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- Man crosses barrios to promote gang peace (San Diego Union-Tribune)
NATIONAL CITY – Every Sunday, Lucky “2 Tears” Morales laces up his steel-toed boots, wraps a bandana across on his forehead and slips on his black, finger-less gloves to march the streets of southeastern San Diego alone.
- A true renaissance woman - Sun
A true renaissance womanSun, NY - 1 hour ago... five books with absolutely no formal education in writing. “I’ve never taken a class or a workshop. The closest thing is that I belong to a poetry group ...
- Poetic passion: A biographer explores the friendship of a poet and a critic (Miami Herald)
WHITE HEAT: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Brenda Wineapple. Knopf. 432 pages. $27.95. On April 17, 1862, noted literary critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson received a packet of poems from a woman in Amherst, Mass. ''Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?'' was how Emily Dickinson opened the first of many letters to him.
- Mark Lawson on Leonard Cohen and other artists producing work in their 70s (Guardian Unlimited)
Mark Lawson: This year, a crop of artists in their 70s and beyond are shining more brightly than ever
- Election 08: Tennessee one of top 10 'battleground legislatures' - Facing South
Election 08: Tennessee one of top 10 'battleground legislatures'Facing South, NC - Sep 12, 2008Chris is Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies and publisher of the Institute’s award-winning magazine, Southern Exposure. ...
- New Abnormalities - New York Magazine
New York MagazineNew AbnormalitiesNew York Magazine, USA - 41 minutes agoUnfortunately, this is not the Blair Brown we remember from The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, in which she wrote poetry, taught piano, ate Chinese, ...
- Shirley Smith Patterson - Wichita Falls Times Record News
HENRIETTA, Texas - Shirley Smith Patterson, 64, of Henrietta, Texas, passed away Friday, August 8, 2008, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, August 10, 2008, at the First Baptist Church, Bluegrove, Texas, with Rev. Joe ...
- The Irony of Flatness @ Bury Art Gallery - Manchester Online
The Irony of Flatness @ Bury Art GalleryManchester Online, UK - 1 hour agoFrom tomorrow until November 8. Bury Art Gallery, Moss St, Bury (0161 253 5878). Tues-Fri: 10am-5pm; Sat: 10am-4:30pm. Free.
- Exhibit a response to book bans - Contra Costa Times
Exhibit a response to book bansContra Costa Times, CA - 36 minutes agoFor example, installation and performance artist Victor Cartagena remembers El Salvadorian poet and soldier Roque Dalton by hanging text from his poetry ...
- Laureate of Arabia (Hindustan Times)
They fettered his mouth with chains And tied his hands to the rock of the dead. They said: You're a murderer They took his food, his clothes and his banners, And threw him into the well of the dead.
- CONTEST: LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE DVD - Chud.com
Patrick Ripoll is a 20-something ex-film student who lives in his parent's basement in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. When he's not living it up in the fast-paced world of part-time retail employment, he enjoys watching movies, listening to music ...
- Signposts: Berkeley group names '10 best ethical destinations" (Inside Bay Area)
Also, passport cards are must-haves for Americans, World Heritage selects 27 new sites and Wild Horse Sanctuary to host open house.
- Lake High School student publishes first book (The Suburbanite)
Richard Purnell claims that he watches too many movies and that probably makes him lazy. But one look at his newly self-published book and it’s obvious he is anything but. Purnell is a recent graduate of Lake High School in Uniontown and just had his first collection of poetry and short stories, “Living in the Dark Side,” published.
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale - News-Democrat
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin questionable tales ...
- Poetry Box, Top Two Primary and The Big Sort - KUOW NPR
KUOW NPRPoetry Box, Top Two Primary and The Big SortKUOW NPR, WA - 35 minutes agoBill Bishop talks about the ideas in his book The Big Sort, how we tend to live in neighborhoods and towns where everyone around us thinks the way we do, ...
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