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- Celebrate our mothers on Sunday - Sterling Journal-Advocate
Since 1915, we have set aside the second Sunday in May to honor our Mothers. Although there are several opinions as to how this day came about, the one that has lasted is the story of Anna Reeves Jarvis. Jarvis asked her minister in West Virginia to ...
- Family highlights need for organ donors (Capital News 9)
Thousands of New Yorkers are currently waiting for organ donations to survive. Now, one local father is trying to get the word out after organ donors gave his family something they can never repay. Steve Ference has the story.
- Ben Bova: Presidential candidates should endorse search for knowledge - Naples Daily News
Let’s look at Phoenix first. It’s sitting on the rust-red sands of Mars after a voyage of some 422 million miles from Earth. Its mission is to look for signs of life on our neighboring world. Under control by scientists at the University of ...
- Whitechapel At War: Isaac Rosenberg And His Circle, Ben Uri Gallery, London (Independent)
The poet Isaac Rosenberg is the least well known of the handful of great poets – Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas were the others – who not only helped us to feel the full, protracted horror of the First World War, but whose work helped to define the very nature of war poetry itself.
- Broken: By Karin Fossum (Independent)
Ever since the novel began, authors have been in intermittent dispute with their characters. Karin Fossum is a Norwegian writer of fiction, poetry and short stories. A great player with genre, she opens this novel with a midnight encounter between the author and the main character. Alvar Eide appears in Fossum's bedroom, disrupts her sleep, and ousts her intended subject by revealing too much, ...
- Review: Naval Wives & Mistresses by Margarette Lincoln - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukReview: Naval Wives & Mistresses by Margarette Lincolnguardian.co.uk, UK - 11 hours agothe strategy, tactics and grog rations through the archives, and compose logbook poetry: "HMS . . . 28 guns, 197 souls, N coast Brazil. ...
- Today's Best Bets - Athens Banner-Herald
This free, family event will include concessions, inflatable playground equipment, face painting and more. In honor of Memorial Day, a Purple Heart monument listing the names of local residents who have been awarded the Purple Heart will be unveiled ...
- Words in Conflict: Poetry from Israel and the Palestinian Territories (The Online NewsHour)
Poets in the Middle East are often held in high regard, and many achieve a level of celebrity and authority not common in the West. In recognition of Israel's 60th anniversary, Jeffrey Brown offers an encore report on the lives of Israeli and Palestinian poets.
- Letter to the editor: Council action shamefully soured laureate ... - Gloucester Daily Times
As a former member and vice chairperson and current Advisory Committee member of the Gloucester Committee for the Arts, and as an artist and sometime curator and juror, I am dismayed at the City Council's recent poet laureate appointment process. I ...
- Summer poetry reading at the SouthSide Works - South Pittsburgh Reporter
Summer poetry reading at the SouthSide WorksSouth Pittsburgh Reporter, PA - 59 minutes agoThis year she has co-edited “Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh†with Michael Wurster, a part of Pittsburgh’s 250th birthday ...
- Armenia: LGBT Blogs - Global Voices Online
Armenia: LGBT BlogsGlobal Voices Online, MA - 5 hours agoHis art and poetry have been explicitly critical of the government and present/past presidents. These factors have led Babi to become a target of repression ...
- Rural Romeos Ride on the Wild Side (Scoop.co.nz)
The Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year finalists faced a day of physical challenges today at Fieldays in their second day of competition for the Golden Gumboot trophy and title of Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year.
- Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! - Broadway World
Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! , a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union, returns for its 6th stunning year on Monday, July 21 at 7:30PM in the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 La Guardia ...
- ECHO Review: The Art of John Lennon, Liverpool ECHO atrium - Liverpool Echo
ECHO Review: The Art of John Lennon, Liverpool ECHO atriumLiverpool Echo, UK - 1 hour agoJohn Lennon lyrics, the new 20th century poetry, are, in themselves, re-presented in his hand, as art works. Colour is used sparingly. ...
- The Merry Wives of sitcom at Shakespeare's Globe - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukThe Merry Wives of sitcom at Shakespeare's GlobeTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 hours agoIt's not great poetry. All I'm trying to do is make 400-year-old material really funny." This morning Luscombe is working with his cast on the play's most ...
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