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- Community Calendar - 4/24/08 (Dayton Daily News)
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Winchester Star - Contestants may read from a published work of fiction, poetry, folklore or history, or biography written by or about African ... The Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society will have an open house Monday to celebrate George Washington’s birthday ...
- Finest of the 59ers - Chico News & Review
Finest of the 59ersChico News & Review, CA - 1 hour agoHe once asked me to read Rumi out loud, and he savored the sound of the words as if poetry were foreplay. I grieved that I wasn’t there after his car was ...
- Poetic justice - Daily News Transcript
Poetic justiceDaily News Transcript, MA - 2 hours agoHer recent collection of poems, "Inconsiderate Madness," explores a dark period of American history when people were persecuted for their religious beliefs. ...
- Uzbeck musician Ilyas Malayev dies (The Monterey County Herald)
Ilyas Malayev, a musician and poet renowned in Uzbekistan and transplanted to the New York City borough of Queens, where he was a legend among fellow Bukharan Jews, died on Friday in Flushing, Queens. He was 72 and lived in Forest Hills, Queens.
- Yellowstone Park focus of songs (Billings Gazette)
CODY - "Cowboy Songs & Yellowstone Traditions" is the theme of this year's Cowboy Songs & Range Ballads, a music and folklore festival that starts today at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and runs through Sunday.
- The Legend of Colton H. Bryant - Rocky Mountain News
Nonfiction. By Alexandra Fuller. Penguin, $23.95. Grade: A Book in a nutshell: Colton Bryant charmed most everyone, including author Fuller, who was haunted by his story when she read about his accidental death in the newspaper a year after the fact.
- Poetry contest winners to party (The State)
The 2008 S.C. Poetry Initiative Single Poem and Book contests are wrapping up this weekend with an awards celebration at the Columbia Museum of Art, at Main and Hampton streets. The free celebration will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Guests will be able to tour the Excavating Egypt event and enjoy music, food and poetry. The Book Contest judge, Elizabeth Alexander, will read some of her own ...
- A Maker of Books Destroys 100,000 (Washington Post)
PARIS -- For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored to produce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America, an exhaustive work financed by UNESCO, the United Nations organization created to preserve global culture and heritage.
- A full life, shaped by water and words (Boston Globe)
Growing up during the Depression, Vincent Ferrini disdained high school in favor of his self-assigned studies in the public library. He called it his "university."
- Chretien to lend a hand to songwriting pal Paul Anka at hall of ... - 680 News
Chretien to lend a hand to songwriting pal Paul Anka at hall of ...680 News, Canada - Feb 28, 2008"I was not very comfortable with the way I was treated coming back for about 12, 15 years," says the 66-year-old former teen idol. "I think there was always ...
- EAT Announces Line-Up for Developmental Cabaret Series (Playbill)
The line-up for the third installment of Emerging Artists Theatre's developmental series, Catch a Cabaret, has been announced.
- Lynchburg celebrates a poet of the Harlem Renaissance - WJZ
Lynchburg celebrates a poet of the Harlem RenaissanceWJZ, MD - 22 hours agoSpencer was involved in the founding of Lynchburg's chapter of the NAACP in 1918, and she often wrote about racial inequality in her poetry. ...
- Ride the lightning (St. Charles Journal)
Although a few defensive lapses prevented the Fort Zumwalt West baseball team from advancing past districts last season, there are plenty of positives to take from how the Jaguars closed out the year.
- Morano's 'Grammar Lessons,' From UI Press, is a 2007 'Book to ... - Media Newswire (press release)
Morano's 'Grammar Lessons,' From UI Press, is a 2007 'Book to ...Media Newswire (press release), NY - 1 hour agoWithout pretension, 'Grammar Lessons' accomplishes so much: It is prose poetry, a traveler's tale, reflexive ethnography, a meditation on the possibilities ...
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