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- At the library: - Wicked Local Roslindale
At the library:Wicked Local Roslindale, MA - 2 hours agoOngoing poetry workshop: Since 1996, local poet Mary E. Joyce Waite has been guiding other aspiring poets during their Monday meetings at the West Roxbury ...
- Greek court allows "lesbians" - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, July 24 -- A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- Giving Foster Teens a Place to Call Home - Gotham Gazette
Gotham GazetteGiving Foster Teens a Place to Call HomeGotham Gazette, NY - 15 minutes agoBut on a March day, Juan, clutching his black poetry journal, was about to move to a permanent foster home in Parkchester. "It's awesome," he said. ...
- Michael Rosen’s favourite children’s books - Socialist Worker
Adults become attached to children’s books in three overlapping ways – as memories of when they were children, as moments when reading books with children in their care and as pleasurable reads in themselves. So, when we come to recommend ...
- What's Happening: July 30, 2008 - Blue Mountain Eagle
What's Happening: July 30, 2008Blue Mountain Eagle, OR - 31 minutes agoCounsil, who has taught creative writing and poetry at the University of Oregon will cover topics specific to writing your life story. ...
- A first in Canada - spoken word in written (East York Mirror)
It may seem like a contradiction in terms but according to David Silverberg, spoken word poetry can mean as much when it isn't spoken at all. "I think the best spoken word comes alive on the page as...
- WNMU professor to speak in Canada (Silver City Sun-News)
SILVER CITY — Most Americans are unfamiliar with Jose Rizal. Western New Mexico University Professor Jean Hall considers herself a student of the life of the Rizal, a Philippine hero.
- Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity (New York Times)
A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Outdoor notebook: Finish summer break with a shorelands tour - Salt Lake Tribune
The Nature Conservancy is holding a back-to-school tour Aug. 23. On Aug. 23, a Nature Conservancy of Utah guide will take kids on a tour of the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve. The event will include hands-on activities and poetry writing. The ...
- A festival month to remember - The Argus.co.uk
A festival month to rememberThe Argus.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe following day brought an extraordinary journey through lesser-known poetry and song from the First World War with Andrew and Kate Kennedy and Julius ...
- Bootle schools sign up as celebrities back Shine Week - icSeftonandWestLancs
Bootle schools sign up as celebrities back Shine WeekicSeftonandWestLancs, UK - 1 hour agoJoining Shine is free at www.shineweek.co.uk and every school registered receives a free creative kit to help towards their celebrations. ...
- Reader Roundup: Stadiums, grammar and silos prompt prose and poetry - Minnpost.com
Old topics (stadiums and smoking bans) and new ones (light pollution and good grammar) sparked lively comments from Minnpost readers recently. And don't miss the poetry inspired by North Dakota missile silos. Tony Wagner was among those commenting on ...
- Woman shares great joy with 'Grandmotherhood' [11 hrs ago] - NewsOK.com (subscription)
Woman shares great joy with 'Grandmotherhood' [11 hrs ago]NewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 2 hours agoSandra Gales Shapard has published her fifth book of poetry, and it should be a resounding hit with grandmothers. The small volume, "Grandmotherhood: Poetry ...
- Our view: Famous 1884 speech offers a memorial to war dead (Public Opinion)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He delivered a famous Memorial Day address -- entitled "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire" -- on May 30, 1884, at Keene, N.H., before John Sedgwick Post 4, Grand Army of the Republic.
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse - TS Eliot - Tonight
A Choice of Kipling's Verse - TS EliotTonight, South Africa - 3 hours agoThen, from Eliot's Choice move on to enjoy, for instance, such gems of South African descriptive poetry as Lichtenberg and Bridge Guard in the Karroo ...
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