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- Today's song of ourselves might pain Whitman - Atlanta Journal Constitution
In his introduction to "Leaves of Grass," Walt Whitman, the iconoclastic Brooklyn poet and rude optimist, asked his fellow Americans, among other things, to "despise riches ... hate tyrants, argue not concerning God ... [and] reexamine all you have ...
- Thicker Than Water - San Francisco Gate
One long-ago Palo Alto summer day, Nancy Packer's 11-year-old son kept interrupting a conversation she was trying to have with a friend in the kitchen. "George was bedeviling us," she recalls. "I told him, 'Go on away.' " He wouldn't, so she made him ...
- Advocate for Indian writing - Chicago Tribune
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong—and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. campuses. Ms. Allen, a ...
- Poetic License - The Moscow Times
Poetic LicenseThe Moscow Times, Russia - 3 hours agoBy Sally Laird Novelist Brian Hall recreates an American poet's one-man mission to win over Khrushchev with a message of peace. By Jeremy Ventuso The World ...
- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of 'people's poet' Al ... - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - Eurithe Purdy sat at the feet of her late husband, renowned poet Al Purdy, on Tuesday as a statue of him was unveiled at Queen's Park. "His pose to me looks so natural, as if he could almost walk away from where he's reclining," she said ...
- Community Calendar (Pahrump Valley Times)
Bible study -- 7 p.m., First Southern Baptist Church, Highway 160 and Fehrs Way. Classes for all ages. Young Adults Bible Study -- 6:30 p.m., college students/adult, The Way Baptist Fellowship, 420 E. Bronco St., 727-5242.
- Louisa Callio-Fray's Passion for Jamaica - Jamaica Gleaner
Louisa Callio-Fray's Passion for JamaicaJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 8 hours agoIn 1978, Callio-Fray organised her first multimedia showing, which featured the work of several painters, jazz musicians and her poetry. ...
- Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowship - Appalachian State University
Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowshipAppalachian State University, NC - 3 hours agoBathanti writes poetry, novels and short stories and teaches creative writing in the Department of English at Appalachian. Since 1980, the North Carolina ...
- Encounters at the End of the World - Seattle Times
Encounters at the End of the WorldSeattle Times, United States - 5 hours agoIn this odd and unforgettable place, Herzog has made his own poetry. 99 minutes. By Moira Macdonald Werner Herzog's poetic new documentary, "Encounters at ...
- Rajiv Vijayakar Posted online: Friday , June 27, 2008 at 1414 hrs - Screen Weekly
Rajiv Vijayakar Posted online: Friday , June 27, 2008 at 1414 hrsScreen Weekly, India - 41 minutes ago... up reading Kabir’s dohas, and other poetry. And so Rabbi exploded in a combination of roots and rock, for as he put it then, ‘To think of writing in any ...
- BHS WWII Memorial rededication poignant tribute - Barnstable Patriot
Barnstable PatriotBHS WWII Memorial rededication poignant tributeBarnstable Patriot, MA - 1 hour agoThrough poetry, essay, and letter readings, as well as music, the veterans on the memorial, other veterans who served and died, and those in attendance were ...
- On and Off the Shelf: A Bookseller on Selling (and Reading) the Novel - Los Angeles Weekly
I have on my desk two new books on a subject that now seems to be so last century. The title of Jeff Gomez’s offering, Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , speaks for itself. The cover illustration shows a USB connection, wire trailing off ...
- Summer reading program kicks off - Ionia Sentinel-Standard
IONIA - The Ionia Community Library's Summer Reading Program kicks off with an intellectual burst of brilliance from one of Michigan's homegrown authors. Poet, musician, performer and author Kevin Kammeraad will host the general public Thursday, June ...
- Best Bet - Huntsville Item
Best Bets items may be submitted up to two weeks in advance and are subject to editing. Items must be received by 1 p.m. to run the following day. Items must be submitted via e-mail or U.S. Postal Service. All submissions must be typed and may be e ...
- Why Poppies? (Queens Courier)
As has been a custom for years, if you gave a donation to the American Legion a few weeks before Memorial Day, [this year, on Monday, May 26] you received a little red paper poppy in return.
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