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- Howard County Datebook - Baltimore Sun
Howard County DatebookBaltimore Sun, United States - 1 hour agoThe theme is "Childhood" and includes an interview with and poetry by National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton; fiction by Tom Nugent and Rafael Alvarez; ...
- Irons in the fire - The Australian
The AustralianIrons in the fireThe Australian, Australia - 1 hour agoWhile Mapplethorpe explored photography, Smith wrote and performed her poetry, and was drawn to the burgeoning punk music scene. She brought those forms of ...
- Sean Connery: The story of a brilliant but deeply flawed man - Mail on Sunday
Sean Connery: The story of a brilliant but deeply flawed manMail on Sunday, UK - Aug 8, 2008Connery then pursued the petite blonde by reciting Robert Burns verses and passages of his own poetry. She submitted, and they started an affair that lasted ...
- Book Review: Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul edited by Judith Valente and Charles Reynard (Blogcritics.org)
The nourishment one takes from this volume of paired poems and essays, perhaps depends upon how one prefers to dine. Twenty poems seem easy enough to find - but ones which nourish the soul? Nourishment of any type is difficult to find. To nourish is to enrich, to sustain. The soul is a much debated article, tangible to some, elusive to others, its very existence a sore topic to many. So, poems ...
- Mindfulness of our bodies - Aiken Standard (subscription)
Mindfulness of our bodiesAiken Standard (subscription), SC - 8 hours agoIt may seem incongruous to end this column with a piece of poetry, but I am about to do it because the message it provides fits us here so well. ...
- Nigeria: Oty Agbajoh-Laoye - Promoting African Writing - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Oty Agbajoh-Laoye - Promoting African WritingAllAfrica.com, Washington - 18 minutes agoOty knows poetry has a fairly limited audience, so she writes lead papers and speaks at conferences. She wants to do even more. ...
- Mauritanian poet wins Abu Dhabi’s ‘Prince of Poets’ (Middle East Online)
Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Bemba awarded ‘Prince of Poets’ title, one million UAE dirhams.
- Sisters, 92, 90, recall Little Red Schoolhouse days - Chatham Courier
Sisters, 92, 90, recall Little Red Schoolhouse daysChatham Courier, NJ - 47 minutes agoSomebody would recite poetry,” Schwartz said. “There were quite a few Longfellow poems.” Mornings began with the children saying the Lord’s Prayer, ...
- Ä°lhan Berk dies at 90 - Turkish Daily News (subscription)
Turkish Daily News (subscription)Ä°lhan Berk dies at 90Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - 55 minutes agoHe is the author of more than two dozen books of poetry as well as a number of works of critical and biographical prose. He was also an acclaimed visual ...
- Physicians 'prescribe' reading for their colleagues (EurekAlert!)
( American College of Physicians ) "The Last Half Hour of the Day" shares writings that express medical ideals and realities, the devastation of death and illness, the miracle of healing, and the netherworld of remission. Reflections of the physician's role in society and as an observer of the human body and spirit are seen throughout the book.
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - The Associated Press
Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on lifeThe Associated Press - 11 minutes agoHe published several volumes of poetry and served as executive editor of the Associated Negro Press, a wire service for black newspapers, before leaving the ...
- Mental health in the spotlight - Windsor Star
Mental health in the spotlightWindsor Star, Canada - 2 hours agoIt's a free display of visual arts, poetry readings, musical performances, standup comedy and a reception. From 10 am to 11 am, Friday, play Feel Good Bingo ...
- Missoula's old faves make return engagement - The Missoulian
The MissoulianMissoula's old faves make return engagementThe Missoulian, MT - 21 hours agoThe center, which preserves and documents Western culture and most famously sponsors the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, was wondering what ...
- Potato madness has gripped at least one man (Anchorage Daily News)
Palmer potato guru Bill Campbell is a guy with a head stuffed with potato science, potato trivia and potato tales, a guy who can and does talk potatoes longer than most people can listen, a guy with the personal motto, Cogito Ergo Spud. “I think, therefore I yam.”
- From love to law, the trust vote to T20, Kapil Sibal has texted a book of poetry (Express India)
If the swirl of political events these days has all the elements of drama - hubris for some, victory for others...
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