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- PENNY: Obama moment for Mich. family (Rocky Mountain News)
Maybe the Secret Service can take a few tips from Snoop Dogg's people.
- A Challenge to Idealistic Progressives - Gather.com
A Challenge to Idealistic ProgressivesGather.com, MA - 19 hours agoLike the poetry of the prophet Amos, this was a bold attack on the illusions of the US population that this nation is basically an innocent and idealistic ...
- Pride and prejudice: In praise of Britain's colonial artists - The Independent
The Tate is about to show works by Britain's 19th-century Orientalist painters. Snobbish? Patronising? Not at all, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. These colonialists had a better understanding of the East than we do today I flew over to the USA in March ...
- In Quake, Apotheosis of Premier ‘Grandpa’ (The Gainesville Sun)
As China grapples with its greatest natural disaster in three decades, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s uncommon image as an empathetic, benevolent official has been cemented in popular lore.
- The hour has come - Manila Times
The hour has comeManila Times, Philippines - 21 minutes agoA few days ago, I stumbled upon a poem and it made me understand how poetry captures the beauty unseen by many people in this world only because they choose ...
- Chatham literary fest draws international cast - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteChatham literary fest draws international castPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 56 minutes agoAli's poetry collection, "So What," was published in 2006 by Copper Canyon Press. One of his American translators, Peter Cole, a published poet as well as a ...
- High school students get taste of college life (Kane County Chronicle)
AURORA – Waubonsie Valley student Brea Sims didn’t know what to expect as she gingerly touched the liver of the dissected fetal pig.
- Latitude: A weekend to remember - Eastern Daily Press
The trees of Henham Park were lit up in reds, greens and blues, and giant illuminated water lilies floated on the lake. Once again the Latitude festival took the beautiful Suffolk landscape and added a touch of the surreal and the unexpected - as ...
- Bragg's portrait of father 'prince'ly - Anniston Star (subscription)
Bragg's portrait of father 'prince'lyAnniston Star (subscription), AL - 2 hours agoIt is particularly that time to which Rick Bragg gives special life through his ability to find poetry in the poverty of his family's life, in a woman about ...
- Basra - here's the good news story - Times Online
Basra - here's the good news storyTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoAnd last month they were able to hold al-Murbad, the annual poetry festival, which had been a regular feature of life in Basra for centuries and which again ...
- Indexed: You Shouldn’t Have - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsIndexed: You Shouldn’t HaveNew York Times Blogs, NY - 19 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Gaston to read from The Order of Good Cheer - Nova News Now
Gaston to read from The Order of Good CheerNova News Now, Canada - 41 minutes agoBy Lawrence Powell How you respond to what life throws at you may be the best way to look at Bill Gaston’s latest book “The Order of Good Cheer” (House of ...
- Irish Wit Infuses Poetry - Hartford Courant
Paul Muldoon once said, "The point of poetry is to be acutely discomfiting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away." Muldoon is known for his Irish wit, masterly way with ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK : Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The ...
- Region Roundup (The Bismarck Tribune)
Compiled by Lauren DonovanBismarck Tribune ADAMS HETTINGER - Dance classes will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. starting tonight and three subsequent Mondays at the Hettinger Eagles Club. Participants will learn the waltz, polka, jitterbug and foxtrot. Call 567-6180. Cost is $60 per couple.
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