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- Patterson: A heart full of memories - Topeka Capitol-Journal Blogs
As if to confirm the illusion that time flies, I recently realized it's been a dozen years since I retired from my 30-year stint as a child psychologist. To commemorate the occasion, random vignettes have been parading across my memory. Though each ...
- Economy forces couple to cut wedding costs, for better or worse - Pantagraph
Guests by the dozens gathered in a barn on the Jones family farm for a simple picnic-style meal. Afterward, they played croquet, horseshoes and badminton, shadowed by towering grain silos and within earshot of lowing cattle. When the sun set, they ...
- Fans, poets gather for poetry slam (Wisconsin State Journal)
"Poetry slams began in Chicago in 1984," reads Bill MacMillan, the evening's "bout manager" and de facto emcee, as he goads a standing-room-only crowd in Madison's Bartell Theatre. On cue, the audience hollers back: "SO WHAT!" And that's just the warm-up. When MacMillan, a longtime spoken-word fan from Worcester, Mass., finishes his introduction, what follows is a rollicking night of ...
- Patti Smith documentary powerful - Jam! Showbiz
In November 1994, punk-poet-rocker Patti Smith lost her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, the famed MC5 guitarist, to a heart attack at age 45. For the next 11 years, fashion photographer Steven Sebring trained his camera on her, her two children with Fred ...
- 'Angolagate' trial opens judicial can of worms - Irish Times
'Angolagate' trial opens judicial can of wormsIrish Times, Ireland - 2 hours agoVillepin left politics, became a lawyer and continued writing poetry and Napoleonic epics. He met Sarkozy at the Élysée Palace in June and again on ...
- Scenes From Buenos Aires - Slate
After a week here, we will happily proclaim Buenos Aires one of the best cities in the world. It's rare to visit a place and not be disappointed by one thing or another. But so far, just about everything we'd been promised about Buenos Aires has ...
- First Christmas By Alastair Macdonald - A Classic Is Born - Post Chronicle
First Christmas By Alastair Macdonald - A Classic Is BornPost Chronicle - 16 minutes agoIt became somewhat of a joke in the Macdonald household and each year his children would again remark "Dad's writing his poem again. ...
- Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked' - Guardian Unlimited
"Today I am going to kill something," says the unnamed protagonist of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure. "Anything. / I have had enough of being ignored and today / I am going to play God." Duffy, one of Britain's most admired poets, might ...
- Botswana marks National Heritage - Mmegi Online
This year's President's Day holidays were marked by festivities as artists and craftspeople from different persuasions converged on Gaborone to compete for top honours. The festivities were held under the theme: Towards Artistic Excellence by 2016 ...
- Feel the Emotions and Inspiration of These Poems -- New Poetry Book ... - StreetInsider.com
BALTIMORE, July 24, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Ether: Selected Poems, a new book featuring the creative talent of author Robert Darlington, has been released through Xlibris to the delight of poetry fans and literature enthusiasts. A fascinating ...
- Kaplan and Newsweek Award $15,000 to Winners of the 14th Annual "My Turn" High School Essay Competition (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions and Newsweek magazine have announced the winners of the 14th Annual “My Turn†Essay Competition, a national contest that recognizes talented young writers.
- 'Body of Lies' weaves dense web of intrigue, violence - MLive.com
AP Photo Intense: Russell Crowe, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from "Body of Lies." Roger Ferris lies on a hospital bed, getting bone fragments plucked out of his flesh. "Don't worry, they're not yours," the doctor says. It's all in a day's ...
- Blood Wedding stabs at the heart of tragedy - Metro
MetroBlood Wedding stabs at the heart of tragedyMetro, UK - 11 hours agoThe additional cast clunk badly and hammily on occasion, and the excessive music dolefully drowns out the poetry. But as dusk lowers over the Thames, ...
- Taylor Mali, a warm host of poetry workshopping and slam - Rowan University The Whit Online (subscription)
Taylor Mali, a warm host of poetry workshopping and slamRowan University The Whit Online (subscription), NJ - 15 hours agoLast Saturday, poet Taylor Mali treated the Rowan students to a night of self-discovery, emotion and language with his poetry workshop and "Slam Poetry Show ...
- Renowned Palestinian cartoonist remembered in Gaza - www.worldbulletin.net
www.worldbulletin.netRenowned Palestinian cartoonist remembered in Gazawww.worldbulletin.net, Turkey - 3 hours agoIn 1985 Al-Ali moved to London, where he stayed until his death. The tribute to Al-Ali's life and work included reading of new and classic poetry about ...
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