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- Family ties to New Zealand for poet (Otago Daily Times)
Expatriate poet Fleur Adcock is grateful to New Zealand for the affection it has shown her, despite her having lived in England since 1963. Ms Adcock was named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours today.
- SUNDAY ARTS CALENDAR - Kansas.com
SUNDAY ARTS CALENDARKansas.com, KS - May 24, 2008Poetry Aloud, read your own work or that of a poet you admire, 7-9 pm Tue., Zoomdweebie's Tea Bar, 3010 E. Central. Free. Information, 316-440-4202. ...
- Obama brings idealism reminiscent of Kennedys - Daily Press
Obama brings idealism reminiscent of KennedysDaily Press, VA - 9 hours agoSorensen, at 80 an unreconstructed and unapologetic idealist, spoke to that youthful hunger when he chose this bit of 19th-century American poetry (by ...
- A mission to fight blindness - Albany Times Union
A mission to fight blindnessAlbany Times Union, NY - 8 minutes agoSaima Ammar, who heard her future husband read books and poetry on the radio, later met him through a friend. Their 10-day visit took them to Washington and ...
- At 99, New Hampshire man becomes a first-time author - Boston Globe
For someone else, it might have just been a moment to indulge in some nostalgia. But something clicked when John Archer, at the age of 92, came across some poems he had written in 1930. And he began to write. "I started writing just to amuse myself ...
- 826michigan offers summer writing programs - MLive.com
With the end of this school year, 826michigan volunteers are done helping with homework. Instead, the organization is providing writing activities throughout the summer. Programs, dates and times of activities at its location, 115 E. Liberty St ...
- Minister for promoting Punjabi culture - The Post
Minister for promoting Punjabi cultureThe Post, Pakistan - 3 hours agoThe minister said despite modern cultural trends and music, the mystic poetry and folk music of Punjab was still popular. He said it was the prime need of ...
- Poems for Kathina at New York State Museum - Capital News 9
ALBANY, N.Y. – Students were given the opportunity to put their grief into words at the New York State Museum. Members from the Museum Club after school program posted poems expressing their feelings about the about the recent shooting death of 10 ...
- The Real Lincoln Bedroom: Love in a Time of Strife (New York Times)
Daniel Mark Epstein?s careful parsing of the Lincoln marriage interweaves the crisis-filled, mercurial career of Abraham Lincoln with an equally rocky tale of man and wife.
- Familiar comfort - phillyBurbs.com
Familiar comfortphillyBurbs.com, PA - 13 hours ago... in retrospect and say, "I've been thinking a lot about angels lately with the passing of my mom,' but I also just love the music and the poetry of it. ...
- Angus Calder: Historian, critic and poet whose 'The People's War ... - The Independent
Angus Calder was for many years a conspicuous figure in the Edinburgh literary scene, but those who knew his prodigious output and his teaching career realised that there was much more to him than that genial presence in poetry readings, theatre ...
- AP Top News at 5:00 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House. Hillary Rodham Clinton swiftly signaled her interest in joining his ticket as running mate. Obama sealed his nomination victory Tuesday, based on public declarations from many "superdelegates" as well as private support ...
- Bridging the 'two cultures' of arts and science - Globe and Mail
Bridging the 'two cultures' of arts and scienceGlobe and Mail, Canada - 54 minutes ago(an exclamation that later became the title of a prose poem by Edgar Allan Poe, describing his solely intuitive conclusions on nature and the universe). ...
- Uganda: What Are Kampala's Posh Hotels Selling? (AllAfrica.com)
IF you build it, they will come. The quote is credited to the 26th US president, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. at the time of the building of the Panama Canal in 1904. I thought about this quote as I strolled along Speke Road in Kampala last Thursday afternoon.
- Calendar (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
ONGOING Alfred T. Hornbacks -- Rockin' C Karaoke, 8 p.m. Tuesdays, no cover. The Beer Joint -- Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover ...
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