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- Shirley Beers: Aircraft engineer, artist, actress and poet (McKinney Messenger)
Shirley Beers is a multi-talented woman. She is best known in the Lewisville area as an artist and an actress. Her artwork is on display at several places in Lewisville, including at Tierney’s Café and Tavern and at the Lewisville Senior Center.
- Army Staff Sgt. Frank Gasper, 25, Merced; killed by a roadside ... - Los Angeles Times
Army Staff Sgt. Frank Gasper, 25, Merced; killed by a roadside ...Los Angeles Times, CA - 9 minutes agoIn his teen years, Gasper avidly followed NASCAR racing and fell in love with a "muscle car," a 1970 Chevrolet Nova. Piloting his special ride, ...
- Race Matters (Or Does It)? - Washington Post Blog
Regular Fix readers know that we have spent quite a bit of time trying to understand the degree to which Barack Obama 's race is a factor in the general election campaign to come. As we noted in a recent post , it's difficult via polling to get an ...
- Women: Savor living alone - The Daily Advertiser
Women: Savor living aloneThe Daily Advertiser, LA - 1 hour agoAllshouse, a Floyds Knobs, Ind., resident, is studying to be a chef, and her free time is filled with painting, boxing and trying to get her poetry ...
- Failing Darwish's legacy - Electronic Intifada
Electronic IntifadaFailing Darwish's legacyElectronic Intifada, IL - 3 hours agoIn a 2002 interview, Darwish stated: "I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is ...
- Penguin Classics Introduces African American Classic Series - AHN
Penguin Classics Introduces African American Classic SeriesAHN - 1 hour agoIn "God's Trombones," one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the ...
- Susana Baca - World Music Central
Susana BacaWorld Music Central, India - 4 hours agoShe formed an experimental music group combining poetry and song. Through grants from Peru's Institute of Modern Art and the National Institute of Peruvian ...
- Andrew Turnbull's Great Fitzgerald (Washington Post)
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.
- Poetry and lyrics are my first love: London-based broadcaster (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Can an NRI get by in Britain or the US by writing poetry? Yes, if he or she has some other income to fall back on, says Chamal Lal 'Chaman', a London-based poet, lyricist and radio broadcaster.
- Sing him to heaven: Poet laureate of American hymns passes on - Holmen Courier
Sing him to heaven: Poet laureate of American hymns passes onHolmen Courier, WI - May 23, 2008At 18, Vajda began translating Slovak stories and poetry. “His interest in hymn writing came through his translation work,” said Barry Bobb, choral director ...
- Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate. - Slate
Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate.Slate - 7 hours agoRyan rejects the pained, stylized self-consciousness that characterizes so much contemporary poetry. Where many poets today are engaged in issues and ...
- A search for enlightenment (Asbury Park Press)
At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Brave Kelly’s legacy – a cache of poetry - Huddersfield Examiner
Brave Kelly’s legacy – a cache of poetryHuddersfield Examiner, UK - 3 hours agoFriends and some of Kelly’s former tutors at Huddersfield Technical College read the poetry out at the service. Martin said: “Kelly’s ambition in life was ...
- 'The Foreigner' by Francie Lin - Los Angeles Times
'The Foreigner' by Francie LinLos Angeles Times, CA - 16 minutes agoA bird sang two high notes in the black slate landscape." The executor of his mother's estate is a "tall, cadaverous man with a voice that rasped like a ...
- Breeding like rabbits - Calgary Herald
One Yellow Rabbit celebrates its 25th anniversary Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Jubilee Auditorium. Tickets available at Ticketmaster. "We love our audiences," says One Yellow Rabbit co-founder Blake Brooker. And the feeling, say OYR audience members ...
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