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- Juneteenth celebrated locally (The Daily Iberian)
Quick, what ended slavery for good in the United States? It might be tempting to answer “The Emancipation Proclamation,” but it wasn’t until two years later, when Union forces reached them in 1865 that slaves in Galveston, Texas, heard the news .
- Community Calendar (Pahrump Valley Times)
Bible study -- 7 p.m., First Southern Baptist Church, Highway 160 and Fehrs Way. Classes for all ages. Young Adults Bible Study -- 6:30 p.m., college students/adult, The Way Baptist Fellowship, 420 E. Bronco St., 727-5242.
- Milk, how do I love thee (or not) - Detroit Free Press
Responses to yesterday's blog about our need for calcium as adults definitely brought out people's love (and hatred) for the white stuff. One reader summed up her lactose intolerance with a haiku - on a site devoted to short poems about milk. writes ...
- Book reading at Pohai Nani - Honolulu Advertiser
On Friday July 11, at 3:00 to 4:30 p.m Kathy Phillips (English Department at UH-Manoa) will read from her new book The Moon in the Water: Reflections on an Aging Parent (Vanderbilt University Press) and also a couple of poems from This Isn't a ...
- Add style to your home with Beau Living furniture (Miami Herald)
La belle vie: Open since December, Beau Living is a furniture designer and manufacturer headquartered in Lebanon and owned by the Sebaaly family and presided here by Dany Sebaaly. Like they say, Beautiful Everyday Living is possible. The company offers modern and contemporary indoor and outdoor furniture in several styles and lines with names like Harmony, Martini, Sable and Savanne Collections.
- A mujahideen fighter aims a US-made Stinger missil - Egypt Today
IT’S HARD TO imagine Ayman Al-Zawahri as a poet a deeply moving poet, in fact. But he was, and may well still be. His colleagues in prison, including Aboud El-Zumor, whom Al-Zawahri succeeded as the leader of Al-Jihad’s military wing, used to ...
- 'Last Comic' winner squeezes in daddy duty - AZCentral.com
Josh Blue earned the title of Last Comic Standing after winning NBC's reality show in 2006. The Colorado-based comedian has gone on to make a name for himself on the club circuit with a broad audience thanks to his TV success. One thing that makes ...
- 'Buried Alive' - Daily Gazette
Here's another sample of the work produced by people in the poetry workshop program for young adults ages 21-30. it's deja'vu far from home stranded in place where I gotta man up. All because I didn't want to give my man up, and this same man came to ...
- Feast on Old Songs - Albany Times Union
Feast on Old SongsAlbany Times Union, NY - 2 hours agoFusing together theater, music, songs, stories and poetry into a narrative performance about the past, present and future of the Adirondack Mountains, ...
- Continuing militancy - DAWN Group
THE Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for yet another attack in Quetta, the third in three days. The first two attacks were carried out on Wednesday in which four people, including a security man, succumbed to targeted firing. In the ...
- A swipe at Him is just too much - WalesOnline
A swipe at Him is just too muchWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 54 minutes agoMR O’Neill had previously upset me by “rubbishing” my dead relative’s poetry a few years ago – I did not write in and comment. My ancestor was George Fardo, ...
- 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 ...
- Appreciation: Oakley Hall, writers' champion (San Francisco Chronicle)
With the death of Oakley Hall on Monday, the Bay Area - and, by extension, the United States - lost one of its greatest champions of literature. Novelist, librettist, instructor and administrator, Hall, who lived a robust 87 years, maintained an influence...
- CITY OF CULTURE - News & Star
CITY OF CULTURENews & Star, UK - 4 hours agoA special set from West Cumbrian performance poet Emma McGordon before her performance at the Glastonbury Poetry Tent in June and, from the east, ...
- New Frame story published in The New Yorker - Radio New Zealand
New Frame story published in The New YorkerRadio New Zealand, New Zealand - 1 hour agoShe says proceeds from the sale of rights to the literary works will fund grants for New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction.
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