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- Senior citizens pursuing education from home, via telephone - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art, and literature. But Leeds will never step foot on a campus or in a classroom. The 79-year-old widow has multiple ...
- Vermeer's Hat, by Timothy Brook - Independent
Vermeer's Hat, by Timothy BrookIndependent, UK - Jul 31, 2008Brook's epilogue turns from pictures to poetry, and John Donne: his vision of the great continuous continent that has no islands, and his tolling bell. ...
- Licence Pending - The List
The ListLicence PendingThe List, UK - 11 hours agoHe’s just used the words ‘performance poetry industry’ and he feels the urge to add the caveat ‘if you can call it that’. Indeed. ‘One of the problems with ...List picks: Days out The Listall 2 news articles
- Cliff Huxtable For President - Baltimore City Paper
Cliff Huxtable For PresidentBaltimore City Paper, MD - 30 minutes ago"I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry . . . I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, ...
- Traveling ‘Fences’ Exhibit Now Displayed In Vermillion (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
VERMILLION — Is the old adage “good fences make good neighbors†accurate?
- Lost in translation! - This is Salisbury
ORHAN Pamuk's intricate and brilliant novel, My Name Is Red, is currently being serialised on Sunday afternoon's on BBC Radio 4. The Nobel prize winning writer's work would have been unavailable to readers in English, if it hadn't been translated, as ...
- Bare or Bear, or, the Story of Berserk - OUPblog
Bare or Bear, or, the Story of BerserkOUPblog, New York - 3 hours agoBerserks were mentioned for the first time in a poem commemorating King Harald Fairhair’s victory in a battle that occurred around the year 872. ...
- Prince shows off a different side for '21 Nights' (USA Today)
Downstairs in a dimly lighted screening room crowded with sofas, Prince leafs through the first authorized book of his career. "I wanted to document something that was never done before," he says, pausing at a photo of himself immersed in fog onstage. "I don't expect that record to be broken unless I break it."
- Washington State Book Award winners - Seattle Times
Seattle TimesWashington State Book Award winnersSeattle Times, United States - 4 hours agoBooks winning this year's Washington State Book Awards include a sci-fi thriller by Matt Ruff, poetry by state poet laureate Samuel Green, a new history of ...
- John Steele Gordon on the Financial Mess: Greed, Stupidity, Delusion ... - New York Times Blogs
John Steele Gordon , an author who specializes in financial and business history, has a helpful pedigree: both his grandfathers held seats on the New York Stock Exchange. His 2004 book An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power ...
- Deaths & Funerals (Victoria Times Colonist)
BAILEY, Lawrence Irvine July 20, 1923 - September 6, 2008 Larry left us suddenly on September 6, 2008 leaving a huge hole in the lives of those who knew and loved him. Left to mourn are his loving wife of 60 years, Iona, his daughter-in-law, Suzanne, and grandchildren Katherine and Tyson. His only son, Rick, predeceased him in 2007. Larry proudly served his country in the Merchant Marines and, ...
- The Bible takes an Eastern influence - The Canberra Times
The Bible takes an Eastern influenceThe Canberra Times, Australia - 1 hour agoThe teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, Asia's first Nobel laureate, are also referred to in the commentary. ...
- Iran: Interview with Omid Memarian, Blogger and Human Rights Activist - Global Voices Online
Iran: Interview with Omid Memarian, Blogger and Human Rights ActivistGlobal Voices Online, MA - 6 hours agoAlthough many of them bravely talk under these circumstances their writing style is sometimes like poetry. Readers should know how to interpret it. ...
- Tall Tales (Bristol Herald Courier)
Performers To Spin Yarns During Annual Storytelling Festival On Oct. 3-5 JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. – Minton Sparks wants to tell you a story. So do Beth Horner, Tim Tingle and Kevin Kling. Oh, you can put Erica Lann-Clark and Elizabeth Ellis on that list of tale-spinners, too. All are performers coming to Jonesborough, Tenn. for the 36th Annual National Storytelling Festival, held this weekend and ...
- Gibran anniversary marked in London (Middle East Online)
Lecture marking 125th anniversary of famous Lebanese poet held in London in honour of his work.
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