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- William Wordsworth - guardian.co.uk
William Wordsworthguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe pioneered the use of ordinary speech in poetry and, going against the fashion for heroic couplets, experimented with various stanza forms and irregular ...
- Iran to compile Shahnameh encyclopedia - PRESS TV
PRESS TVIran to compile Shahnameh encyclopediaPRESS TV, Iran - 13 hours agoWritten by the Persian poet, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) is a classic among epic Persian poetry and recounts Iran's mythical and historical past ...
- Co-op students introduce each other - Owen Sound Sun Times
Kelsey Starr has had a lifelong "thirst for writing," but was strongly cautioned by friends, family and people in the business about making it a career. They warned that journalism is not an easy career and advised trying it first to make sure it is ...
- Visual Art - Salt Lake Tribune
Visual ArtSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 3 hours agoAnderson-Foothill Library » 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City; Setsuko Yoshida: paintings inspired by Rumi's poetry; 801-594-8611. ...
- Religious retreats offer personal enlightenment (CNN.com)
NEW LEBANON, New York (AP) -- At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Poetry showcase part of First Friday - Canton Repository (subscription)
Poetry showcase part of First FridayCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 8 hours agoYou must be a registered user to post comments. Your comment will be published at the bottom of the story. Once a comment is submitted, you will not be able ...
- Livin’ La Vida Hands-Free Loca - Santa Monica Mirror
Livin’ La Vida Hands-Free LocaSanta Monica Mirror, CA - 1 hour agoBan tint on car windows and now the windows come down… so that everybody can enjoy the delicate poetry and social commentary of your favorite music. ...
- Richard Cohen: 'A change is gonna come' - Long Beach Press-Telegram
S am Cooke, the great R&B singer, wrote those words in 1963 following a visit to a civil rights event in what was then Jim Crow North Carolina. Thursday evening, an era and more than a thousand miles away, Barack Obama echoed Cooke. "America, this is ...
- Directors urged to take care in early stages - Paris News
Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center board of directors Tuesday named Millard Brent of Fannin County to fill a board vacancy. Brent, a native of Fannin County, is a geologist and recently retired college teacher. He will fill the unexpired ...
- Bessy Reyna - Hartford Courant
Bessy ReynaHartford Courant, United States - 1 hour ago... participated in poetry readings and presented writing workshops for teens and adults. I served as the honorary chairwoman for last year's "One Book for ...
- Garden Plot - Washington Post
Got a chronic case of green thumb? Like getting your hands dirty? Adrian Higgins , garden editor for The Post's Home section, is here to help. Higgins is a firm believer in "tough plants for tough times" -- the varieties that combine good looks with ...
- Writers capture poetry awards (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
Recent graduates of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop have captured two of the poetry world's most prestigious first-book awards.
- Karadzic Enters No Plea, Claiming Deal With U.S. - Wall Street Journal
Radovan Karadzic, out of disguise and in the hands of an international war-crimes tribunal, entered no plea Thursday in his first court appearance at The Hague but claimed that former U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke cut a deal with him in 1996 and ...
- Pressed flowers between pages - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphPressed flowers between pagesCalcutta Telegraph, India - Aug 1, 2008Although he said he only wrote when inspired, Faraz left a sizeable corpus of poetry, prose and drama now available in four volumes. ...
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