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- TOP STORIES (St. Petersburg Times)
Visiting an open-air military camp manned by French Napoleonic hussars, watching documentaries on the wall of the Fountain House, taking a sneak look at monkeys putting their babies to bed and reading your own poetry to whoever will listen at the Alexander Blok Apartment Museum are things people can do at a one-night-only, not-to-be-missed event at twenty St. Petersburg museums this weekend as ...
- Poet's Idaho home is reborn (Seattle Times)
Ezra Pound's birthplace is a two-story white clapboard house in the little Idaho mountain town of Hailey. Pound, the poet and frontman for...
- School remembers 'gifted' teenager - St. Albans Observer
HUNDREDS of students today paid their respects to a teenager who died unexpectedly at the weekend. Fourteen-year-old Rupert Marson died at his home in Boundary Road in St Albans on Sunday morning. The 'popular and bright' boy was remembered at a ...
- Dave Matthews Band - Rolling Stone
Dave Matthews BandRolling Stone - 1 hour agoI always have ambitions to read 30 books but rarely do. Between a bottle of whiskey and a book of poetry, I'll find time to relax.
- Upstream or downstream? (London Free Press)
A seasonal series about the waterway that defines us. One river rushes in from the north and another river rushes in from the south, heading to the heart of the city with the promise of rising.
- Poets hold audience spellbound (Khaleej Times)
IT IS said that old is gold. Where does that leave the new? One can say, it depends. When it comes to new poets, it depends on their performance.
- The Seventh Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies: Toronto, Canda, Jul 31-Aug 3 (Payvand Iran News)
The Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies will bring to Toronto approximately 250 scholars from various parts of the world for the presentation f their current research on Iran. This is the largest international gathering of scholars who study, teach and write on Iran.
- Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate in the fall. The appointment is for one year and
- Funeral set for Anthony Kane Baker of Palm Beach, killed in plane ... - Palm Beach Daily News
Funeral services will be Tuesday, July 22, for Anthony Kane Baker, a longtime Palm Beach resident who was killed Wednesday when his lightweight airplane crashed into the Tennessee River. Mr. Baker was 65. The funeral will take place at 1 p.m. at St ...
- The Power of Music in the Ancient World - NewsBlaze
The Power of Music in the Ancient WorldNewsBlaze, CA - 1 hour agoHistory was chanted in myth and poetry. We can translate most ancient languages but much of the feeling and meaning of what the chants conveyed are hidden ...
- Frye urges men to stand tall - Winston-Salem Chronicle
Frye urges men to stand tallWinston-Salem Chronicle, NC - 11 minutes agoInstead of referring to Scripture, he relied on his love of poetry, often reading exerts from poems to illustrate his points. He opened with James Weldon ...
- Nate's arrest a blow - Oakland Press
In January 2007, just as Nathaniel Abraham became a free man, his sister said he wanted to show the world he had been worth the trouble. Michelle Peoples-Dudley told The Oakland Press, "He wants the state to know and see the progress, and he wants ...
- Festival in the Park - Black Hills Pioneer
Festival in the ParkBlack Hills Pioneer, SD - 2 hours agoOver the weekend, entertainers will include Brule, Top Hats and Roses, dancers from The Dance Company, TJ Casey, who brings the west alive with poetry and ...
- Flower Fest supports service groups - Lompoc Record
Flower Fest supports service groupsLompoc Record, CA - 1 hour agoVillage Library Poetry Group: The next meeting is at 6:30 pm July 24. New members are welcome. The poetry group was saddened to hear of the passing of one ...
- Fresh Ink contest open to Niagara teens - Niagara Falls Review
Fresh Ink contest open to Niagara teensNiagara Falls Review, Canada - 8 hours agoThe contest closes July 31 and entry forms are available at the library. Short story and poetry writers between the ages of 12 and 18 may submit their works ...
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