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- A shrine, a shame (Boston Globe)
Outside the charred remains of a ruined home in South Boston, a makeshift shrine has sprung up.
- 'What good is talent if it only benefits one's self?' - Annapolis Capital
'What good is talent if it only benefits one's self?'Annapolis Capital, MD - 21 hours ago"I consider this work to be the culmination, continuation and deeper expression of my music, art and poetry. What good is talent if it only benefits one's ...
- 'Romeo and Juliet' at the Vanderbilt Museum - Newsday
This is the 10th summer since "Shakespeare in Love." For fans of that film, what better way to launch the Bard-takes-Long-Island season than with "Romeo and Juliet" chased by "Twelfth Night"? In the 1998 Oscar winner, Will, on the advice of Queen Liz ...
- Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing - Times Online
Alfred and Emily by Doris LessingTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoNobel laureate Doris Lessing has lived nearly nine decades of intensely varied life, and has written everything from operas and plays to poetry and ...
- Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection" (AlertNet)
Source: UNHCR As millions marked World Refugee Day, UNHCR's chief says he is concerned about the rise in refugee numbers in 2007 and the suffering in Somalia.
- Amity Artists Circle holds First Poetry Contest (Amityville Record)
There may not have been many submissions for the Amityville Artists Circle's (AAC) first poetry contest called "Simply Stated," but the poems sent in were intense, crackling with nuance, and anything but simple in meaning.
- Do North - Salem News
WALK . Marblehead Walking Tour, Thursday, July 17, 6 to 8 p.m. with Bette Hunt beginning at Lee Mansion. Focus on "Washington Street and its Parallels." Cost, $10 Marblehead Museum and Historical Society members; $15 nonmembers. Reservations ...
- Where & When: What to Do This Weekend - Washingtonian.com
Where & When: What to Do This WeekendWashingtonian.com, DC - 11 hours agoSaturday, July 12: The Hip-Hop Theater Festival continues throughout the weekend with live music, dance, poetry, theater, and other performances. ...
- Gillian Ferguson finds the poetry in DNA - Times Online
Times OnlineGillian Ferguson finds the poetry in DNATimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoFerguson's first book of poetry, Air for Sleeping Fishes, was published in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. ...
- The man who heard the woodwind in the willows - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentThe man who heard the woodwind in the willowsIrish Independent, Ireland - 2 hours ago... the poetry of Alfred Edward Housman, a turn-of-the-century English romantic, whose verse was all about nostalgia for a rural way of life that was gone ...
- OutLoud Open Mike at the Beebe Estate features local writer Tom Sheehan (Melrose Free Press)
OutLoud at The Beebe Open Mike Coffee House will feature Thomas F. Sheehan on Wednesday, July 16. Sheehan is a local and internationally published poet and writer from Saugus; author of fiction (“Death for the Phantom Receiver”); nonfiction (“A Collection of Friends: Memoirs”) and poetry (“This Rare Earth and Other Flights”).
- A man of few words: Poet shares love, talent for beauty, simplicity of writing (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
Poetry expresses more thoughts and feelings than short stories or novels, a fact that poet A.J. Chilson said he admires because it accomplishes more by using less words.
- What men think of...Sex and the City - Sunday Star Times
What men think of...Sex and the CitySunday Star Times, New Zealand - 2 hours agoRecently, M Night Shyamalan's enviro-horror-turkey The Happening was bad-poetry-in-motion to me, but Sex and the City felt like the tagline to David ...
- Collection of essays celebrate's Corvallis' 150th celebration - KTVZ
Collection of essays celebrate's Corvallis' 150th celebrationKTVZ, OR - 19 hours ago(AP) - A new book called "The Spirit of Corvallis" celebrates the city's 150th anniversary with a collection of poetry, images and short stories. ...
- Tightrope-walking in the dark - Globe and Mail
Tightrope-walking in the darkGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoBut in Dey's hands, overwrought is, in fact, finely wrought, her prose a wondrous compression of poetry, her carnival of characters drawn in gripping detail ...
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