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- Foster Father in Court on Rape Charges (R News)
A Henrietta foster father faces a number of charges for allegedly raping his former foster daughter. Lawrence Bright appeared in Henrietta Town Court on Tuesday. He is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, criminal sex act and rape.
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Queensland Country Life)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- TGIF (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
AMORE RESTAURANT, 223 Northern Blvd., Clarks Summit: today, The Wanabees; Saturday, Them Again; Monday, Karaoke. APPLEBEE’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL & BAR, Viewmont Mall, Dickson City: Wednesdays, Tony Vergnetti.
- A guide to getting you through that mid-week slump (The Charlotte Observer)
Thursday REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST: Legendary poet-musician-author Gil Scott-Heron appears in Charlotte for the first time. Scott-Heron (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”) is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of rap. He'll perform his music with a full band, as well as some of his poetry. 9 p.m. Neighborhood Theatre. 511 E. 36th St. $20 in advance, $25 day of the show. ...
- Key figure in promoting American Indian literature dies - Miami Herald
In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of American Indian literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses. Allen ...
- Bollywood in Bangkok - Bangkok Post
Bollywood in BangkokBangkok Post, Thailand - 1 hour ago"Sometimes I miss the fluidity and the poetry of old Indian films, but at the same time I'm engrossed by the rapidity and speed of modern films. ...
- Yale Daily News Event - Yale Daily News
Performance: Poetry Reading by Yale Younger Poets May 2, 2008 - 4:00 PM Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 - 53 Wall St. Louise GlĂĽck, U.S.
- Wyoming reading - Caspar Star-Tribune
and vanish. In "Yellowstone Rising," Bama, who lives in Cody, tells the story of Yellowstone through her prose. She writes not only about what she sees and feels in this wild, smoldering landscape, but about its history. Both her poetry and her ...
- Winners for 21st Annual Trillium Book Award Announced - CNW Group
TORONTO, June 12 /CNW/ - NEWS Winners of Ontario's foremost prize for literary excellence, the Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium, were announced today by the Hon. Aileen Carroll, Ontario Minister of Culture, and Kevin Shea, Chair of the Ontario Media ...
- CSULB dedicates a week of celebration to West Coast writers - Daily 49er
CSULB dedicates a week of celebration to West Coast writersDaily 49er, CA - 1 hour agoGuests will celebrate Locklin's career and the publication of two books of poetry. "One is a selection of Locklin's poems throughout his whole career, ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance - San Francisco Gate
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and ...
- Leading the field - guardian.co.uk
Leading the fieldguardian.co.uk, UK - 9 hours agoIn The Edge Of Love - to recap, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller in glam-boho love triangle, everyone writing poetry and having babies and crying and ...
- Hardy's 168th birthday is celebrated - This is Dorset
TO mark the 168 years since Thomas Hardy's birth a feast of events will take place in Dorchester. An English professor who has travelled from the University of Georgia, Doctor Simon Gatrell will start the celebrations tomorrow at 3.30pm (Saturday ...
- Parting gifts for Martin's mate - BBC News
What's the power of poetry? As a parting gift, Martin McGuinness presented Ian Paisley with a couple of hand-written poems. Mr McGuinness wrote one of the poems himself One was a passage from Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy in the laureate's own ...
- Legislator Enters Literary World (WGRZ-TV Buffalo)
Buffalo's Betty Jean Grant has been in the public eye for a number of years as a community activist, and a member of the Buffalo Common Council, School Board, and Erie County Legislator.
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