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- Features calendar for this week - Salt Lake Tribune
Features calendar for this weekSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoReading - The Rumi Poetry Club meets at 7 pm at the Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City. Free. For details, call 801-582-3250. ...
- Brutal beginnings - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukBrutal beginningsguardian.co.uk, UK - 51 minutes agoAnd why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry. ...
- Author: Jennifer Harker, Special - Midland Mirror
Author: Jennifer Harker, SpecialMidland Mirror, Canada - 51 minutes ago“We were doing poetry and we read lots of Dr. Seuss with its rhymes.” Taking paper patterns and painting around them students went to work with enthusiasm ...
- SCI-FI: Writing contest (York Daily Record)
Writers of original science fiction are invited to submit entries on the theme, "Yesterday, I Will" in a science fiction writing contest.
- Mapping a nation: the legacy of Darwish - Guardian Blogs
Mahmoud Darwish reads from his poetry. Photograph: Khalil Mazraawi Mahmoud Darwish, who has died following surgery in the US , was the most significant Arab poet of the last three decades.
- Seniors join Blue Rock poetry celebration (The Journal News)
Blue Rock School in West Nyack invited senior citizens from the Thorpe Senior Center in Sparkill to celebrate the culmination of Blue Rock's Intergenerational Poetry program.
- It's a dirty job, and he won't do it - Winnipeg Sun
It's a dirty job, and he won't do itWinnipeg Sun, Canada - 9 hours agoA unique exhibition blending art and sport opens tomorrow in Toronto, featuring painting, photography and poetry created by more than a dozen of Canada's ...
- Modern day Samurais - Sofia Echo
Modern day SamuraisSofia Echo, Bulgaria - 13 minutes agoThey looked like a cross between the grim reaper and an American footballer. They engaged in tactics taken straight from Star Wars. ...
- Happy Birthday, Stanley Kunitz - findingDulcinea
findingDulcineaHappy Birthday, Stanley KunitzfindingDulcinea, New York - 28 minutes ago“I think a poem lies submerged in the depths of one’s being. It’s an amalgamation of images, often the key images out of a life. I think there are certain ...
- Close call in Big Sur: fire skirts historic area - for now (San Jose Mercury News)
Like snowflakes, ash drifts across the elegant patio of Big Sur's Ventana Inn & Spa. Smoke and fog veils vast Pacific views.
- Lyrical Terrorist William Shakespeare Wins Appeal - Thespoof.com
A former cottager in Avon, William Shakespeare, today won his appeal against a 9 month prison sentence, for writing iffy poems likely to make Lord Chief Justices burst into tears. Mr Shakespeare, the 'lyrical terrorist', had been accused of writing ...
- Canadian poet uses Hopper's Cape Cod images - Cape Cod Today
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of the poetry book, Late Nights with Wild Cowboys . She uses the imagry of painter Edward Hopper's "Cape Cod Morning, 1950" to limn her emotions. Originally from Scotsburn, Nova Scotia, she currently lives in Toronto ...
- Arts & Entertainment Briefs - Lompoc Record
Arts & Entertainment BriefsLompoc Record, CA - 5 hours agoThis free event will feature poems about nature by four well-known poets from Santa Barbara County. A short concert will precede the poetry reading at 3 pm ...
- Soldier's Mother Bridges Distance with Poetry (NPR)
When Frances Richey's son deployed to Iraq in 2004, their relationship was strained by their very different views about the war. While her son was gone, Frances Richey wrote poetry about her own experience and her son's. Richey speaks with NPR's Guy Raz about her poems and the bond they helped renew with her son.
- ‘Lahore unique among beautiful cities’ - Daily Times
‘Lahore unique among beautiful cities’Daily Times, Pakistan - Jul 5, 2008The air becomes misty when people recite their poetry. An old adage that reads that he who has not seen Lahore has not born yet, truly describes the ...
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