teens by September.
- Jung Couldn't Play the Guitar - Huffington Post
Jung Couldn't Play the GuitarHuffington Post, NY - 1 hour agoWe believe in poetry." I thought she made an astute point (although I myself have no interest in poetry and couldn't tell you the difference between a ...
- Memorial services in Q-C (Quad-City Times)
Founders Day celebration — Saturday, 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Kistenmacher Cemetery, 160th Street and 90th Avenue, Davenport. Event celebrates contributions German immigrants made to the community with music, poetry and more. In case of inclement weather, the event will be cancelled. Free. Contact: (563) 499-6789
- White Plains kids and cops to stage production about diversity - Lower Hudson Journal news
White Plains kids and cops to stage production about diversityLower Hudson Journal news, NY - 4 hours agoTomorrow night's performances, by police as well as students, will include dance, music, poetry, fine art, video and a re-enactment of a fight scene from ...
- These kids are poets (Ballard News-Tribune)
Kindergarten through second grade students at Whittier Elementary School are learning more than the alphabet, they are writing poetry. On May first, students held an Poetry Celebration assembly to read their poetry, written with the help of their teachers and writing coach Marci Von Deck.
- At Your library: 'We the People' now on shelves (The York Weekly)
Every year since 2002, the National Endowment for the Humanities has invited libraries across the country to apply for a "We the People" bookshelf grant. Recipients of the grant are given a collection of classic American books on a particular theme.
- Noted black poets to be featured at Greensburg readings (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The readings, planned in conjunction with the annual Cave Canem Foundation writing retreat at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, are scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in Village Hall at UPG and 6:30 p.m. June 26 at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg.
- Mom finds comfort, honors sacrifice - Zanesville Times Recorder
SOMERSET - On a good day, Cathy Bonham can muster up the courage to touch the door knob to the room. But even then, most days she doesn't go in. Behind the door, there are so many memories of her son, Gavin, that it overwhelms her. Photo albums ...
- Translation captures irony of original - Daily Item
This superb new English version of Flaubert’s masterpiece at last makes it possible to understand how Flaubert could say of his heroine, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi!” The mystery here for many readers has been how Flaubert managed to make his ...
- Larry Wilson: Burden was poetry in motion - Whittier Daily News
Everyone - the traditional readers left among us, at least - laments the state of contemporary American poetry, yet few do anything about it. What is it that should be done? Well, how about writing better poetry. That's what Jean Burden did. Burden ...
- Kenya: Barack Obama And the Graveyard of Hope (AllAfrica.com)
I am finding it very difficult to join in the jubilation about Senator Barack Obama. Not that I want to deny the man his victory, but my impulse to celebrate keeps deflating on the idea that the best thing that happened to little Barack was not growing up in Kenya.
- Pak. music band to perform in Held Kashmir for the first time - Nation
Indian Kashmir's main city was abuzz for a rare event _ a performance by a Pakistani band. The group ``Junoon'' was scheduled to perform on Sunday in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian-held part of Kashmir, before nearly 17,000 people, Karan ...
- 'Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic' – an unusual film about love ... - Apun Ka Choice
'Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic' – an unusual film about love ...Apun Ka Choice, CA - 9 minutes agoIndustry has seen some of the great lyricists but Prasoon with his poetry brings a different look to the songs." The music in the film is given by the trio ...
- Newstalk for Wednesday June 4th 2008 - Somerville News
Newstalk for Wednesday June 4th 2008Somerville News, MA - 3 hours agoA special edition of poetry, stories, articles and comments relating to anything green or environmental. The deadline is June 30 and submissions can be ...
- Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 2, 2008 - Rosemount Town Pages
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 2, 2008Rosemount Town Pages, MN - 2 hours agoYears after my mother died, I discovered in her suede-bound book of love poetry, a flower pressed by her many decades ago. Hasse’s “Found in My Mother’s ...
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