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- Dear Abby: Guardian's cancer diagnosis puts boy's future in question - Philadelphia Daily News
DEAR ABBY: My cousin's 9-year-old son, "Andy," has been living with me for the past few years. Now my husband has been diagnosed with cancer, and I must return Andy to his mother. Abby, his mother is an alcoholic and drug addict. She has no income ...
- 'Mine is a survivor's tale' - Portsmouth Herald News
'Mine is a survivor's tale'Portsmouth Herald News, NH - 40 minutes agon Elizabeth Kirschner's book of poems, 'My Life as a Doll,' chronicles her memories of child abuse. Elizabeth Kirschner of Kittery Point, Maine, ...
- Allow executions of child rapists - La Crosse Tribune
It is in considerable shock and disappointment that I write this letter. I cannot for the life of me digest how the Supreme Court of the United States made a decision to ban a law concerning the death penalty for child rapists. It was written by one ...
- Library rebuilding (Stuttgart Daily Leader)
BOOKS: After sustaining tornado damage, a book mobile and new office planned
- A.S. Maulucci: Memories can elicit powerful, provoking poetry - Enterprise
Memory runs through our lives like an underground river. For poets that river carries rich imagery, has currents that swirl with inspiration and eddies into deep pools of emotion. Many great poets have written some of their best work when they have ...
- Dick Martin Of 'Laugh-In' Fame Dies (KSAT San Antonio)
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team Rowan and Martin whose show "Laugh-In" took the television by storm in the 1960s, has died.
- Critics: are we just loudmouths? - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukCritics: are we just loudmouths?guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe reason the views of, say, TS Eliot on poetry were once taken so seriously (apart from the fact that when he wrote books such as The Use of Poetry and ...
- Isaac Rosenberg: the making of a Great War poet, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson (Independent)
In May 2005 the doors of the Whitechapel Library, the street-corner university of so many East End Jewish writers and artists, closed for the last time. Bernard Kops wrote a poem, remembering that "The door of the library was the door into me." Michael Kustow commemorated the library and the Whitechapel Art Gallery next door in a wonderful elegy in the Jewish Quarterly. Of all those who ...
- Writers focus on Midwest Latinos - Kansas.com
Writers focus on Midwest LatinosKansas.com, KS - 3 hours agoBY CHRISTINA M. WOODS Contributors to the new anthology "Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland" -- including one with ties to Wichita -- say they ...
- Reliquary is 'The People's Hall of Fame' - Miami Herald
PASADENA, Calif. There is a cigar stub Babe Ruth left at a brothel and the shorn locks of an outfielder -- the ''Bearded Babe Ruth'' -- who played for a barnstorming religious sect that preached celibacy. There is Bill Veeck's wooden leg. There is a ...
- Indian River County community connection: May 11 (Vero Press Journal)
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- An invite to have a door opened - TheDay
An invite to have a door openedTheDay, CT - 1 hour agoOne of my favorite moments in that book is when Hirsch quotes the poet William Matthews' list of theâFour Subjects of Poetry.â They are, as follows: 1. ...
- Ayoon wa Azan (A Poet for a Million and the People at a Tariff) - Dar Al Hayat
In bad times for Arabs, a poet is worth a million and the people are at a tariff. Thus I remain with Arab poetesses yet another day, as they are few. In fact, I have found that women are few among poets in every country, so the issue is not that we ...
- Are there any politically engaged poets out there? - OpEdNews
Are there any politically engaged poets out there?OpEdNews, PA - 3 hours agoYou know, I wonder when was the last time you read some poetry, if you ever did. I know why it bores you to death, most poets are all about flowers and love ...
- Young writers honored - Cibola County Beacon
Young writers honoredCibola County Beacon, NM - 15 minutes agoThere were 48 winning entries, with three students winning in both the prose and poetry divisions. Robert Vandiver, sixth, prose; Jade Smith, sixth, ...
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