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- College students share secrets for Love Your Body Week - Sacramento Bee
Sierra College today kicks off its second annual Love Your Body Week with a host of activities to celebrate the human form, including a display of students' anonymous comments about their "body secrets." The so-called secrets, which can be viewed at ...
- Students tested on Winehouse lyrics - United Press International
Students tested on Winehouse lyricsUnited Press International - May 28, 2008... Criticism class at Cambridge University in England compared Amy Winehouse's lyrics to Sir Walter Raleigh's poetry for an exam. The Daily Telegraph said ...
- Simic stepping aside as U.S. poet laureate (UPI)
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said.
- Summer festival season is upon us (The Lisle Sun)
Summer's here and the time is right, for dancing in the streets. And eating. And shopping. And riding.
- Author ‘not very creative’ with uni students’ marks - Wimbledon Guardian
Author ‘not very creative’ with uni students’ marksWimbledon Guardian, UK - 9 hours agoDr David Rogers, head of the school of humanities, said: "Hanif Kureishi was employed for his thought-provoking, inspirational contribution which he ...
- Teen Born 1 Pound, 11 Ounces Graduates High School (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
When Ervin Blaylock was born he weighed only 1 pound 11 ounces. Doctors at Hennepin County Medical Center weren't sure he would make it.
- Verse of the Turtle - Washington Post
Verse of the TurtleWashington Post, United States - 5 hours ago"I thought I might take it upon myself to prevent all bad poetry from being published during my reign," she says, speaking by phone from her home north of ...
- Brain Fitness -- Preventing Senior Moments - Auburn Journal
I was inspired after watching the PBS show on Brain Fitness last night. Recent studies have shown that the mature brain can grow, evolve and rejuvenate itself with a variety of challenging, new, intellectually stimulating activities. There is a lot ...
- The Arts - Danbury News Times
The ArtsDanbury News Times, CT - 1 hour agoDavid Cappella will be the guest this Wednesday at Wednesday Night Poetry at Molten Java, 102 Greenwood Ave., Bethel. An open mic kicks off the evening, ...
- Literary luminaries to attend unveiling of statue of poet Al Purdy - Jam! Showbiz
Literary luminaries to attend unveiling of statue of poet Al PurdyJam! Showbiz, Canada - 20 minutes agoHis works include 33 books of poetry, a novel, an autobiography and nine collections of essays and correspondence. The beloved wordsmith also won two ...
- Book review: 'The Dangerous Book for Boys' - Andover Townsman
Recently, my younger brother received a gift from our parents. As a typical prepubescent boy, he was immediately disappointed that the present was a book. However, after skimming through, he was smitten. Suddenly he wanted to build a tree house ...
- Love - The Musical, Hammersmith Lyric, London (Independent)
The Icelandic company Vesturport first swung into our attention with an exuberant aerial version of Romeo and Juliet. Created by Gisli Orn Gardarsson and Vikingur Kristjansson and seen here in an English adaptation by David Farr, their latest show could be viewed as the obverse of that. Love is an earthbound musical that celebrates the passion of two people who find love at the end of their ...
- West Akron Kiwanis member invites community to hear speaker (West Side Leader)
I belong to the West Akron Kiwanis, an organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. Our club also engages in cultural activities to heighten the consciousness of our grownups.
- John Lundberg: Can Poetry Really Be Translated? (HuffingtonPost)
There's a great story of a Japanese production group that decided the conclusion of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot was a little too...inconclusive. In...
- Author's book masterpiece-just ask him - Charlotte.com
Retired newspaper columnist Doug Robarchek says he's happy with his new 30-inch HDTV set, even if it seems to take longer to warm up than his old analog set. Although he refused to learn anything about HDTV, he's discovered the picture looks best ...
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