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- Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization - EuropeNews
Fourteen Centuries of War Against European CivilizationEuropeNews, Denmark - 6 hours agoAt its peak, the destruction and depopulation of some areas probably exceeded what European slavers would later inflict on the African interior. ...
- Old 97’s bassist solo effort is not your typical church music (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
PRESTON JONES Before settling down in earnest to record his first solo album, I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m on My Way , Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond found himself spending a lot of time in church. Yes, Hammond is on the spiritual side — one of his hobbies is playing "roots gospel" music weekly at a church near his Burbank, Calif., home — but frequenting the church had more to do ...
- `Book By Authors' takes on Northtown (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
Maybe you should take a shot at getting published in the second edition of "Book By Authors," a handsomely bound anthology of tales from our city.
- John Betjeman hated being Poet Laureate, says Andrew Motion - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukJohn Betjeman hated being Poet Laureate, says Andrew MotionTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoBy Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent Motion said Betjeman, who was much loved for his poetry and cheerful public persona, wrote "vicious" things about the ...
- Check Out These Page-Turners - Washington Post
Check Out These Page-TurnersWashington Post, United States - 2 hours agoAlready underway, the Jewish Literary Festival brings in 20 authors who represent a variety of interests, including fiction, poetry, opinion and even ...
- 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 ...
- October Poem of the Month: Resurrection, by Amy George - Gather.com
This power-packed narrative poem by Amy George, with its interesting second person point of view, is strongly personal and experiential; so much so, it nearly defaults into first person. That is to say, while the reader can identify with the ‘you ...
- Guest commentary: Flight changed nature of our aerial musings (The Sacramento Bee)
Carl Sandburg wrote in Poetry Considered: "Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air." I agree. We are a people intrigued by the thought of flying. From the child jumping off the barn roof to Leonardo da Vinci studying the flight of birds, people imagined wings. Cleo Fellers Kocol
- Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute - San Diego Union-Tribune
VIZNAR, Spain – The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War. The dispute ...
- Incarcerated Youth Gain Life Skills Through Art - First Coast News
Incarcerated Youth Gain Life Skills Through ArtFirst Coast News, FL - 1 hour ago... painting, theater, and poetry. Organizers say the life skills learned give participants experience they need to excel once they are released. ...
- The north-south divide is glaring - Tribune
There are two faces of Chandigarh — the one representing the north of Dakshin Marg and the other south. The north-south divide is glaring. While the north has bigger houses, fewer residents, higher literacy, the south is crowded, less beautiful and ...
- Simon Gray; playwright noted for wit; 71 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays such as “Butley,†“Otherwise Engaged†and “Quartermaine's Terms†about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself, died Aug. 6 in London. He was 71.
- The Neighborhood Story Project celebrates the grand opening of ... - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.comThe Neighborhood Story Project celebrates the grand opening of ...The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 3 hours ago... a story of African-American life as it is really lived on these streets -- filled with close connection, affection for home, and ritual celebration. ...
- The Underground Poetry Circus - Pegasus News
The Underground Poetry CircusPegasus News, TX - 2 hours ago(As a bonus, you'll also unlock cool features like The Daily You, custom local music playlists and comment posting.) To all disciples of the underground, ...
- Cowboy Poets gather in Prescott next month (Wickenburg Sun)
The 21st Annual Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering will take place Aug. 15 and 16 on the Yavapai College Campus and at the Yavapai College Performance Hall in Prescott.
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