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- Dude, here's your ranch (The Standard-Times)
The heifers are acting surly, but my horse pushes forward. My young crew of 10 or so cowpunchers encircles about 30 head of cattle on a wide pasture in the shadow of a sawtooth mountain just west of Bridgeport, Calif. Our horses slowly lead the cattle...
- Kenya: Obama - Bid to Poison White Voter's Mind - AllAfrica.com
Barack Senior and I were no Damon and Pythias. I would never have put my life on the line for him. Yes, we often drank Scotch together. And - oh, yes! - the water of Scotland sometimes got the better of us. That much I must have told an American ...
- Local poets part of anthology readings - Morris Sun Tribune
Local poets part of anthology readingsMorris Sun Tribune, MN - 18 minutes ago“Letters to the World” represents work by women poets (and one man) who are members of the Women's Poetry List-serv, an email list that began in 1997 when ...
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism - PopMatters
PopMattersWR: Mysteries of the OrganismPopMatters, IL - 12 hours agoThat this quotation is delivered by Milena’s severed head (even death can’t stop the proselytizing) only complicates the matter. ...
- Athletes 'fight' without destruction - Grand Forks Herald
Athletes 'fight' without destructionGrand Forks Herald, ND - 1 hour agoYang Yilin of China won the bronze, and she, too, looked like poetry in motion. I really enjoy watching all of these countries perform because it reminds me ...
- Mumbai mélange - Daily News and Analysis
There is a clamouring din out there, many voices are shrilling, the blind groping the elephant are confusing it with its tail or trunk. City-specific perspectives can make an interesting collage as never-before angles loom to the fore, dark corners ...
- Opinion: Tell Me What Art Is, and I’ll Tell You What Games Are - Gamasutra
Opinion: Tell Me What Art Is, and I’ll Tell You What Games AreGamasutra, CA - 15 hours ago"We misjudged you," they’ll cry, "Just like we initially misjudged movies, jazz, and prose poetry." Games are a brand-new medium, we console ourselves, ...
- Literature interrupted - BusinessWorld Online
Literature interruptedBusinessWorld Online, Philippines - 1 hour agoLast week I introduced his volume of poetry, ININTOKAN, written in Waray and one of the centennial books of UP. However, life intervened and so I have to ...
- Love in a Tsunami's Aftermath: Assarat's 'Wonderful Town' (The New York Sun)
'Wonderful Town," directed by Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat, takes place in a seaside town in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Though tourism has tanked, some rebuilding is in progress, and yet a certain malaise seems to have settled after the storm. This potent setting and mood is the backdrop for a fragile love story, but the stillness and vaguely drawn characters doom the movie to ...
- Naima El Bezaz (Radio Netherlands)
"Taboos are there to be broken," says Moroccan-born author Naima El Bezaz. Her experience of severe depression became the basis for her latest novel as well as her Radio Books story "Taboo".
- Mashpee soldier killed in Afghanistan - Daily Comet
Mashpee soldier killed in AfghanistanDaily Comet, LA - 58 minutes agoConlon is a 2005 graduate of Mashpee High School who loved poetry. His mother said his writing ability earned her son a generous scholarship to Franklin ...
- Communication is key (Owen Sound Sun Times)
By Don Crosby Sun Times correspondent Organizers of this year’s Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Durham are honouring one of their own. Geoffrey Shea has created five installations that emphasize the written and the spoken word — a theme that he says runs through his [...]
- Poetry slam features locals, city slickers at Chico Peace ... - Enterprise-Record
Poetry slam features locals, city slickers at Chico Peace ...Enterprise-Record, CA - 13 hours agoBy DEEANN RESK - The Buzz CHICO -- US Poet Laureate, Rita Dove, once wrote, "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ...
- Darwish, poet of the Palestinian cause, dies after surgery - The Independent
Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, is to get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank following his death this weekend – an honour only previously accorded to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for ...
- Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore lead 'Dad' - Hollywood Reporter
Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore lead 'Dad'Hollywood Reporter, United States - 46 minutes agoWilliams plays Lance, a high school poetry teacher who copes with his son's death from a freak masturbation accident by faking a suicide note to spare the ...
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