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- Great poet’s grave stokes Civil War dispute - Las Vegas Sun
The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War. The dispute has arisen over ...
- Talking Myself Home, by Ian McMillan (Independent)
Ian McMillan's latest collection of poems – completing nearly 30 years in the business – is subtitled "My Life in Verses". The echo of John Betjeman's Summoned By Bells, promoted in 1960 by the same publishing house as a "verse autobiography", is instant. The heart shrinks: all that archaism, all that jollity, the unanswerable question Betjeman poses ("Why is this account... not written in ...
- Poet hopes society tradition continues - Daily Mail - Charleston
Poet hopes society tradition continuesDaily Mail - Charleston, WV - 37 minutes agoEdna Moore, who will be 92 on Halloween, has loved poetry since her teenage years. Moore wrote this poem in 1935 and saved it along with countless others. ...
- VISTA: Church to hold arts, music festival (North County Times)
VISTA ---- The Vista stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will host its Fall Festival of Music and Arts from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the stake center, 451 W. Bobier Drive.
- Mustering experience launched - Cairns Post
Mustering experience launchedCairns Post, Australia - 18 hours agoThe mustering experience is punctuated with whip cracking, stunt riding, traditional country songs and bush poetry, all managed by the authentic narrator ...
- Community Calendar - Northbrook Star
Heartland Animal Shelter will hold the third annual Golden Paw Gala at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Radisson Hotel, 2875 Milwaukee Ave. in Northbrook. The evening will feature appetizer stations and desserts; a champagne toast and a silent auction. Tickets ...
- Kristina Goikoetxea Langarika - Radio Netherlands
Kristina Goikoetxea LangarikaRadio Netherlands, Netherlands - 2 hours ago"Basque is the language in which I read poetry before I go to sleep," says Kristina Goikoetxea Langarika. "Basque verses inspire me to dream. ...
- Controversial book set for release tomorrow - Christian Science Monitor
Controversial book set for release tomorrowChristian Science Monitor, MA - 8 minutes ago“As I read – books by western scholars, Islamic scholars, religious clerics, ancient Arabic poetry – what I gained from my reading was an impression of ...
- Student activist focuses on Congo (Greensboro News & Record)
GREENSBORO -- The running joke about Kambale Musavuli is that he will talk to anybody about his native Congo. And the 27-year-old college student can link anything back to his homeland. Say Musavuli meets a guy who writes poetry. "You could write a poem about the Congo," Musavuli tells the poet. Or maybe he's with friends at a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere -- nothing but ...
- Exhibit a response to book bans - Inside Bay Area
An order by Burlingame schools Superintendent Sonny Da Marto in 2007 to take books out of the hands of schoolchildren landed him on an infamous list maintained by the American Library Association. That list is an electronic compilation of book ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide - Centre Daily
NEW YORK — The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- Tuesday, Sep 30th - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Tuesday, Sep 30thSan Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 18 minutes agoAllah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert Three Muslims walk into a comedy club. If you're not already cracking a smile, you probably won't laugh at Allah Made ...
- East Tennessee Entertainment Calendar: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 - Blount County Voice
East Tennessee Entertainment Calendar: Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008Blount County Voice, TN - 31 minutes agoHicks — who's affectionately known as "The Cosmic Possum" — plans to read poems from her 2005 book of poetry, "Blood and Bone Remember," which was awarded ...
- CFS: The Body as a Site of Discrimination - Feministe
CFS: The Body as a Site of DiscriminationFeministe - 7 hours agoSubmissions can include personal narratives, research articles, performance and visual art, fiction, poetry, music, etc. Electronic copies of submissions ...
- Physician Portrays Powerful Poetry at Heart of Human Condition - Biloxi Sun Herald
WAXHAW, N.C., Oct. 29 -- From the current health care crisis in America to the natural fear of illness and death, many factors block the ability to see beauty, wonder and poetry in medical practice. Bertrand P. Fote has never lost sight of the ...
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