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- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies (AP via Yahoo! News)
Michael Norton — who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press — died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.
- Dispatch from Paraguay: Hope Reigns at Dawn of Fernando Lugo ... - Upside Down World
Upside Down WorldDispatch from Paraguay: Hope Reigns at Dawn of Fernando Lugo ...Upside Down World, NY - 40 minutes agoThe high point was the arrival of Chavez and Lugo, who took seats in the audience and eventually took the stage, not with speeches, but with poetry recitals ...
- EDITORIAL (The Narrowsburg River Reporter)
It’s that rarest and most beautiful time of year, when July is full and ripe and high summer reigns in the Upper Delaware River valley. It is easy to become lost in worry: about gas prices, the price of food, education, clothing, heat; we wonder what will become of our families, our futures.
- Kids' stuff (Guelph Mercury)
Glow in the Dark Dance for ages 12-17, 7 to 10 p.m.; $5; community centre, New Hamburg; 519-662-2731. Sallows Science Spectacular Experiment with cameras, games, storytelling, 1 to 3 p.m.; $2, for ages 6-12; Sallows Gallery, 52 Montreal St., Goderich; 519-524-9261.
- Bookreporter.com Beach Bag of Books -- PEONY IN LOVE By Lisa See (Book Reporter)
Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place --- even the intricate realm of the afterworld, with its protocols, pathways, and stages of existence, a vividly imagined place where one's soul is divided into three, ancestors offer guidance, misdeeds are punished, and hungry ghosts wander the earth.
- Using the Law to Protect Friendship Seems Yucky: A Guest Post - New York Times Blogs
Ethan Leib , an associate professor of law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, blogged here earlier this week about his research on friendship and the law. This is his second of three posts on the subject. In my last post ...
- "Bottle Shock" Pours a Satisfying Glass of the American Spirit - The Student Printz
"Bottle Shock" Pours a Satisfying Glass of the American SpiritThe Student Printz, MS - 4 hours agoThey see wine as poetry, as something almost too sacred to drink. "Bottle Shock" is filled with moments of thoughtfulness and reflection, and it ends with a ...
- Ten top bank holiday days out (Guardian Unlimited)
Travel: Our pick of events up and down Britain for the coming long weekend
- In Memoriam: Tom Disch, science-fiction master and poet - Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment WeeklyIn Memoriam: Tom Disch, science-fiction master and poetEntertainment Weekly - 1 hour ago... The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters, that was positively inspirational in its glowing appreciation and ruthless criticism of what ...
- Your tributes to Mahmoud Darwish (BBC News)
BBC website readers have been sending in their memories of Mahmoud Darwish
- Break-in at Anne author's birthplace - CBC News
The New London home where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables , was born was broken into on Monday night. The incident was part of a string of break and enters in the area that night. The board that runs the museum and bookstore says ...
- Meet Singer-Songwriter Aimee Mann and Acclaimed Author Joseph O'Neill "Upstairs at the Square" on Thursday, July 31, ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Barnes & Noble, Inc. , the world's largest bookseller, today announced the next event in its buzzed-about series, "Upstairs at the Square," held at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan .
- Fine Arts Festival set for Saturday - Elk Grove Citizen
Fine Arts Festival set for SaturdayElk Grove Citizen, CA - 2 hours agoShe self-published two poetry books, “A License to Fly†and “Uninhibited and Still Holding Back.†Although this is not a children’s event, there will be ...
- Former boxing champ finds solace in writing, will speak at workshop - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Former boxing champ finds solace in writing, will speak at workshopRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 1 hour agoMurray says he writes every day — in his journal, on scraps of paper or on his cell phone — whether it's poetry he composes in his head or a quote he thinks ...
- Lesbos locals lose lesbian appeal - BBC News
The island's name was applied to gay women in acknowledgement of the female poet Sappho, who wrote love poems about both women and men in about 600 BC. The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, had claimed that international ...
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