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- DEAR AMERICAN AIRLINES (Book Reporter)
This summer you may find yourself at the mercy of the airline industry, paying high prices and risking canceled flights. Or you may opt for train or car travel and long for a good book to absorb yourself in as the landscape rolls by the windows.
- Music master Wilfrid Mellers dies - York Press
Music master Wilfrid Mellers diesYork Press, UK - 26 minutes agoHe gained a first class honours degree, began drawing and painting and wrote reams of poetry. But his first love was music and he began composing, ...
- Reggae dub artist is spellbinding - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Reggae dub artist is spellbindingSeattle Post Intelligencer - 39 minutes agoAfter a short set, Johnson closed by saying, "Poetry is like medicine. It should be taken in small doses." Though undoubtedly true in the general sense, ...
- Cirque du So Gay! - Queensland Pride
Cirque du So Gay!Queensland Pride, Australia - 21 hours agoThe gay Circus website claims that "expressiveness, sensuality and poetry will fuse … achieving an up-to-date, modern and attractive aesthetic. ...
- Teens win in talent competition - Montgomery Advertiser
Teens win in talent competitionMontgomery Advertiser, AL - 15 hours ago... competed recently at a statewide Church of God teen talent competition in Birmingham. Katie Evans won first place in the poetry writing division, ...
- Award-winning poet will give reading - SunJournal.com (subscription)
SunJournal.com (subscription)Award-winning poet will give readingSunJournal.com (subscription), ME - 7 hours agoTolides is the author of "An Almost Pure Empty Walking," which won the National Poetry Series in 2005. He moved to the United States when he was only 6, ...
- Artist Spotlight: Ross Ipsen (The Lawrentian)
Ross Ipsen is a pragmatist. When I asked him about his plans for post-Lawrence life, this aspiring conductor pointed out, "Since orchestral conducting is a very competitive field, my short term goal is to get into a Masters Program in conducting.
- Midwest Writing Center offers summer internships (Quad-City Times)
The Midwest Writing Center is looking for students ages 15-19 interested in a summer internship producing and distributing a magazine that showcases fiction, poetry and dramatic writing.
- Attempting a turnaround: A program to help students shine (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Richardo Grimsley, a sophomore at Pittsburgh Westinghouse High School in Homewood, said he sometimes thought about writing poetry but didn't put pen to paper until a new after-school program debuted in October.
- Three Famed Novelists Weave Exhilarating Tales - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 5, 2008 · Three renowned women writers have books of fiction out this spring and each one asks the reader to take a leap of imagination. Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the last days of five authors; Jeanette Winterson takes ...
- Exclusive: Habeas Getting Shopped Around - Direct
Exclusive: Habeas Getting Shopped AroundDirect, NY - 19 hours agoThe company’s original business model was based on a copyrighted haiku, a form of Japanese poetry. Habeas’s marketing clients would contractually agree not ...
- Teen Talk: On the Go: An end is only beginning - Oneonta Daily Star
Teen Talk: On the Go: An end is only beginningOneonta Daily Star, NY - 13 hours agoThe last two lines (you should definitely read the entire poem) say: "Life is too strong for you _ it takes life to love life." In order to enjoy life's ...
- The Presence wins a Welsh book award - guardian.co.uk
The Presence wins a Welsh book awardguardian.co.uk, UK - 20 minutes agoHe has lived for many years in London, where he combined poetry with a medical career as a chest specialist. "I'm delighted. ...
- Upheaval shakes up Jewish family (Denver Post)
Nothing like watching "Falsettos," the love story of a divorced Jewish dad and his dying lover, set to fiery, percussive African drumbeats. OK, so they haven't quite worked out all the kinks at the Aurora Fox's new 75-seat studio theater. Rating: ***
- Auditions (The News Journal)
"Proof" Director Matt Casarino is seeking two women who can play 25 and 29, one man who can play 28, and one man who can play 50s or older for this Pulitzer- and Tony-winning drama. Show runs October-November. 7 p.m. July 21-22.
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