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- When a movie hurts too much to watch (Chicago Sun-Times)
The blog entry "In Search of Redemption" inspired an outpouring of reader comments remarkable not only for their number but for their intelligence and thought. It became obvious that many of us go to the movies seeking some sort of release or healing.
- Queenstown Extravaganza Supports Prostate Research (Scoop.co.nz)
A car lover’s weekend in Queenstown is set to be just what the doctor ordered for the Prostate Cancer Foundation when it takes place over the last weekend of February next year.
- A Baghdad bookseller, bound to his country (Lat-wp / By Sudarsan ... - Peninsula On-line
A Baghdad bookseller, bound to his country (Lat-wp / By Sudarsan ...Peninsula On-line, Qatar - 11 minutes agoHe bought the poetry book. He anticipates lending it to at least a dozen classmates, who, in exchange, will lend him their books. On a recent day, ...
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature - Fabula
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French LiteratureFabula, France - 59 minutes agoThese texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions ...
- The Stark Reality - Cleveland Free Times
The Stark RealityCleveland Free Times, OH - 59 minutes agoDialogue is lyrical, often elliptical and cryptic, and it at least partially derives from the poetry of Rumi and other bards and balladeers in the Sufi ...
- International poet shares joy with SHS students (The Daily Reporter)
Published in literary journals worldwide, an international author of seven poetry books told Spencer High School (SHS) students Friday that accuracy, precision, attention, imagination and examination are all crucial to poetry.
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant and a rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Memoirs of a Girl From the East Country (O.K., Queens) - New York Times
IT is one of the most evocative images of Greenwich Village in the 1960s. An attractive young couple are walking down the middle of a snow-covered street. His head is down and tilted toward her. He’s wearing an artfully half-buttoned brown suede ...
- Fair Queen profiles Day No. 2 - Banner-Graphic
Seventeen young women from across Putnam County will vie for the title of Miss Putnam County on July 12 at the Putnam County 4-H Fair Queen Contest. The contest will be held in the community building at the Putnam County 4-H Fairgrounds. Doors will ...
- Maya loved life and beauty, and fought injustice - Daily Journal
Maya Fleischner died one month before her 101st birthday in January 2008. Many friends and family celebrated her life at 100. Surrounded with so much love, she wished for another 100 years. In the 1960s, as part of a profile for The League of Women ...
- Nas' still has attitude on new CD - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Don't be fooled by "Queens Get The Money," the bracing opener of Nas' now-untitled ninth solo album: It sounds like nothing else on the CD. The Jay Electronica-produced cut -- built on a few simple piano twinkles and no drum track -- is by far the ...
- Alone in North Korea (Times Online)
THE COMMUNISTS were watching intently. One wore a rough, green military uniform with a cut-off collar. He had a large, moon-like face and an inscrutable expression. The other, who had a flint-like look in his eye, was in a slick grey suit.
- Immigrant finds hope, poetry in US - Ithaca Journal
Immigrant finds hope, poetry in USIthaca Journal, NY - 1 hour agoI was born in Italy soon after World War II and learned as quickly as I could learn anything that my family, who had been anti-fascist, had suffered greatly ...
- Outdoors Adventures - Emporia Gazette
Outdoors AdventuresEmporia Gazette, KS - 8 hours agoThe horse was gentle, jet-black, had big, kind, brown eyes and was definitely poetry in motion when she ran. Through this stage in my marriage and seeing ...
- Loyola journalism student slain in drive-by shooting - Chicago Tribune
An aspiring journalism student at Loyola University was killed when someone fired into her car on Chicago's South Side Sunday night, authorities said. Ishma Stewart, 20, was driving a Pontiac G6 sedan in the 4800 block of South Indiana Avenue just ...
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