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- Local Polish history advocate honored (The Republican)
SOUTH HADLEY - Making people more aware of Polish history has motivated Carolyn C. Topor to a lifetime of good works that recently culminated in her receiving the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
- Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova plunges to death from New York ... - Daily Mail
A Kazakh supermodel who graced the cover of Vogue and modelled for Vera Wang and Christian Dior has plunged to her death from her New York apartment. Ruslana Korshunova, 20, fell from her nine floor apartment balcony in lower Manhattan at around 2 ...
- New Web site 'powered by you' - Union
We're pleased to announce that we're relaunching our Web site Monday afternoon at theunion.com. We'll be adding more features, improved navigation and a colorful banner, starting with a field of wildflowers photographed here. It's pretty cool looking ...
- Senior Center plans cookout at bank bistro - Daily Hampshire Gazette (subscription)
Senior Center plans cookout at bank bistroDaily Hampshire Gazette (subscription), MA - 3 hours agoLUNCH WITH THE LAUREATE: Area residents are invited to attend a poetry reading by Northampton Poet Laureate Leslea Newman today from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at ...
- Tribeca's Downtown Upside - New York Sun
New York SunTribeca's Downtown UpsideNew York Sun, United States - 3 hours agoThat trippy Friday night film gave way to a chilly but cheerful Saturday morning at the festival's Family Street Fair. And only a few hours later, ...
- Dan Stryk's poetry collection, Solace of the Aging Mare, dares to gaze steadily into the challenges of aging (The Kansas City Star)
Dan Stryk’s Solace of the Aging Mare is a subtle meditation on growing old. The questions these poems ask are ones that can never be answered with any finality. The pastoral settings of most of the verses here give us that needed moment of respite when we can begin to look more deeply into ourselves, knowing that ultimately we walk away empty-handed no matter what path we may have chosen to ...
- Velasco's life lends to unorthodox style - The Santa Clara
Velasco's life lends to unorthodox styleThe Santa Clara, USA - 6 hours agoThis family without running water and electricity is my family, too. In the process of being there, the liberation of the people is bound to your own ...
- Homegrown 'Broome Review' features writers from around the world - Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
* Details: The free launch party will be held from 4:30-6 p.m. Friday, at the Cooperative Gallery 213, 213 State St., Binghamton. There will be a poetry reading, with some of the journal's editors reading samples from "The Broome Review," as well as ...
- Book Review: My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey - Blogcritics.org
Book Review: My Life As A Fake by Peter CareyBlogcritics.org, OH - 9 hours agoShe is the editor in chief of a miniscule literary journal devoted mainly to new poetry. In Kuala Lumpur she discovers the story of Bob McCorkle's fabled ...
- Niyaz' "Nine Heavens" on Six Degrees Records June 24 - All About Jazz
Niyaz' "Nine Heavens" on Six Degrees Records June 24All About Jazz, PA - 2 hours agoBoth Amir Khosrau texts can be read either as love poetry or as devotional songs to God. Of course, an English-speaking audience may be more likely to ...
- Have a seat with a professor who can't be beat: John Maddux (The News Record)
After years of political activism, the quandaries of social work and a deep-seated ethic in humanity, John Maddux, a field service associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, still thrives off of positively impacting the lives of others.
- Alex Boyd, Anne Simpson win $1,000 national poetry prizes - News1130.com
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Toronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, N.S., have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced over the weekend at a festival and conference held ...
- Active Life -- June 2008 - Escanaba Daily Press
Escanaba Daily PressActive Life -- June 2008Escanaba Daily Press, MI - 3 hours agoDarby Mitchell-DeGrand has a passion for the written word and also for poetry. Through her passion for poetry, she has written and published her works ...
- County students reach out to McCormick family - Daily Tribune
Students from around the county took time to create heartfelt sympathy cards to send to the family of Matagorda County’s first casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom — Cpl. David McCormick. As we commemorate the Memorial Day holiday in remembrance ...
- A pure thrush word (Guardian Unlimited)
The shell blast that stopped Edward Thomas's heart on the battlefield at Arras stopped his pocket watch, too, at 24 minutes to eight on the morning of Easter Monday, 1917. That frozen timepiece is an appropriate image for a poet whose best work seems to still time, to suspend a moment of clear-sighted observation.
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