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- Feeding the Spirit and the Mind at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music (The New York Sun)
England's Coventry Cathedral is best known in the history of 20th-century music as the bombed ruin whose restoration inspired the creation of the Benjamin Britten masterpiece "War Requiem." But other pieces were commissioned for this miraculous architectural project, including the "Missa Brevis" of Sir William Walton, which was featured Sunday at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. ...
- Local Author Prepares For Book Signing - KHTS Radio
Local Author Prepares For Book SigningKHTS Radio, CA - 10 hours agoEver since she was 12 years old, local author Katherine Jeffries has been developing her passion and talent for writing both poetry and fiction pieces. ...
- Activist and artist known as one of 'Catonsville Nine' - Baltimore Sun
Forty years ago next month, Tom Lewis and eight other Vietnam War protesters strode into the offices of U.S. Selective Service Board 33 in Catonsville and left a mark on history. The "Catonsville Nine" emptied file cabinets, hauled 600 draft records ...
- One actor, one stage, nine Iraqi lives (Portland Tribune)
The pedigree of Heather Raffo’s “9 Parts of Desire†is beyond question. The one-woman play was both a critical and popular hit when it opened in New York in 2004, prompting The New Yorker magazine to call it “an example of how art can remake the world.†For ...
- Poems that turn ordinary things grand - ScrippsNews
Though she calls herself "a proud mono-tasker," Kay Ryan was making toast for her nephew while fielding calls about her appointment as 16th poet laureate of the United States. From now on, the 62-year-old poet and English teacher from Fairfax, Calif ...
- There's nothing worse than a politician playing parent - Guardian Unlimited
There is a Downing Street bylaw which states that all wives of prime ministers must produce at least one twee book in thinly disguised support of either their husband's predicament - being prime minister - or their own. Mary Wilson had her poetry ...
- Regional nations should unite to solve problems, says SU VC - The News - International
Regional nations should unite to solve problems, says SU VCThe News - International, Pakistan - 12 hours agoWe worked on Sindhi literature, short story and poetry,î he said and adding that there was no poetry like that of Bhittai. Goband Khushhali, another guest ...
- PAUL HAYWARD: Federer falls but he goes down with grace (Evening Standard)
When kings tumble, they should fall like this, with valour, with the crowd thrilled and exhausted, with a light trained on all the human virtues sport brings out.
- Exclusive: Wednesday, July 16 - Family Security Matters
Because to acknowledge it is to report this devastating truth about him: Mr. Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America's first African-American president. Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother ...
- UNM literary, arts magazine celebrates 30th anniversary - UNM Daily Lobo (subscription)
UNM literary, arts magazine celebrates 30th anniversaryUNM Daily Lobo (subscription), NM - 1 hour ago"I attended this event because I know Devin and wanted to support him, and because I wanted to check out the competition in the poetry section of the ...
- THE GIFT THEATRE TO PRODUCE - Broadway World
THE GIFT THEATRE TO PRODUCEBroadway World, NY - 46 minutes agoVivian is a brilliant professor of English poetry, a renowned scholar, and a demanding teacher. But a painful experimental treatment for cancer will force ...
- Author, professor emeritus Jack Forbes explores a new view of Native Americans (California Aggie)
The basic history of the United States of America should be a familiar story to any college student, but writer and UC Davis professor emeritus Jack D. Forbes wants to rethink the way textbooks cover American history.
- Poets in the spring (The Lantern)
Poetry doesn't have to be something you recite only to yourself in your room. Tonight, The Pen's Influence will give students a chance to express themselves through poetry in front of a live audience. "You should come out to hear people share their poetry," said Tamika Thomas, primary leader of The Pen's Influence.
- Trinity professor writes gripping bio of Ringelblum (Connecticut Jewish Ledger)
“Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive,†by Samuel D. Kassow, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2007. $34.95, 523 pages
- Mothers are central to human history (The Enid News & Eagle)
Most people understand, at least implicitly in their hearts, how crucial their mothers are to their upbringing and to what defines their basic personality and who they are fundamentally as a person today. To a baby and small child, mother is their whole world, their entire universe.
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