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- Open minds, free spirits - Tonight South Africa
J J Tswai, aka Puo Phaa, is a poet who hails from Pretoria. He is also the national secretary for labour and economic affairs for Azayo (Azanian Youth Organisation). He calls himself a poetic philosopher and lets us in on the Tshwane poetry scene ...
- Stuart Kestenbaum's "Prayer for the Dead (Seattle Times)
Stuart Kestenbaum, the author of this week's poem, lost his brother Howard in the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center...
- The Poet Laureate of Washington State reads in the ham - seattlepi.com Buzzworthy
The Poet Laureate of Washington State reads in the hamseattlepi.com Buzzworthy - 12 minutes agoThe Whatcom Poetry series commences tonight, and while I can unconditionally recommend the reading to you, I must warn you in advance: it's in Bellingham. ...
- The early years: An unhappy childhood - CNN
(CNN) -- Before he became the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II was Karol Jozef Wojtyla. Friends in Wadowice, a town of 8,000 Catholics and 2,000 Jews 35 miles southwest of Krakow, called Wojtyla "Lolek." He was born in 1920, the ...
- Back to School, Back to Fun - The Morning News
Back to School, Back to FunThe Morning News, AR - 49 minutes ago"Avenue Q": Broadway's 2004 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book tells the story of trying to make it in New York City with big ...
- Crowds to join Olympics celebration - Shropshire Star
Shropshire StarCrowds to join Olympics celebrationShropshire Star, UK - 12 hours agoThe sound of Usain’s lightning bolts and Phelps’s octuple golds will be silenced by the strains of, erm . . . knitting, poetry recital and competitive ...
- Power to the people - Guardian Unlimited
'Let's be frank about it - most of our people have never had it so good,' declared Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957. With the Suez Crisis still fresh in people's minds, a potentially cataclysmic outbreak of fire at the Windscale ...
- Book review: no piece of birthday cake - Daily Telegraph
Do we really need another travel book about the meanderings, literary or otherwise, of a slightly lost middle-aged man? Well, yes we do, if this finely written memoir is anything to go by. Christopher Somerville, whose work will be familiar to ...
- ETBU introduces new writing program (The Marshall News Messenger)
The Department of Languages and Literature at East Texas Baptist University announced the introduction of a new writing program this fall term, an official from the department said.
- Youth Literature Fest coming to U. of I., area schools, community ... - Inside Illinois
Youth Literature Fest coming to U. of I., area schools, community ...Inside Illinois, IL - 54 minutes ago... readings by festival guests, and enjoy storytelling, puppetry, films, a ventriloquist, exhibits, a poetry café for teenagers, and musical performances. ...
- Events listings are compiled by Cheryl Eddy. - San Francisco Guardian
40th Anniversary of SFSU Student Strikes Poetry Center, Hum 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway, SF; www.sfsu.edu/~poetry . 3:30pm, free. Poets Genny Lim (in performance with Frances Wong) and Oscar Peñaranda mark the anniversary of ...
- Follow UA's red-brick road to mason family - Tucson Citizen
Follow UA's red-brick road to mason familyTucson Citizen, AZ - 1 hour agoYou get guys who say, 'I can lay brick,' but if you've laid block all your life, you're not going to be able to lay brick." Still, that doesn't mean he ...
- Voice for all seasons (Yahoo! Sports)
Decades before he would become an oratorical icon, Robert Leo Sheppard was just a speech teacher looking to...
- Professor to read poetry excerpts - MU The Parthenon (subscription)
Professor to read poetry excerptsMU The Parthenon (subscription), WV - 2 hours agoMcNamara is a professor of creative writing at West Virginia Wesleyan College and the co-director of the honors program. She said she grew up with many ...
- A Reading of “The Character of a Happy Life†by Sir Henry Wotton - The Epoch Times
And having nothing, yet hath all. What is the secret to happiness? Countless self-help books claim they have the answer. There are the three steps to this—and the five steps to that. Still, no one has cracked it, increasing our perplexity and ...
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