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- Dorothy West’s Highlands Home is Landmark on Heritage Trail (Vineyard Gazette)
Longtime friends and followers of the late Dorothy West gathered on Saturday afternoon in the shade on a hot August day to pay tribute to the writer, who was the last surviving member of the Harlem renaissance, and to share memories. A new stone was unveiled at her former home on Myrtle avenue in an area of Oak Bluffs known as the Highlands, where the cottages are brushed with dappled sunlight ...
- July 'artists of the month' presenting a varied exhibit - WatertownDailyTimes.com
July 'artists of the month' presenting a varied exhibitWatertownDailyTimes.com, United States - 14 hours agoMs. Langer expresses her passion for nature through different media and sometimes incorporates her own poetry. Drawing with graphite pencils remains her ...
- Spoleto is over but . . . - Arts Journal
It’s been a couple of weeks since the end of the annual international arts festival here in Charleston, but I’d like to post a few of the things we did here at Charleston City Paper , primarily from the paper’s blog, Spoleto Buzz . Our blogs ...
- Hadrian, British Museum, London (Independent)
A few words of scene-setting might be handy, especially for those who spent the periods devoted to post-Augustan Rome staring out of the classroom window. The Emperor Hadrian – more formally, Publius Aelius Hadrianus (born AD76; ruled from 117 until his death in AD138) – has had a pretty good press across the centuries, except from historians of the Jews, who remember his savage crushing of a ...
- Great Book of Gaelic exhibition launched in Corner Brook (The Telegram)
An exhibition of “The Great Book of Gaelic, An Leabhar Mòr,†will be officially opened today in Corner Brook at its first stop on its North American tour.
- All's Well in the Glen - Metro Santa Cruz
Metro Santa CruzAll's Well in the GlenMetro Santa Cruz, CA - 9 hours agoThe play, which soars at times on the considerable power of Shakespeare's poetry, occupies a curious neutral zone which is not quite tragic and only ...
- Road Signs - College of the Holy Cross
College of the Holy CrossRoad SignsCollege of the Holy Cross, MA - 58 minutes agoI will continue to focus on and write poetry. And I’m happy to say I’ve been awarded a grant to publish my second book. I plan to travel more as well. ...
- Council rejects student bid to make city bilingual - Timmins Daily Press
Council rejects student bid to make city bilingualTimmins Daily Press, Canada - 1 hour agoThey were supported by about 30 other students, teachers and family members in the council chambers on Monday night. "How can we stop the outmigration of ...
- What Maliki Didn't Say - Slate
Here's Spiegel 's transcript of Prime Minister al-Maliki's comments on when U.S. troops might withdraw from Iraq: As soon as possible, as far as we're concerned. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be ...
- Book showcases nun's poetry - Post-Bulletin
Most people know Sister Mary Brigh as a devoted nun, a strong leader and a savvy businesswoman. But the former Saint Marys Hospital administrator had another side that few people know; she was also a poet. Readers now have the chance to discover her ...
- Urdu lovers condole legendary Pakistani poet (Gulf Times)
LOCAL Urdu literary figures have expressed their grief over the death of legendary Pakistani poet and literary personality, Ahmed Faraz, who passed away in Islamabad on Monday.
- Home-grown virtuosos - Chicago Tribune
HAVANA - Without saying a word, teenager Yamile Cruz seats herself at the grand piano, places her slender fingers on the keyboard and, after a brief pause, unleashes a torrent of sound one might expect from a virtuoso twice her age and size. Though ...
- English poet, - Independent
Share Whenever he was asked his nationality, Cecil Day-Lewis , British Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972, would unfailingly reply "Irish". He told the anecdote with a smile. As well he might for, though he was born in 1904 in ...
- Experience the Emotions of a Korean Man Through His Poetry -- New Book Recalls Author's Sorrowful Experiences During ... (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5, 2008 -- From a man whose memories of the Korean War greatly affected his life and from a soul whose poignant memories continue to haunt him, comes this profoundly touching and heart-rending anthology of poetry titled The Stray Dogs, the new book authored by Sung Yol Yi.
- Author's book masterpiece-just ask him (The Charlotte Observer)
Coming off the holiday weekend, we needed a break from the hard-hitting news figures we usually interview for this weekly column. Most unfortunately, we chose Doug Robarchek as our diversion. Also known as the “OutFront Guy†and “Doug-Bob,†Robarchek wrote the most irreverent, crosses-the-line column the Observer ever dared to publish. Mercifully, he retired in 2005, after 43 years in the ...
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