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- Review: Exiles, by Ron Hansen (The Tennessean)
Hansen's unusual work of fiction astutely blends two real-life narratives: the story of a reluctant poet and the aftermath of a shipwreck in the Thames River estuary in 1875.
- Provincial funding for cancer drug gives patients hope; - The Kingston Whig-Standard
Provincial funding for cancer drug gives patients hope;The Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 1 hour agoPoetry is a balance of the abstract and the concrete, and The Four Horsemen, and sound poetry, shifted the balance for many performance artists for good. ...
- Sheikh-down cruise: Italian line sails Arabian peninsula from Dubai (Miami Herald)
I stared for a time at the museum-case model that portrayed early Abu Dhabi as a sandy flat with a loose scattering of mud huts, on which the most sophisticated architectural feature were the goat pens. I half expected to see tiny figures swinging crude stone tools.
- The ex factor: '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' - Independent
The ex factor: '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover'Independent, UK - 1 hour agoThen there are the victims, including a love-crazed arsonist, a sexually confused girlfriend with a gymslip fetish and a poetry-spouting drip with a ...
- Dangerous crossing - Boston Globe
Dangerous crossingBoston Globe, United States - 8 minutes agoThe students and senior citizens collaborated last month on a poetry project. "Intergenerational projects are wonderful," said Linda Elworthy, ...
- Report examines Taliban media - Boston Globe
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report ...
- Chicago notes (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Play | Chicago "The Ballad of Emmett Till" by Ifa Bayeza, directed by Oz Scott, will run through June 1 in the Goodman's Albert Theatre. The legendary story of Till is believed by many to be the start of the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s. This world premiere, part history and part ghost story, is a jazz integration of past and present, the living and dead, factual accounts and ...
- Porter's Kasztner's Train wins Jewish Book Award (The Globe and Mail)
Book earlier won the Nereus Writers' Trust Award for non-fiction
- Briefs (Lowell Sun)
Ice-cream sundaes in Townsend TOWNSEND -- Kids can kick off summer with an ice-cream sundae on the library lawn. The program is open to children in preschool through fifth grade. It will be held tomorrow on the Townsend Public Library lawn at 1 p.
- Midlife Crisis, Averted - New York Times
Midlife Crisis, AvertedNew York Times, United States - 31 minutes ago“Yes, we still make the girls memorize poetry,” she said. But that wasn’t, of course, what I meant. I would have liked, that night in Georgetown, ...
- Wilmington storyteller's resume reveals long list of jobs - Dispatch
Ronald McDonald performer. Circus clown boss. Musician in a Cajun/Zydeco band. Actor, wizard, pirate. Stilt walker. Radio man. The Star-News of Wilmington reports that John Henry Scott's eccentric resume reads like a Roald Dahl children's novel ...
- The Edge of Love (15) - Wembley and Kingsbury Times
Wembley and Kingsbury TimesThe Edge of Love (15)Wembley and Kingsbury Times, UK - 2 hours agoAnd thanks in large part to Rhys' rich recitals of Thomas' poetry interspersed throughout the film, it is moving and rather poignant. ...
- 'Poetry in motion' (The Times-News)
Remember that scene at the beginning of the recent Bond adventure "Casino Royale" in which the agent chases a man across a construction site, bounding fences, scaling girders, leaping across empty space to land on a crane boom?
- Erdrich to share tale of her novel - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Erdrich to share tale of her novelMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 2 hours agoErdrich's body of published work began in 1984 with a volume of poetry, "Jacklight," and the novel, "Love Medicine," which won the National Book Critics ...THE PLAGUE OF DOVES. By Louise Erdrich. Houston Chronicleall 9 news articles
- College on horizon, teen crams summer activities - St. Petersburg Times
D’sirre Oliver, 17, works at Buccaneer Bay and volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters. I have lived in Weeki Wachee for 2 1/2 years. I was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and lived in New York and New Jersey before moving to Hernando County. Who ...
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