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- Search narrows for poet believed drowned (KMVT Twin Falls)
Authorities say they are narrowing the search for Idaho poet and kayaker William Studebaker, who is presumed to have drowned along near Yellow Pine.
- 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.
- All we are saying ... - Financial Times
It’s a searingly hot June afternoon, with the temperature into the 40s, but there’s a huge crowd at the racetrack for the open-air concert. Abazar Hamid, a slight man in a grey skullcap and a jalabiya with billowing sleeves, is standing on a ...
- Kevin Kopelson - London Review of Books (subscription)
Kevin KopelsonLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 4 hours ago(Work in progress includes poetry on Niles Crane, Pee-Wee Herman and Sviatoslav Richter – a Heinrich Neuhaus student. By ‘poetry’, though, I mean limericks. ...
- Modern schools lack the classics THROUGH BIFOCALS - Terrace Standard
Modern schools lack the classics THROUGH BIFOCALSTerrace Standard, Canada - 2 hours agoI’ve just read Nellie McClung’s second autobiography, “The Stream Runs Fastâ€, and was struck by her ability to quote appropriate lines from classic poetry. ...
- COLUMN: Leyde: Murphey follows way of the West - Thecalifornian.com
Michael Martin Murphey isn't shy about sharing what his priorities are: The cowboy way, restoring the American prairie, longhorn cattle and preserving our Western heritage. The singer-songwriter has made a career and a lifestyle working at those ...
- WALL-E: Family space odyssey has wall-to-wall robotic fun (Daily Mail)
Pixar has created their most appealing charcter yet in WALL-E, who deserves to stand alongside Babe and ET as representatives of family film at its finest.
- Life, in so many words (Yakima Herald-Republic)
I'm looking at this screen blankly. Much in the way I've looked at variant versions of this same buzzing white screen during the past four years. I look at it, waiting for something worth reading to wind its way out of some place between my ears and behind my eyes.
- Prince of Poets is growing stronger with each year - Khaleej Times
Prince of Poets is growing stronger with each yearKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 40 minutes agoNashwa said, "When they (ADACH) told us that they wanted to take classical poetry to the masses we knew straightaway that we would be perfect for this ...
- The poetry of departure - Guardian Blogs
On an epic scale? ... Departure does not have to be as mundane as a routine takeoff. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA A blog on poetry and travel could embark in any number of directions. Is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner the most ill-omened voyage ever ...
- County Dorset: Far from stress of modern life (San Francisco Chronicle)
The unwavering gaze of Thomas Hardy looks out from a hilltop, affording the Victorian writer - or, rather, a statue of him - a sweeping view of the town he immortalized as Casterbridge and the rustic county he called Wessex. It is a beautiful place to behold....
- Move Over, George and Martha - 'Stitching''s Stu and Abby Get U.S. Premiere (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
British playwright Anthony Neilson's Stitching - a play about relationship games that would make Edward Albee's vicious characters sit up and take notice - will open June 25 in its U.S. premiere. Previews for the Off-Broadway production directed by Timothy Haskell began June 17.
- Baba-i-Urdu had left no will for his burial — Jamiluddin Aali - DAWN Group
The living room of Dr Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Khan Aali’s 6th floor apartment is heavily decorated with pictures – hanging on the walls and sitting on the bookshelves and other pieces of furniture. In one picture, as a child Aali is seated in ...
- Texas City to hold Juneteenth Celebration (Galveston County Daily News)
TEXAS CITY — The city’s second annual Juneteenth Celebration begins today with Gospel Fest and ends June 19.
- Where else but Seattle? - Crosscut
Where else but Seattle?Crosscut, WA - 39 minutes agoBy Lisa Albers On a cloudy Sunday in early June, I spent the morning with poetry bookshop proprietors Christine Deavel and John Marshall. ...
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