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- Be sure to thank a nurse this week - Vacaville Reporter
At some time every day when I am working as a registered nurse, I think of what a blessing it is to be in a profession that can truly make a difference in the lives of the patients we touch. There is a sacred trust when a patient places his or her ...
- Definitive San Anto - San Antonio Current
San Antonio CurrentDefinitive San AntoSan Antonio Current, tx - 41 minutes agoDoorstep’s writing ranges from traditional prose to non-traditional poetry to experimental works. The entries I found most true-to-heart are the short ...
- Launch of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival Program - Australian Stage Online
Launch of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival ProgramAustralian Stage Online, Australia - 10 hours agoPhillip Glass returns to present the concert work Book of Longing inspired by the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Liza Lim’s world premiere season of her sensual ...
- SFGate: Politics Blog - San Francisco Gate
Some Democrats are saying that Sen. Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, went too far -- and is getting a free pass -- after suggesting she would ''have to think about'' supporting Hillary Clinton if the New York Senator becomes the Democratic presidential ...
- Ciego de Ãvila Welcomes the Summer - Invasor
Ciego de Ãvila Welcomes the SummerInvasor, Cuba - 9 hours agoAs part of the Summer Readings Project, on July 4 will take place the Night of the Books, an initiative involving the sale of diverse volumes, poetry and ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - FOX News
NEW YORK — My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the ...
- Who are the real lesbians? (Independent)
When is a lesbian not a Lesbian? The answer's in the capital letter – it's when you are a woman who loves women, rather than an inhabitant of the Aegean paradise of Lesbos (or Lesvos in the modern spelling). For decades, foolish and unsophisticated tourists have giggled about the coincidence of the Greek island and the sexual orientation. Now it's become the crux of a legal dispute whose ...
- Funny prize from Rosen - guardian.co.uk
Funny prize from Rosenguardian.co.uk, UK - 35 minutes agoThe prize aims to reward those authors and artists who usehumour in their stories, poetry and fiction. Books will be judged in two categories: for children ...
- Poet Charles Bukowski gives a lesson how to write "in the zone" - The Free Lance-Star
The Free Lance-StarPoet Charles Bukowski gives a lesson how to write "in the zone"The Free Lance-Star, VA - 3 hours agoBut the poetry comes out of this life authentically--he may have been a dirty old man, but he was a complete, harmonized, real, dirty old man. ...
- What's Going On - Leamington Observer
What's Going OnLeamington Observer, UK - 1 hour agoRegular talks, poetry group, modern novel group. Call 01926 430996. • Leamington Parent's Centre - advice and support for parents of children up to the age ...
- Javier de Frutos and Kim Brandstrup draw dance inspiration from ... - Times Online
Javier de Frutos and Kim Brandstrup draw dance inspiration from ...Times Online, UK - 7 minutes ago... an early masterpiece that creates poetry through sheer speed and focus. A rapturous collage of Romantic ballet motifs dandles shreds of narrative, ...
- Ben Jelloun joins the Goncourt (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, a well-known figure in both Moroccan and French cultural circles, took a step closer to the heart of the French literary establishment early last month when he was elected a member of the jury of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize and one of Europe's oldest.
- Arguing the World: Standpoint, A New British Periodical (The New York Sun)
'When intellectuals can do nothing else they start a magazine." So spoke Irving Howe about his decision to launch Dissent in 1954. The dean of New York social democracy was drawing on reserves of nostalgia for Partisan Review, the literary journal founded 20 years earlier that had changed the way politically engaged intellectuals wrote for a general audience. All smart sheets trace a lineage ...
- Spin me a yarn. - Scone Advocate
Spin me a yarn.Scone Advocate, Australia - 11 hours agoKen entertained the crowd with renditions of songs and poems while competitors signed up to compete in four categories of bush poetry and yarns. ...
- PMA student wins national religious contest of the arts - The Broadcaster
HUDSON -- Family Rosary has selected Presentation of Mary Academy's Melissa Fitzgerald as the first-place winner in the Grade 7 Division of the U.S. "Try Prayer! It Works!" contest, a national competition that encourages students to express their ...
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