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- Spanish archive sheds light on Franco's dark days - Guardian Unlimited
A wig used to disguise a communist leader, censored poems written by the current culture minister and a list of prisoners facing the firing squad are just a few of the treasures within 157,000 boxes of archives highlighting both the dark and ...
- Arrest made in slayings, sex assaults - Arizona Republic
Arrest made in slayings, sex assaultsArizona Republic, AZ - 2 hours agoShe was described by friends and family as a funny, outgoing girl who loved adventure, poetry and drawing and dreamed of going to school to become an artist ...
- Other honorary degrees from staffordshire university are awarded to - This is the Sentinel
Other honorary degrees from staffordshire university are awarded toThis is the Sentinel, UK - 5 hours agoAlso honoured are: actor turned director Ken Campbell; Carol Ann Duffy, who has played a major role in bringing poetry to the masses; ; Neil Carr, ...
- Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston set for a box-office battle ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Will Jennifer Aniston win at the box office over Other Woman Angelina Jolie? Because there's nothing like a catfight to draw attention, this summer's release of "Changeling" starring Angelina Jolie and "He's Just Not That Into You" starring Jennifer ...
- Smashwords Launches Public Beta of Breakthrough Digital Publishing ... - Earthtimes (press release)
Smashwords Launches Public Beta of Breakthrough Digital Publishing ...Earthtimes (press release), UK - 1 hour agoSmashwords allows independent authors to digitally publish, sample and sell their novels, personal memoirs, short fiction, essays, poetry, non-fiction and ...
- Pass on a Poem for free - Saudi Gazette
ON a recent weekday evening, dozens of people crowded into the Oxfam charity bookshop in Portbello Road, West London for a poetry reading organized by the steadily growing grassroots poetry movement Pass on a Poem. Some 20 people among the gathering ...
- Rhythm, fun on display at joint library venture - The Daily Astorian
Rhythm, fun on display at joint library ventureThe Daily Astorian, OR - 3 hours agoBy Lauren L. Dillard The high school-aged participants of the Upward Bound Music and Poetry Project group drafted stories, colored between the lines and ...
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards finalists announced - Bookseller Publisher Online
Montana New Zealand Book Awards finalists announcedBookseller Publisher Online, Australia - 2 hours agoThe Montana New Zealand Book Awards celebrate the best books written and illustrated by New Zealanders each year. Awarded in the fields of fiction, poetry, ...
- How will Barack Obama get to 270? - Salon
Critics scoff and call it an antiquated and unfair system (it is). Many Democrats -- notably, this year, Obama backers -- would like their party to stop thinking in terms of three yards and a cloud of purple-state dust and instead embrace the beauty ...
- Life sa stage - Aucklander
Life sa stageAucklander, New Zealand - 5 hours agoThe respected poet and performer says she only started writing poetry seriously in her 30s because when I was growing up I thought girls like me didn t ...
- Lush life on the LES - Macleans.ca
Lush life on the LESMacleans.ca, Canada - 4 hours ago“So where’d you go after that?†Yolanda asked. “We went to some poetry bar on Bowery, beatnik bar or something,†said Eric.
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance - Chicago Tribune
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - 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 ...
- Ledbury Poetry Festival launches campaign for female Poet Laureate - Hereford Times
Ledbury Poetry Festival launches campaign for female Poet LaureateHereford Times, UK - 3 hours agoAS the current Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion’s ten-year term in the position nears an end, Ledbury Poetry Festival has launched a campaign urging the ...
- Simic stepping aside as U.S. poet laureate - Political Gateway
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said. "I've thoroughly enjoyed this past year," Simic said in a news release. "The best part of ...
- Going to Pieces - SF Weekly
Going to PiecesSF Weekly, CA - 45 minutes agoFugitive sucks the poetry and the life out of the Holocaust survival tale on which it is based. By Ella Taylor History is boiled down to mood and weather. ...
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