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- Salisbury school notes: Young poets honored at ceremony - Newburyport Daily News
Sixth-grade students at Salisbury Elementary School recently participated in the eighth annual Peace Poetry Contest held by the North Shore Veterans for Peace, Samantha Smith Chapter. During a June 6 ceremony, nine students were recognized for their ...
- 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 ...
- Tribute to director David Lean - Hindu
Tribute to director David LeanHindu, India - 7 minutes agoIt's hard to decide what Zhivago really thinks about the Soviet revolution, or even the desirability of "poetry", whereas films such as Brief Encounter, ...
- Spiritual Living - Jamaica Observer
Spiritual LivingJamaica Observer, Jamaica - 10 hours agoRead spiritual poetry and writing regularly. Think about developing a specific value or emotion like - joy, peace, love, patience, understanding, ...
- Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" - Boston IMC
Ramzy Baroud is a veteran Palestinian-American journalist and former Al-Jazeera producer. He also taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, a vital ...
- Who are the real lesbians? - The Independent
Ever since Sappho wrote of her feelings for other women, the Greek island of Lesbos where she lived has had its own place in the dictionary. But now its modern residents have begun a campaign to reclaim the term for themselves. John Walsh reports ...
- Local kids learn How to Haiku - Antrim Times
Local kids learn How to HaikuAntrim Times, UK - 21 hours agoBy Lorna McKay IN a series of How to Haiku Poetry workshops that ran during June at Greystone Library, professional poet Chelley McLear helped local young ...
- Culture 101 - Egypt Today
A number of mysterious incidents have turned the Egyptian cultural scene into something resembling scenes from a bizarre, almost surreal movie. Take what happened to sculptor Adam Henein. After reporting the disappearance of seven of his most ...
- Matches, Nizar, and paper statelets. - Al Arab Online
Death fears creative people. They are the only ones who can outsmart Death. That is what Nizar Qabbani once said, in an interview from his residence in London, prior to his own death in 1998. “Death opens the door of a poet†he said, “creeps in ...
- Bush Fire Festival 2008 line-up unveiled - The Swazi Observer
Bush Fire Festival 2008 line-up unveiledThe Swazi Observer, Swaziland - 15 minutes agoSamm Farai Monro, one of the most popular & controversial poets in Zimbabwe, performs his Toyi-Toyi poetry - radical street poetry that mixes Shona with ...
- Painting Istanbul red-pink in spring - Turkish Daily News
It is time for summer to begin. The Judas trees (erguvan) have begun blooming in Istanbul. The trees' beautiful pink-red blossoms lighten the hearts of residents and symbolize the better weather the city is now enjoying. Last year the municipality of ...
- The histories, by Herodotus - Globe and Mail
Globe and MailThe histories, by HerodotusGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoHistory, like poetry, began with war. Around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing of the wrath of Achilles, composed The Iliad, a Greek by the ...
- Power of Poems Defies Age Limits: An Experiment in Senior Poetry - PR Web (press release)
Power of Poems Defies Age Limits: An Experiment in Senior PoetryPR Web (press release), WA - 30 minutes agoPoetry provides an enjoyable path to creativity, self-knowledge, and self-expression for everyone, especially senior citizens. If these poems just make you ...
- Pop meets poetry at uni - New Zealand Herald
They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time. Final year English students were asked to compare a song by the singer with verses ...
- Music Review: 12 Ways to Live - IIT Tech News
Music Review: 12 Ways to LiveIIT Tech News, IL - 1 hour agoThere is a song of a break-up… in friendship (7th & A). Certainly, these are stories from her own life. And to add to this there are little touches which ...
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