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- Where words matter (Daily Record)
You might have seen them in person, in the classroom or on PBS television. Now the poets of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival are coming to YouTube.
- Navigating life after death - Brisbane Times
SOME years ago four people very close to me died, almost in a row. Writing about it here attracted the attention of a then new grief and bereavement organisation, where I still volunteer. Death is my old friend. Last week we hosted the eighth ...
- Writing Outside The Margins hits Toronto's streets (North York Mirror)
Canada's Festival of Queer Literary Arts returns to the city on Sunday, Aug. 24. The all-day festival, Writing Outside The Margins, features an array of activities for everyone, including panel discussions, an open-mic stage, a poetry slam, children's area and exclusive readings.
- Terminator Salvation trailer - Scoop
The terminator is back, but it's not Arnold Schwarzenegger. This time the plot centres on John Connor and a decommissioned terminator called Marcus Wright whose last memory is of being on death row. Ex-teacher takes out top poetry prize in Montana ...
- Play tackles modern-day issues (The Log Cabin Democrat)
The opening scene of Jennifer Davis' "Freedom" eight passengers stuck in the St. Louis airport, waiting for an available flight to New York is definitely realistic, especially to anyone who's experienced recent air travel.
- Pollock mural belongs to Iowans - DesMoinesRegister.com
Pollock mural belongs to IowansDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 11 hours agoMusic, literature, poetry, art, architecture and religion are innate expressions of human ideas, ideals and principles. A democracy is based upon intrinsic ...
- Best of the week - Concord Monitor
Best of the weekConcord Monitor, NH - 30 minutes agoFormer US poet laureate Donald Hall will read from his new memoir, Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of Life in Poetry, at a special 80th birthday celebration ...
- The Art of Mourning – 9/11 in Pop Culture - San Francisco Examiner
Seven years. Seven years ago we watched two jetliners fly in to the Twin Towers in New York City and then we watched, as bodies leapt from the high floors to a certain death, the buildings come down. In Washington, a similar plane flew into the ...
- Lifting Liberia - PennState Altoona
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley , a Liberian native and assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was one of six invited panelists to the Liberian government's "Diaspora Engagement Stakeholders' Consultative Forum," in Monrovia, Liberia, in August ...
- A sense of peace, of place, of parkland - Estes Park Trail Gazette
A sense of peace, of place, of parklandEstes Park Trail Gazette, CO - 17 minutes agoHis 2007 volume of poetry, “A Park Is a Poem on the Land,” bears the dedication: “To a wild place, a wild idea, a wild you and a wild me,” honoring the ...
- Senior citizens pursuing education from home - Houston Chronicle
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 ...
- Centennial girl: ‘Anne of Green Gables' turns 100 - Miami Herald
Anne Shirley, the main character in L. M. Montgomery's acclaimed novel "Anne of Green Gables," is introduced to readers as a sad figure, an orphan without a person in the world who loves her. Despite her lonely introduction, Anne has captured the ...
- Words and lyrics by... Billy Steinberg - The Desert Sun
Words and lyrics by... Billy SteinbergThe Desert Sun, CA - 31 minutes agoShe used to read poetry that I wrote. She felt I had a gift for words and was very complimentary at a time when not many people were looking at what I was ...
- A "message" for Obama. - Slate
At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the ...
- Manic Mondays at the Palace (Aspen Daily News)
It is a beautiful thing that the bohemia of the late '50s and '60s is alive and well in the first decade of 21st century Aspen.
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