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- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" (Centre Daily Times)
For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will host the Olympics Games for the rest of us...the Rejected Olympics. From the nearly 100 new off-beat games (that didn't quite make the cut for Beijing) and Olympic themed avatar ...
- Bulletin Board: A listing of events in Palm Beach County (Sun-Sentinel)
Today American Contract Bridge League-sanctioned duplicate bridge , 6:45 p.m., Temple Beth El, 333 SW Fourth Ave., Boca Raton . $5. Call 561-483-6166.
- SFR Talk: Western Civility (Santa Fe Reporter)
Craig Barnes is a former trial lawyer who spent more than a decade as a negotiator dealing with international issues and ethnic and environmental conflicts in and around the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of and the dramaturge for the Santa Fe-based theater group Red Thread Collective.
- Bringing literature alive, literally - guardian.co.uk
Bringing literature alive, literallyguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoIn the past I've had my run-ins with live literature and performance poetry. I have bemoaned the deadly mixture of self-indulgence, rampant egotism and not ...
- Braden River Branch Library, 4915 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton; 727-6079: - Bradenton Herald
Braden River Branch Library, 4915 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton; 727-6079:Bradenton Herald, United States - 7 hours agoActivities include a book discussion about the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, a prize drawing, and a music and poetry contest. ...
- Obituary: Mahmoud Darwish - Financial Times
The concept of a national poet with the power to shape a national movement and define a country’s collective spirit seems to belong to a different century. But for Palestinians, who have yet to see their dreams of an independent state realised, it ...
- Curious journey (The Columbus Dispatch)
More than a decade and a half ago, losing hope that her work would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing a poem about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem gets. Her appointment on July 17 by Librarian of Congress James Billington as the new U.S. poet laureate caps one of the most unusual careers in American letters. Hers is "a very original poetic voice," ...
- Novel explores the ties that bind -- and life's surprises (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Cornelia Brown and her new husband, Teo, move from New York City to a pretty suburban neighborhood where they've imagined they'll have an ideal life. But as Cornelia meets her neighbors, she realizes she may never fit in with the other wives. Especially with Piper, who concerns herself with the state of Cornelia's yard and just happens to be the leader of the neighborhood clique.
- Blog: Hoping for some new readers - Jackson Sun
Howdy, hope a few new folks will start reading my blog, but, am very thankful for the regulars! When I started writing this, the entries were short and i shared my poems and songs. Now, because I haven't found more of my poetry and haven't taken the ...
- Randi Ward: A W.Va. Poet Who Truly - Graffiti
Randi Ward: A W.Va. Poet Who TrulyGraffiti, WV - 3 hours agoIn her first book of poetry, “Meditations on Salt,†published in the Faroe Islands under her auspicious pseudonym, numerous panoramas of unending hillsides ...
- Humor Monday Update 6/16/08 - Gather.com
Gather.comHumor Monday Update 6/16/08Gather.com, MA - 39 minutes agoHowever, there's plenty here to get your week off to an amusing start plus excellent prose and poetry as well. by Con Chapman who shines today. ...
- Schofield guilty of double murder in Des Moines (The Des Moines Register)
Today is the first day of the rest of Dennis "D.J." Schofield’s three lifetime sentences behind bars.
- Local students, staff compete in National Poetry Slam Festival (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Hundreds of spoken-word performers will be in Madison Aug. 3-9 for National Poetry Slam 2008 . The poet-performers are members of some 75 teams that will compete at several downtown venues for a chance to advance to the finals showcase and competition at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St.
- Waldport writing workshop blends learning with summer fun (Newport News-Times)
Seashore Family Literacy invites area teens to take part in a week-long writing workshop that blends creative writing with hiking, biking, beach walks, and more.
- Pages 1 2 - Salon
Fleming finds it ironic that Western Europe tends to love Obama. "He's someone who they alternately refer to as a black or métis [mixed-raced] politician, but they don't know what to do with their own minorities." Other instances of French ...
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