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- Go & Do - Cool stuff going on Wednesday and Thursday - Portsmouth Herald News
Go & Do - Cool stuff going on Wednesday and ThursdayPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoThe Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program is hold its first ever Ho(o)t Summer Poetry event from 7 to 9 pm on Wednesday, July 2 at Café Espresso, ...
- A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy world - The Olympian
A bakery, like poetry, offers refuge from noisy worldThe Olympian, WA - 1 hour agoI unfolded the scrap of paper with its 16 words, and wondered how this sparse verse, which I'd carried around since college, applied to my life. ...
- Thousand Oaks Acorn - The World's Greatest Moms (The Thousand Oaks Acorn)
Why my mom is great: My mom, Shiphrah Maller, spends her life caring for others. A 1942 UCLA graduate transplanted to New York City after marriage. A school teacher in a low income area, she was referred to as the "Trip Teacher"- she was the only teacher to take children on field trips.
- Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi Wins a Peabody Award! (Payvand Iran News)
A Peabody went to Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, from American Public Media. This edition of the long-running series explored resurgent interest in the 13th century Persian poet:
- Englishman's rewriting of Scots history 'as false as the idea they ... - Times Online
From beyond the grave, one of Britain's most controversial historians has found himself caught up in yet another historical dispute. Although he died five years ago, the last book written by Hugh Trevor-Roper, former Regius Professor of History at ...
- Breaking barriers, remembering Jackie (MLB.com)
The legacy of Jackie Robinson
- Understanding father (Minnesota Public Radio)
Poet Honor Moore created waves with her memoir that in part talks about the double life of her father Paul Moore, an Episcopal bishop. Paul Moore's bisexuality was an open secret in his large family and among some in his parish. In the process of writing and researching, Honor Moore found her feelings toward her father changed.
- Friends, family share memories of slain college student at campus ... - Gaston Gazette
Friends, family share memories of slain college student at campus ...Gaston Gazette, NC - 18 minutes agoA friend named Jeremy played a song that he wrote for Ira in response to her death. The chorus went, "Goodbye my violet bouquet. ...
- Akron Art Museum wins Royal Institute of British Architects ... - Akron Beacon Journal
Akron Art Museum wins Royal Institute of British Architects ...Akron Beacon Journal, OH - 7 hours agoThrough the use of music, imagery,poetry and artmaking, the workshop will ''connect participants with their inner spirit to experience the sacredness of our ...
- Morning update: Thunder boomers (Quad-City Times)
Good morning, Quad-Cities. At 6 a.m. it’s 48 degrees under fair skies. It will be mostly cloudy today with a high near 74 degrees. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon increases to 90 percent in the evening. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain, according to the National Weather Service. New rainfall amounts between a half- and three- quarters-of-an-inch are ...
- "The Phoenix" Lives on as Haven for Creative Student Expression at ... - Collegenews.org
"The Phoenix" Lives on as Haven for Creative Student Expression at ...Collegenews.org, DC - Apr 28, 2008Born in 1966 as a student-run coffeehouse, the Phoenix provided entertainment including poetry readings, folk singers, speakers, and student performances. ...
- Obama's place in American history - Greenwich Time
Obama's place in American historyGreenwich Time, CT - 23 minutes agoThat our first black major candidate hails from the same place as the Great Emancipator is historical poetry too perfect to ignore. ...
- Kurt Vonnegut, anarchist and social critic (November 11, 1922 -- April 11, 2007) (Online Journal)
[Note : After my early enthusiasm about the writer and man Kurt Vonnegut, I became skeptical of his skepticism. Was he a phony, I began to wonder? After I met him, his life style in his sumptuous Manhattan East Side town house bothered me and seemed to belie his satires of that same life.
- The unlikely Lydia Lopokova - Daily Telegraph
In her latter years - she died in 1981 at the age of 89 - Lydia Lopokova became uninhibitedly eccentric. The once dazzling star of the Ballets Russes ended up as an amiably dotty old lady who sunbathed naked, attended Glyndebourne in her dressing ...
- Dedication of Cultural Arts Studio honors Modestine Wesley (The Capital)
The students of Sojourner-Douglass College in Annapolis will never meet the woman who inspired their new Cultural Arts Studio, but they will long appreciate her influence.
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