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- Poets in the offing (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Fourth-grader prevails in the Connections Contrition poetry contest.
- Remembering MAKHFI (Deccan Herald)
Though I am the Laila of Persian romances/My heart loves like the ferocious Majnun, wrote princess Zebunnisa, the eldest daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb.
- Library Calendar (Southfield Eccentric)
Events Library Closings: Sundays, beginning June 15; Saturday, June 28: early closing (5:30 p.m.) Monday, June 23.
- FRONT PORCH—The Bahamas Heritage Endowment (The Nassau Guardian)
According to its website, the landmark legislation establishing The Bahamas National Trust in 1958 created "the only known non-governmental organization in the world to manage a country's entire national park system."
- Rochester students play with poetry - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester students play with poetryRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 41 minutes agoFeldman says that she received poems from people in every decade of life, up to the 90s. They have been printed on styrene plastic and will remain up ...
- Documentary: "Global Moms Iran" takes us behind the headlines, into ... - Payvand Iran News
THE FILM: Global Moms Iran (working title) took filmmaker Justine Shapiro, a Jewish American mom, and her six-year-old son Mateo to Iran. Before she became a mom, Justine's work as a documentary filmmaker and as host of GlobeTrekker , an ...
- Venezuela: The Poet Who Enjoyed the Simple Things in Life - Global Voices Online
Venezuela: The Poet Who Enjoyed the Simple Things in LifeGlobal Voices Online, MA - 1 hour agoHe was also one of the most furious advocates of Human Rights during the 1960s in Venezuela and this reflected his love for his people through his poetry. ...
- Nogales native makes splash at Governor's Art Award dinner - Nogales International
Nogales native makes splash at Governor's Art Award dinnerNogales International, AZ - 12 minutes ago"The program seeks to foster the next generation of literary readers by building on the recent interest in oral poetry as seen in rap music," said Willey. ...
- Overland Trail Museum offers kids trip through time - Sterling Journal-Advocate
Fourth graders from Campbell Elementary try their hands at sand painting during a “Wagons West†program at the Overland Trail Museum. During the months of April and May, approximately 800 school children visited the Overland Trail Museum and ...
- Willimantic Third Thursday: Come for food ... stay for fun, friends ... - Norwich Bulletin
It’s a big street party that fills the senses with the aroma of tantalizing food, a tapestry of cuisine that hails from across the world but takes flight in Willimantic. “The food is phenomenal,†said Paula Stahl, one of the founders of the ...
- 'Shakespeare was a woman' - News.com.au
SHAKESPEARE was actually a Jewish woman who disguised her true identity to get her work published in Elizabethan London, an expert has contended. The woman, Amelia Bassano Lanier Bassano, was of Italian descent and lived in England as a Marrano. She ...
- Life's precious gifts - Daily Reflector
For 32 years, Lynn Morgan has held onto a poem handwritten for her in the corner booth of a Knoxville, Tenn., restaurant. She shared it with everyone she knew before stashing it away inside a drawer. Every few years, she'd pull it out and read it ...
- Prince working on book to be published in the fall (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Prince the musical auteur is becoming an author. "21 Nights," a "photographic essay" that offers "a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics, and mystique" of the maker of such hits as "1999" and "Purple Rain," will be published worldwide come fall, according to Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
- Tunisia: Local Writer And Scholar Abdelmajid El Houssi Dies At 66 (AllAfrica.com)
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation has announced on Sunday the death of the Tunisian writer and scholar Abdelmajid El Houssi at the age of 66.
- Teen Poetry Slam (KAMR Amarillo)
Teens are competing Monday night in "Slamarillo". It's a teen poetry slam. The Yellow City Teen Poetry Team performed before they head off to Washington, D.C. this week. It was free for anyone to join in.
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