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- National misunderstanding over nuclear weapons continues - Tribune
I was a Consulting Editor of The Times of India on the day when the “Shakti†tests were conducted. A long-time friend of mine, who had been associated with me in campaigning for India exercising its nuclear option for over three decades, holding ...
- Back on track - Steamboat Pilot & Today
Steamboat Springs — A poetry event that started in the 1990s will return to Off the Beaten Path Bookstore in coming weeks as new owners revive the store’s occasional poetry slam in a new location. Fueled by a community of writers, creative people ...
- Evocative lyrics - Hindu
HinduEvocative lyricsHindu, India - 32 minutes agoIncidentally, in the poem “Khudaâ€, Gulzar points out the irony of worship and the shallowness of rituals unaccompanied by a sincere thought. ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty (The Charlotte Observer)
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work day. Yup, that was the only problem - the middle-of-the-work-day part. Just like my daughter's ballet recital the day before that, and her upcoming ...
- Baseball as a fight for the Finnish - Boston Globe
Baseball as a fight for the FinnishBoston Globe, United States - 36 minutes ago... of it are funny, but enough is spare and grim that Freligh provides a welcome counterpart to the sentimental rhymes often celebrated as baseball poetry. ...
- Follow the red balloon (The Oregonian)
Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short film "The Red Balloon" is a justly celebrated treasure that would be criminal to label as merely a children's film.
- Bill Studebaker's body still missing (The Times-News)
The body of William Studebaker, a 61-year-old Twin Falls author, poet and photographer, was still not recovered by Sunday evening, police and family members said. He is presumed drowned.
- Canadian lesbian poet wins prestigious book prize - PinkNews.co.uk
PinkNews.co.ukCanadian lesbian poet wins prestigious book prizePinkNews.co.uk, UK - 13 hours agoAnother of her poetry collections, Her Absence, This Wanderer, was a finalist in the Canadian Broadcasting Cooperation (CBC) Literary Competition. ...
- Poets show 'verse-atility' onstage - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica GleanerPoets show 'verse-atility' onstageJamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 5 hours agoWhen Nobel laureate Derek Walcott pointed out the natural relationship between film and poetry at the 2008 Calabash International Literary Festival, ...
- Man arrested after 10-year hunt for £15m Shakespeare manuscript stolen from Durham University (Daily Mail)
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the theft of a priceless book from Durham University ten years ago. It is believed to be worth at least £15million.
- CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW: ‘America At War’ offers poems inspired by ... - Asheville Citizen-Times
CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW: ‘America At War’ offers poems inspired by ...Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - 1 hour agoMiddle school students, high school students, their parents and teachers will find uses for it in studies about poetry and American history. This book is ...
- Miles Kington: How I learnt to write poetry on a computer called Otto - Independent
Miles Kington: How I learnt to write poetry on a computer called OttoIndependent, UK - 5 hours ago(Nobody ever mentions the name of this poem, by the way. That is because it does not have a name, unless you count "XII" as a name – the poem is actually ...
- A sprightly elegy (Al-Ahram Weekly)
I never thought funerals could be such fun. But then, not every funeral has Khalid Galal as director. He has a keen eye for the ludicrous and an eerie knack for squeezing laughter out of the most lugubrious situations and gruesome events.
- I'm fiction - San Diego CityBEAT
San Diego CityBEATI'm fictionSan Diego CityBEAT, CA - 3 hours ago“It’s about poetry, punk rock and suicide,†Altschul says. “It follows the life and career of Calliope Bird Morath, a young poet who is the daughter of a ...
- Literature has a voice at Helicon West’s public readings (Herald Journal)
The audience listens to the performer during a recent Helicon West gathering. (Meegan M. Reid/Herald Journal) Im the first to acknowledge many don’t like poetry. I do.
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