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- Today's song of ourselves might pain Whitman - Atlanta Journal Constitution
In his introduction to "Leaves of Grass," Walt Whitman, the iconoclastic Brooklyn poet and rude optimist, asked his fellow Americans, among other things, to "despise riches ... hate tyrants, argue not concerning God ... [and] reexamine all you have ...
- Thicker Than Water - San Francisco Gate
One long-ago Palo Alto summer day, Nancy Packer's 11-year-old son kept interrupting a conversation she was trying to have with a friend in the kitchen. "George was bedeviling us," she recalls. "I told him, 'Go on away.' " He wouldn't, so she made him ...
- Go fishin' with Dad - Portsmouth Herald News
Go fishin' with DadPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoAt 10:30 am Wednesday, July 23, Lawrence Clark will share his one-man show blending music, original poetry, storytelling and drama. At 10:30 am, Thursday, ...
- Poetic License - The Moscow Times
Poetic LicenseThe Moscow Times, Russia - 3 hours agoBy Sally Laird Novelist Brian Hall recreates an American poet's one-man mission to win over Khrushchev with a message of peace. By Jeremy Ventuso The World ...
- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of 'people's poet' Al ... - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - Eurithe Purdy sat at the feet of her late husband, renowned poet Al Purdy, on Tuesday as a statue of him was unveiled at Queen's Park. "His pose to me looks so natural, as if he could almost walk away from where he's reclining," she said ...
- Community Calendar (Pahrump Valley Times)
Bible study -- 7 p.m., First Southern Baptist Church, Highway 160 and Fehrs Way. Classes for all ages. Young Adults Bible Study -- 6:30 p.m., college students/adult, The Way Baptist Fellowship, 420 E. Bronco St., 727-5242.
- Book notes: Local author’s 2nd novel to publish this month - Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE — Sarah Addison Allen, author of “Garden Spells,” released last year, has a new book set for a May 20 publication date. Pre-orders for “The Sugar Queen” (Bantam) are already available on Amazon. The novel tells the tale of a ...
- Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowship - Appalachian State University
Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowshipAppalachian State University, NC - 3 hours agoBathanti writes poetry, novels and short stories and teaches creative writing in the Department of English at Appalachian. Since 1980, the North Carolina ...
- Boro Back Chip Pan Campaign - Middlesbrough FC
A MUM who lost her Boro-supporting son in a chip pan fire has launched an evocative book in his memory at the Riverside Stadium. Lynn Ford, of Stockton, has published a book of poems she has written about her son Andrew's life, which ended tragically ...
- Every few years, audiences rediscover Herzog's uncompromising ... - Newsday
Every few years, audiences rediscover Herzog's uncompromising ...Newsday, NY - 1 hour agoIt's very beautiful and very funny as well. It has good elements of a comedy. So let's label it a comedy. You ask some very funny questions in the film. ...
- BHS WWII Memorial rededication poignant tribute - Barnstable Patriot
Barnstable PatriotBHS WWII Memorial rededication poignant tributeBarnstable Patriot, MA - 1 hour agoThrough poetry, essay, and letter readings, as well as music, the veterans on the memorial, other veterans who served and died, and those in attendance were ...
- 'O sweet Juliet' slightly sour - Waterloo Record
'O sweet Juliet' slightly sourWaterloo Record, Canada - 5 hours agoTwo of the festival's most dependable veteran actors, Peacock trips lightly over the Nurse's extravagant verbiage to uncover its poetry, while Donaldson ...
- Summer reading program kicks off - Ionia Sentinel-Standard
IONIA - The Ionia Community Library's Summer Reading Program kicks off with an intellectual burst of brilliance from one of Michigan's homegrown authors. Poet, musician, performer and author Kevin Kammeraad will host the general public Thursday, June ...
- Centuries-old Shakespeare volume recovered - Independent Online
London - It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of pounds after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it ...
- Why Poppies? (Queens Courier)
As has been a custom for years, if you gave a donation to the American Legion a few weeks before Memorial Day, [this year, on Monday, May 26] you received a little red paper poppy in return.
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