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- PBS' 'Chávez' Web Debut Proves Profitable - Broadcasting & Cable
PBS' 'Chávez' Web Debut Proves ProfitableBroadcasting & Cable, NY - 10 hours agoThe show includes anything from public scoldings for misbehaving subordinates to Chávez reciting poetry and singing. “I couldn't believe anybody talked so ...
- Appreciations: Pat Kavanagh - Guardian Unlimited
Emma Brockes writes: A few months ago Pat rang me to ask me a question. "Now then," she said, as she always did when she meant business, "I'm going to ask you something and I want you to reply honestly. Don't spare my feelings. Have you ever been ...
- Woman's tale of rowing the Nile has charm, subtlety - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rowing enthusiast Rosemary Mahoney spends most of her boat time on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. But in 1999, on a trip to Egypt, she decided to row down the Nile River, a journey she chronicles beautifully in Down the Nile (Back Bay, 268 pp., $14 ...
- Dorothy Sterling, 95, children’s book author - NorthJersey.com
Dorothy Sterling, a significant figure in 20th-century children’s literature for her well-researched portrayals of historical black Americans written decades before multiculturalism became mainstream, died Dec. 1 at her home in Wellfleet, Mass. She ...
- I Wrote Stone by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by Diana Kuprel ... - Bookslut
I Wrote Stone by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by Diana Kuprel ...Bookslut, IL - 5 hours agoIt should be unsurprising to devotees of Kapuściński that such a poetic journalist also pursued a secondary career in poetry. His very first publication, ...
- Tate gallery to recreate Blake show 200 years on (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Britain's Tate gallery will recreate the only solo exhibition staged by poet, printmaker and artist William Blake 200 years after it was held in London.
- The Importance of Cicero in Western Thought - Brussels Journal
The Importance of Cicero in Western ThoughtBrussels Journal, Belgium - 1 hour agoRomans came to be educated on a Greek pattern, but with a strong emphasis on poetry and the practice of public speaking: the musical and gymnastic sides ...
- "Code Talkers" author coming to Friends Academy (The Standard-Times)
DARTMOUTH — Friends Academy will host its second annual AuthorFest featuring the works of Native American writer Joseph Bruchac on Thursday, Nov. 20.
- Writers, editors see potential in area market (Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum)
MADISON TOWNSHIP -- Writers and editors came together to network and learn how to improve their craft at "Midwestern Dreams," the first writing conference by the Mid-Ohio Writers Association.
- Inspiration for college students motivated by desire for social change - West Central Tribune
Inspiration for college students motivated by desire for social changeWest Central Tribune, MN - 11 hours agoFlorence Dacey of Cottonwood is known for her poetry and writings on environmental and social issues. She told the students that she began her social ...
- It’s not pretty but it’s pretty effective lads! - Barking & Dagenham Recorder
Barking & Dagenham RecorderIt’s not pretty but it’s pretty effective lads!Barking & Dagenham Recorder, UK - Nov 25, 2008WHEN Gianfranco Zola played football it was like poetry. He would glide across the ground, turning this way and that like a ballet dancer as he helped his ...
- Vigil celebrates student's release - Los Angeles Daily News
NORTHRIDGE - Holding pink candles displaying photos and reciting poetry, friends and supporters of Iranian-American student Esha Momeni gathered Wednesday evening at California State University, Northridge, to support her safe return to the United ...
- Echoes and Reverberations: Sex, Giant Checks and X in Sin City - Dallas Observer
Echoes and Reverberations: Sex, Giant Checks and X in Sin CityDallas Observer, TX - 3 hours agoI'm listening to a cassette of the new X album Under the Big Black Sun on my Sony Walkman. Perfect day. Don King and his entourage were coolin' out in the ...
- Surviving and living to tell the tall tales - Irish Times
Surviving and living to tell the tall talesIrish Times, Ireland - 9 hours agoHe used to say he kept himself sane by writing poetry, which is still admired in the family today. Did this throw the family into a state of gloom? ...
- 'Grandma Moses of the mountains' dies - Kentucky.com
'Grandma Moses of the mountains' diesKentucky.com, KY - 58 minutes agoSlone, 71, said his mother had a photographic memory and a lifelong love of reading she passed on to her children. Her hands were always busy, ...
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