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- Ruth Graham: Dad misses mom - FayObserver.com
Ruth Graham: Dad misses momFayObserver.com, NC - 4 hours agoSo Ruth wrote poetry and collected quotes in a little notebook she carried around in her purse. Some of her work has been published. ...
- Retired doctor has longevity on his side - Greensboro News Record
Retired doctor has longevity on his sideGreensboro News Record, NC - 5 hours agoI love poetry." He also indulged a fascination with physics and cosmology. He spent 15 years or so meshing those loves into a self-published book, ...
- Writers, Awards and Confidence — Oh WOW - Daily Citizen-News
Ask a group of typical grade-schoolers what they want to be when they grow up, and the answers will probably follow a few well-known favorites: doctors, firefighters, rock stars and the like. But at Dalton’s City Park Elementary School, students ...
- ‘First Poel’ opens tonight - Pittsburg Morning Sun
‘First Poel’ opens tonightPittsburg Morning Sun, KS - 14 minutes ago“Especially in this economy, it’s nice for people to have a nice dessert, sit back and hear some music and poetry.” The poetry is the twist, ...
- Don Miller: Slouching toward an October surprise - San Jose Mercury News
Don Miller: Slouching toward an October surpriseSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour agoEven if you don't like poetry, well, you might find what Yeats wrote applicable to this October. What surprise is now at hand?
- Let Remembrance Day be a wish for peace - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Let Remembrance Day be a wish for peaceTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 2 hours agoHis voice was soft and sad as he remembered his friend, another young kid from Cape Breton, dead in a European trench. Johnny’s story is in The Crimson ...
- A Cajun Christmas: Gumbo, gators guide this version (The Vicksburg Post)
Story time during the holidays usually conjures traditional images of Christmas, such as cookies for Santa Claus, reindeer-driven sleigh rides and toys by the bundle.
- 93-year-old novice's nostalgia in verse takes top honors - Staten Island Advance - SILive.com
93-year-old novice's nostalgia in verse takes top honorsStaten Island Advance - SILive.com, NY - 5 hours ago"It was her first poem. It's really very sweet," explained George Hopkins, a retired English teacher who coordinates the senior poetry festival for CASC and ...
- Mark Steel: It's not about great men, but those who put them there (Independent)
The most common view of history is that it's created by the personalities of a handful of important figures. So world events can be explained by the fact that Churchill was strong, or Henry VIII wanted a divorce, or Napoleon had a complex about being short; as if an era of revolution and war was a result of him stretching in his kitchen, grumbling: "I can't reach the top shelf. I know, I'll ...
- Other side of life - Sun.Star
Other side of lifeSun.Star, Philippines - 1 hour agoSo, when Lady Nancy Astor woke briefly and found herself surrounded by her family, she asked, "Am I dying or is this my birthday?" After saying those words, ...
- Still falling apart after all these weeks - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Economic data rarely inspire poetic thoughts. But as I was contemplating the latest set of numbers, I realized that I had William Butler Yeats running through my head: "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer ...
- Psychologist wins poetry award - Boston Globe
Psychologist wins poetry awardBoston Globe, United States - 6 hours agoPoet Marian Kaplun Shapiro would like to refute what she believes to be a common misconception: that all poetry is difficult, and sometimes impossible, ...
- Christmas stories are fun, meaningful - Columbia Daily Tribune
Christmas stories are fun, meaningfulColumbia Daily Tribune, MO - 4 hours agoThis sweet and short story with colorful illustrations by Brett Helquist is about tiny miracles of love and friendship at Christmastime. ...
- Renowned playwright Harold Pinter dies (USA Today)
Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, one of the most important and influential English writers of his generation, died Wednesday at 78 after a long battle with cancer.
- Teacher given a VIP farewell - Stoke & Staffordshire
Teacher given a VIP farewellStoke & Staffordshire, UK - 19 hours ago"I'm sad she's leaving but happy for her." Olivia Tolman, aged 11, added: "If there's anything hard to understand, Ms Broughton makes it fun and easier to ...
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