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- Pulitzer Prize winner named Va.'s poet laureate (WTOP Radio Network)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Tim Kaine appoints University of Mary Washington professor Claudia Emerson as Virginia 's new poet laureate. Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called "Late Wife." The book uses a collection of handwritten letters to reflect on her failed marriage of 19 years and her blossoming relationship with her second husband.
- Amar Singh gets poetic about meeting with Sonia (New Kerala)
New Delhi, July 7: Political crises can also inspire poetry. Ask Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, who used the words of an old Hindi film song to describe his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
- Hitler's Vindication - Boston IMC
After WW II, Hitler faked his death and went to Argentina to reign from obscurity as the King of the South, controlling health care, starting wars, and promoting Nazism everywhere! Even Kweer Kalifornia!? Kweer Kalifornia "is the place you ought to ...
- Best bets in the local arts (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
"Sarafina!" Wednesday-Sept. 14 at Washington University's Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard. Sept. 19-21 at the Orthwein Theatre at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, 101 North Warson Road. Preview performances at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. $25, $15 for students.
- Poetry festival and other cultural activities - Star News Online
Poetry festival: 6 p.m. Aug. 8 at Bottega Gallery & Art Bar, 208 N. Front St. A one-night poetry festival and chapbook release celebration with live poetry and prose along with the release of "Between the Lines," a poetry chapbook. Schedule: Informal ...
- Jef Aldrich, former Aspen Mtn. patrol director, remembered (Aspen Daily News)
A memorial service was held Friday afternoon at the top of Aspen Mountain for Jef Aldrich, who died unexpectedly in January at age 52 and who served as the director of Aspen Mountain Ski Patrol from 1994 to 2001.
- Persian calligraphy: Gentle curves of beauty - Presstv
Iranians have always been known for their appreciation of beauty and their artistic taste in creating masterpieces from elements. A brilliant example of such artistry is Persian calligraphy. Ancient Persian script, which developed between 500-600 BCE ...
- Why Joss Stone is the perfect Anne of Cleves? - guardian.co.uk
Why Joss Stone is the perfect Anne of Cleves?guardian.co.uk, UK - 37 minutes ago... forced the Pulitzer prize committee to award the first special dispensation for poetry since 1919. and pastel masterpiece Keith Richards In Repose, ...
- Muslim country singer got his start in Iowa City - Iowa City Press-Citizen
A man being tabbed as the first known Muslim country and western singer got his start in Iowa City. After self-releasing two albums through an Iowa City recording studio, Kareem Salama is starting to catch on, and people are telling him he is one of ...
- ''Juneteenth'' Celebrated at African American Museum in Phila. (KYW News Radio 1060)
A celebration was held Thursday at the African American Museum in Philadelphia to observe the anniversary of the official end of slavery in the United States.
- Truth-Telling Solzhenitsyn Remained Great to the End - RedOrbit
Truth-Telling Solzhenitsyn Remained Great to the EndRedOrbit, TX - Aug 6, 2008One biographer, Joseph Pearce, ("Solzhenitsyn: A Soul on Exile," 1999), asked him shortly before his 80th birthday how he'd like to be remembered. ...
- Webster camps, classes include sports, juggling, yoga - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Webster camps, classes include sports, juggling, yogaRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 2 hours agoWebster Parks and Recreation is accepting registration for youth summer camps and classes, including soccer, yoga, juggling and fiction and poetry writing. ...
- Matthews, Crow kick off Democratic convention - MLive.com
AP Photo | Matt Sayles Musician Sheryl Crow, center, performs at the Green Sunday At Red Rocks Democratic National Convention welcoming concert in Morrison, Colo. on Sunday. MORRISON, Colo. — Singing at the Democratic convention, Sheryl Crow ...
- Karadzic: Psychiatrist-turned 'Butcher of Bosnia' (CNN.com)
Radovan Karadzic, whose Interpol charges listed "flamboyant behavior" as a distinguishing characteristic, was a practicing psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia."
- Resident celebrates 100 years with book - Marshalltown Times Republican
Resident celebrates 100 years with bookMarshalltown Times Republican, IA - 2 hours agoBagnall said she put the story away and then forgot about it as she was busy writing poetry and thinking about the subject of her next oil painting. ...
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