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- Straight off the shelf (Hindustan Times)
Sometimes, places are associated with writers. Dickens’ London, Roth’s New York, Rushdie’s Bombay. Ruskin Bond has his own spot on earth. In this delightful anthology, A Town Called Dehra (Penguin, Rs 200), Bond not only zones in, but also opens out Dehradun for all to see.
- Meeting to feature Irish poetry readings (East Brunswick Sentinel)
The Tara Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Milltown Senior Citizens Center, Violet Terrace. The program will feature Irish poetry readings and desserts prepared by club members. Meetings are open to all individuals interested in Irish culture, music and literature.
- City schoolgirl wins national poetry prize - Scotsman
City schoolgirl wins national poetry prizeScotsman, United Kingdom - 4 minutes agoAN Edinburgh schoolgirl has beat off competition from thousands of entrants to take top place in a national poetry competition. Kirsty Shinton, 15, from the ...
- Around The Towns - Bristol Press
Around The TownsBristol Press, United States - 5 hours agoPOETRY AND MUSIC FESTIVAL: In partnership with select high schools and student competitions, including the IMPAC-CSU Young Writers Competition, ...
- Ramadan and the holy book of Quran - Morning Call
As the month of Ramadan approaches, millions of Muslims like me worldwide will try to renew their relationship with God during a period of fasting, prayer and reflections. It was in the month of Ramadan when Prophet Muhammad sought refuge in the ...
- Independence Heritage Festival is Saturday - Kansas City Star
Independence Heritage Festival is SaturdayKansas City Star, MO - 9 hours agoAlversia Pettigrew, who grew up in the city’s African-American district known as “The Neck,” has been continually surprised by the varieties of ethnicities ...
- Seniors rekindle memories on visit to Frost Farm - Eagle-Tribune
DERRY — On a tour yesterday of Robert Frost Farm, Mary Shoukal, 87, of Salem looked over the dinner table and smiled at guide Steve Ormond of Derry. Ormond had just told Shoukal and the rest of the group from the Silverthorne adult day-care program ...
- Educator-musician leads songwriting workshop at Paxton Keeley Elementary (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA — The assembly hall at Paxton Keeley Elementary School was dead quiet on Thursday. About 120 third-graders sat on the floor, heads bent over clipboards and Eagle pencils working intently. They were not taking a test, doing homework or being punished; they were brainstorming ideas for a song about French toast. The exercise was part of a songwriting workshop led by Monte Selby, a ...
- John Lundberg: Poetry, Underground (HuffingtonPost)
Spreading an appreciation for poetry isn't easy in a country that doesn't read as much as it used to and doesn't value the arts as...
- Farewell gift for writer - three years late - New Zealand Herald
Farewell gift for writer - three years lateNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 2 hours agoPayne's son Tyler said this meant a lot to him, his family, and to those who had read his father's work. "It's been three years since Dad died and I get ...
- Hendrix fire guitar 'to fetch Ă‚ÂŁ1m' - Croydon Guardian
A guitar set on fire by Jimi Hendrix during a live show is to go on sale, it was revealed. Hendrix famously covered his Fender Stratocaster in lighter fluid at the end of his March 1967 show at the Finsbury Astoria in London. He then ignited it ...
- Bakwena urged to use culture to fight poverty (Mmegi)
The recent Dithubaruba Cultural Festival hosted by Kgosi Sechele I Museum in Molepolole, was not just a day of song, dance and drama as it served as a motivational day, encouraging Bakwena not only to take pride in their culture and heritage but to also use culture to upgrade their living standards.
- Activists gather for European Social Forum (EARTHtimes.org)
Stockholm - Globalization, labour, women's rights and curtailing corporate power were among issues being discussed at a meeting of civil society groups that opens Wednesday in the southern Swedish city of Malmo. Organizers anticipated some 20,000 wou...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk hero - Star-ecentral.com
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange ...
- New poet laureate built a career far from the literary mainstream - San Jose Mercury News
New poet laureate built a career far from the literary mainstreamSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 2 hours ago"So I had to start dealing with these abstractions like love, death, the wheel of fortune." It took eight years to get a poem accepted at a serious poetry ...
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