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- Foothills co-founder gets Friendship award - Worcester Telegram
Foothills co-founder gets Friendship awardWorcester Telegram, MA - 21 minutes agoCarle A. Johnson of Worcester captured the $100 first prize in the annual contest sponsored by the Worcester County Poetry Association. ...
- Pope Calls Irish Monk a Father of Europe (Zenit News Agency)
VATICAN CITY, JUNE 11, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- An Irish monk -- "a tireless builder of monasteries" -- became one of the true fathers of Europe through his work of nourishing the Christian roots of the Continent, says Benedict XVI.
- Hitchhiking Across China - Wall Street Journal
It was an insane idea, almost guaranteed to fail. In the summer of 1981, Vikram Seth decided he would hitchhike across China, Tibet and Nepal, ending his journey in his native country, India. Hitchhike in China? Mr. Seth, then a visiting student at ...
- American Life in Poetry: Laughter - Morris Sun Tribune
American Life in Poetry: LaughterMorris Sun Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoBy Ted Kooser So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia describes the feeling of being ...
- Recent Posts (Anorak)
Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get into university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get into university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick? Did they lack talent?
- Kapil Syllable - Chandigarh Newsline
Kapil SyllableChandigarh Newsline, India - 7 hours ago... reading out his poem “Political Opportunism”. No one’s comparing his verse with Milton and Sibal seems wholly unperturbed about opinions on his poetry. ...
- Chick Ball Song Birds (Jackson Free Press)
In June, the quintessential Jackson-area music festival Jubilee!JAM put on the best show in years, with top music acts like Three Six Mafia and ZZTop. Though generally the diversity was noteworthy, one key component was missing: female solo acts.
- The Hush Sound - Broward New Times
Broward New TimesThe Hush SoundBroward New Times, FL - 3 hours agoIt's the coolest thing in the world, because imagine writing a book and watching everyone read it, just being so happy that you're reading it with them. ...
- Jet-Li's 'Fearless' DVD kicks butt (Jam! Showbiz)
When action superstar Jet Li shot his historical wushu drama, Fearless, he vowed he would never make another martial-arts movie.
- Gowdy's Helpless wins Trillium Book Award - CBC News
Barbara Gowdy is one of the newest winners of Ontario's Trillium Book Awards, announced at a midday ceremony in Toronto Thursday. The Toronto-based Gowdy won the $20,000 English-language Trillium Book Award for her seventh novel, Helpless , which ...
- Bishop to order investigation of gay priests' ceremony - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
LONDON (AP) — The bishop of London said today he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines. The priests walked down the aisle in a May 31 service at one of ...
- Book shops and troglodytes - Daily Telegraph Blogs
I have worked part-time in the second-hand book trade for eight years. My bibliomania began in Paris, overheated in Greece and has finished with cold hands and heaters in the insalubrious West Port, in Edinburgh. You would think that working in close ...
- Senior Calendar - Austin American-Statesman
Senior CalendarAustin American-Statesman, TX - 19 hours agoLifetime Learning Institute — Daytime courses include art, exercise, languages, finance, needlework, flower arranging, music, history, poetry, genealogy and ...
- Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks - Times Online
Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranksTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoAnd when, in the same poem, he records how ‘the wheels lurched over sprawled dead’, he was the driver of the limber-carriage referred to, ...
- Your Calendar - West Lake County edition (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
CANAL TRIP | Munster Munster Parks and Recreation Department offers a trip Sept. 12 at north central Illinois' newest attractions: the LaSalle Canal Boat and Lock 16 Visitor's Center in LaSalle. The canal, a 96-mile hand-dug waterway connecting the Illinois River with Lake Michigan, opened in 1848. Enjoy a boat ride on a replica 1800s canal boat pulled by horses on the IM Canal, while costumed ...
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