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Wildlife photographer captures amazingly intimate portraits of pride of lions

Travel article: Getting to know Argentina's huge glaciers in Los Glaciares National Park

Photo: Mo, the goggle-wearing convertible-riding dog from Germany

Next issue of Luciole will include tribute to Scott Wannberg; you can submit poems, photos, memories, anything

Aerial view of the Glastonbury Festival. Luciole's Ellyn Maybe will perform Sunday!

Congrats to Luciole's wonderful poet goddess Ellyn Maybe! She and her band leave for Glastonbury today!

Fantastic art event in Wellington, New Zealand this Friday! Check out the Matariki Seven Sisters 2011 Art Exhibition

Photo: a diver feeds a cute whale shark at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium

Right next to where I grew up: Blackbeard artifacts exhibit opens at NC museum

Please come "like" the Luciole Press fan page on Facebook

Record snow makes spectacular Yosemite waterfalls

Global photo competition yields incredible images, such as the Milky Way above Australia and Iran

Report: Book "Three Cups of Tea" inaccurate

A Statement From Exene Cervenka, sent in by Luciole friend/contributor Andrea Lund

Photos: Remarkable rainbow cloud towers over Mount Everest

Help Luciole's wonderful poet Ellyn Maybe and her band in their epic journey to make it to the Glastonbury Festival!

Cheetah cubs pictured climbing trees at Masai Mara safari camp

Photo: a 'capsule inn' hotel in Shanghai

Photo: Sunset at Howe Sound near Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia

Colorado Monument offers 'pocket-size Grand Canyon'

Cool photo: a bright Eiffel tower reflects in the still water of a basin in Paris

Photo: the Northern lights at Hvalfjorour fjord in Akranes near Reykjavik

Thomas Hardy's beloved home to throw its doors open to the madding crowd

Really cool photo of trees in Phuket, by Luciole artist Johanna Bergh

Gorgeous photo of Phuket, Thailand from Luciole friend/contributor, artist Johanna Bergh

Photo: man walks past Olympic Cauldron as snow falls in Vancouver

Autumn in Stockholm. Gorgeous photo by Luciole friend/contributor artist Johanna Bergh

Photo: the Hot Air Balloons Festival in Leon, Mexico

Photo: Parahawking -- Kevin the hawk helps paragliders near Kathmandu

Ancient tree to help turn Jericho into tourism hub

New at Whitney Museum: Edward Hopper and friends

Today, Mongolian nomads are on motorcycles, not horses

Review: National Park Field Guides application

Halloween ghost hunters seek old soldiers in Gettysburg

Photo: the Nile is captured by an astronaut on board the International Space Station at night

Beautiful photo of mist-enshrouded trees in Oregon, from Luciole friend/contributor Dena Rash Guzman

10 Most Scenic Roads In The U.S. (Photos on Huffington Post)

Photo: the sun slants over a beach at Big Sur

Spectacular view of thousands of Munkiana Devil Rays as they mass off the Californian coast scoops top photography prize

Photos: 2,000-year-old Hellenistic wall paintings in a cave complex nicknamed 'Little Petra'

Incredible photo, plus article "Lax safety in Congo makes river travel dangerous"

New superbugs spreading from South Asia

Incredible images of the new Hoover Dam Bridge: when finished it will rise 890 feet above the Colorado River; its total length will be 1,900 feet

Photo: a rainbow arches over Ankaroa Bay, Easter Island

Photo: a bolt of lightning cracks beneath a rainbow as the setting sun turns the sky salmon pink in Kuala Lumpur

Photographer captures stunning arc caused by midnight sun in northern Finland

Photo: Fireworks light the sky at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

Explorer David Livingstone's letter deciphered at last, "nearly 140 years after he wrote of his despair at ever leaving Africa alive"

Don’t look down: workers put finishing touches on 1,000m high Alpine viewing tower in Germany

Greece lightning: Ancient Parthenon lit from above as storm breaks over Athens

Poem: "Guadarrama" by Antonio Machado

Barcelona's beacon of light: Spectra Barcelona, a light sculpture by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda

Amelia Earhart's Watch Reaches Space Station 82 Years After Historic Flight

Photo: an F15 Strike Eagle backdropped by Space Shuttle Atlantis launching into space

Photo: a man stands on rocks on Table Mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town

Photo: a boat, seen through a plastic sheet, sails on the Bosphorus during a torrential rain storm in Istanbul

A little piece of home: Blue Ridge Parkway celebrates 75th anniversary

Sandstone arch at southern Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park collapses (I think it still looks like a dragon, but now one lying down with wings above it)

A giant 'basking shark' in Cornwall, swimming alongside surfers at Porthcurno beach

Photo: a cyclist makes her way through a golden meadow in Lofer, Austria

Photo: a pelican searches for fish as the sun sets in St John's in the Caribbean

Park de Triomphe - the day French farmers turned the Champs-Elysees into a garden

Photo: the Atlantis shuttle, docked at the International Space Station, with our gorgeous Earth situated below

Photo: the Space Shuttle Atlantis backdropped against Earth prior to docking with the International Space Station

Author Isabel Allende sets new book in Haiti

Photo: a turtle and a mermaid display team from Florida in a tank at the Sea Life London Aquarium

Photo: Australian freestyle motocross rider Robbie Maddison leaps in the air in the Sahara desert near Cairo at sunset

Check Luciole friend/contributor S.A. Griffin's Poetry Bomb Schedule and see if he will be coming to a place near you! Tour of Words 2010

Amazing underwater wonderworld off Britain's coast reveals natural treasures

Finnish Savonlinna Opera Festival invites you to create new opera

Photo: a woman walks in the rain under blooming flowering cherry trees in Frankfurt Oder, Germany

Photographer Julia Smolina's beautiful work in the Spring/Summer 2010 Issue of Luciole Press

Luciole Press Spring/Summer Issue 2010 is here

Artist Pär Strömberg's book launch and new exhibition opens Tuesday April 27th in Stockholm. Pär will be featured in the next issue of Luciole Press

Artist Johanna M. E. Bergh will be featured in the next issue of Luciole Press. Her new exhibition opens Saturday April 24th at Galleri Korn in Stockholm

Threat of new, larger Icelandic eruption looms at nearby Katla volcano

Photo: an aerial view of the bustling freeway in Shanghai at night

Experts differ on health risk of volcanic ash; World Health Organization warns Europeans to stay indoors if ash starts settling

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe; new mini-eruptions "raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade"

Congrats to dear Luciole friend/contributor S.A. Griffin! Article in The Guardian: "For this poet, bombing at a reading won't be bad"

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Photo: a stunning sunrise over Melbourne

Mystery visitor of the past 60 years to Poe's grave is a no-show for the first time

Photo: moonlit night in Himalayas as bright star Capella rises above Mount Everest

For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland

Photo: long night-exposure taken in Wengen shows famous Swiss mountains Moench and Jungfrau

Cool photo: the Russian Soyuz spacecraft approaches the International Space Station

Social networking changing the way we travel

Sleeping beauties: picture perfect penguin chicks take a break on the ice

Photo: a man drives a sleigh carrying tourists in a park on a bank of the Moskva River, Moscow

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Photo: a truly vast New Year Tree in downtown Minsk, Belarus

Photos from Luciole Press contributor/friend Christine McClintock, which appear in the Autumn Issue 2009

Luciole contributor/friend Jeaneth Patricia Skaugvold's photos of Northern Norway for the Autumn 2009 Issue

Photo: the sun begins to rise under clouds and over the Alps next to Lake Geneva, as seen from Tartegnin, Switzerland

Photo: climbers trek on Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz

China stretches the imagination with world's longest sea bridge to link mainland with Macau and Hong Kong

Etched by trucks in the desert sand: At 9 miles around, gargantuan circle is the world's largest artwork

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

Music: Reykjavík concert with Luciole friend/contributor Thomas Brorsen Smidt and The Esoteric Gender (plus Ljósvaki)