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- Ode to Recovery - New Haven Register
Editor's note: This is part of an occasional series about local people dealing with addiction. WEST HAVEN - The simple pleasures of coffee in the kitchen, recipes taped to the refrigerator and chairs on a shady front porch are not lost on Brandon ...
- Iraqi Prime Minister: Negotiations at "Dead End" - Manhattan Mercury
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says talks with the United States on a longterm security agreement have reached a "dead end." Al-Maliki says the talks slumped because each side refused the other's demands. He says the ...
- Eisteddofd champion John dies aged 94 - Daily Post
Eisteddofd champion John dies aged 94Daily Post, UK - 34 minutes agoJohn Lewis Jones, of Gwernymynydd, near Mold, suffered from failing eyesight in recent years but continued to compose poetry of high quality. His friend and ...
- Norbert Krapf, Professor Emeritus of English at CW Post. - C.W. Post Campus
C.W. Post CampusNorbert Krapf, Professor Emeritus of English at CW Post.C.W. Post Campus, NY - 11 hours agoWhen Krapf moved from Indiana to the New York area in 1970 he began to trace his family history, study German, and write poems. A professor of English at CW ...
- Latitude Festival, Southwold, Suffolk - Independent
Latitude Festival, Southwold, SuffolkIndependent, UK - 46 minutes agoWith its "more than just a music festival" motto – it also hosts theatre, comedy, poetry and film – it's the sort of thing you can take the kids (or their ...
- Culture at the Marxism 2008 festival - Socialist Worker
The annual Marxism festival brings together activists, writers and campaigners from across the world to discuss the key political issues and the importance of Marxist ideas today. But it is also packed with cultural events – including music ...
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- Complex issue - Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
Nicolina Tokic from the CAMO diving club in Montreal performs a 2.5 somersault at the Canada Games Complex. They can‘t close this place down. How else could we see such poetry in motion. Like birds floating down from a high perch, divers are ...
- Power Pop Poet (University of Melbourne University News)
When he hears a new kind of song, or is particularly excited by one, poet Michael Farrell starts thinking about how to create an equivalent in poetry. Farrell has been obsessed with pop music since he was around seven years old; his first published poem around this time was based on a hymn.
- Hay, watch out! Havant's got its festival going... - Portsmouth News
Hay, watch out! Havant's got its festival going...Portsmouth News, UK - 31 minutes agoKeats wrote his famous lyrical poem, The Eve of St Agnes, while staying with a friend in Bedhampton. There will be walks around the town's most interesting ...
- Queen Victoria had an affair with Indian courtier: Film (NDTV)
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- Inside Dish - Burlington Free Press
The owner of Church Street’s Bangkok Bistro is branching out with the opening of Food 88 at 24 Main St. in Winooski. The new eatery will feature a full menu of Japanese cuisine, some Thai food and more than 100 types of sake, beer and wine, but no ...
- Wrong turn, but write stuff - The Times
Wrong turn, but write stuffThe Times, South Africa - 1 hour agoAnd, on the last Saturday of this month, Liesl Jobson — who won first prize in the Inglis House Poetry Contest in 2003 and is the proud holder of the 2006 ...
- 'Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation,' by Cokie Roberts - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
'Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation,' by Cokie RobertsPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 2 hours agoLouisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, wrote beautiful letters filled with pain and poetry. Rebecca Gratz, "the foremost American Jewish woman of the ...
- Group pays homage to Indian Urdu poet (The Peninsula)
DOHA • The Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu Hind Qatar (AMUHQ), which is affiliated to the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC), has held a poetry session dedicated to Maulana Hasrat Mohani, who is described as the reformer of classical Urdu ghazal (a very popular form of Urdu poetry).
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