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- Recipe for a summer concert (Cape Cod Times)
Former Brewster resident Elisabeth Remy-Johnson, principal harpist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will be guest soloist for Sunday's opening concert of the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival, which annually presents a twice-weekly series of five...
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish - Middle East Online
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle. Darwish, considered the national ...
- Lives in the arts: Napa's poet laureate Gary Silva - Napa Valley Register
As we’re often told, Robert Louis Stevenson praised Napa Valley wines as “bottled poetry.†Napa County poet laureate Gary Silva turns the phrase around: “Poetry is bigger than we think,†he told the Napa County Board of Supervisors last ...
- Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformation (Toronto Star)
In one poem in Spirit Engine , John Donlan refers to an area of wetlands as "our vulnerable cathedral." This reverence for the natural world, which is the bedrock of the collection as a whole, also permeates Louise Bernice Halfe's The Crooked Good , though her way of expressing it is different.
- First Monday: What's on tap for the business world in August (USA Today)
On this month's business calendar:
- A heart to do good (Culpeper Star-Exponent)
Barbara Taylor steps down after six years as face of Rep. Cantor in Piedmont area
- Quick Takes: Out Before He Started, Gender and Students’ Online ... - Inside Higher Ed
Quick Takes: Out Before He Started, Gender and Students’ Online ...Inside Higher Ed, DC - 3 hours agoEducational wonkery as...poetry? Inside Higher Ed columnist Wick Sloane has accepted an invitation to read from his work 7 pm, Friday, June 27, 2008, ...
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors? (Independent)
There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an oversized book called Love Letters of Great Men, and entertains Mr Big with flowery passages from Byron and Bonaparte. It's a scene that had SATC fans rushing out to bookshops, only to discover that while the letters quoted were real, the book was never more than a Hollywood prop.
- Troubled woman felt exuberance for nature - StarNewsOnline.com
Troubled woman felt exuberance for natureStarNewsOnline.com, NC - 1 hour agoSusan wrote notes on anything: observations of nature, philosophical musings, poetry or something she heard on television. Her collection of books ranged ...
- Around Northern New Mexico - ABQJournal
Registration has begun for a girls volleyball camp hosted by the city of Santa Fe's Community Services Department's recreation section. The fee is $40 per participant. The camp is open to girls ages 10-14 and will be held from 8 a.m. to noon July 14 ...
- Remembering Bobby Kennedy - BBC News
BBC NewsRemembering Bobby KennedyBBC News, UK - 2 hours agoThese days, Kennedy might be judged an elitist for his habit of peppering his speeches with poetry and the words of great writers. ...
- Feast at Forest Fest - Alberni Valley News
Alberni Valley NewsFeast at Forest FestAlberni Valley News, Canada - 2 hours agoSound Waves, her first published book of poetry, came out in 2007, followed last fall by Splitting the Heart. Rogers is no stranger to Port Alberni. ...
- Summer Reading - Pitch Weekly
Summer ReadingPitch Weekly, MO - 1 hour agoHe is host of the Main Street Rag poetry readings, a monthly performance of outlaw poets, every third Sunday at the Writers Place. "I love Without Feathers ...
- America's Muslim problem - Guardian Unlimited
Barack Obama isn't the only one with a Muslim problem. America has one, too. Instead of ineffective denials, Obama should meet his Muslim problem and America's head on. The New Yorker cover , depicting the Illinois senator in Muslim garb with a ...
- Read the day away (Michigan Daily)
Long before there were summer blockbusters or huge concerts in Chicago, there was summer reading. The rich and titled sat - no, reclined - on their estates, scanning John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and trying to look like they weren't checking out the hired help.
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