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- Playing a Leading Role in the Ruins of a Tornado - New York Times
New York TimesPlaying a Leading Role in the Ruins of a TornadoNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoBut those who remained came to see the poetry in harnessing the same forces of nature that had nearly destroyed them. There is nothing quaint about rural ...
- Nonfiction review: Masters of 'Make-Believe' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Minders of Make-Believe Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature By Leonard S. Marcus Houghton Mifflin; 402 pages; $28 I was a bookish girl, and the heroes and heroines of children's literature were as alive to me as...
- Whitechapel At War: Isaac Rosenberg And His Circle, Ben Uri ... - Independent
Whitechapel At War: Isaac Rosenberg And His Circle, Ben Uri ...Independent, UK - 1 hour agoUnlike Sassoon and Owen, Rosenberg was an infantryman, and his poetry is an infantryman's poetry, choked with mud, misery, lice, rats. ...
- Sustainable Fashion Show Exhibits Eccentricity - City on a Hill Press
City on a Hill PressSustainable Fashion Show Exhibits EccentricityCity on a Hill Press, CA - 7 hours agoGorey is best known as an eccentric illustrator who loved cats and the ballet, but he also experimented with poetry and opera libretti for puppets. ...
- Police arrest Tulsa man charged with first-degree murder - Tulsa World
arrested a Tulsa high school teacher Friday morning in the fatal shooting of his wife with a gun that he purchased one week earlier, according to a police affidavit. John Kastner, 50, was charged Friday with the first-degree murder of Lori Kastner ...
- Nitzinger's event celebrates sobriety - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
That old rock 'n' roll cliche -- sex, drugs, booze -- has its dark side, and no one knows that better than Fort Worth guitar legend and ex- Bloodrock member John Nitzinger. The blues/rock legend has organized a "musical celebration of sobriety ...
- Homeless man was enriched by a circle of friends (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Askew Clark was a recognizable figure on the streets of downtown Venice for more than two decades, but those who looked beyond his homelessness discovered a polite and sober former engineer with a remarkable mind.
- Youngsters encouraged to put Grimethorpe life into verse - South Yorkshire Times
Youngsters encouraged to put Grimethorpe life into verseSouth Yorkshire Times, UK - 11 hours agoCREATIVE school kids in Grimethorpe are being encouraged to write about life in their home village as part of a poetry competition. ...
- When Free Speech Doesn’t Come Free - Center for Research on Globalization
When Free Speech Doesn’t Come FreeCenter for Research on Globalization, Canada - 11 hours agoRemi Kanazi is the editor of the forthcoming anthology of poetry, Poets For Palestine, which can be pre-ordered at www.PoetsForPalestine.com. ...
- Thomas Hardy - guardian.co.uk
Thomas Hardyguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 22, 2008Like Jude, Hardy was a determined autodidact: he taught himself Greek, and while an architect's apprentice read Greek and Latin poetry for three hours ...
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: Good news from around the First Coast - Florida Times-Union
- Sandalwood senior Jessica Newman won first place in the district Drinking and Driving Essay Contest, sponsored by the Insurance Women of Jacksonville. She also won a $1,000 scholarship. - Jacksonville Sister Cities Association will be honored by ...
- Just a Color - Teen Ink
Just a ColorTeen Ink - 6 hours agoBy Theresa K., Middletown, DE Every time I pick up Teen Ink, I find something that grabs my attention. This time it was a poem by Olamide A. “Just a Color” ...
- Poetry helps heal veteran’s WWII wounds - Register-Guard
After the conversation turns to Iwo Jima, he walks slowly to another room, with that uncertain gait of James Ryan in the first and last cemetery scenes of “Saving Private Ryan.” He brings back the newspaper clipping. “Corp. John Connors ...
- No plea from NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi)
BRENTWOOD, N.H. -- An FBI most-wanted fugitive charged with molesting the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him is being held without bail after his years on the lam abruptly...
- Local arts (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
• The Brett Family will perform five shows today through Saturday at the Old Creamery Theatre, 39 38th Ave. in Amana.
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