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- A cup of poetry (Plymouth Observer)
"It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there."
- Police search for mystery dad and daughter - United Press International
Police search for mystery dad and daughterUnited Press International - 3 hours agoOn the Web site of Cafe Society, a Boston literary group, someone said that his reading of Scottish poetry "will send chills down your spine. ...
- The two sides of Nathaniel Abraham - Detroit Free Press
The two sides of Nathaniel AbrahamDetroit Free Press, United States - 3 hours agoThe Nathaniel that Cromer knows is a talented kid who has finished a book of poetry and signed a record deal last spring that pays him a monthly stipend ...
- McGuinty defends Ontario incentives for Young People F---ing - CBC News
A scene from Young People F---ing, an adult-oriented romantic comedy that has been much cited in the debate over the proposed bill C-10. (Toronto International Film Festival) Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has defended the use of provincial tax ...
- Speaking Volumes: Fathers and sons (The Star-Ledger)
In his second poetry collection, "Boy" (University of Georgia Press, $17), Drew University English professor Patrick Phillips explores the life-changing experience of fatherhood and the corresponding feeling of mortality as his father successfully battles cancer and his father-in-law dies at home, surrounded by loved ones.
- Festival flavours - Journal Live
Festival flavoursJournal Live, UK - 7 hours agoThe festival dovetails neatly with the Cumberland spirit of traditional music, cutting-edge poetry, energetic and foot-stamping dancing, plus everything ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers - San Francisco Gate
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of ...
- Great British Watercolors - Wall Street Journal
An English friend maintains that the British are not a visual people. "We like words," he says, "and gardens. That's why all those British conceptual artists who do things with trees and rocks are so popular. But what we're really good at is language ...
- A brief history of the breast - Health 24
Different cultures focus on different parts of the female body as representing extremes of beauty. In Japan the nape of the neck has long been popular. The Chinese, for an appalling period, chose very tiny feet, subjecting women to agonising and ...
- Movie review: 'Mongol' portrays toughtest of men (The News-Press)
Hard places make for hard men, history has taught us.
- Jessica: Outgoing type is into helping others (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Jessica Glover is an 18-year-old graduate of Central High School Magnet Career Academy. She will be attending Eastern Kentucky University starting next month. She wants to be a psychiatrist and is always there for friends and family.
- File photo - Albany Democrat-Herald
Lunette Mulkey, a 20-year Albany resident and one of the most prominent writers of letters to the Democrat-Herald, died Friday. She was 96. A longtime writer, though never professionally, Mulkey was a regular contributor to the “Editor’s Mailbag ...
- An interview with author Monica Ferrell - Bucks County Courier Times
Monica Ferrell is an accomplished poet and writer who lives in Brooklyn. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and her poems have appeared in publications such as The New York Review of Books, Paris Review and Tin House. Her debut ...
- Review: 'Diminished Capacity' - Newsday
PLOT A big-city newspaper editor and his small-town uncle grapple with their tragicomic mental conditions. PLAYING AT Sunshine Cinema and Clearview 62nd & Broadway, Manhattan. BOTTOM LINE A delicately written, well-acted but oddly inconsequential ...
- Lonely life as commoner for Nepal’s former king - Daily Times
Gyanendra’s new life looks set to become even quieter after the departure of his son, former crown prince Paras, for Singapore earlier this month WITH few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life ...
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