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- Nigeria: Multi-Talented Muhibbat - Sliding Into Islamic Poetry (AllAfrica.com)
Muhibbat Abdussalam is a famous Hausa film actress, producer and story writer in the popular Hausa film industry otherwise known as Kannywood. The actress is reinventing herself as an Islamic poet. Weekend Magazines takes a look at the artiste, who tied the nuptial knot exactly seven days ago.
- Turning Summer Leaves (Gay City News)
Meena Alexander, "Quickly Changing River" (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, $14.95) Alexander's eighth book of poems quotes Whitman in its epigraph and in "Torn Grass" features five impressive triptych sequences (e.g., "Three for Summer").
- Poet laureate to visit Wichita Falls - Times Record News
Poet laureate to visit Wichita FallsTimes Record News, TX - 51 minutes agoHe grew up in Midland, though his family is from Seymour. It wasn’t until Thomas was in the Navy that he started to seriously write poetry — something, ...
- Club News: PEO Chapter Original A - Mt. Pleasant News
Club News: PEO Chapter Original AMt. Pleasant News, IA - 8 hours agoFollowing the meeting, Anne Weir read poetry selections for the program and inspired members to write lines of poetry in small groups.
- Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! - Broadway World
Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! , a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union, returns for its 6th stunning year on Monday, July 21 at 7:30PM in the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 La Guardia ...
- Quiet in the library? Shhh! - Chicago Tribune
Quiet in the library? Shhh!Chicago Tribune, United States - 23 minutes agoYoga and wine-tasting sessions supplement story hour, poetry readings and lectures. Some libraries have become de facto senior centers, resource labs for ...
- Why Tourists Pay More at the Beach - New York Times Blogs
I’m on our annual beach week with the extended family in New Jersey and the beach patrol comes by insisting I buy beach tags for everyone 12 and over. The prices are: $6 for one day, $12 for one week, or $24 for the season (but only $19 for the ...
- Obituary: Richard Helgerson (Guardian Unlimited)
July 10, obituary: Renaissance scholar with insights to offer on English identity
- All my relations - and then some - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Edited by: Drew Hayden Taylor. Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, 186 pages, $22.95 (paperback). Review: Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, sometimes wry and sometimes dry, these essays on Native sexuality go both ways and get around. T he campy cover of ...
- A close encounter with Bill Bailey - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzA close encounter with Bill BaileyStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours ago"We have an oral culture, and just like songs or poetry or even advertising catch-phrases, the best jokes get handed down from one generation to the next. ...
- The power of Mom - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Never underestimate the power of moms. Or the power that mothers have over their children. Need proof? A few weeks ago, we asked readers a simple question: What one thing reminds you of your mother? Is there one scent, one homemade dish, one TV show ...
- Community calendar - May 2 - Akron Beacon Journal
Community calendar - May 2Akron Beacon Journal, OH - 14 minutes agoProgram on the poetry of Mary Oliver and Robert Frost. Participants will head into the woods to write outdoor poems. Bring writing paper and a pen or pencil ...
- Ellen Burstyn's True Face - Belief.Net
At 74, Ellen Burstyn has had a rich career of stand-out roles--from her breakout performance in 1971's "The Last Picture Show" to Linda Blair's mother in "The Exorcist" to a widow in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," for which she won a Best Actress ...
- Performing Arts Take a Bow in Sedona, Arizona - TravelVideo.tv (press release)
Performing Arts Take a Bow in Sedona, ArizonaTravelVideo.tv (press release) - 6 hours agoWhatever the time of year, Sedona is alive with exhibitions, concerts, poetry slams and theatrical performances by the town's own professional theatre ...
- When poetry was king - Prague Post
When poetry was kingPrague Post, Czech Republic - 2 hours agoAs he wrote on the airplane that removed him from Prague in the poem “Král Majáles†(King of May), “And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks ...
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