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- Band of pranksters loses loyal soldier - Miami Herald
This much is known about the late Sgt. Skeeter: At 49, he was the youngest member of Coxie's Army, the shadowy North Miami cabal that each Halloween impales a pumpkin atop the town library steeple. He was a father, a husband, an electrician, a church ...
- Together We Read picks Morgan's 'Boone' for '08 - Asheville Citizen-Times
Together We Read has selected Morgan's latest work, "Boone: A Biography" as the book that all of Western North Carolina will be reading this summer and fall.
- Portsmouth High School announces top 10 seniors - Fosters Daily Democrat
PORTSMOUTH — The following are the top 10 students for the Portsmouth High School Class of 2008. Stacy Wong , the daughter of Ruth and Jim Wong of Newington, has been accepted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of New Hampshire. She ...
- Blogger: Rap's all-time best MCs (AM New York)
- Potions: Cooking with kids - Los Angeles Times
Potions: Cooking with kidsLos Angeles Times, CA - 16 hours agoScattergood grew up in Iowa, has degrees in theology, poetry and cooking, and, when she isn't writing about food, is trying to get her two young daughters ...
- Richard Wright: black first - Times Online
By the time he sailed to France from New York in 1947, Richard Wright was a star, fixed in the literary firmament. Two of his books – Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) – had risen high in the US best-seller lists, and were being translated ...
- Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Royal Academy: the poetry of silence (15 ... - Guardian Unlimited
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1885 (oil on canvas). Hammershøi's portrait of his sister Anna was painted when the artist was 21. The Danish Royal Academy passed over the work when judging the 1885 Neuhausen Prize, and the omission ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, June 19th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from William Shakespeare who said, "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it ...
- Changing the Kashmir narrative? - The Post
Changing the Kashmir narrative?The Post, Pakistan - 6 hours agoIt does not figure in any major or minor Kashmiri poetry from Lal Ded (Sixth century Kashmir poetess) to Amin Kamil (Modern Kashmiri poet. ...
- On life, literature and Palestine, a tribute to Abdelwahab Elmessiri - Electronic Intifada
Electronic IntifadaOn life, literature and Palestine, a tribute to Abdelwahab ElmessiriElectronic Intifada, IL - 37 minutes agoWhen death came knocking he was putting the finishing touches to his study on the history of English poetry and was planning to write a book on Egyptian ...
- Book Review: Literary memoir is believable (The Oklahoman)
"My Sister, My Love” by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95). Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss” Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is ...
- Dream time - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeDream timeBoston Globe, United States - 55 minutes ago"The Ghost Soldiers" continues the trend in Tate's recent books to dissolve the boundaries between verse and prose as yet another means of rebelling against ...
- Jack White's ode to Detroit - Guardian Blogs
He may prefer to dress like a pearly king now, but it's Motor City all the way for the White Stripes man Jack White, he of the White Stripes fame, has penned a poem for his beloved hometown of Detroit. Rumours that the city's premier rock star wanted ...
- CityBeat Recommends - Cincinnati CityBeat
Cincinnati CityBeatCityBeat RecommendsCincinnati CityBeat, OH - 2 hours agoThis go-round, catch poetry from Erica Dawson and PTA stalwart F. Keith Wahle, multi-disciplinary performance by Ethan Philbrick, Allen Otte on percussion ...
- Fathers and sons: The last martini (WorldNet Daily)
In the spirit of Father's Day, let's celebrate dads. Mine, for taking me fishing, even though I threw everything back.
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