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- Father Amir dies - Arab Times
Father Amir diesArab Times, Kuwait - 30 minutes agoSometimes the conversation drifted to purely intellectual topics punctuated by fits of inspired poetry. The lyric and rhythm in the flowing verses had a ...
- More of today's best bets in entertainment (Detroit Free Press)
Find concert listings, poetry readings, a community fair and more.
- Laura Sherman, 78; opened class, heart to needy children - Boston Globe
For the 6- and 7-year-olds who walked into Laura (Levine) Sherman's color-filled classroom in Lynn, the day often started with a warm hug - the first sign of a highly personalized approach to education. During her quarter-century of teaching, it was ...
- Explore Poetry and Language with Free Online Multimedia Teacher Resource (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Poetry Everywhere Collection on Teachers' Domain -- a free web-based teaching tool of videos, background essays and lesson plans helps teachers and students explore the power of language and build reading and writing skills. Preview the collection at http://www.teachersdomain.org/exhibits/pe08-ex/index.html
- I've had 30 lovers, Carla Bruni tells world - and it's music to Sarkozy's ears (Times Online)
Carla Bruni, the chanteuse wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, is to release a new album on which she sings of 30 past lovers and compares one of them to taking hard drugs. But rather than embarrass her husband, her work is likely to give him a boost.
- Virgil through modern eyes - Daily Telegraph
There have been three very striking translations of Virgil's Aeneid just recently, all from Americans. I have extravagantly bought them all, but which of them would I recommend if forced to choose but one? They are, in turn, by Robert Fagles of ...
- All together now - Times Online
All together nowTimes Online, UK - 22 minutes agoOne involved learning lines of poetry; another entailed going to find Gretel (aka Curtis, who spent the whole festival acting in character) and asking her ...
- PFAC hosts skateboard decorating party tonight - Hampton Roads Daily Press
NEWPORT NEWS - Fifteen lucky skaters will get a free skateboard deck and the chance to express themselves tonight when the Peninsula Fine Arts Center hosts a skateboard decorating party. Organized as part of the center's weekly Arts Café program ...
- Reliquary is 'The People's Hall of Fame' - MiamiHerald.com
Reliquary is 'The People's Hall of Fame'MiamiHerald.com, FL - 2 hours ago''There probably won't be more than a handful of people at the ceremony who have ever been to a poetry slam or encountered a performance poet, so it's great ...
- Prince William flew a plane to Afghanistan. - Seattle Times
Seattle TimesPrince William flew a plane to Afghanistan.Seattle Times, United States - 6 hours ago1998: A man set himself on fire and shot himself to death on a Los Angeles area freeway in a scene captured on live television. Actress Cloris Leachman, 82. ...
- Portishead - Third - Music Box
Music BoxPortishead - ThirdMusic Box, IL - 33 minutes agoThe gothic obsessions of her lyrics increasingly are difficult to swallow, and for this reason, it is hard to assess Third, Portishead’s latest effort, ...
- "MVP" scrapes bottom of hockey's barrel of misogyny (Denver Post)
The New York TimesWithin the first few minutes of "MVP," a new drama — and I use that term as one might call "Big Momma's House" a film — a young woman barely out of her teens is straddling a guy upstairs during a party at her parents' Disney World castle of a house, and making royal demands: "You work for me now. Take your pants off."
- 'Flowering' magical - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald'Flowering' magicalChicago Daily Herald, IL - 1 hour agoCo-written by American composer John Adams and co-librettist Peter Sellars in 2006, "A Flowering Tree" is based on a South-Indian folk tale and other poetry ...
- Jonathan Holden's "Car Showroom" (Seattle Times)
I may be a little sappy, but I think that almost everyone is doing the best he or she can, despite all sorts of obstacles. This poem by Jonathan...
- Maya Angelou Celebrates 80th Birthday In Atlanta (CBS 46 News Atlanta)
The legendary poet celebrates her 80th birthday in Atlanta. | Video
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