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- North Hampton news briefs - Portsmouth Herald
North Hampton Public Library hosts "Home Is Heaven: Poems by Ogden Nash," today, July 1, at 7 p.m. The presentation is Pontine Theatre's original staging of poems by "America's master of light verse," who made his summer home at Little Boar's Head in ...
- Tribute: Jeremy L. Harris “was like a giant teddy bear†- Kansas City Star
Tribute: Jeremy L. Harris “was like a giant teddy bearâ€Kansas City Star, MO - 39 minutes agoZemelman described Harris as a “Renaissance man†who wrote poetry, enjoyed performing and even liked the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. ...
- A Promising Start - San Francisco Gate
Ron Hansen's best novels, "Mariette in Ecstasy" (1991) and "Atticus" (1996), probe the realms of religion and ethics with uncommon intelligence and deeply felt characterizations of people in crisis. In the former, it's a nun inflamed by love for ...
- Leisure news in brief - Holmen Courier
Leisure news in briefHolmen Courier, WI - 40 minutes agoThe visual and literary arts will combine Tuesday, July 29, when the Minnesota Marine Art Museum hosts Winona’s poet laureate for an evening of sea poetry. ...
- Famous Faces of European Collection Showcased in Installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Art Daily)
Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse), 1889. Vincent van Gogh (Dutch (worked in France), 1853–1890). Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of John T. Spaulding. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other' - San Francisco Chronicle
Fiction review: David Guterson's 'The Other'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoBoth poetry and nature "are occasions for introspection, but not necessarily for happiness," Guterson's narrator observes. Like the author, Neil is deeply ...
- FOXSexpert: How to Be Sexier (FOX 11 News Los Angeles)
Get a glimpse and you want it. See others’ reactions and you need it. Whether it’s a devilish look, a suggestive gesture, or enticing innuendo, we all desire it at some point – that state of being sexy. There’s a lot to get turned on to in this world. Who doesn’t appreciate an impressive physique? Or get charged from catching a flash of femme fatale thigh-highs? Or feel flushed all over from the ...
- Kenya: - Distributing Peace Flags (AllAfrica.com)
The National Symposium on Post Election Peace Building was convened under the strong conviction that Kenya as a nation had not attained the healing it needed. A lot of disabling hurt and division among groups and communities are still quite evident to this moment.
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' - New York Sun
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get ...
- Jimmy Carter: peanut farmer to peacemaker - Times Online
Jimmy Carter: peanut farmer to peacemakerTimes Online, UK - 1 hour ago“My biggest ambition was to please my father,†he has noted, and only relatively recently, when he published a book of poetry, did he add that “Even now I ...
- Berlin's Holocaust memorial holds open-air concert - International Herald Tribune
Berlin's Holocaust memorial holds open-air concertInternational Herald Tribune, France - 6 hours agoIt was designed by American architect Peter Eisenman and cost €27.6 million (US$42.4 million) to build. It is open 24 hours a day.
- McClellan, a Tad Late Correcting The Story - Washington Post
McClellan, a Tad Late Correcting The StoryWashington Post, United States - 4 hours agoOlbermann hailed the book, "What Happened," as "a primary document of American history" that contained "poetry." Talk about role reversal: It was Olbermann ...
- Authors to gather for WordFest readings (The Daily News)
The WordFest gathering on Tuesday will offer poetry, a short story, essay and a selection from an autobiography.
- Historicist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Vice ... - Torontoist
TorontoistHistoricist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Vice ...Torontoist, Canada - 17 hours agoFlipping through your family's high school yearbooks can be an eye-opening experience. Besides seeing how your elders evolved through their awkward years, ...
- Florence 'to revoke Dante exile' - BBC News
Seven hundred years after it sent Dante into lifetime exile on pain of death, Florence is having a re-think. The city council has backed a motion that calls for the author of The Divine Comedy to be rehabilitated by the mayor of Florence at a public ...
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