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- Unique kid biography brings Abe Lincoln alive (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night."
- Living Art: Lofts provide community plus creative elbow room - MiamiHerald.com
Living Art: Lofts provide community plus creative elbow roomMiamiHerald.com, FL - 4 hours agoBefore Street moved from an uninspiring Pembroke Pines townhouse in January, she wrote essays, poetry and plays in time stolen from the workday or in the ...
- 'Defying Dixie' sheds light on South - Island Packet Online
Many of us think the civil rights movement began when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus or when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial to deliver his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. But the fight for social ...
- Be creative! - Times of India
Be creative!Times of India, India - 3 hours agoYou would like to do some great thing -- great poetry. You would like to become Shakespeare, Kalidas or Milton. It is your ego that is creating the trouble. ...
- John Henry, Myth Made Flesh (Nashville Scene)
There's not much reliable and detailed evidence, but in Steel Drivin' Man (Oxford University Press, 214 pp., $14.95) Scott Reynolds Nelson makes a good case that the mythical John Henry was a short (5'1") black man from New Jersey. A boy, really: He was only 19 when he was convicted, on qu...
- Branding? We Don’t Need No Stinking Branding - HorseRaceInsider.com
Branding? We Don’t Need No Stinking BrandingHorseRaceInsider.com, Canada - 28 minutes agoOf metrics, the dictionary says it’s “the art or study of using meters in poetry,” but there's nothing about contemporary usage, however. ...
- Learning: Meet Iowa authors - Des Moines Register
7 p.m. Monday , Central Library, 1000 Grand Ave. A picture paints a thousand words, but sometimes even a picture can't tell an entire story. Thus, when photographer Peter Feldstein decided to return to Oxford, Iowa, after 20 years, and photograph ...
- The kitchen garden graduate: potatoes - Daily Telegraph
Cooking and eating potatoes you've grown yourself has very little in common with tipping a bag of supermarket spuds into a pan. Anyone can do the latter. The former is a complex, finely calibrated process involving diplomacy, strong thumbs and a ...
- A search for enlightenment (Asbury Park Press)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Top ten literary travel destination ideas - TravelBite.co.uk
TravelBite.co.ukTop ten literary travel destination ideasTravelBite.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoFeeling short of inspirational holiday ideas this autumn? Why not head to one of the top ten literary travel destinations in the world for a cultural feast? ...
- Books Unbound: Artfully Altering Books - Westport News
Over time, books wear out. The pages begin to fade and yellow, and the information enclosed in the text becomes out of date. The book becomes useless. Useless, that is, except when it comes to creating art. This summer, the Westport Public Library is ...
- Nightlife Calendar: 07/25/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Nightlife Calendar: 07/25/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 3 hours ago30; Open-Mic Poetry 7 pm third Mon., (Sept.-May), followed by open mic, bring poems to read and share, writing exercises available, bring eight copies of a ...
- Writers from Austria and Cameroon read Sept. 14 in Prairie Lights - Media Newswire (press release)
Writers from Austria and Cameroon read Sept. 14 in Prairie LightsMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 8 minutes ago... poetry and playwriting -- Tarek Eltayeb from Austria and John Nkengasong from Cameroon -- will present a free reading at 5 pm Sunday, Sept. ...
- Reading is Fundamental: Here there be dragons, of a friendly sort - Advocate Weekly
Reading is Fundamental: Here there be dragons, of a friendly sortAdvocate Weekly, MA - 1 hour agoIn DiTerlizzi's "Kenny & the Dragon" (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing: August 2008; 160 pages; $15.99; ages 8-12), a clever little rabbit named Kenny ...
- Does This Make Me Look Old? - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Does This Make Me Look Old?Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 31 minutes agoThat's why healthy academic retirees often go into something new: spying, drumming, tutoring, poetry writing, hectoring the powerful. You're never too old, ...
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