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- Veterans coping with war experiences turn to writing - Riverside Press Enterprise
MORENO VALLEY - Vietnam veteran Joe Salinas says the title of his book explains everything. "All Were Valiant." Salinas spent a year in Vietnam in 1968-69, earning two Purple Hearts for combat wounds and enough dreadful memories to last a lifetime ...
- Path to peace fraught for Afghans - Toronto Star
Path to peace fraught for AfghansToronto Star, Canada - 1 hour agoThe horrors of life in Afghanistan, specifically in the southern provinces but occasionally gusting elsewhere, have tried everyone's patience with NATO and ...
- Travels with Herb - Spokane Spokesman-Review
Straight south today, from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Deming N.M. Very high country. For about the last 75 miles into Albuquerque, I was above 5000 feet elevation, and loosing power on the hills. Over nighted here, then west to Phoenix. I originally ...
- Christina Patterson: There is a lot to be said for marrying young (Independent)
My parents met on a hill in Heidelberg. It was, they always told us, love at first sight. My mother was 18. My father was 21. When they went home, three weeks later (she to Sweden, he to England), they continued their romance, in German, by letter. Four months later, my father sent my mother a telegram. "Will you marry me?" it said, in English. My mother's reply was one word: "Yes." By the time ...
- Ideas in Motion: Art on Track - Chicagoist
Ideas in Motion: Art on TrackChicagoist, IL - 3 hours agoWhen local arts advocates Salvo and Lethal Poetry, Inc. found a way to convert an 8-car CTA train into a bonafide arts space, Art on Track was born. ...Art On Track Chicago Public Radioall 2 news articles
- The antidote to universal troubles - Times Online
The antidote to universal troublesTimes Online, UK - 9 hours agoThe most concise distillation of why poetry matters is in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. When one of the boys complains that most poetry is about ...
- A paean to books and those who love them - Concord Monitor
A paean to books and those who love themConcord Monitor, NH - Aug 9, 2008By Wendy Smith The Washington Post Though it deals with a dark period in history, this first novel is an essentially sunny work. ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace’s apparent suicide - MSNBC
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- Farce on parade - Minneapolis Star Tribune
By: Garrison Keillor. Publisher: Viking, 267 pages, $25.95. Review: This amusing tale of Clint Bunsen's midlife crisis would feel slight if it weren't steeped in the tradition of Lake Wobegon. Event: 7 p.m., Nov. 11, Central Library, downtown ...
- Rocky fiction: Author speaks - Examiner.com
Examiner.comRocky fiction: Author speaksExaminer.com - 1 hour agoAmerican newspapers don't often publish fiction or poetry, although, considering their dwindling audience, they might consider doing so more regularly. ...
- Catholic Family Release Album Of Ancient Sanskrit Hymns - Showbiz Spy
Catholic Family Release Album Of Ancient Sanskrit HymnsShowbiz Spy, UK - 1 hour agoAndrea Forman, who has also translated traditional Christian prayer Ave Maria in Sanskrit, says, "We fell in love with the overwhelming stillness, ...
- JAMES THOMAS BROOKS - Kilgore News Herald
JAMES THOMAS BROOKSKilgore News Herald, USA - 2 hours ago... scabbards, and braiding with friends and family alike. He loved music and knew the words to all his favorite songs; he quoted lyrics like poetry and had ...
- Music Preview: Taj Mahal chose to harvest blues from around the world - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteMusic Preview: Taj Mahal chose to harvest blues from around the worldPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 57 minutes agoThese were guys with a third-grade education writing poetry that still stands today: "I'm gonna get up in the morning/and I believe I'll dust my broom. ...
- Work to start on blind activity centre - Evening News Norwich
Building work on a £1.5m activity centre for blind people in the county is set to start this month. The trustees of the Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind (NNAB) have appointed city-based construction firm John Youngs Limited to build the ...
- Poets of the laboratories - The Age
Poets of the laboratoriesThe Age, Australia - 7 hours agoAlso included is a smattering of poetry. "Science should inspire great poetry, but scientists have published disappointingly few poems," laments Dawkins. ...
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