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- TheStar.com | SpecialSections | Afghan poet's tomb calls to lovelorn - Toronto Star
BALKH, AFGHANISTAN — A lady who died for love is perhaps not the best patron saint for romance. I'm just saying. Yet Afghan girls of nubile age keep coming to her austere tomb here and pouring out their hearts, so often yearning for what has been ...
- Whatever you say, say something... - Guardian Unlimited
When World at One presenter Nick Clarke died more than a year ago, his widow found that some people avoided her, as if tragedy could prove contagious. At the school gates, most mothers did not know what to say ... and said nothing. A year later, in I ...
- Film Weekly at the Edinburgh film festival - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukFilm Weekly at the Edinburgh film festivalguardian.co.uk, UK - 10 hours agoIt's made by Brit James Marsh and it's absolutely thrilling and dizzying, a mix of poetry, heist movie and meditation on human folly. ...
- Reflections Through a Surrealistic Eye: DalĂ and the Camera - New York Times
Reflections Through a Surrealistic Eye: DalĂ and the CameraNew York Times, United States - 2 hours agoThere is his enormous body of writing: a novel, poetry, an autobiography and numerous theoretical essays. There were set designs, beginning in 1927 with ...
- Peabody's summer book report gets a makeover (The Salem News)
PEABODY and mdash; Summer reading shouldn't be a drudge, and neither should the book reports that come from them, say school officials. So the old-fashioned report is getting a bit of a makeover. Schoolchildren will still have the option to write a traditional book report, but there will be alternatives, including poetry, slide show presentations or clay art.
- Celebrate the Genius of Shel Silverstein This Month - Market Wire (press release)
Celebrate the Genius of Shel Silverstein This MonthMarket Wire (press release) - 56 minutes agoRemembered by longtime Silverstein fans as "Uncle Shelby's Zoo, Don't Bump the Glump!," Shel's first ever poetry collection, has been highly sought after as ...
- Estelle Getty, thank you for being a friend (Salon.com)
The Golden Girl died this morning at the age of 84.
- Mr. Mack part of growing hip hop community in Cape Breton - Cape Breton Post
Mr. Mack part of growing hip hop community in Cape BretonCape Breton Post, Canada - 2 hours agoMacLeod, who participated in the Cape Breton CBC’s Poetry Face-Off earlier this year, said writing in most forms comes naturally to him and he’s continually ...
- In new collection Mary Oliver again focuses on nature to air her ... - Washington Blade
Few poets address mortality, grief, love, our relationship with nature and the totality of the human experience as skillfully as Pulitzer Prize-winning lesbian poet Mary Oliver. In her 1998 poetry primer “Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing ...
- Voices of the People - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Voices of the PeopleNortheast Mississippi Daily Journal, MS - 1 hour ago"He signed his name as An Angry Man,'" said Byron Schexnayder, founder of poetry night. "Someone stole his guitar and he did this rant, this out-there rant. ...
- Gardeners find plenty to keep them busy this month (Journal Inquirer)
Renowned landscape designer Maureen Haseley-Jones, known as the “English Lady,” will speak at the St. Joseph College Hoffman Auditorium in West Hartford at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10. Doors open at 6 p.m. Haseley-Jones’ lecture, Garden Earth, includes a discussion on how to create a beautiful garden that flourishes and how to maintain it organically.
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - NWI.com
BOSTON - Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is ...
- Jade cup puts poetry into auction - Times Online
Hong Kong An early Mughal shell-shaped carved white jade cup, inscribed in Chinese with a Qianlong imperial poem from the 18th century, is displayed during a Christie’s press preview in Hong Kong. The work of art will be sold at Christie’s Hong ...
- China's superpowered poetry - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukChina's superpowered poetryguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe lines our guide quoted from Ode to an Orange Tree are also quoted on the official Three Gorges Dam website, the poem indicative of Qu Yuan's "loyalty ...
- Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows - Connect Savannah.com
Connect Savannah.comSpotlighted gigs and recommended showsConnect Savannah.com, GA - 18 hours agoSessions and tours with groups like Widespread Panic, The Black Crowes and artists like Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, John Medeski, DJ Logic and Dr. John ...
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