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- CARIFESTA X talent search starts soon in Guyana - Caribbean Net News
CARIFESTA X talent search starts soon in GuyanaCaribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 1 hour agoThose with talents in dance, drama, poetry, calypso, chutney, monologue, and comedy among other aspects of the performing arts are urged to be part of the ...
- Kay Ryan is the new poet laureate (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate in the fall. The appointment is for one year and
- Dreams must be fired by a burning desire - City Vision
Dreams must be fired by a burning desireCity Vision, South Africa - 2 hours agoShe does everything from writing poetry to working with hair and making handicraft. From discarded plastic bags she makes beautiful handbags that can pass ...
- Deaths elsewhere - Orlando Sentinel
Deaths elsewhereOrlando Sentinel, FL - 8 hours agoDarwish first gained prominence in the 1960s with the publication of his first poetry collection, Bird without Wings. He wrote 21 other collections; ...
- School News: NE area towns - Democrat and Chronicle
The following are the winners of the Penfield Public Library's annual Teen Poetry Contest: Sixth Grade Division: 1. Rebecca Markajani, Bay Trail Middle School, Footprints in the Sand ; 2. Aamir Zain, Allendale Columbia School, Excitement ; 3. Alex ...
- Syrian writers appear both live and on the page in Britain - Saudi Gazette
BY the medieval market town of Ledbury nestling in the Malvern Hills, Herefordshire, has established itself as Britain’s largest poetry festival. This year four Syrian poets will perform their work at the festival, to be held on July 4-13. During ...
- Good Day Baltimore: It's time for Hootie & the Blowfish at Pier Six - San Francisco Examiner
American ‘90s rock band Hootie & the Blowfish — which formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker , Dean Felber , Jim Sonefeld and Mark Bryan — makes a comeback appearance, stopping by Pier Six as part of its Homegrown ...
- GRSF sonnet winners announced - Winona Daily News
The Great River Shakespeare Festival announced July 26 the winners of its first ever City-Wide Sonnet Contest at the Acoustic Café. Doug Scholz-Carlson, GRSF associate director and veteran actor, and James Armstrong, Winona’s poet laureate, hosted ...
- Annie Jr. - Birmingham News
Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope Florence Forest Park Fultondale Gadsden Gardendale ...
- Winner of 'Now Debate This' Announced - The Bulletin
The final showdown between highschoolers Malik Neal, of Philadelphia and Phillip Hayes, of Lindale, Texas, for the national online competition "Now Debate This" commenced Tuesday night at the National Constitution Center. Mr. Hayes was pronounced the ...
- Out of respect, Harper stays silent (Hamilton Spectator)
There was a buzz in the crowd to be sure at Dieppe Veterans' Memorial Park down at Hamilton's beachstrip yesterday morning. The prime minister was on the way, after all.
- To 8/31: 'My Voice, My Life, My Future' - AZCentral.com
Learn about life in the foster-care system through the artistic eyes of the children it affects as the West Valley Art Museum hosts the traveling exhibit, "My Voice, My Life, My Future." The exhibit features more than two dozen works of art and ...
- Bookseller blogs on artifacts retrieved from used books - Abington Mariner
“STAG VERY SUCCESFUL AM QUITE DRUNK STOP.†Ernie probably meant those words only for Miss Rosalie of Fall River when he sent her a Western Union telegram in 1948. But 60 years later, the telegram hangs in a small black frame among the shelves of ...
- Search is on for next batch of Filipino world-class artists - Philippine Information Agency
Search is on for next batch of Filipino world-class artistsPhilippine Information Agency, Philippines - 1 hour agoAs such it provides specialized studies for creative and artistic expressions in the following disciplines: Creative Writing (Fiction, Poetry, Playwriting, ...
- In memoriam: Linux evangelist and Linux.com editor Joe Barr (NewsForge)
Our colleague Joe Barr sometimes described himself as a doddering old geek. Many knew him as a Linux evangelist; others knew him from his ham radio activities. And those of us who worked with Joe knew him in all of his sometime irascible, often funny moods. Joe was always one of our favorite people, and we are devastated to report that he died at home, unexpectedly, last night.
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