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- Senior citizens pursuing education from home - Opelika-Auburn News
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 ...
- Tamblyn, the poet, stars in Litquake opener (San Francisco Chronicle)
Amber Tamblyn totally gets why people are suspicious of her writing abilities. "There's this underlying belief that actors are really shallow," she says with obvious exasperation. "And I think that is catastrophically bull-. It's incredibly unfair because...
- A Sea of Tranquillity? - bbc
President Sarkozy has greeted the 43 world leaders for a summit that at least looks more successful than many of us expected. He welcomed Mrs Merkel with a hug, Gordon Brown with what could have been a joke and the Turkish leader very quickly ...
- Grimshaw stays in touch with award-winning characters - 3 News NZ
3 News NZGrimshaw stays in touch with award-winning characters3 News NZ, New Zealand - 5 hours agoGrimshaw won the award in the fiction category for her collection Opportunity, and later took out the overall Montana award for fiction or poetry. ...Grimshaw reunites with award-winning characters Otago Daily Timesall 4 news articles
- Religion As Poetry - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
James Carse, who directed the Religious Studies Program at NYU for 30 years, has a new book out called The Religious Case Against Belief . Here's his definition of a belief system, which he differentiates from religion: A belief system is meant to be ...
- A 'legend' passes on (Kingston Whig-Standard)
When retired Gananoque postman John Nalon heard that his old friend Hal (Moose) McCarney was laid up in hospital with a broken leg, his first [...]
- Collection shows Rivera's genius in Chicano genre (El Paso Times)
Editor's note: Tomás Rivera (1935-1984) was an executive vice president at the University of Texas at El Paso in 1978. "What is, then, the principal intent of Chicano Literature: to exchange one stereotype for another? To destroy stereotypes? To verify that which is Chicano and to conserve it?
- Finding challenge in verse - Maroondah Leader
Maroondah LeaderFinding challenge in verseMaroondah Leader, Australia - Jul 18, 2008She will often find herself sitting in front of her laptop in her quiet Eltham study with a perfectly formed idea for the shape of a poem, but little idea ...
- Sustainable Life Calendar - Sherwood Gazette
Sherwood GazetteSustainable Life CalendarSherwood Gazette, OR - 17 minutes ago... www.belmontbusiness.org, 503-774-2832 The Friends of William Stafford, Oregon’s celebrated poet laureate, will hold its third annual Poetry and Potluck. ...
- Kyle Keenan's mom remembers her son (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
"He was just the love of my life for 21 years," Tracey Keenan, Kyle's mother, told 24 Hour News 8. "Obviously I don't know a lot of things Kyle felt, 'cause I could've never guessed that this was gonna happen."
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Colorado Springs Independent)
How the hell does a movie about Hunter S. Thompson wind up being perfunctory?
- Pak children hold poetry evening to mark Ramadan - Times of Oman
MUSCAT  The holy month of Ramadan was observed by some Pakistani children, who presented masterpieces of Urdu poetry reflecting the significance and superiority of fasting, at a select gathering at Wadi Kabir recently. Maimoona Abdul Ghani, a ...
- Step Brothers (Cinema Confidential)
What the bleep do you know? The new Will Ferrell comedy "Step Brothers" has many, many bleep words. It’s one of those movies that thinks that it is breaking into taboo territory by unleashing as many bleep words into as many scenes as possible.
- Austin, Boston, Charlotte, and New York teams win semifinal bouts at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Four finalist spots were up for grabs at the National Poetry Slam semifinals on Friday at the Overture Center, where 20 contenders battled with words after a week's worth of bouts and last-minute practicing throughout downtown Madison. One highlight bout pitted defending the 2007 champion team from Charlotte against those from Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, and St. Paul, which brought the talents ...
- Word’s out on heat winners - Central Western Daily
TALENTED poets were discovered at the Australian Poetry Slam regional heat at Orange City Library on Thursday, with rap, poetry and rhymes about love, life and nature. Twelve entrants battled it out in the war of words, expressing their thoughts for ...
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