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- A.D. White Professors-at-Large - Cornell University
Cornell has appointed three new A.D. White Professors-at-Large to six-year terms through June 2014. The new appointees, in the humanities and physical science, are: Hélène Cixous , one of the foremost intellectuals and creative writers in France ...
- I Am So Popular: The Phlebotomist Who Said, "Oh Shit!" (Austinist)
Editor’s note: The views expressed in I Am So Popular are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the outlook or beliefs of anyone else in the IST network. I used to donate a lot of blood, starting back when I was eighteen. I gave at least a couple of gallons over the years, maybe twice that, before tattoo sessions and piercings and low iron and sex with a guy that ...
- Giant (The News & Observer)
'Giant" is the poem that almost never was. It came along during my first year of serious poetry writing, and my early drafts of the poem were written in free verse.
- Slanted Script (San Diego Reader)
The curtain rises at the Old Globe and vwa-lah! We’re in the majestic living room of a Victorian mansion. A bay-window seat, with nine-foot windows, overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge (we’re in San Francisco’s Marina District, east of the Presidio and up, maybe, around Lombard).
- International flair (Eastern Shore News)
JAMESVILLE -- Camp Silver Beach here is one of the Shore's best-kept secrets, and its strongly international flavor may be even lesser known to locals.
- Casper Calendar for June 9, 2008 - Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Casper Calendar for June 9, 2008Jackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY - 2 hours agoJune 13, 7 pm, “The Beats” discussion series continues with a Poetry Slam held at Metro Coffee Company. Three contemporary Beat poets from Denver will ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Sun-Journal
NEW YORK - My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle ...
- Former Japanese diplomat: Japan-China friendship conforms to world ... - People's Daily Online
Former Japanese diplomat: Japan-China friendship conforms to world ...People's Daily Online, China - Aug 11, 2008"I thought the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship was also in line with the world trend and recommended that Foreign Minister Sonoda ...
- Laura Sherman, 78; opened class, heart to needy children - Boston Globe
For the 6- and 7-year-olds who walked into Laura (Levine) Sherman's color-filled classroom in Lynn, the day often started with a warm hug - the first sign of a highly personalized approach to education. During her quarter-century of teaching, it was ...
- Mick Imlah: master of versification - Times Online
Mick Imlah: master of versificationTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoIf, as verse, Imlah’s writing has panache, as poetry it frequently has power to provoke or move. “Braveheart” tells of the adventure-cum-pilgrimage ...
- Read your poems against a backdrop of nature at Green Cay Wetlands - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
West Boynton — Fans of nature and poetry will have a chance to enjoy both at the Green Cay Wetlands. Bards of a Feather, a local poetry reading group, is having a free "Round Robin Reading" at the Green Cay Wetlands Preserve at 1 p.m. Aug. 5. The ...
- Latitude, Leonard and the mob mind (The New Statesman)
Get out of my country! shouts a young man. A tidal swell of assent and applause fills the comedy tent. I feel nauseous, unnerved by how quickly and completely the crowd has turned
- Tunnel Visions (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Vibrant graffiti and bare-bones living conditions highlight Brian Paco Alvarez's "Beneath the Neon" exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Collective. Photos by Jessica Ebelhar/Review-Journal
- Vancouver’s Poet Laureate McWhirter to lead festival workshop - BCLocalNews
BCLocalNewsVancouver’s Poet Laureate McWhirter to lead festival workshopBCLocalNews, Canada - 1 hour agoSo it seems that everyone with poetry in their hearts who registers for his Write on Bowen! literary festival workshop, 4D Word Drawing (Saturday, ...
- Adjusting the Theory of Just War: Gary Bass's 'Freedom's Battle' - New York Sun
From the Vietnam War until the end of the Cold War, it was almost axiomatic that liberals would oppose every use of American military power. Defecting from that position was what qualified a former liberal as a neoconservative. But in the last 20 ...
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