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- After the deluge, poetry (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Poetry lends itself to all occasions, happy and sad, everyday and rare. It offers a multitude of forms -- the exquisite slenderness of a haiku, the sprawling pages of an epic, the rigor of a sonnet, the bouncing rhyme, the grace of free verse -- but every word is the result of a careful choice.
- Lucinda Breeding: She has us with stitches (Denton Record-Chronicle)
If you’ve ever doubted the sophistication or beauty of a particular womanly art — quilting — the antidote to your skepticism is the work of Denton fiber artist Tonya Littman.
- Language of hope - Ottawa Citizen
Language of hopeOttawa Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoA Polish woman, meanwhile, made it sound like poetry. The week-long Esperanto Congress of the Americas that ended yesterday was much smaller than the annual ...
- Soldier Boy - New York Times
Soldier BoyNew York Times, United States - 50 minutes agoThe point, of course, is that the news we get from poetry isn’t like the news we get from newspapers. Nor is it like the news we get from memoirs, ...
- Local music collective Atomic Family launches online zine (Pittsburgh City Paper)
"You're part of the zine, and part of the Family, if you say you are." By Manny Theiner.
- Acclaimed poet Judson Mitcham to give reading at Sidney's Salon - Macon Telegraph
Acclaimed poet Judson Mitcham to give reading at Sidney's SalonMacon Telegraph, GA - 34 minutes agoToday, he teaches fiction and poetry as a part-time professor at Mercer University. He likens his creations to mere attempts, stabs-in-the-dark, ...
- Street names to be focus of talks, reading group - Baltimore Sun
Street names to be focus of talks, reading groupBaltimore Sun, United States - 1 hour agoA discussion of the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is planned for Oct. 16, and a discussion of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit will be held Nov. 13. ...
- International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival opens in Tbilisi - ITAR-TASS
International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival opens in TbilisiITAR-TASS, Russia - 32 minutes agoTBILISI, July 17 (Itar-Tass) - The second International Russian-Georgian Poetry Festival with the participation of Russian poets from more than 20 countries ...
- From the Stacks: J Journal - Utne Reader Online
Utne Reader OnlineFrom the Stacks: J JournalUtne Reader Online - 1 hour agoThe inaugural issue contains a fair amount of poetry in addition to the expected prose—which, alas, is not classified, making it difficult at times to ...
- Citizens, alliance support Boston's at-risk youth - Boston Globe
Citizens Bank and the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston said they are teaming up again to bring a summer enrichment program to Boston neighborhoods. The program, funded by a $100,000 grant from the Citizens Bank Foundation, focuses on ...
- Transcript: Sheikh Al-Zawahiri To The Pakistan Army, People Of ... - Jihad Unspun
Transcript: Sheikh Al-Zawahiri To The Pakistan Army, People Of ...Jihad Unspun, Canada - 1 hour agoHe was the first to translate his poems into Arabic poetry and among his many books was one about Allama Iqbal. I read that book and much of his Arabic ...
- September listings (8/22) - San Francisco Gate
Yellowjackets: Hot young playwright Itamar Moses, celebrated for his Stoppard-like brainy wit ("Bach at Leipzig"), returns to his hometown for the world premiere of a play about racial and class collisions at his alma mater, Berkeley High. The new ...
- America Back on Track... for Monday, July 21st - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Monday, July 21stOpEdNews, PA - 2 hours agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Funeral home director suing Archdiocese of Louisville for business interference (Louisville Courier-Journal)
A Nelson County funeral home director is suing the Archdiocese of Louisville and a Roman Catholic priest, whom he accuses of undercutting his business by implementing new rules on conducting funerals at his parish.
- Palestinians mourn national poet - Sydney Morning Herald
Palestinians mourn national poetSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 15 hours agoThe 67-year-old penned over two dozen books of poetry and prose in a career spanning nearly five decades that captured the Palestinian experience of war, ...
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