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- For Princeton, with love (The Star-Ledger)
For most of living memory, the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood in Princeton, beginning just on the far side of the Princeton Public Library from the main gates of the university, has been the leafy college town's African-American district.
- Peebles gallery gets rare show of Bob Dylan prints - Sunday Herald
AN EMERGING ART GALLERY IN PEEBLES has scored a coup by becoming one of only two venues in Scotland to display artworks by the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Dylan's intriguing drawings and sketches, produced while he toured ...
- Shuffling Through Memories: BS Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' - New York Sun
Shuffling Through Memories: BS Johnson's 'The Unfortunates'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoIn 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of "Petronius, Apuleius, ...
- Behold, a happy poet (Independent)
"Sometimes", said the poet Sheena Pugh in a poem which was, for a while, plastered all over the London Underground, "things don't go, after all,/ from bad to worse." Sometimes, she adds, "green thrives", "crops don't fail", "a man aims high" and "all goes well". And sometimes, she didn't add, a poet can be happy. Yes, even a poet who has won the hearts and, more rarely, the wallets of hundreds ...
- Painting Istanbul red-pink in spring - Turkish Daily News
It is time for summer to begin. The Judas trees (erguvan) have begun blooming in Istanbul. The trees' beautiful pink-red blossoms lighten the hearts of residents and symbolize the better weather the city is now enjoying. Last year the municipality of ...
- A poet of balance, style and flexibility - Louisville Courier-Journal
Kentucky lost one of its literary masters this week. Aleda Shirley died Monday, after a long battle with cancer. She was the author of three collections of poetry, Dark Familiar (Sarabande Books, 2006), Long Distance (Miami University Press, 1996 ...
- French soccer great Zidane to play Sydney exhibition match - Daily Times
SYDNEY: French football legend Zinedine Zidane will play an exhibition match in Sydney next month alongside a number of teammates from his 1998 World Cup winning side, the promoter said on Friday. The three-time world footballer of the year will line ...
- The sonnetmeister (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
is a pleasant bonus to being a friend or colleague of Martin Bidney, Binghamton University professor emeritus of English. If you spend time together, have a lunch or even a conversation while passing in a hallway, he will often pen a poem in response. And then he will e-mail it to you.
- Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerity - Democrat and Chronicle
If you want a good poem and a good apology, ask a kid. Young people, fourth-graders to be exact, have emerged as the stars of the first-ever Connections Contrition poetry contest. The first-place winner, drumroll please, is Leah Warth, 10, of ...
- Nuyorican Poets Café Still "Aloud And Alive At 35" (NY1 News)
A hallowed Lower East Side spot for urban poetry and New York’s Puerto Rican culture celebrates its 35th birthday this weekend. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report.
- A Challenge to Idealistic Progressives - Gather.com
A Challenge to Idealistic ProgressivesGather.com, MA - 19 hours agoLike the poetry of the prophet Amos, this was a bold attack on the illusions of the US population that this nation is basically an innocent and idealistic ...
- The Gas Hike Poems - San Francisco Examiner
God or something keeps hurling these people onto the streets. And this one is insane and that one is dull. That one has a mangled face and that one has a mangled back. That one is some kind of hip doofus and that one is stressed out, tired, not ...
- Greek court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- 2008 Great Adirondack Young People’s Poetry Contest winners ... - Adirondack Daily Enterprise
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Institute for Arts and Humanities recently announced the winners of the 2008 Great Adirondack Young People’s Poetry Contest This has been a banner year for the LPI’S annual Young People’s Poetry Contest. The ...
- Newark's exclusive latte is running out of steam - Bridgeton News
The Starbucks on Broad Street, a meeting place for business people and poets, is among the stores the coffee chain plans to close. Shaliele Hunt, a regular who favors iced coffee with skim milk and caramel syrup, grumbled Thursday night in reaction ...
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