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- Lesbian lit goes online - SX
Lesbian lit goes onlineSX, Australia - 1 hour agoLesbian literature will be available in PDF format for readers to enjoy, free of charge, online. Although the site is starting with short stories, poetry ...
- Don't knock it until you try it - Schenectady Gazette
Don't knock it until you try itSchenectady Gazette, NY - 1 hour agoDress them in frilly clothes, he said; video tape them doing stupid things, he said; make them write poetry he said. Yes, by all means make them write ...
- Sorted for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics (Independent)
On a recent trip to Brazil, I commented to the bossa nova-era songwriter Carlos Lyra that so many of the great Brazilian songs contain the word coracao – heart – in them. "It's so romantic," I said to Lyra. "It seems that Brazilians can't help but sing of the pain and the joy in their hearts." "Actually," Lyra replied, "there's another reason. Coracao is the easiest word in the Portuguese ...
- Authors showcase in Vallejo - TheReporter.com
Authors showcase in VallejoTheReporter.com, CA - 55 minutes ago... Fern Henry's book about early Vacaville resident Luzena Stanley Wilson • Milton A. Combs (The African American Quiz Book for All Americans - non-fiction)
- Quote of the day (Salon.com)
Katie Couric says sexism is more common than racism in America.
- Teen conquers chess world - Sun.Star
Teen conquers chess worldSun.Star, Philippines - 2 hours agoAccording to their proud mother, Merlie, Brien was a bookish kid who delved into poetry and essay writing, and yes, chess. When Brien got a chessboard for ...
- Pacquiao Rising: Doghouse Boxing visits Manny Pacquiao - Doghouseboxing.com
advice, pontificate, plan and talk trash. It’s all in a day’s business at the gym. This particular day, the voices are all that is present as I wait for Filipino superstar and the newest member of the lightweight ranks, Manny Pacquiao, to arrive ...
- Zimbabwean Nyathi's poetry for his people - Metro
MetroZimbabwean Nyathi's poetry for his peopleMetro, UK - 1 hour agoKnown as the voice of the people, Nyathi is a larger-than-life character whose passion comes mixed with mischief. 'My work speaks to people about people,' ...
- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- National Arts Centre 'Legend' dies (The Globe and Mail)
Hamilton Southam, diplomat, founding visionary of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and many other cultural and historical institutions, died quietly Tuesday in Ottawa
- Angelina Jolie baby watch enters Day 2; : The Morning After - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may be getting their bundles of joy soon, if they haven't already. The world is on Brangelina Baby Watch this morning after Angelina Jolie checked into a Nice, France, hospital on Tuesday after arriving via helicopter ...
- Woman celebrates 100th birthday - Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- Wilda Dillon, the grandmother and great-grandmother of several Huntington area residents, will celebrate her 100th birthday on Saturday, July 19. She was born in 1908 at Kirk and is a resident of Radnor in Wayne County, according to ...
- Edison teen learns lesson in standing up for herself - Miami Herald
Jeislee Alvarez (center), recites poetry with friends after school, in Athalie Range Park, across from Edison High School. On the left is Patreesia Dyer and Naomi, her sister, and on the right is Milly Martinez. All are members of the "Non-violent ...
- Electricity fills Confederation Centre as Cohen brings his fans to ... - The Guardian
The GuardianElectricity fills Confederation Centre as Cohen brings his fans to ...The Guardian, Canada - 1 hour agoIt’s not hard to understand why some four decades after he began reading his poetry in the coffee houses of Montreal that Cohen is still held in such high ...
- British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's house - guardian.co.uk
British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's houseguardian.co.uk, UK - 11 hours ago... Sherwin and his wife, a professional pianist, were publishing Alter Ego & Doppleganger, the radical manifesto of Toni del Renzio, whose wartime poetry ...
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