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- Community Without Walls' social network aims to keep seniors ... - Packet Online
A group of Princeton-area senior citizens are working together to find new friends, learn new things, and most importantly, create a network of support that allows them to live where they choose. ”Our mission was really to help one another age well ...
- Kay Ryan goes to Washington -- as poet laureate (Miami Herald)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike enthusiast and self-described ''modern hermit,'' will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate starting in the fall. The appointment lasts a year and comes ...
- More than 7,000 vie for title of Prince of Poets - Gulf News
Abu Dhabi: More than 7,000 entries from 22 countries were received by organisers of the the Abu Dhabi Prince of Poets contest. The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage announced on Friday that entries for the second edition of the poets ...
- Experts talk about writing - Press-Enterprise
Experts talk about writingPress-Enterprise, CA - 3 hours ago5 pm -- "The Deep Connection Between Poetry and Prose" with Carter Burke. All day Phil Yeh will create a mural with help from the community and will talk ...
- D J Taylor: Happy when it rains. Why we'd be lost without our ... - The Independent
Rain has a starring role as one of our great cultural signifiers. It's present in language, literature and music, and it provides an instant, if soggy, hotline to the heart of the national psyche As it turned out, this weekend's weather forecast was ...
- Looking For Meaning In Poetry (Arts Journal)
"So why does poetry matter? One reason is that many people still enjoy some sorts of poetry. The one sort they have never liked is the sort they are told to like."
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Location Akron Aurora Avon Avon Lake Bainbridge Barberton Bath Bay Village Beachwood Bedford Bedford Heights Berea Bratenahl Brecksville Broadview Heights Brook Park Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights Brunswick Burton Canton Chagrin Falls Chardon Chesterland ...
- Poets and tea make wonderful week - The Casper Star Tribune
Poets and tea make wonderful weekThe Casper Star Tribune, WY - 3 hours agoCowboy "poetry" is not like reading EE Cummings or Shakespeare, thank goodness. Sometimes it rhymes, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's short and funny, ...
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant and a rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Rock for the ages (China Daily)
The Tang Dynasty's Beijing performance features lead singer Ding Wu (right) and guitarist Liu Yiju (widely known as "Lao Wu"). Vocalist Ding Wu struts across the stage, sporting his signature tight pants and loose T-shirt. The 46-year-old singer now wears his hair cropped closely around his face.
- Salon's guide to summer music festivals - Salon
June 5, 2008 | "Peace, love, and music" was the rallying cry of 400,000 hippies who converged on Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y., nearly two generations ago. Despite the overdosing and overcrowding (not to mention that odd moment when Pete Townshend ...
- PERSONA AND PLACE (Santa Fe Reporter)
There is an idea of the Southwest that lives in the collective mind. It is embodied through stoic figures that represent unsympathetic landscapes where little is spoken.
- Rule the Waves (Express India)
A novel surfing on beautiful sentences
- Saturday's community news: Brenda Lucas - Huntington Herald Dispatch
Saturday's community news: Brenda LucasHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 12 minutes agoLove and best wishes are with this special, true friend of my family. SECOND: Logan Wilson of Salt Rock was one of second-place poetry winners in Cabell ...
- Jewel: Closing the Circle, Coming Home to Country - Los Angeles Chronicle
Jewel: Closing the Circle, Coming Home to CountryLos Angeles Chronicle, USA - 2 hours agoI read philosophy, the classics, poetry . I just loved it." Growing up on a ranch in rural Alaska provided an awesome setting for this young woman as she ...
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