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What to give for Valentine's Day? - Grand Junction Free Press
What to give for Valentine's Day? Grand Junction Free Press Suggested love poems will range from classic to contemporary, from the sleekly modern to free verse, rich in image and symbol, or incantatory with rhyme. Some examples: “Love Is Not All,” Edna St. Vincent Millay; “A Birthday,” Christina Rossetti; ... |
Tender feel for the natural world - Vancouver Sun
Tender feel for the natural world Vancouver Sun Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems by Tess Gallagher Graywolf Press, 352 pages, $31 Author and poet Tess Gallagher became a poet because she was swept away by poetry's depth. "It was just so rich, I just couldn't resist it. |
Christ Church kicks off Black History Month with Diversity Day - SILive.com
Christ Church kicks off Black History Month with Diversity Day SILive.com Parishioners, some wearing costumes from their native countries, will perform songs and dances and recite poems and other readings during the free event. Ethnic foods will be prepared and served by members of the congregation. |
How gay writers drove revolution - Winnipeg Free Press
How gay writers drove revolution Winnipeg Free Press Though Bram lovingly and frequently highlights passages of writers' plays, novels and poems, the book's gaze relentlessly faces outward. From Tennessee Williams to Armistead Maupin, Bram places the writers' personal and professional lives in the ... |
Celebrate National Library Day in Derbyshire - Bakewell Today
Celebrate National Library Day in Derbyshire Bakewell Today This Saturday is National Libraries Day and anyone who borrows a book from one of Derbyshire County Council's libraries will be entered into a free draw to win book tokens worth £50. Forty-two of the county council's 45 libraries are open every ... |
Still time to make your poetry public - Iowa City Press Citizen
Still time to make your poetry public Iowa City Press Citizen Look up here again. Be assured. I'll be here, riding free.” And at a time when city government is looking to cut wherever it can, Poetry in Public remains a program that gets a pretty big poetic bang for its public buck. The only expenses include the ... |
Carol Ann Duffy and Geoffrey Hill: truly poetic heavyweights - The Guardian
 The Guardian | Carol Ann Duffy and Geoffrey Hill: truly poetic heavyweights The Guardian William Sieghart's Winning Words sees poems etched into structures throughout the Olympic site and the country. The aim of Parnassus is that poets meet and read together. The aim of Winning Words is that we see and encourage poetry in public spaces. |
Five free essential iOS apps for Valentine's Day - CNET
 CNET | Five free essential iOS apps for Valentine's Day CNET Here are five free apps that could give you some ideas, so that you don't end up with an angry bird on your hands. Look out for more Valentine's Day-related stories over the next week, for both singles and couples. SG Florist hopes that flower-giving ... |
Haunting Scottish ballads 'empower' women - BBC News
 BBC News | Haunting Scottish ballads 'empower' women BBC News Poems she examined included Tam o' Shanter, which was voted the nation's favourite work by Robert Burns in a YouGov poll. Dr Heddle is director of the Northern Isles' Centre for Nordic Studies. The centre is part of the University of the Highlands and ... |
Events on Long Island - New York Times
Events on Long Island New York Times 7 at 7 pm Free. Oyster Bay Historical Society, 20 Summit Street. oysterbayhistorical.org; (516) 922-5032. SOUTHAMPTON Southampton Historical Museums “14 Love Poems by 14 Poets,” featuring Long Island poets, at Rogers Mansion. Feb. 14 at 3 pm $5. |
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Irish Chamber Music Performance of James Joyce Poems at Princeton University
Soprano Judith Kellock, pianist Janice Weber and theater critic Fintan O'Toole will present a chamber music performance of Ross Lee Finney's setting of poems by James Joyce on Friday, February 10 at 4:30 p.m. at the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to ... Read more
Poems wanted for Poetry OmniBus competition
JUNEAU - The seventh annual Poetry Omnibus program is now accepting entries from Juneau residents for the 2012 competition. Winning poems will be read at a to-be-announced celebration and then displayed on Capital Transit busses for a full year. Read more
Free & Cheap in New York: Tues., Jan. 31
BURNS, BABY, BURNS. Have “A Conversation With Edward Burns” as the moviemaker shares clips from “Newlyweds,” his sixth picture to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Queens-born actor-writer-director will discuss his “love letter to Tribeca” and what inspired his latest work. 7 p.m. $18. 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St. (212) 601-1000. Read more
Arts: Hilary King to read at 3 local libraries
Three area East End libraries are getting into the Valentine’s Day spirit by hosting Island poet Hilary King, who will be reading from her book, “Love … And Other Poems,” at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Saturday, February 4; the Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library on Saturday, February 11; and at [...] Read more
Poems wanted for seventh annual Poetry OmniBus
Poetry Omnibus is now accepting entries for the 2012 competition from Juneau residents. The deadline for submissions is March 10. Winning poems will be read at a to-be-announced celebration and then displayed on Capital Transit busses for a full year. Read more
Humor inspires ranchers’ poetry and life
Cowboy poet Rodney Nelson of North Dakota points at a crowd member while reciting a poem Thursday at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in the Elko Convention Center. Read more
Naperville students’ MLK poems
Students in Matt Sniadecki's class at Jefferson Junior High School in Naperville wrote poems based on the connections between Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation." Read more
'Steam Laundry': Author's novel in poems tells story of pioneer Fairbanks woman's life, dreams
FAIRBANKS - When Nicole Stellon O’Donnell was poking through the archives of the Rasmuson Library in graduate school, she found many books and stories about people who helped found Fairbanks. Almos... Read more
What's Happening at the Library: Websites for free e- and audio books
Assistant Director Angela Turner, told me about a website that will be of interest to anyone who uses a Kindle e-reader and likes a bargain. It s called Pixel of Ink, www.pixelofink.com, and it s devoted to steering Kindle users to free and discount priced e-books. Read more
Kids activities at Media Upper Providence Library
Media-Upper Providence Free Library has several events planned for next week including the following: Read more
