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- Best of the week - Concord Monitor
Best of the weekConcord Monitor, NH - 30 minutes agoFormer US poet laureate Donald Hall will read from his new memoir, Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of Life in Poetry, at a special 80th birthday celebration ...
- The true meaning of Oktoberfest - La Crosse Tribune
Oktoberfest first began in Munich, Germany, almost two centuries ago, as a celebration of blessed gratitude for the bounty received and the promise of joyous love to be shared. About 150 years later, the city of La Crosse inaugurated its own ...
- Cowboy poets make audiences feel pull of open trail (Anchorage Daily News)
PALMER -- Jim Reader and T.J. Casey are the kind of cowboys who still rustle stock, who proclaim their country-folk status with big hats, blue jeans and calloused fingers. Their callouses aren't earned entirely through ranching -- although they say they've got land and livestock in Alberta and Montana, respectively -- but from hours picking out tunes they've crafted on the road or in a pasture ...
- Homeless 90210: Slumming Time And The Livin's Easy (FOX 29 Lake Charles)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Authorities have raised the confirmed death toll in the Los Angeles commuter rail disaster to 24 but they don't believe they have removed the last body from the wreckage.
- Regional calendar - Wicked Local Roslindale
Regional calendarWicked Local Roslindale, MA - Sep 11, 2008This event combines gloom, electronica and darkwave with gothic belly dancing, horror/fantasy art, and a disk jockey. Late night ”Grab Cauldron” raffle and ...
- The Young Man and the Lakes - Wall Street Journal
Seney, Mich. When Ernest Hemingway was a young writer in the 1920s, he pinned a map of northern Michigan to the wall of his room in Paris. It probably came in handy as he wrote his first batch of short stories. Although he was born and raised in Oak ...
- Poetry workshop scheduled this month - Rapid City Journal
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A writers workshop sponsored by the Badger Clark Memorial Society is scheduled for Sept. 19-21. The program begins the afternoon of Sept. 19 at Custer State Park followed by a free public event with poetry reading and music at the ...
- Community read-along planned for spring - Bellingham Herald
Community read-along planned for springBellingham Herald, WA - 3 hours ago16 at Fairhaven Village Green, know that he's energetic, humane and awfully funny. A decade ago he won the title of heavyweight poetry champion at the Taos ...
- Windmills for peace - Jersey Evening Post
ISLANDERS are being asked to take part in a worldwide display of windmills as part of an international day of peace. Jersey artist Debbie Jeal (41), of St Helier, is encouraging people to make a child’s windmill and take it along to an event on ...
- Arab ex-Knesset member highlights diminishing US role in world affairs (The Daily Star Lebannon)
The world's changing power dynamics during the Bush administration era were the focus of a lecture by former Arab-Israeli MP Azmi Bishara before a full audience at Hamra's Al-Madina Theater on Monday evening. In his lecture - entitled "What's the role for America after Bush?" - Bishara noted that the United States remains.
- Theodore Solotaroff, 80; his New American Review showcased writers - Boston Globe
NEW YORK - Theodore Solotaroff, who in 1967 started The New American Review as a highly unusual showcase for a rising generation of writers, including Philip Roth, William H. Gass, and Mordechai Richler in just the first issue, died Friday at his ...
- Illusionists Given Royal Recognition - RedOrbit
Illusionists Given Royal RecognitionRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoAt Poetry Nightclub (Forum Shops at Caesars on Saturday): Rapper Paul Wall, performing a one-hour set. During the night he gave away two custom-designed ...
- Literary Happenings: Next weekend brings 2 special events - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: Next weekend brings 2 special eventsVentura County Star, CA - 2 hours agoPoetry workshop 7 pm Wednesday. Barnes & Noble, 4820 Telephone Road, Ventura. 339-0990. Poetry reading 7:30 pm Wednesday. Suzanne Roberts will read her work ...
- Perhaps Death Is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life - New York Times
New York TimesPerhaps Death Is Proud; More Reason to Savor LifeNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoBecause the only antidote to death is not poetry, or drama, or miracle drugs, or a roomful of technical expertise and good intentions. The antidote to death ...
- Edna B. Turner - NRToday.com
Edna B. TurnerNRToday.com, OR - 6 hours agoShe was an avid reader and wrote some poetry. She was a long term member of AAUW, a professional women’s society, and of the Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority. ...
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