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- Missoula's old faves make return engagement - The Missoulian
The MissoulianMissoula's old faves make return engagementThe Missoulian, MT - 21 hours agoThe center, which preserves and documents Western culture and most famously sponsors the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, was wondering what ...
- Spirits of Place - WNYC
Spirits of PlaceWNYC, NY - 36 minutes agoHost Isaiah Sheffer reserved for himself Nelson Algren’s gently ironic “He Couldn’t Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn,†in which a disenchanted African-American ...
- Lewis Carroll In Numberland, by Robin Wilson (Independent)
We remember him largely for his Alice books, but Lewis Carroll was a man of many parts. The literary wizard was a consummate letter writer, a pioneering photographer and a brilliant mathematician. In this loving mathematician's biography, Wilson provides a rounded portrait of a man who had the magical ability to transform ordinary maths into enchanting puzzles and inventive prose and poetry.
- Foundation adopts East Delavan branch library to promote literacy (The Buffalo News)
A new beachhead was established Tuesday in Buffalo's ever-widening campaign against illiteracy.
- Catching up with the Modern Drunkard - Metromix
Catching up with the Modern DrunkardMetromix, IL - 12 minutes agoA drunken poetry jam. A drunken short-film festival. All kinds of things. It'll be a great time. It is. Everybody will have a great time. ...
- Websites bring 'mix tapes' into the 21st century (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Nothing says love, or goodbye, like custom-blended tunes, and it's easier than ever to assemble the perfect compilation.
- Why this crisis will make the next president better. - Slate
Someone's Better Off: With a deep recession looming and the government going bust, the widespread consensus is that the financial crisis strikes a bitter blow to the presidential candidates' grand policy ambitions. As Ted Widmer asked in the Outlook ...
- Poetry in motion to highlight bullying - Daily Post
Poetry in motion to highlight bullyingDaily Post, UK - 16 hours agoPupils in primary schools are being asked to write a short poem about bullying. Secondary schools are being asked to develop a script for a spoof news ...
- Conjuring transitions - Washington Blade
For poet and 2007 Barrow Street Press Prize winner Ely Shipley, whose first book “Boy with Flowers†will be out in October, poetry has been a way to express issues of identity and gender since his youth. Shipley, 31, who calls himself “gender ...
- The Monitor: Coals, Newcastle, get it? (BBC News)
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press. All week the Guardian's giveaway is pamphlets on how to write. Obviously the nation's journalists have been squirreling away How to Write: Fiction and How to Write: Poetry, since this is what newshounds secretly would prefer to be doing.
- Kidnap suspect says days with daughter 'glorious' (7 News Boston)
BOSTON -- The kidnapping suspect who calls himself Clark Rockefeller said he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with his daughter evading authorities, but still isn't talking about his life before 1993.
- Searching for peace in silence (Honolulu Advertiser)
I couldn't resist Desiderata's invitation to "go placidly amidst the noise and haste and remember what peace there is in silence."
- LRT-2 passengers enjoy piped-in poetry readings (Philstar.com)
Rather than listen to Rihanna’s latest ditty, how about a poem by Rio Alma? The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) started broadcasting throughout the LRT Line 2’s stations and trains yesterday the poems of Filipino authors as read by celebrities.
- An orchestra world premiere in Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer
Five years of Philadelphia Orchestra free neighborhood concerts in Camden culminated ambitiously Friday night, not with a typical pop-in, pop-out program of classics but with a world premiere piece that galvanized audiences for what it symbolized as ...
- David Gonzalez sets classics to music for children - Lower Hudson Journal news
David Gonzalez sets classics to music for childrenLower Hudson Journal news, NY - Oct 6, 2008Capturing Gonzalez is more of a challenge for his family. The nature of his job requires travel, and through January he'll be on the road to points as far ...
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