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- Missing author - Chicago Tribune
This is in response to "Elaine Dundy: 1921-2008; Author and wife of critic Tynan; Lived, chronicled coming-of-age for Americans abroad" (News, May 10). My husband and I met Elaine Dundy close to the end of her life. We were not celebrities, only ...
- Police identify shooting victim (The Daily Advance)
HERTFORD — Hertford police have identified the man shot to death near a street corner here early Sunday as 21-year-old Jamar Quedraell Fletcher.
- Poetry of the pavement - Columbian
Marilyn Moelhman was reading around midnight when she accidentally smushed a fly within the pages of her book. After killing it, a sense of dread and smallness consumed her. “I felt really bad about it,†Marilyn, 12, said. “Because in the grand ...
- Narnia books boost appeal - Oxfordshire News
A former secretary of Oxford author CS Lewis is giving away signed first editions of the author's Narnia books to raise money to renovate a city church. The Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius, in Woodstock Road, is set to receive the windfall ...
- Celebrating Poetry Month - The North Bay Nugget
Celebrating Poetry MonthThe North Bay Nugget, Canada - 21 minutes agoEach term or technique is demonstrated in an accompanying poem so readers can see the method at work. Jaunty, colourful illustrations vividly bring the ...
- Books to travel with: Riffing on Strings edited by Sean Miller and ... - New Scientist (subscription)
Books to travel with: Riffing on Strings edited by Sean Miller and ...New Scientist (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoAnd once you peer beneath the words, you find ideas can possess a poetry more poignant than any turn of phrase. String theory may turn out to be wrong. ...
- Iru Fushi Beach & Spa Resort announce the first sleep spa concept in ... - TravelDailyNews.com
Iru Fushi Beach & Spa Resort , which opens late summer 2008, recognises how important sleep is to its guests and is to launch the first Sleep Spa concept in the Maldives . In collaboration with Sun Spa , the programme, entitled Sweet Dreams , has one ...
- Bards averse to top poetry job (Channel 4)
Every 10 years there is a new poet laureate - that strange job in which one of Britain's leading writers is nominated to produce verse on state occasions and to promote poetry in schools.
- Life's precious gifts - Daily Reflector
For 32 years, Lynn Morgan has held onto a poem handwritten for her in the corner booth of a Knoxville, Tenn., restaurant. She shared it with everyone she knew before stashing it away inside a drawer. Every few years, she'd pull it out and read it ...
- Diether Haenicke's column: Finding scholarship at the edges of ... - The Bay City Times - MLive.com
Diether Haenicke's column: Finding scholarship at the edges of ...The Bay City Times - MLive.com, MI - 1 hour agoThe Journal of the History of Sexuality reveals the self-satisfying habits of a 17th century Scotsman who, besides writing poetry, regrettably also recorded ...
- Cy Twombly: like nothing else in art - Daily Telegraph
Cy Twombly is the odd man out in the great generation of American artists that also includes Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Born in Lexington Virginia in 1928 and educated in the South, he came north to study art before attending Black ...
- PMA student wins national religious contest of the arts - The Broadcaster
HUDSON -- Family Rosary has selected Presentation of Mary Academy's Melissa Fitzgerald as the first-place winner in the Grade 7 Division of the U.S. "Try Prayer! It Works!" contest, a national competition that encourages students to express their ...
- Lawrence poet embraces global outlook - Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence poet embraces global outlookLawrence Journal World, KS - 1 hour agoEditor’s note: In her Ad Astra Poetry Project, Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low highlights historic and contemporary poets who resided in Kansas for a ...
- Urban Verbs in Concert (NPR)
NPR.org , May 23, 2008 - Urban Verbs changed my life. If it weren't for this band, there may not have been a 9:30 club (where All Songs Considered webcasts many of its live concerts ) and I surely wouldn't have made it to NPR. So, it seems fitting to include the Urban Verbs reunion performance in our concert series.
- Kenya: Iddi's CD Launch Party Turns Out to Be a Major Social Event (AllAfrica.com)
It was supposed to be just another DVD/VCD launch. At least that is what the people at Alliance Francaise had in mind when they allocated singer Iddi Achieng a small but strategic corridor for last week's function. That turned out to be a big miscalculation.
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