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- Save the Whales holds poetry contest - Contra Costa Times
Save the Whales holds poetry contestContra Costa Times, CA - 20 minutes agoSave The Whales will be holding a Save The Whales Poetry Contest, which is open to children 13 years old and younger. Poems my be submitted by e-mail to ...
- MU professor and poet shares personal religious journey (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA — For Scott Cairns, a poet and MU professor of English, part of living as a "true" Christian means being compassionate. But that's not, he assures you, as easy as it sounds.  Cairns, a man in his mid-50s who pulls his hair into a ponytail and sports a salt-and-pepper beard, realized years ago how far he was from his religious ideals. He was in the middle of a jog along a beach at ...
- Dissident poet is allowed to speak, but Egypt's leaders aren't ... - Los Angeles Times
Iman Bakry says the Egyptian government’s tolerance of her poetry illustrates the beguiling power of a police state that creates the veneer of democracy by allowing a degree of freedom of expression. Iman Bakry has risen to national prominence with ...
- A blend of history and whimsy at Sonoma's Gun Bun (San Francisco Chronicle)
Last year marked the Gundlach Bundschu sesquicentennial - the 150th anniversary of what may be the oldest family-owned winery in California. For the uninitiated on the winery's hard-to-pronounce name, your tasting room guide will show you a clever drawing of...
- Some Poetry With Your Panini? - Daily Colonial
Some Poetry With Your Panini?Daily Colonial, DC - 12 hours agoThere was a free poetry reading that evening, a common event at Busboys since it fits in with the venue’s atmosphere and concept. ...
- Kate Winslet Defends New Movie Role - femalefirst.co.uk
Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has defended the controversial sex scenes in her new movie the Reader. The British star plays the role of a former Nazi concentration camp guard, who embarks on a passionate affair with a younger man unaware of her ...
- Shakespeare’s Globe - New Statesman
Shakespeare’s GlobeNew Statesman, UK - 7 hours agoThere was Conrad Black, who now resides in jail serving a six-year sentence for criminal fraud and obstructing justice. And Roberts has long been a great ...
- Artful Lodgers - New York Times
Artful LodgersNew York Times, United States - 5 hours agoHer shows “A Choreographed Exhibition” at Le Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson in France and “Pottery and Poetry” at the Apartment in ...
- Charity is also an important holiday gift - Stamford Advocate
T'was the night before Christmas and all through the town, Stamford appeared to be slowly shutting down. Pardon my feeble attempt at writing poetry. However I am sure that you too have noticed that the streets have calmed down, and most everyone is ...
- Nov 30 - Dec 06 (213) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
The problem of Islamist militancy in Pakistan is very unlikely to be addressed satisfactorily in the near future. US efforts—at least in their current form—to force the issue are as likely to worsen the situation as to improve it. Perceived US ...
- 'Warhorses,' by Yusef Komunyakaa (San Francisco Chronicle)
Warhorses By Yusef Komunyakaa Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 96 pages; $24 War is perhaps the great subject for poetry, and love is its nearly equal partner. Pulitzer winner Yusef Komunyakaa has written devastatingly about both, and he opens his 13th collection...
- Behind the music - St. Joseph News-Press
Behind the musicSt. Joseph News-Press, MO - 4 hours agoIt began as a poem that Edward Hamilton Sears, a Unitarian minister in Massachusetts, submitted to a Christian magazine in 1849. It drew a lot of attention, ...
- Voice of an angel - Castlegar News
Voice of an angelCastlegar News, Canada - 1 hour agoHer poetry speaks of a Doukhobor past that infuses the person she has become as an adult, and yet the lines are so private. In the poem called Dust, ...
- You may think you're speaking Lebanese, but some of your words are ... - Daily Star - Lebanon
Daily Star - LebanonYou may think you're speaking Lebanese, but some of your words are ...Daily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 2 hours agoFinally, Syriac is still present in Lebanese poetry. "Some of the Syriac metrical system is still to be found in Lebanese zajal, in Lebanese popular poetry ...
- Movie Review: Leo & Kate sparkle in 'Revolutionary Road' (Delaware County Times)
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon o o o “Revolutionary Road” shows the American Dream awakened by a nightmare.
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