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- Klingon Chancellor Gorkon - startrek.com
Planet: Q'onoS (Kronos, the Klingon homeworld). The well-statured warrior race has a genetic predisposition to hostility and a well-known streak of fatalism. Lieutenant Worf says that Klingons do not like to be "probed" by empathic species. The ...
- Iredell officials are hoping creative arts can keep at-risk youth ... - Statesville Record & Landmark
Iredell officials are hoping creative arts can keep at-risk youth ...Statesville Record & Landmark, USA - 1 hour agoPhillips said the program will encompass more than just music, but other arts as well, from poetry to painting and drawing. An art contest will be held as ...
- Kiwi's affair with death row killer (The New Zealand Herald)
Viv Mason spent only 100 minutes with her "lover" before he was executed by lethal injection. With two-and-a-half years of emotional letter writing behind them, she met convicted killer Karl Eugene Chamberlain at the Allan Polunsky Unit, in Livingston, about 90km north of Houston, Texas.
- Taliban using text messages, ring tones (MSNBC)
The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message, according to a report Thursday.
- Slam turns poetry into performance (Owen Sound Sun Times)
Edgy, energetic, gutsy and invigorating were some of the words used to describe the poetry slam competition held in Durham on the weekend. “I’m getting goosebumps listening to it,” Dianne Ramsay, a poet from Owen Sound, said during a break in the competition Saturday. “I had no idea [...]
- Edwin Morgan wins 2008 Sundial prize - Times Online
Edwin Morgan wins 2008 Sundial prizeTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoThe book opens with a poem to the inauguration of the Scottish Parliament. “What do the people want of the place? /They want it to be filled with thinking ...
- A life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performance - Metro
BBC NewsA life through words as Jidariyya gets its first performanceMetro, UK - 6 hours ago'Every Palestinian and every Arab who knows his poetry feels the loss,' says director Amir Nizar Zuabi of Palestinian National Theatre, speaking from Tel ...Video: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish - 10 Aug 08 AlJazeeraEnglishPalestinian saga personified Arab NewsChristina Patterson: Where poetry still has power IndependentBBC News - The Media Lineall 625 news articles
- Poets take to the garden (The Warren Reporter)
"Grit and Green" is the theme of the 12th annual "Poets in the Garden" at Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in Morristown. The poetry reading at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24 features Susan Jackson of Far Hills and David Petruzelli, another New Jerseyan.
- Christian youth groups get ready for a battle of the bands - IdahoStatesman.com
Christian youth groups get ready for a battle of the bandsIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 3 hours agoBY STEPHANIE EDDY - seddy@idahostatesman.com Sometimes the lyrics come in the middle of the night, and sometimes, like poetry, they build over time. ...
- Duplex fire on Tyler Street - La Crosse Tribune
I was one of the people living at the house on Tyler Street at the time of the recent fire. I would like to state the truth as to what happened that night at the fire. My mother woke me up because the smoke detectors where going off upstairs in the ...
- UMW professor is state's poet Poets laureate - The Free Lance-Star
The Free Lance-StarUMW professor is state's poet Poets laureateThe Free Lance-Star, VA - Aug 26, 2008She's been in high demand since 2006, when she won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection "Late Wife." The latest honor comes as Emerson and ...
- Hampton news briefs - Portsmouth Herald News
Hampton news briefsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 2 hours ago... individuals and families who are grieving a death. A session on expression of grief through poetry and writing will be held Tuesdays from July 8 to Aug. ...
- It's Saturday, So Eff You - Desicritics.org
It's Saturday, So Eff YouDesicritics.org, India - 32 minutes agoOn Poetry: jibal al tariq/ gibraltar by Jawahara: I especially liked the last verse, t. Nice to see poetry on here. » On Stale Wine With Mouldy Cheese - The ...
- WH Auden (Guardian Unlimited)
'Why do you want to write poetry?' If the young man answers, 'I have important things I want to say,' then he is not a poet. If he answers, 'I like hanging around words listening to what they say,' then maybe he is going to be a poet.'
- Lesbian Activist Del Martin Dies at 87 (Time Magazine)
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died
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