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- 'A Dangerous Weakness' buys house for first time author - Torquay Herald Express
A 93-year-old writer who has published her first novel has used the proceeds to buy a large house — so her friends can move out of care homes and live with her. Generous Lorna Page says she spent all the proceeds from the book sales on a big home ...
- 'Freedom Rings' at Diamond Park Thursday (The Meadville Tribune)
June 19, 1865: A Union general delivered news to Texas that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were to be freed — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Eman-cipation Proclamation.
- More about what God wants - Beliefnet.com
More about what God wantsBeliefnet.com, NY - 25 minutes agoNow, a little respite from all this theological exploration, with a touch of poetry from m.Claire. This week's offering...
- A high-speed read (Guardian Unlimited)
Liberties can be taken, and sometimes have to be. One of the liberties that poetry takes, and that prose can't, is temporarily to break up or interrupt a sentence with a line ending.
- Balchik, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea, where Romanian Queen Marie Left ... - Balkan Travellers
Balchik, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea, where Romanian Queen Marie Left ...Balkan Travellers, Bulgaria - 2 hours agoThe chapel, located at the lower end of the complex, was built as a modest but exquisite replica of a Christian temple in Cyprus by local masons from the ...
- Dance Listings (New York Times)
Selective listings from dance critics of The New York Times.
- A startling literary quest - Creative Loafing
A startling literary questCreative Loafing, NC - 40 minutes agoThe residency, to take place July 25-27, will feature intensive workshops for writers of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, in addition to faculty and ...
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans - Times Daily
Every morning in this Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots. The acts of rebellion take place in the bingo hall ...
- Your Community (Albany Democrat-Herald)
ALBANY Model A’s to roll through town Saturday The Enduring A’s Model A Ford Club of America will tour through Albany as part of International Model A Day on Saturday to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Model A.
- Poetry Notebook 7-19 - indy.com
Poetry Notebook 7-19indy.com, IN - 37 minutes agoby JL Kato JL KATO'S POETRY NOTEBOOK: A collection of news and items about poetry and other literary events. BEST BOOKS OF INDIANA: Finalists in four ...
- RiverRun Reads: Toby Barlow's 'Sharp Teeth' (Portsmouth Herald)
Editor's note: Every other week in this space, RiverRun Bookstore in downtown Portsmouth will be providing book recommendations and previews of upcoming events at the store.
- Beat writer called eastern N.C. home in the 1950s (The Daily Reflector)
You'd never know it leaving town on West Mount Drive that you're about to pass a gem of a house.
- Dolly M. Dowd -- Austin - Post-Bulletin
Dolly M. Dowd -- AustinPost-Bulletin, MN - 41 minutes agoShe gave talks at area schools about her Welsh ancestry and was known for her poetry and cake-decorating talents. Her other interests included keeping up ...
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant-and-rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Nigeria: Roli Odeka - Orchestra Amazon That Feeds Hope to Hopeless ... - AllAfrica.com
Roli Hope Odeka is one of the very few notable Nigerian art ambassadors who is doing the country proud in the outside world. Based in Milan, Italy, her name does not strike any strange chord to anyone who is conversant with the classical opera ...
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