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- Library's reading challenge - Scarborough Today
Library's reading challengeScarborough Today, UK - 3 hours agoOther events include a poetry workshop for children on Thursday July 31, shadow puppets on Wednesday August 6, tracks and trails on Thursday August 14 and ...
- Why wars should always be avoided - Nigeria Guardian
T errors of War; Nnamdi Agbakoba Sat War Publishers, Lagos, 2004;. T HIS book entitled Terrors of War is the story of the Nigerian civil war that spanned four years between 1966 and 1970. The Nigeria/Biafra war started as a result of the ...
- Top Urdu poets honoured (Gulf Times)
OVER 20 Urdu poets, writers and scholars from India and Pakistan attended the annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab awards ceremony and Aalmi Mushaira (international poetry symposium) over the weekend.
- Ciara McKnight - a photographer who lets the horses tell their stories (Orangeville Citizen)
Ciara McKnight thinks, breathes, lives for and takes pictures of horses. By her own reckoning, she started riding rather late in life, compared, as she says, to the other riders at the stables: she started riding at the age of 10.
- Jade cup puts poetry into auction - Times Online
Hong Kong An early Mughal shell-shaped carved white jade cup, inscribed in Chinese with a Qianlong imperial poem from the 18th century, is displayed during a Christie’s press preview in Hong Kong. The work of art will be sold at Christie’s Hong ...
- All ages can catch the reading bug (The Wilmington Star-News)
The library's Summer Reading Program is a safe, fun activity available to all ages. Beginning June 17 in Hampstead, library staff present "Catch the Reading Bug." The weekly time for children ages 2-12 to enjoy the free activities is 11-11:45 a.m. Story Explorations, 45 minutes of stories, crafts and other hands-on activities, is offered in...
- ASK EMILY: Teenager itching for contacts, independence - Stafford County Sun
ASK EMILY: Teenager itching for contacts, independenceStafford County Sun, VA - Jul 2, 2008I started blogging for fun and posting some of my short stories and poetry online. I was wondering how I could get more people to visit my site and read my ...
- Undernews For May 27, 2008 - Scoop.co.nz
Undernews For May 27, 2008Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 3 hours agoThe millions of new African American voters registered and mobilized by the Jackson campaigns are still mostly voting today, providing a strong progressive ...
- Editor confronts genocide in 'Senselessness' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Senselessness By Horacio Castellanos Moya; translated by Katherine Silver New Directions Press; 142 pages; $15.95 paperback One approach to discovering exciting new Latin American writers is to scout for contemporary authors whom Roberto Bolaño counted among...
- Mohamed El-Makhzangi - Egypt Today
The art of short story writing is, arguably, increasingly marginalized aside the more popular novel. So it came as a surprise when Mohamed El-Makhzangi’s latest book, a collection of short stories called Hayawanat Ayyamna (Animals of Our Days ...
- Jeanette (Yox) Helmbrecht - Jamestown Post Journal
Jeanette (Yox) HelmbrechtJamestown Post Journal, NY - 10 hours agoShe was a distinguished poet and member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Illinois State Poetry Society. She considered herself a social activist ...
- Molestation suspect in NH after Mexico arrest - Chandler News-Dispatch
Molestation suspect in NH after Mexico arrestChandler News-Dispatch, MN - 13 minutes agoThe program said he writes poetry, plays the piano and speaks several languages. "He‘sa very eloquent person and he wrote very nice letters, talking about ...
- Edison student graduates, looks ahead - Miami Herald
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacifist and now jailbird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl ...
- Author's strength in complex characters (The Post and Courier)
ATTACHMENT. By Isabel Fonseca. Knopf. 306 pages. $23.95. Isabel Fonseca's debut novel, "Attachment," is populated with rich characters, although the plot stutters a few times. The life of middle-age protagonist Jean Hubbard, a health columnist who lives on a remote ...
- Hip-Hop: Amir Sulaiman (a muslim rapper in usa) - Raptiviste.net
Hip-Hop: Amir Sulaiman (a muslim rapper in usa)Raptiviste.net, Morocco - 37 minutes agoAmir Sulaiman began writing poetry at the age of twelve. In 1996, he began performing at colleges, universities, bookstores, and coffee shops as a student ...
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