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- The Last Island By Mimi White Deerbrook Editions 82 pp. $14 - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorThe Last Island By Mimi White Deerbrook Editions 82 pp. $14Christian Science Monitor, MA - 13 hours agoThe collection opens with an imaginative poem about a woman watching a house burn. The flames are a metaphor for love, which can create a purifying heat or ...
- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Inside Their Strange World - People
Even for die-hard New York City clubbers, it's a late night. But although it's nearly dawn, Mary-Kate Olsen is still going strong. The 21-year-old actress has been on her feet for hours at Manhattan hot spot Beatrice Inn, celebrating Valentine's Day ...
- September 2008 - ABC News Blogs
When you get home after a long hard day at work you might be tempted to leave the cleaning until tomorrow. You might decide you are too tired to cook and order takeout. If you did this every day, your home might look something like this…. Chris ...
- Better You Be a Team Player - PopMatters
Better You Be a Team PlayerPopMatters, IL - 24 minutes agoWhen he’s not deconstructing sporting events, he’s writing poetry as an MFA candidate at Texas State University. His work has appeared in Analecta, Fiasco, ...
- 'Man on Wire' Between the Twin Towers (The New York Sun)
'Man on Wire" is an upside-down documentary, so riveting in its setup and exposition that the climax arrives almost as an afterthought. The man of the title — the famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit — is ultimately less interesting than the drama surrounding his wire, a tightrope strung between the newly completed World Trade Center towers in August 1974. And rather than tease the ...
- Words of Wisdom: Nature’s cycle - Naples Daily News
Words of Wisdom: Nature’s cycleNaples Daily News, FL - Jul 12, 2008Oftentimes the natural world is used in poetry as a metaphor or symbol for the divine, beauty, or even the human condition (ex. His mood was dark as night). ...
- A family bids farewell - Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem JournalA family bids farewellWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 2 hours agoIf you were reading a piece of poetry, he would see something in it that nobody else saw." Harris didn't become a SEAL until the age of 29. ...
- Manifesto - Washington City Paper
Washington City PaperManifestoWashington City Paper, DC - 3 hours agoOh, and did I mention that MANIFESTO! is funny? Sure, Judd Apatow flicks are funny, reruns of Seinfeld are funny, this Onion video is funny, but MANIFESTO! ...
- Thousands expected at knife march (BBC News)
A day of events is held in Inverclyde to remember a teenager who died after being stabbed.
- $100,000 prize for sports artist (Sydney Morning Herald)
Digital video of athlete on treadmill beats field of 54 works by 16 artists.
- Café Co-op Touski: All fresh, no fry - Hour.ca
Hour.caCafé Co-op Touski: All fresh, no fryHour.ca, Canada - 5 hours ago... music, poetry and sketch comedy. On Aug. 3, Touski celebrates with a family party that includes storytelling and animation for children. ...
- Open mind leads to new life in Mississauga - Mississauga
MississaugaOpen mind leads to new life in MississaugaMississauga, Canada - 3 hours agoThis past May, she did a poetry reading with other poets at the Streetsville Arts Festival. “It was such a diverse group. And we said, ‘How amazing that we ...
- VSA arts Presents The Other Room at the Kennedy Center - MarketWatch
VSA arts Presents The Other Room at the Kennedy CenterMarketWatch - 5 hours agoThis performance, hosted by television and film star William Devane, also showcases poetry from additional VSA arts literary programs. In The Other Room, ...
- Guest commentary: Flight changed nature of our aerial musings (The Sacramento Bee)
Carl Sandburg wrote in Poetry Considered: "Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air." I agree. We are a people intrigued by the thought of flying. From the child jumping off the barn roof to Leonardo da Vinci studying the flight of birds, people imagined wings. Cleo Fellers Kocol
- Irish politics can learn from US public speaking revival - Irish Times
Irish politics can learn from US public speaking revivalIrish Times, Ireland - 5 hours agoOratory transforms political rhetoric into eloquent poetry. Orators are musicians who construct and permeate their prose with rhythm and harmony. ...
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