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- Summer festival season is upon us - Batavia Sun
Summer's here and the time is right, for dancing in the streets. And eating. And shopping. And riding. Here are some of the big events going on this year. May Saturdays, to Nov. 1: Wheaton's French Market, a weekly outdoor marketplace where vendors ...
- Trigger hoping for poetry favourites - Ledbury Reporter
Trigger hoping for poetry favouritesLedbury Reporter, UK - 1 hour agoPoetry should be intense." He still owns and cherishes his schoolboy copy of "The Faber Book of Children's Verse" and explained: "I read it like a Bible. ...
- FILM SERIES EXPLORES STRUGGLES OF WOMEN - Orlando Sentinel
FILM SERIES EXPLORES STRUGGLES OF WOMENOrlando Sentinel, FL - 8 minutes agoThe Story of Qiu Ju (1993) was taken from Chen Yuan Bin's novella, The Wan Family's Lawsuit, and adapted for the screen by novelist Liu Heng. ...
- FBI Arrests NH Child-Sex Fugitive In Mexico - WCSH
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A fugitive on the FBI's most-wanted list for an alleged child sexual assault in New Hampshire is being returned to the state after being arrested in Mexico. Prosecutors say Jon Savarino Schillaci sexually assaulted a 5-year-old ...
- Summer is for fun (Shirley Oracle)
Correspondent SHIRLEY -- Gators and lemurs and snakes, oh my! Kick off your summer vacation with the Wild Reads program at Hazen Memorial Library.
- 'Fugitive Pieces': A book to be remembered for a lifetime - Owen Sound Sun Times
'Fugitive Pieces': A book to be remembered for a lifetimeOwen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 2 hours agoAuthor Anne Michaels is best known as a poet, writer of several award-winning collections of poetry. "Fugitive Pieces" is her first, and, as far as I know, ...
- Emperor Hadrian's legions of admirers - Telegraph.co.uk
Emperor Hadrian's legions of admirersTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHe read massively, studied philosophy, and wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek. His autobiography is sadly lost, although fragments of it survive in the ...
- Frost home vandals taken to class (The Burlington Free Press)
Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways -- and the redemptive power of poetry.
- Love is a battlefield - Time Out New York
Time Out New YorkLove is a battlefieldTime Out New York, NY - 58 minutes agoEnsiferum draws inspiration from Finland’s epic poetry and mythology, while Turisas dug deep to make 2007’s The Varangian Way, a wildly imaginative concept ...
- Arts festival kicks off Streetsville celebration - Mississauga News
Arts festival kicks off Streetsville celebrationMississauga News, Canada - 1 hour agoVisual art in storefronts, live music, acclaimed painters working both outdoors and inside various participating shops and book and poetry readings are all ...
- That Mouth - Outlook (subscription)
That MouthOutlook (subscription), India - 28 minutes ago... tethered by "technical serenity" (that perfect phrase Derek Walcott uses when writing of Lowell’s poetry). Technique has always been Thayil’s friend. ...
- Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from Pushkin Press) (Blogcritics.org)
This new edition is a good reminder of the still-intimate relationship between literature and physical objects. When it comes to music and literature, the digital age has reduced the need for physical objects of art, but not their appeal. The surge in demand for new vinyl records demonstrates the persistence of the physical.So does the thriving business of self-publishing. At a time when anyone ...
- Get out and stay out this weekend! - The Capital Times
Get out and stay out this weekend!The Capital Times, WI - 1 hour agoAnd, I can't believe an announcement for this event languished in my inbox so long without garnering my attention earlier: a FREE evening of beat poetry, ...
- Meeting on Persian literature held in Istanbul - IranMania News
LONDON, June 23 (IranMania) - The second meeting on Persian literature was held in Istanbul, MNA reported. Several Iranian scholars including Hassan Hassanzadeh, as well as professors and students of Persian literature from the Istanbul University ...
- Local Music: Giving Epic a live music foundation - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Local Music: Giving Epic a live music foundationMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 56 minutes agoMany of the songs deal in late-night imagery and starlit poetry, including the wistful, ultra-sweet title track and "The Avalon," a slightly New Wavey ...
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