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- When free speech doesn’t come free (Online Journal)
Free speech is not without consequence . In the United States, for example, criticism of Israel is tantamount to heresy.
- Aspen gets poetic about poop - Aspen Times
Aspen gets poetic about poopAspen Times, CO - 52 minutes agoAspen's Dog Poo Poetry Competition puts the focus on picking up after man's best friend. ASPEN — The winners of Aspen’s first-ever Dog Poo Poetry ...
- TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif - Philadelphia Inquirer
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Female mavericks of song put republic in its place - Turkish Daily News
‘Diva of the Republic' celebrates 90th birthday with new album Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Müzeyyen Senar, known as the ‘Diva of the Republic', has spent more than seven decades as an essential figure of Turkish classical ...
- 'America's poets' take their place in the Hall - My Tennessean.com
'America's poets' take their place in the HallMy Tennessean.com, TN - 3 hours agoThese men were honored for poetry and for harmony, for songs that sprang from extraordinary minds and wound up in the minds of millions. ...
- Iranian Woman treks for peace across Asia (Payvand Iran News)
Roya Loghmanian, an Iranian mother of three, is treking for peace across Asia. Her journey began in Tehran, and if completed as planned, it will end in Beijing just in time for the Olympic Games.
- A teaching transformation - Delta Democrat Times (subscription)
A teaching transformationDelta Democrat Times (subscription), MS - 1 hour agoIn the model lesson Daft led on Tuesday, each of the twelve students in the room offered suggestions for a class poem about the joys of summer. ...
- Events for May 8-15 - Oregonian
PICK OF THE WEEK: Migratory birds rely on Oaks Bottom and other natural areas in Portland to nest, winter, rest and refuel. In celebration of these hardy feathered friends, head to the Festival of Birds on Saturday, where you can take a guided bird ...
- Sunday set for the State - Manchester Evening News
Sunday set for the StateManchester Evening News, UK - 14 hours ago... proves they're a band bursting with a sonic palette which extends well outside the American Emo box. At times recalling the murky poetry of The Cure, ...
- Lost Dog collars $40,000 fiction prize (The Australian)
MELBOURNE author Michelle de Kretser has won the $40,000 Christina Stead Prize for fiction, the biggest of the NSW Premier's literary prizes announced in Sydney last night.
- Law student-turned poet finds fulfilment in poetry - The Punch
Law student-turned poet finds fulfilment in poetryThe Punch, Nigeria - 1 hour agoThis trend, she said, was responsible for the lack of interest in poetry works by book publishers in the country. Abdul-Quadri said, ”In Nigeria, ...
- AG graduate creates book for senior project (The Uniontown Herald Standard)
A senior project earned one Albert Gallatin Area High School graduate a top grade and resulted in a book she aspires to share with Fayette County foster children.
- Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" - OpEdNews
Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada"OpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoBaroud published his first book of Arabic poetry at age 18 and has since written two others - "Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion" ...
- Persepolis (2007) (New York Times)
Marjane berated by fundamentalists. “Persepolis” is a simple story told by simple means. Like Marjane Satrapi ’s book, on which it is based, the film, directed by Ms. Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, consists essentially of a series of monochrome drawings, their bold black lines washed with nuances of gray.
- Call to Readers: To express poetry in motion, try a haiku (The Sacramento Bee)
Eppie's Great Race, dubbed the "World's Oldest Triathlon," deserves a literary form of its own. That's why we've created "tri-ku," a triathlon poem in the form of a haiku. Carlos Alcalá
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