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- The medicine chest of the soul (Otago Daily Times)
It is 100 years since the Dunedin Public Library opened, but it has been more than 2000 since the value of such institutions was recognised. The inscription above the door in the ancient Grecian city of Thebes read "Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul".
- Pittsburgh Favorite Ruoti Is Lady With All the Answers, Nov. 13 ... - Playbill.com
Pittsburgh Favorite Ruoti Is Lady With All the Answers, Nov. 13 ...Playbill.com, NY - 15 hours ago... barebones productions and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, as well as appearances with the International Poetry Forum and the Pittsburgh Symphony. ...
- MADISON: James Whitcomb Riley in Anderson - Herald-Bulletin
There were reports of womanizing, alcoholism, fraud, scandal and even the selling of patent medicine. Yes, James Whitcomb Riley, the gentle, fondly remembered bard of children’s classics such as “Little Orphant Annie†and “The Raggedy Man ...
- Exhibit features van Gogh’s efforts to perfect ‘The Starry Night’ (The Daily Record)
NEW YORK — Before Vincent van Gogh could make what would become one of the world’s most famous and beloved images, he had to figure out how to use color to paint the blackness of night — and how to do it in the dark.
- British Library's £500,000 Ted Hughes catch - Guardian Unlimited
The enormous literary archive of Ted Hughes, that includes letters, drafts of poems, journals, diaries and his innermost thoughts, has been bought by the British Library, it announced yesterday. Curators regard the £500,000 purchase as being of ...
- Once were ordinary men - The Age
Once were ordinary menThe Age, Australia - 3 hours agoThere is some poetry in this day after all.) We drive up the winding valley road towards Kevington, mountains closing in around us, headlights on in the ...
- Fifteen years after her Nobel, Toni Morrison continues to inspire - Progressive.org
Fifteen years after her Nobel, Toni Morrison continues to inspireProgressive.org, WI - 3 hours agoWhile writing nine groundbreaking novels, Morrison has also taken time to pen a book of literary criticism and edit two anthologies, one on the Clarence ...
- What Mt Kenya? I too am a Luo from Siaya - Daily Nation
What Mt Kenya? I too am a Luo from SiayaDaily Nation, Kenya - 5 hours agoThe poetry of his speeches, all that stuff about touching the arc of history and bending it this and that way is sweet, but I have heard and read better ...
- Sarah Lee keeps Guthrie folk tradition going strong - Belleville News Democrat
Sarah Lee keeps Guthrie folk tradition going strongBelleville News Democrat, USA - 2 hours agoBut while sister Annie turned to music, she wrote poetry and became involved in community projects that helped abused children and AIDS patients. ...
- Cooey set to die today for 1986 murder of North Ridgeville woman (The Morning Journal)
LUCASVILLE — Convicted killer Richard Wade Cooey II is almost out of legal options as he is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. today in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, where he was transferred from a Youngstown prison yesterday morning.
- Journeying No More - SLAM Online
Journeying No MoreSLAM Online, FL - 3 hours agoBasketball is poetry in motion watching them. SLAM: How is it playing with Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, who play similar positions as you? ...
- Remembering Hayden Carruth - Huffingtonpost.com
When Hayden Carruth's collection Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey won the National Book Award for poetry, it was no great surprise that he chose not to attend the ceremony. He was always something of an outsider. For most of his life, he kept a distance ...
- Real Lives: Learned scholar nurtured passion for books over a ... - Edinburgh Evening News
Real Lives: Learned scholar nurtured passion for books over a ...Edinburgh Evening News, UK - 1 hour agoHe made notable contributions in his field both as the editor of meticulously researched editions of original works of poetry and literature and as a ...
- Book reflects on value of a lasting legacy (Orlando Sentinel)
What are you leaving behind for your loved ones to remember you by?
- Rouault as Modernist Christian Artist - National Review Online Blogs
Rouault as Modernist Christian ArtistNational Review Online Blogs, NY - 12 minutes agoMoreover, Gay’s preoccupations force him to see religious modernism — as found, say, in the later poetry of TS Eliot — as self-contradictory. ...
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