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- Downturn affects the traditionally self-sufficient - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Downturn affects the traditionally self-sufficientSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 6 hours agoBooks of philosophy and poetry crowd the shelves and mementos such as her adult daughter's 16-year-old glamour portrait, her stepmother's sketch of a nude, ...
- United we stand, divided we fall - Daily Herald
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of ...
- Juneteenth celebration hosted by NCAAP at Carver Park - Yuma Daily Sun
For Brian Stephens, June is not just another summer month to spend time swimming or taking vacations. It is a month to celebrate and remember that the U.S. once had slaves and that these slaves were freed. It is a time to remember what happened to ...
- The Idle Parent - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukThe Idle ParentTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours ago... of worse poetry it would be hard to conceive. It was such a huge liberation when a literary critic friend confirmed this negative view of the book, ...
- Contra Costa Times Wednesday letters - Contra Costa Times
Contra Costa Times Wednesday lettersContra Costa Times, CA - 6 hours agoWhile that might sound like a win-win situation, it's actually a waste of taxpayer money and subversion of the free market. According to the Organization ...
- Why a cultural boycott is necessary - Aljazeera.com
Why a cultural boycott is necessaryAljazeera.com, UK - 45 minutes ago... in the May-June 2008 issue of American Theatre Magazine.] -- Remi Kanazi is the editor of the forthcoming anthology of poetry, Poets For Palestine, ...
- Jeffrey Moore's top 10 campus novels - guardian.co.uk
Jeffrey Moore's top 10 campus novelsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoI'm with Christopher Hitchens here, who recently ranked it as "the funniest book of the past half century". A poem of 999 lines by the murdered American ...
- Andras Mezei: Many-sided poet and editor - The Independent
András Mezei was a many-sided and accomplished Hungarian writer and poet. One of the defining experiences of his life was the period of Nazi terror in German-occupied Hungary during 1944. His father perished in Auschwitz and although Mezei himself ...
- Arts community feels snub as council picks Gloucester's new poet laureate (Boston Globe)
"The noise of debate makes music," Gloucester poet John Ronan once wrote in a tribute to his flinty hometown. But the noise of late has hardly been music to his ears.
- Remembering Joseph Brodsky (The Post and Courier)
Poetry rarely penetrates mainstream American culture, so it was astonishing to hear contemporary poetry read on one of television's most popular shows, "Sex and the City."
- New on DVD: The Great Debaters - Popjournalism
New on DVD: The Great DebatersPopjournalism, Canada - 41 minutes agoMelvin Tolson (Washington) was a professor at Wiley College, an all-black school in Texas. In 1935, he brought together a debate team that would make ...
- Honor Your Mother (Tri-County Journal)
The Journal has asked its readers to supply us with loving comments about their mother or wife to run as a tribute to them for Mother’s Day, which is coming up Sunday.
- Tell Me This is Normal, by Julie O'Callaghan (Independent)
The demotic, funny, quiety devastating vignettes of Julie O'Callaghan seem to owe a debt to the brevity and precision of classical Chinese poetry. O'Callaghan is a Chicagoan of Irish descent who has lived in Ireland since her twenties. Selected from a 25-year publishing history, the poems of 'Tell Me This is Normal' are part verse, part dramatic monologue and wholly her own.
- Betrayal of boys: A new report says white boys need father figures at ... - Daily Mail
Any parent will recognise Peter Smith's assessment of the boys he teaches at Hampton School in south-west London: 'Boys are like greyhounds. They love the chase and the race, and they don't care if the prize is a fake rabbit.' Mr Smith had invited me ...
- Popularising the mysticism of Hason Raja - The Daily Star
The Daily StarPopularising the mysticism of Hason RajaThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 2 hours agoHason Raja died in 1922, years before his contribution to the Bengali poetry was mentioned in lectures at Oxford University by Nobel laureate Rabindranath ...
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