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- Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan' (The New York Sun)
Common sense is probably the last thing we want or expect from poets. Give us confessions, prophecies, manifestos, but spare us the advice  especially advice in verse. The poet should be a firebrand, not some mumbling old uncle. And yet, it wasn't always thus. In older cultures, not only in Greece and Rome but in India, Persia, and China, the poet was often seen less as a visionary than as a ...
- Religion Calendar: 10/11/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Religion Calendar: 10/11/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour agoMothers of Preschoolers group (MOPS), 9:15-11:15 am second and fourth Friday of each month, child care and registration are free; Zion Lutheran Church, ...
- Rent retires after twelve years - Ubyssey Online
Ubyssey OnlineRent retires after twelve yearsUbyssey Online, Canada - 4 hours agoIt’s perfectly okay to drop that crazy course load in favour of singing pretty songs and writing poetry. Take a chance on life and see where it leads you. ...
- Keira Knightley and mum work together on Edge of Love - Courier Mail
Keira Knightley and mum work together on Edge of LoveCourier Mail, Australia - 17 hours agoMacdonald sent him bottles of pink champagne while Knightley tried wooing him with poetry. "You have to woo John. It took us a long time. ...
- A Foreign Policy Hand Who Also Carries Risks - 13 WMAZ
WASHINGTON  Few people in this town know the world like Joe Biden. The 65-year-old chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee returned recently from a visit to the Republic of Georgia to assess the Russian invasion there. He has visited ...
- Anthony J. Russo, 71, Pentagon Papers Figure, Dies (New York Times)
Mr. Russo was a shaggy-haired, unemployed policy wonk when he teamed up with the buttoned-down Daniel Ellsberg to leak the top-secret government history of the Vietnam War called the Pentagon Papers.
- Literary Life - Telegraph.co.uk
Literary LifeTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIn the world of poetry at least, 'the special relationship' continues to prosper. The British Poetry Archive has joined forces with the Poetry Foundation in ...
- Latest Articles - Lucianne.com
ELKO, Nev. This small city in eastern Nevada has a lot of mining services. It has the Cowboy Poetry Gathering headquarters, aspens blooming in the nearby Ruby Mountains and Wednesday trivia night at the Stray Dog Pub & Café. (Question 18: What is ...
- A fresh canvas - Melbourne Community Voice
A fresh canvasMelbourne Community Voice, Australia - 23 hours agoCanvas will feature regular sections such as Stimulate (performing arts, theatre, dance, circus and more) Dictate (literature, poetry, book reviews and ...
- North Las Vegas homes on fire (Las Vegas Sun)
The North Las Vegas Fire Department is responding to smoke and flames coming from several homes behind the station near Las Vegas Boulevard North and Carey Avenue.
- A Treehouse With Charm - Martha's Vineyard Times
A Treehouse With CharmMartha's Vineyard Times, MA - 2 hours agoThirty years later, she opened up a book of children's poetry and read a random selection to her class of second-graders in New Hampshire. ...
- Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek - Starpulse.com
Originally released in 2002 in Europe and Japan, Upojenie (Ecstasy) is a collaboration between Pat Metheny and superstar Polish vocalist Anna Maria Jopek. It came into being after Jopek approached the guitarist at a jazz festival in Warsaw in 2001 ...
- Rugby reflects trends in racism (Independent Online)
Many whites don't mind equality in the abstract, but do in practice: the perception that racism no longer exists is wrong, writes Rich Mkhondo.
- Arts Commission awards annual medals - WRAL
Raleigh, N.C.  The Raleigh Arts Commission named six winners of the annual medal of arts Friday. The Raleigh Medal of Arts honors individuals and organizations for long-term achievement in and support of local arts. The program is in its 24th year ...
- Life's good without Rebus - Manchester Evening News
`IT was meant to be a film, you know," crime writer Ian Rankin tells me when I ask about his new book Doors Open. The award-winning novelist has written a fast-paced, art heist story after saying farewell to his beloved fictional detective Rebus. It ...
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