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- Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100 - DesMoinesRegister.com
Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 18 minutes agoOn that machine, Eyerly, who died Monday in Des Moines at age 100, churned out 18 novels for children and two books of poetry and co-wrote a nationally ...
- BEN column (Bridgeton News)
Good morning! Does anybody have off Columbus Day? If you do, it's going to be nice on Monday - Columbus Day. But, you might as well know, we don't think Columbus discovered America so you could goof off.
- Memorable slogans distill a campaign with poetry - AZCentral.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Life isn't a bowl of cherries, it's a boatload of slogans. They're everywhere and in our heads. They're the hooks of marketing. And presidential campaigns. That's because the good ones work. "Voters want a nice distilled, essential ...
- Taliban using text messages, ring tones - MSNBC
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia’s views through songs available as ring tones, according to a ...
- On Your Mind - Sierra Vista Herald
On Your Mind is the Herald/Review’s telephone opinion line and is intended as a public forum for our readers. Comments represent the opinions of callers and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the newspaper or any specific knowledge that ...
- Pick of the day - Guardian Unlimited
"In 1978," Benjamin Zephaniah recalls, "a landmark album was released in the UK. On Dread, Beat an' Blood, Linton Kwesi Johnson expressed the black British experience as it had never been heard before. This was the era of the Sus law, where the ...
- At the library - Wicked Local Roslindale
At the libraryWicked Local Roslindale, MA - Aug 13, 2008Ongoing poetry workshop: Since 1996, local poet Mary E. Joyce Waite has been guiding other aspiring poets during their Monday meetings at the West Roxbury ...
- Word On the Street - Vancouver Courier
Word On the StreetVancouver Courier, Canada - 10 minutes agoThe poetry tent will see the launch of Poetry in Transit XII, which includes poems by George Stanley, Garry Gottfriedson and Matt Rader. ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - Daily Chronicle
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Dance that fulfils - The West Australian
Dance that fulfilsThe West Australian, Australia - 2 hours agoVisual poetry gave way to parody in Zuska’s dance Maria’s Dream (the choreographer is clearly influenced by his associations with the Netherlands Dance ...
- Stage Set for Obama (Fox News)
Dems aim to mark a new era as Obama accepts presidential nomination before a crowd of more than 70,000 | PHOTOS • McCain Makes VP Pick, Will Hold Rally Friday • FOX FORUM: Dr. King Would Be Proud • WATCH LIVE: Invesco Field | Strategy Room
- Soweto Festival targets youth - Joburg
Soweto Festival targets youthJoburg, South Africa - 5 hours ago... a "massive indoor space", daily activities will include talent shows, stand up comedy, poetry readings, story telling and creative drama workshops. ...
- That Thing We Call Courage - American Enterprise Institute
High Noon is routinely listed as one of the top American movies of all time. And it is almost universally acclaimed as one of the top three Westerns, if not the best Western ever made. When it was released in mid-summer 1952, the New York Times ...
- Canadian book lovers take to the streets Sunday (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
In Halifax, Budge Wilson will read from Before Green Gables; in Toronto, Giller Prize nominee Austin Clarke will read from More; and in Vancouver, Ian Ferguson reads from How To Be a Canadian at this year's Word on the Street festival.
- Akrita Reyar - Zee News
Through his words, he scripted his own immortality. Sculptors of thoughts do not die, just as their dreams never perish. Ahmed Faraz, a giant of contemporary Urdu poetry, may have breathed his last in Islamabad on August 25, 2008, but his ...
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