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- Ha Jin wants to visit China (AP via Yahoo! News)
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.
- What on earth would Miss Skinner think? - guardian.co.uk
What on earth would Miss Skinner think?guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe fact that I can still quote large chunks of poetry is entirely down to her. "Shakespeare," insisted Miss Skinner, "was for performing, not reading. ...
- Regional poets invited to jam in annual competition - Sawyer County Record
Regional poets invited to jam in annual competitionSawyer County Record, WI - 1 hour agoThe Mooselips Poetry Jam is an annual poetry writing competition held as part of the Namekagon Art & Music Festival on July 5 in Seeley. ...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - Contra Costa Times
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some ...
- Maya Angelou triumphs - Cincinnati Enquirer
Maya Angelou triumphsCincinnati Enquirer, OH - 4 hours agoThen, she stopped, hummed for a second and recited a stanza from a poem. She alternated between the same chorus and short poems for the first 15 minutes of ...
- The Life and Lures of Michael Schoen - Wrightsville Beach Magazine
The Life and Lures of Michael SchoenWrightsville Beach Magazine, NC - 1 hour agoHis interest in religion seemed to be a learning process that manifested itself in his woodwork, poetry and music. "His interest in reggae was a spiritual ...
- Neat freak spawns a slob - Edmonton Journal
Neat freak spawns a slobEdmonton Journal, Canada - 3 hours agoHe takes us skateboarding, and introduces punk, acid, "moody broody poetry," and a fleeting alignment with formal post-secondary education in which he ...
- What Does Reform Judaism Stand For? - Commentary Magazine
It is by now a well-documented fact that liberal Protestant denominations in the United States have fallen on hard times. In the mainline churches that once dominated American religious life—and from which emerged the country’s political and ...
- ‘Mongol’ makes Genghis Khan a hero (The State)
REVIEW “Mongol†4 stars RATED: R for sequences of bloody warfare RUNNING TIME: 2:06
- Death in the desert (Orlando Weekly)
When cops found the dead, cherub-faced Florida airman last July 4, they thought he was one of those demonic end-of-the-worlders. Beyond him, huge crimson, gold and orange boulders burst skyward, like frozen explosions, surrounded by empty white desert. Dark mountain ranges loomed along the horizon.
- Good Talent, Bad Album ... Kerli is Sweet, but ?Love is Dead? is a ... - RedOrbit
Good Talent, Bad Album ... Kerli is Sweet, but ?Love is Dead? is a ...RedOrbit, TX - Jul 18, 2008It's true that her singing register is low and a little dark, but so is Melissa Etheridge's and she never had to croon to industrial drums and creepy ...
- 1936 book for single women still timely (The News Journal)
"The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence," wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book "Live Alone and Like It."
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' in 37th novel 'My Sister, My Love' (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
"My Sister, My Love"
- Injured ironworker paid with wet $2 bill - Vancouver Courier
Injured ironworker paid with wet $2 billVancouver Courier, Canada - 6 hours agoThe event includes archival footage presented by CBC and a poetry reading by Gary Geddes, the 2008 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary ...
- Ledger's acting came with consequences - Houston Chronicle
Houston ChronicleLedger's acting came with consequencesHouston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour agoWhat's more, transcendent acting takes a toll in a way that goes beyond painting, poetry or other creative disciplines, because actors must utilize ...
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