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For the week of June 16
- If you need some cheering up, go for feel-good Vampire Weekend - My High School Journalism
If you need some cheering up, go for feel-good Vampire WeekendMy High School Journalism - 7 hours agoThrough hitchhiking, writing poetry, finding short-term jobs and staying on the road, Sal wants to discover what humanity is all about. ...
- With Class of 2008 we take another step into the future - Annapolis Capital
With Class of 2008 we take another step into the futureAnnapolis Capital, MD - 12 hours agoThey were the state winners in the Poetry Out Loud program - twice. This student body garnered more than $6.2 million in scholarships. ...
- R. John Buskowiak -- Rochester - Post-Bulletin
R. John Buskowiak -- RochesterPost-Bulletin, MN - 1 hour agoMr. Buskowiak enjoyed building model airplanes, music, songwriting and poetry. He is survived by a daughter, Janet M. (William) Nelms of Urbandale, Iowa; ...
- Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prizes to be handed out at dinner in Toronto (Jam! Showbiz)
TORONTO - Authors Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje are among the literary stars set to celebrate the best in poetry tonight at a dinner in downtown Toronto.
- China torch relay: Huangshan - BBC News
Immortalised in Chinese poetry and paintings, and regarded as one of the most beautiful areas of China, the mountains of Huangshan are also one of the most visited by tourists. The traditional view of the area is of proud emperors on sedan chairs ...
- Related Links (The Canton Repository)
You could find trouble in the Deep South growing up young and black in the 1960s. Busy hands helped Fred Dean keep evil at bay in Ruston, La. "I hauled wood, hauled hay ... moved 500-pound roofing tar bales," Dean recalled. "The split logs were 24-foot long. I was 12, 13 years old."
- 'How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone' (San Francisco Chronicle)
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone By Sasa Stanisic; translated by Anthea Bell Grove Press; 345 pages; $24 "A good story," writes Sasa Stanisic in his first novel, "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone," "is like our river Drina: never calm, it doesn't...
- Students find learning opportunities - Pembroke Daily Observer
Students find learning opportunitiesPembroke Daily Observer, Canada - 6 hours agoTwenty-three acts performed comedy routines, dance numbers, contemporary songs, poetry recitation and gymnastics. Through donations at the door, ...
- Delete me (dupe thread) - Broadway World
The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry.
- Flat-pack furniture and firecrackers - The Observer
Flat-pack furniture and firecrackersThe Observer, UK - 4 hours agoThe opening text is the first verse of 'Aristotle', by the American poet Billy Collins, describing the beginning of a relationship. 'This is the opening, ...
- I never get despondent — Raghib Muradabadi - DAWN Group
RAGHIB Muradabadi, the noted Urdu poet, scholar of Persian and Arabic, who has been a popular figure at mushairas (poetry recitals) in Pakistan and abroad for decades, gave me a pleasant surprise when he showed me his book Tarian dee lo. The book is ...
- Michael Coren: G.K. Chesterton, an icon to too few - Nationalpost.com
The New Yorker magazine recently got into all sorts of trouble for its satirical front cover cartoon depicting Barack Obama as an orthodox Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist. Some people, it seems, simply can't take a joke. G.K. Chesterton ...
- The Wonders of Cal State San Bernardino - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Stuart Sumida is one of the least likely people you would expect to be working in the film industry. Yet, the professor of paleontology at Cal State San Bernardino has worked as a consultant for such movies as "Shrek II," "Narnia" and "The Lion King ...
- At Tanglewood, a modernist oasis - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeAt Tanglewood, a modernist oasisBoston Globe, United States - 8 hours agoOne relatively new and gorgeous vocal work was "In the Distances of Sleep," a 2006 setting of Wallace Stevens poetry, cogently led on Tuesday by Jeffrey ...
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