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- The house where Al Purdy lived is on the block (The Globe and Mail)
You can find his widow, Eurithe, on the roof, caring for the Eastern Ontario cabin in which her husband morphed from tortured writer to poetic icon
- In Town & Around - Daily Oklahoman
1 . More than 1,200 American Indian artists and dancers from across North America gather for the 22nd annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival . Celebrate the state's heritage today through Sunday at the Cox Convention Center , 1 Myriad ...
- Market Square day through my eyes - Portsmouth Herald
Here's a list of things observed, learned and or loved after a decade of covering Market Square Day. There's no order here, no top 10. Just snippets of things that stick out after years of covering the event — and usually asking someone else about ...
- Japanese-American authors to read, sign books in Albany - Albany Democrat-Herald
Writers Edward Miyakawa and Mitzi Asai Loftus will speak on “The Japanese-American Experience” from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Browser’s Bookstore, 1425 Pacific Blvd. S.E. During World War II when they were children, Miyakawa and Loftus lived with ...
- For a Hockey Player?s Workouts Off the Ice, Go Straight to the Videocam (New York Times)
?MVP,? which begins Thursday on SoapNet, is itself a Canadian import, and it forces us to ask: Really, what has Nafta wrought?
- Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 - Daily Telegraph
As chair of this year's BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, I was privileged to be joined by a diverse panel of judges: the literary editor of the Guardian, Claire Armitstead; the poet Daljit Nagra; the director of the Science Museum, Chris Rapley; and ...
- Around Town - BlueRidgeNow.com
Around TownBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 46 minutes ago'Evening of Dark and Light,' poetry reading, 7 pm Saturday, Black Bear, Main Street, Hendersonville. Info: 692-6333. Southeastern Time for Our Power! ...
- The cult of Hadrian - Guardian Unlimited
The Emperor Hadrian, viewed as a feeble capitulator by the Victorians and then maligned as a brutal pragmatist, has become the most fĂŞted historical figure of the year. In the run-up to the opening of the British Museum's major exhibition this week ...
- Rare book of Bard's plays found (Winnipeg Free Press)
LONDON -- It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it authenticated.
- 'Freedom Rings' at Diamond Park Thursday (The Meadville Tribune)
June 19, 1865: A Union general delivered news to Texas that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were to be freed — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Eman-cipation Proclamation.
- Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we want (Independent)
"Sex," says the 17-year-old narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, "is something I really don't understand." Well, mate, nor do I. I only know (yes, I'm afraid I do know) that the arms of someone you don't even like – who your head, and your friends, tell you is a total shit – can feel like your natural home on this planet.
- 'Better Mus' Come' filled with drama, action - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica Gleaner'Better Mus' Come' filled with drama, actionJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 4 hours agoHe simply thinks too much for a cardboard cut-out of a thug, writing poetry, which Kamala later discovers, and when Flames tells him that he has changed ...
- Century High School's top graduates - Post-Bulletin
Century High School's top graduatesPost-Bulletin, MN - 1 hour ago... Toyota National Scholarship, Tall Teen Scholarship and League Scripps Communications Scholarship. She won Scholastic's "Why I Love Reading Harry Potter" ...
- Review: James Gilchrist & Alison Nicholls; Sir Jack Lyons Concert ... - York Press
Review: James Gilchrist & Alison Nicholls; Sir Jack Lyons Concert ...York Press, UK - May 9, 2008Roth's light-fingered treatment seemed to distil the poetry's whimsy to a tee. The duo coloured its humour precisely. They showed an almost equal empathy ...
- You Don't Mess With the Racism - Aljazeera.com
You Don't Mess With the RacismAljazeera.com, UK - 23 minutes agoRemi Kanazi is the editor of the forthcoming anthology of poetry, Poets For Palestine, which can be pre-ordered at www.PoetsForPalestine.com. ...
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