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- Caution: Mangled metaphor ahead - Power Line
Caution: Mangled metaphor aheadPower Line, MN - 13 hours agoThe crossroads is a venerable metaphor in American song and poetry. Robert Johnson devoted a seminal blues song to it in "Crossroads Blues" and Robert Frost ...
- UK quashes ‘lyrical’ terror conviction - Financial Times
A former Heathrow airport worker who wrote poems about beheading non-Muslims as the self-styled “lyrical terrorist†had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on Tuesday. Samina Malik, 24, was the first woman to be convicted under ...
- The Changing Vision Of My Mother's Days - Forbes
The Changing Vision Of My Mother's DaysForbes, NY - 7 minutes agoThere were the handmade cards and paper-framed poetry from first grade, and second, third and even fourth. But then the fifth graders moved into the middle ...
- A mum’s diary of disabled son makes shortlist (icWales)
A PERSONAL diary written by a mother to help her cope with her baby son’s severe disabilities has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2008, it was revealed last night.
- Cleburne rapper Scott Johnson is trying to send an uplifting message - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Cleburne rapper Scott Johnson is trying to send an uplifting messageFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 19 minutes ago"My mother wrote poetry, and growing up in West Virginia, everyone’s got problems," he says. "It’s always down, and there’s always an air of depression. ...
- Juneteenth celebrated (Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune)
TOLEDO - The Toledo Museum of Art will host a Juneteenth Celebration Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The celebration...
- At 94 year vintage, silver screen legend and singer Herb Jeffries is still living it up in Idyllwild (The Press-Enterprise)
There's a jewel in the hills of Idyllwild. In a place where creative minds and souls are drawn, one resident found the home he had been searching for.
- No crime checks for "airside" foreign workers - MSN UK News
LONDON (Reuters) - The government insisted on Thursday there is no threat to security from foreign employees working "airside" at UK airports without having had their backgrounds checked for criminal convictions. BBC 2's "Newsnight" programme ...
- The Renaissance pre-med - Stanford Daily
The Renaissance pre-medStanford Daily, CA - 19 minutes ago“I like political issues, poetry, writing and other ‘fuzzier’ activities, and this provided a broader scope.†“I believe that Human Biology would be more ...
- Review of the book 'The Enchantress of Florence' - International Herald Tribune
The Enchantress of Florence By Salman Rushdie 355 pages. $26. Random House. From the very beginning of his new novel, "The Enchantress of Florence," Salman Rushdie plunges us into a world of marvels: "In the day's last light the glowing lake below ...
- NAC Corner: Power of poetry creates connections in unlikely places - Norwich Bulletin
NAC Corner: Power of poetry creates connections in unlikely placesNorwich Bulletin, CT - 11 minutes agoHowever, there was something unusual on the schedule — poetry. The event was hosted by Reliance House and Southeastern Mental Health Authority. ...
- Budding authors can enter Eden Mills Writers Festival contests - Independent and Free Press
Budding authors can enter Eden Mills Writers Festival contestsIndependent and Free Press, Canada - 2 hours agoYou may submit a short story, poetry or play postmarked by June 30, 2008 (no electronic submissions, please). First prize is $500, second is $300, ...
- Solomon Volkov's "The Magical Chorus" (International Herald Tribune)
The only thing missing from Volkov's history of Russian culture is moral outrage.
- Local News (Baltimore Jewish Times)
Community observes Israel’s day for its fallen soldiers.
- So how many ways to love an MP? One backbencher's raunchy Shakespeare sonnets cause a stir (Daily Mail: World News)
Watching Gordon Brown's ratings tumble ever lower is enough to depress any Labour MP. But veteran backbencher Harry Cohen has found a novel way to restore his spirits: penning raunchy poetry.
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