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- Voices of the People - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Voices of the PeopleNortheast Mississippi Daily Journal, MS - 1 hour ago"He signed his name as An Angry Man,'" said Byron Schexnayder, founder of poetry night. "Someone stole his guitar and he did this rant, this out-there rant. ...
- Exhibit reveals refugee hopes, struggles - Times Union
ALBANY -- Seyed Bagher, an Iranian refugee, took a photograph of his large work boots laced to his 3-year-old daughter Malika's tiny Mary Janes. "The picture means I want to lead my little girl to better things in America. She'll get a good education ...
- School's out, and there's time for some fun reads for kids (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A persistent mouse. A vanishing sculpture. An interstellar apocalypse. There's something for just about everyone, from preschoolers to teens, in our summer book wrap-up for young readers.
- Parallel Lives - Weekly Standard
Born a little over 150 years apart, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) both had the experience, on the threshold of adulthood--he was 20, she 22--of fleeing the culture they'd grown up in and entering another. For both, it ...
- The foibles that make us all human - Mail & Guardian Online
The foibles that make us all humanMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 1 hour agoWhen the guy, Bester, a cowboy-like type with his moustache, cocksure swagger and sliminess, enters the scene, she's already quite deep in her cups; ...
- Unlucky in love? Why Ruslana may have made her fatal decision - Sydney Morning Herald
More heartfelt internet messages posted by stunning model Ruslana Korshunova in the weeks before she leapt to her death from her New York apartment have surfaced. Although close friends reacted with shock and disbelief at the 20-year-old's death on ...
- Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' - Fosters Daily Democrat
NEW YORK (AP) _ It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and ...
- Poetry Night internship looking for more applicants - The California Aggie Online
Poetry Night internship looking for more applicantsThe California Aggie Online, CA - 44 minutes ago"We really do this out of the love of poetry and a desire to reach out to the community and give poets recognition - we don't take in any salary," Jones ...
- The sixth annual Altered Barbie art show - San Francisco Chronicle
The sixth annual Altered Barbie art showSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 39 minutes agoThe exhibition also includes quilts, print making, poetry, film, workshops on altering Barbie and "self-marriages," ceremonies intended to help people ...
- BOOKS Fire in the hole!: David Sedaris - Windy City Times
BOOKS Fire in the hole!: David SedarisWindy City Times, IL - 6 hours agoI don't understand how, if two lesbians want to exchange bad poetry on a mountain top, that would threaten the marriage of the people who grew up next door ...
- Magazine editor fired over Depayin poem - Democratic Voice of Burma
Magazine editor fired over Depayin poemDemocratic Voice of Burma, Norway - 10 hours agoJun 30, 2008 (DVB)–Htay Aung, the poetry editor of the Rangoon-based Cherry monthly magazine, was fired for carrying a poem in the June issue which ...
- Back Yard - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
For Kahala resident Kristen Chan, her husband, Michael, and their 9-year-old son, Jeffrey, the Contemporary Museum's annual ArtSpree is as entertaining as a circus, one in which art provides the fun and thrills rather than sword eaters, lion tamers ...
- A cultural history - Economist
A cultural historyEconomist, UK - 1 hour agoJean Cocteau managed a professional boxer and rhapsodised about his “active poetry” and its “mysterious syntax”. Jean Genet wrote poems to a “thief-boxer” ...
- 102-year-old Bickleton High grad is last of her class - Tri-City Herald
Neva Reiman will have a seat of honor today in Bickleton, where she will be honored as the last surviving graduate of the high school's Class of 1923. At first there were seven but now it's just Reiman, who next month expects to celebrate her 103rd ...
- Portolanos overcome adversity - Fountain Hills Times
No one who looks at this complacent young family would ever see more than a nice, close family. No one knows the lengths they go to shield others from their problems. They never complain. Both of them born and raised in Long Island, Charles (Charlie ...
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