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- Albion District Library celebrates Library Card Month - Battle Creek Enquirer
Albion District Library celebrates Library Card MonthBattle Creek Enquirer, MI - 23 minutes agoThe Dolly Parton Imagination Project, which provides free books to children in the service area from birth to their fifth birthday, relies on the generosity ...
- What Would Hippocrates Do? - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsWhat Would Hippocrates Do?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoHippocrates and his contemporaries believed the worlds of poetry, music, and medicine to be fundamentally intertwined. For ancient Greeks the scientist was ...
- Funeral pending for poet Charles Guenther - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It is with sadness that I have just finished writing an obituary for Charles Guenther, who died Thursday at 88. He was such a quiet gentleman and one of the most generous, hard-working book reviewers I’ve ever worked with. He reviewed poetry for ...
- Race for Ramadan (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Ramadan every year is marked by a host of cultural events, and this year is no exception.
- She tells ghost stories (The Medina County Gazette)
MEDINA — At 4 years old, Michelle Belanger was playing in a vacant portion of the old Hinckley Library on Ridge Road when a woman in a white and blue dress with buttons down the cuffs strolled by her.
- Anti-Aging Rx: Lifelong Learning (ThirdAge)
No longer content to "retire" their minds, people aged 50+ are demanding learning opportunities. They're onto something: Staying engaged and trying stimulating new things may actually help keep their brains healthy and fit.
- Laureate bemoans 'thankless' job (BBC News)
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says the task of writing verse for the Royal Family is "entirely thankless" and gave him a case of writer's block.
- Library of Congress's National Book Festival Attracts More Than ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)Library of Congress's National Book Festival Attracts More Than ...PR Web (press release), WA - 14 hours agoThe winners of the River of Words contest, the annual international environmental art and poetry competition for students K-12, were recognized and ...
- Karadzic: One of world's most wanted men - Turkish Daily News
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, saw himself as a defender of Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but ended up a fugitive wanted on genocide charges. His 11 years at large had long been a stumbling block to ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 - Boston Globe
Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89Boston Globe, United States - 16 minutes agoEnvisioning a postwar literary career, he began writing both poetry and fiction about his military experiences. Mr. Solzhenitsyn, who had been a member of ...
- Honoring the Animals and Their Caregivers - seattlepi.com Buzzworthy
Honoring the Animals and Their Caregiversseattlepi.com Buzzworthy - 10 hours agoHe officiated a Native American memorial service, a poetry reading, and musical performances. Prior to the presentation we toured the sanctuary. ...
- Kay Ryan goes to Washington -- as poet laureate (Miami Herald)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike enthusiast and self-described ''modern hermit,'' will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate starting in the fall. The appointment lasts a year and comes ...
- Rappers and poets and artists -- oh my! (Miami Herald)
It's no secret that some of us, ahem, love little, off-the-beaten-path places, especially in this town, where paths may be off and may be beaten but rarely does the twain meet. One of those places is Circa 28 in Wynwood. On Friday, a bigger than usual fusion of art, poetry and music will occur, beginning with a live performance by monthly resident band Elastic Bond at 11 p.m. and continuing with ...
- Anglican Church moves to end gay bishop ordination - ABC Online
Anglican Church moves to end gay bishop ordinationABC Online, Australia - Jul 28, 2008Several African churches, including those in Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda have appointed bishops to serve traditionalist parishes inside the United States. ...
- Poet in the House: Doctor/Wordsmith Reads Sept. 18 - UNCG University News
UNCG University NewsPoet in the House: Doctor/Wordsmith Reads Sept. 18UNCG University News, NC - 2 hours agoHis poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including “The Best American Poetry,†“Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation,†“Legitimate ...Patrick Phillips Reads Oct. 23 UNCG University Newsall 2 news articles
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