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- Dispatch from The Philadelphia Urban Seminar: Day 5 - Penn State Live
Dispatch from The Philadelphia Urban Seminar: Day 5Penn State Live, PA - 3 hours agoIn the morning we worked on helping three of the girls write their final poems for the poetry contest. The class did another compare-and-contrast reading ...
- Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mix - Gloucester Daily Times
Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mixGloucester Daily Times, USA - 7 hours agoAnd the fact that poets could only submit pieces of a limited length goes against the grain of what free poetry is all about. Now, there is debate over who ...
- Pizarro: Attentive bird-watcher saves the day at San Jose City Hall - San Jose Mercury News
There was a dramatic rescue Wednesday evening after the first flight of one of San Jose City Hall's peregrine falcon chicks went south. The male chick - who will get a name when the results of a contest are announced today - had flown from the City ...
- Patriot Post Vol. 08 No. 24 | 11 June 2008 - Patriot Post
Patriot Post Vol. 08 No. 24 | 11 June 2008Patriot Post - 5 hours ago—head feminazi Gloria Steinem Don’t underestimate the Dark Side: “We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new ...
- Going strong at 93 - Times Reporter
She loves to go dancing and hang out with friends on Friday and Saturday nights, sometimes hitting two or three hot spots in one evening, always accompanied by her designated driver. She’s unfailingly polite, though she doesn’t have much patience ...
- Collection of Urdu poetry launched (The Peninsula)
Qatar Hotel. The book, published in New Delhi, contains mainly ghazals (80), a Hamd, a Munajat and four Na'at. Visiting Urdu scholar and former editor of Aaj Kal, Shahbaz Hussain, was the chief guest and released the book.
- Max Mendelsohn's "Ode to Marbles" (Seattle Times)
I have always enjoyed poems that celebrate the small pleasures of life. Here Max Mendelsohn, 12, of Weston, Mass., tells us of the joy he...
- Arts around the Mid-coast; May 29, 2008 (The Times Record)
Canoe and kayak trip AUGUSTA — Old Fort Western will host its ninth-annual Fort to Fort Canoe and Kayak Expedition on Saturday, June 14. The purpose of the expedition is to celebrate and enjoy the historic 17-mile waterway between Fort Halifax in Winslow and Fort Western in Augusta.
- Irom Sharmila: Eight years on, and still fighting - MorungExpress
Irom Sharmila: Eight years on, and still fightingMorungExpress, India - 2 hours agoSubsequently, we discussed books whenever we met -- Buddhist texts, Manipuri poetry, the newspapers, Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries, Swami Rama’s Mystics ...
- Ken Follett Interview - CBC News
(photo: The Fundacion Catedral Santa Maria) Well known as a writer of international best sellers, Ken Follett was born in Wales and began his career as a newspaper reporter in Wales and in London. His first bestselling novel, The Eye of the Needle ...
- Evans poetry slam features hip hop, rap and verse - Orlando Sentinel
Evans poetry slam features hip hop, rap and verseOrlando Sentinel, FL - 13 minutes agoOn Friday, 17 or so Evans students laid it all out bare: teen angst, teen love (with Shakespeare and a red rose), self-esteem, poverty.
- It's Not My Party - Boston Globe
It's Not My PartyBoston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoJuly 10 is Clerihew Day, celebrating quite possibly the silliest form of poetry ever invented - four-line biographical poems in AABB rhyme scheme, ...
- Memorable Speech: An Interview with David Yezzi - MichNews.com
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad Is Eros . His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New ...
- Feel like an outsider? Welcome to the crowd (The Florida Times-Union)
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- Margaret Atwood wins 'Spanish Nobel' - Earthtimes
Oviedo, Spain - Canadian author Margaret Atwood, 68, was Wednesday awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize, regarded as the Spanish Nobel, in the category of literature. Exploring literary genres with "wit and irony," Atwood "intelligently assumes the ...
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