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- Women in the New Iraq - Global Politician
Women in the New IraqGlobal Politician, NY - 8 minutes agoOne recipient was Sabiha al-Shaykh Daud who, in 1922 when she was only eight years old, caused a stir by reciting verses at a poetry festival, ...
- Nancy Banks-Smith on last night's TV (Guardian Unlimited)
Nancy Banks-Smith on Who Do You Think You Are | The Family | Lost in Austen | Greg Dyke On Aneurin Bevan
- Hitchhiking Across China - Wall Street Journal
It was an insane idea, almost guaranteed to fail. In the summer of 1981, Vikram Seth decided he would hitchhike across China, Tibet and Nepal, ending his journey in his native country, India. Hitchhike in China? Mr. Seth, then a visiting student at ...
- Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st century - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st centuryMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 38 minutes agoFirst of all, you're using someone else's poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing." No website captures that concept better than Cassette ...
- Reliving Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers (International Herald Tribune)
Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 is the subject of "Man on Wire," James Marsh's thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary.
- Poetry marathon cancelled (The Pickering News Advertiser)
PICKERING -- A 48-hour poetry marathon to help save a late Canadian poet's home has been cancelled. The Pickering Public Library was all set to host the writing marathon from Tuesday, Aug. 19 to...
- Sinclair to share her songs at Edgefield Aug. 31 (Gresham Outlook)
What do Donny Osmond and Langston Hughes have in common? They’ve both influenced the artistry of Portland singer-songwriter Paula Sinclair, whose alternative country music is flavored with touches of rock, Latin and sultry alto crooning.
- Women's deaths still a mystery (Tallahassee Democrat)
Gadsden County Sheriff's investigator Scott Ivey has spoken with the mother of 33-year-old Bobbi Jean Tew so often, he said, he gets the feeling he knew her daughter.
- Sunil Dutta First Indian-American to Become LAPD Lieutenant - India Journal
India JournalSunil Dutta First Indian-American to Become LAPD LieutenantIndia Journal, CA - 37 minutes agoDutta is a published author, having published a translation of Mirza Ghalib’s poetry with Robert Bly and several articles and editorials in magazines, ...
- Botswana: Student Dramatists Defy Weather to Mount Great Show - AllAfrica.com
Botswana: Student Dramatists Defy Weather to Mount Great ShowAllAfrica.com, Washington - 7 hours agoThe first on the programme of the day was Form Two student Oratile Dube, who recited a poem she titled, My intuition. Focusing on the theme of education and ...
- Entries flood in for the Great British Summer poetry competition - www.solihullnews.net
Entries flood in for the Great British Summer poetry competitionwww.solihullnews.net, UK - 16 hours agoENTRIES continue to flood in for the Great British Summer poetry competition, in association with Touchwood. The competition is split into two categories ...
- South Africa: Reading Projects Target Aids Awareness, Science (AllAfrica.com)
In this dusty, crowded township of about 400,000 people, the South African government is driving forward a policy that is key to the country's survival of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to its long-term economic growth: reading.
- First lesbian to be married in San Francisco dies aged 87 - Daily Telegraph
Del Martin [left] and Phyllis Lyon on their wedding day Photo: GETTY Del Martin, a leading figure in the US women's movement, died at a San Francisco hospice on Wednesday morning two weeks after a broken arm exacerbated existing health problems, the ...
- Happy Birthday, Milton - World Magazine
Happy Birthday, MiltonWorld Magazine, NC - 2 hours agoRather than being employed for its own sake, [Milton’s] poetry is always in the service of ideas and moral commitments, and it is always demanding that its ...
- LITTWIN: Welcome! And please like us, really - Rocky Mountain News
LITTWIN: Welcome! And please like us, reallyRocky Mountain News, CO - 1 hour agoMost days of the year that are not in August, you can actually see the white peaks and the purple majesty and write, if you need to, your own poetry. ...
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