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- Memorial Day takes on new meaning for Reston mother - San Francisco Examiner
Martha Kirkpatrick is planning to visit her son’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery today, giving new meaning to the heartfelt holiday she always observed, but not like this. “I’ve never had a Memorial Day before,” she said. Her son, Sgt ...
- The young library: Haiku and gentle fun - Sacramento Bee
The young library: Haiku and gentle funSacramento Bee, USA - 1 hour agoresponds young Koo in haiku, the Japanese poetry form of three lines and 17 syllables. It launches Muth's wordplay. But Muth's story is much more. ...
- 'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-Roper - Los Angeles Times
'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-RoperLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoFake history often supports unfortunate regimes, but Scottish fakery spread tragically bad poetry and made a bunch of rich people look like idiots. ...
- The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s Othello doesn’t flinch from the obvious race issue (The Pitch)
The story of a black man tricked into strangling his white wife because she's careless with her hanky, Othello isn't bring-the-kids-and-pack-a-basket fare, but I applaud director Sidonie Garrett and the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for daring it. The sex and murder probably upset nobody the ...
- Altaf Parwaz’s Naat collection comes out - The Post
Altaf Parwaz’s Naat collection comes outThe Post, Pakistan - Jun 6, 2008Altaf Parwaz has more than 75 books to his credit, published in various disciplines of literature, including poetry and prose. ...
- The Same Earth, By Kei Miller - Independent
The Same Earth, By Kei MillerIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoHaving already published poetry and short stories, Miller is branching out assuredly with this new work. It's a story of everyday people with all kinds of ...
- Ray Tallis: 'At 15 I was a biochemical materialist' (Guardian Unlimited)
Ray Tallis: 'Old people tend to get lumped together. In fact, they are far more heterogenrous than the young.' Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi Philosopher. Doctor. Novelist. Poet. Academic.
- Are Those Shakespeare's "Balls"? - Slate
If I can be said to have a favorite kind of column, it's one in which I can bring to your attention an exciting literary development—one whose importance has not received the notice it deserves outside the ivory tower—and then tell you what to ...
- WHAT TO DO IN NYC - City Guide Magazine
WHAT TO DO IN NYCCity Guide Magazine, NY - 1 hour agoThe Bowery Poetry Club is an NYC cultural institution. Check out Bob Brown Puppets (from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood) at Bowery Poetry Club on June 1, noon-1pm. ...
- The Modern American West - Wall Street Journal
The Modern American WestWall Street Journal - 1 hour ago"A front is pulling the huge sky over me, and from the dark a hailstone has hit me in the head. I'm trailing a band of two thousand sheep across a stretch ...
- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sings of her 30 lovers and why Nicolas is like ... - Daily Telegraph
Le Figaro newspaper was given a sneak preview of Comme si de rien n'Ă©tait (As if Nothing Happened), her first album since marrying Mr Sarkozy, ahead of its official release on 21 July. In lyrics playfully mocking her reputation as a man-eater, the ...
- Library Event: Minnesota Author Richard Terrill - NewsoftheNorth.Net
Library Event: Minnesota Author Richard TerrillNewsoftheNorth.Net, Wisconsin - 5 hours agoTerrill has taught as a Fulbright professor in China, Korea, and Poland, and currently teaches creative nonfiction and poetry writing in the MFA program at ...
- Progressive Poetry - American Progress
Percy Shelly said that poetry, also known as critical reflections upon popular culture, was a touchtone and an influencing agent for understanding and advocating for current issues. E. Ethelbert Miller, David Gewanter, and Naomi Ayala, have each ...
- The Sorrows of an American (The New Yorker)
I’m lost,” a patient tells her psychiatrist in Hustvedt’s fourth novel. “I’m cold. I’m all alone.” She might be speaking for all the characters in this sombre meditation on the isolation of urban professionals, in which daily routines are nothing but “pillars in an architecture of need,” erotic love is . . .
- Wanda M. Austin, president and CEO of Aerospace Corp., June 6, 5 pm - AScribe (press release)
Wanda M. Austin, president and CEO of Aerospace Corp., June 6, 5 pmAScribe (press release) - 2 hours agoHarper, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Cal State LA more than 40 years ago, returns as the recipient of the 2008 Frost Medal from the Poetry ...
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