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- Book learning - Wichita Falls Times Record News
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said, “I’ve seen the Promised Land,” in a speech on the eve of his assassination, he was referring to the Exodus story from the Bible. Abraham Lincoln drew his famous “House Divided Speech” from Luke 11:17 ...
- New Zealand Poet Slated For Success - Scoop
“The intensity of NZ light, the breadth and imagination in our best thinking, strong attitudes and natural splendour, how our culture may appear as a quick-change melange, Britton celebrates and explores those perceptions and further. This ...
- More on poetry and war - Lew Rockwell
More on poetry and warLew Rockwell, CA - 5 hours agoI learned how to like non-rhyming poetry from Owen's poetry. As I've said on LRC before, we live in an age in which the old devour the young. ...
- Competition for all poets with potential - Hebdenbridge Today
Competition for all poets with potentialHebdenbridge Today, UK - 5 hours agoThe theme of the poetry contest is Memories and there will be a winner and two runners-up in each of three age categories: 6-10, 11-14 and 15-18. ...
- A place called home - The Leader Newspapers
A place called homeThe Leader Newspapers, NJ - 4 hours agoIt was where I learned to play the piano, where I wrote stories and poetry and where I dressed in my tuxedo the morning of my wedding. ...
- Panel tackles issues raised in ‘Jewish American’ film - New Jersey Jewish Standard
Panel tackles issues raised in ‘Jewish American’ filmNew Jersey Jewish Standard, NJ - 1 hour agoGrubin has produced more than 100 films about history, art, poetry, and science, as well as biographies of four American presidents. ...
- WPLN to broadcast Nashville Symphony's 2007-08 season concerts - My Tennessean.com
WPLN to broadcast Nashville Symphony's 2007-08 season concertsMy Tennessean.com, TN - 8 hours agoJuly 6 “Poetry in Music”: John Corigliano, A Dylan Thomas Trilogy, featuring tenor John Tessier, baritone Sir Thomas Allen and the Nashville Symphony Chorus ...
- Alicia Keys isn't just about music anymore — she's on a mission (Miami Herald)
When we first heard Alicia Keys' velvet voice and masterful piano strokes in 2001, she was a beautiful tomboy singing about falling in and out of love. Hers was a pure, unapologetic sound - authentic, magical, enriched by yesterday - that returned vintage soul to its place in the pantheon of music.
- No plea from NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list (Boston Globe)
An FBI most-wanted fugitive charged with molesting the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him is being held without bail after his years on the lam abruptly ended with his arrest in Mexico.
- 8 1/2 things to do this week - Edmonton Journal
Edmonton Journal8 1/2 things to do this weekEdmonton Journal, Canada - 19 minutes agoHear CAA award winners Asa Boxer (poetry), Colleen Murphy (drama), Mark Haroun (emerging writer, and Edmontonian!), Robert Wright (history) and more! ...
- Obituaries for April 30 (The Capital)
Wednesday's obituaries recognize: Andrew Blake, Ellen Bloyer, Mary Boarman, James Morgan, Wilbur Murray, Ernest Thomas, Keira Mosaid, Margaret Tyson, Eileen Wasson and Isabel Winton.
- YOUR SPACE: Teen’s gift of recitation gets her a chance to win $20,000 (Colorado Springs Gazette)
Scary poem chick. Fifteen-year-old Brittany Harden says that's how she's known after reading a dark poem by Mary Karr to the entire school. It goes with the turf of a state poetry champ.
- She walked arm in arm with Bob Dylan (Concord Monitor)
It was one of the most iconic record album covers ever released, and Suze Rotolo was part of it: On a snowy day in 1963, she snuggled with Bob Dylan as the two walked down a Greenwich Village street. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan went on to become one of his best-known records, but the long-haired girl on his arm was always a mystery.
- LAist Interview: Filmmaker John Palmer - Laist.com
Starting Saturday and running until July 28, The Black Maria Gallery will feature an exhibit examining landscapes both natural and manmade. Titled “Modern Soil,” the show will include new drawings from Brooks Salzwedel and a series of short films ...
- Council Will Examine Radiotherapy Concerns (Scoop.co.nz)
Recent revelations that Canterbury District Health Board patients are not getting radiotherapy within the mandatory eight weeks as prescribed by the government, concern the Cancer Control Council of New Zealand, Chair Dame Cath Tizard says.
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