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- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By GLEN JOHNSON Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure to be one of the most closely watched endeavors of this year's presidential campaign. The daughter of President Kennedy has sought and ...
- Arts in Corrections - Bay Area Indymedia
Arts in CorrectionsBay Area Indymedia, CA - 11 minutes agoIf society expects prisoners who parole (which is 90 plus percent of them) to remain free as productive members of society, fair and just attention needs to ...
- Parting Glances: Blind leading the bland - Pride Source
Creature of literary habit that I am (at least on Thursdays) I pick up BTL at the same bookstore where I'm also given a generous 20% book discount. Often I find at the top of the BTL stack a bit of anonymous homophobia - sneaky and stealth - done by ...
- In the Swiss footsteps of Byron (Belfast Telegraph)
Byron's expedition to the Swiss mountains is explored in new works to be performed at the City of London Festival. The first is tomorrow. The poet's journey also inspired John Walsh to follow his trail to the Jungfrau
- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (257) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Mr. Churchill is one of the diminishing number of those who genuinely believe in a specific world order: the desire to give it life and strength is the most powerful single influence upon everything which he thinks and imagines, does and is. When ...
- Arts in brief (Midland Daily News)
Four nights of poetry this month    In celebration of the centennial of Saginaw-born poet Theodore Roethke's birth, poetry readings are scheduled throughout the Tri-Cities July 21-24 as part of a week-long writers conference.
- Hip hop, politics and passion drive Erica Ford - Amsterdam News
Hip hop, politics and passion drive Erica FordAmsterdam News, NY - 7 hours agoWe have classes for poetry, film, music, fashion, whatever helps them release their feelings. We are creating young entrepreneurs. ...
- New Book Delivers Poems 'From the Heart of a Down Chick' - Forbes
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Born in Harlem, Sasha Bonay was only 9 years old when her mother, who had raised Sasha alone, passed away at age 27. Bonay was sent to live with an aunt in the South Bronx and there, she says, "I learned ...
- The SPIN Interview: Patti Smith (Spin)
With casual androgyny now as common as rehab and pop-star poetry a recurring joke, it's hard to imagine how strange Patti Smith must've seemed when she exploded out of New York with Horses 33 years ago. Defiant, literary, and rocking, Smith's debut, and the albums that followed, weren't only great pieces of art, they were life-changers. Just ask Michael Stipe or Courtney Love. They were ...
- A Passion for Overcoming Injustice Has Seized Americans Once Again - History News Network
A Passion for Overcoming Injustice Has Seized Americans Once AgainHistory News Network, WA - 2 hours agoOne example was Carl Sandburg, who later won Pulitzer prizes for both history (his multi-volume Lincoln biography) and poetry. ...
- Family Fun! Fort Worth Cats vs. Grand Prairie AirHogs, S'more Summer Fun!, Rally Day (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
The Fort Worth Cats have won three straight national championships, and our minor-league baseball team is already in line for a fourth — but they have to get through the playoffs first. The postseason begins Monday, with the Cats hosting the newest North Texas team, the Grand Prairie AirHogs. This oughta be extra-special fun, not just for the local "rivalry" (as touted by G.P.) but as a rematch ...
- Breaking: The War on Drugs - Rolling Stone
Breaking: The War on DrugsRolling Stone - 49 minutes agoGranduciel honed his writing chops when he and a pal started writing their own dictionary, which featured bits of poetry alongside more traditional ...
- Lower Yoder resident recognized for literary works - The Tribune-Democrat
Lower Yoder resident recognized for literary worksThe Tribune-Democrat, PA - 3 hours agoHis 20 years of poetry writing have paid off because he recently received a certificate of recognition from the International Poetry Society, which honors ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (The Charlotte Observer)
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways - and the redemptive power of poetry. ...
- Exeter news briefs - York Weekly
Exeter news briefsYork Weekly, NH - 1 hour agoA session on Expression of Grief Through Poetry and Writing is held Tuesdays through Aug. 12 from 1 to 3 pm at Seacoast Hospice, 10 Hampton Road, Exeter. ...
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