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- Spenard fling generates cash for art project (Anchorage Daily News)
Luck, fate or the rain gods took mercy on revelers Saturday night at the ninth annual Spenard neighborhood barbecue at Sheila Wyne's studio. The downpour stopped at 4 p.m., just as the party started, and by the end of the night, the trebuchet had lobbed more than 25 melons and the crowd had contributed enough money to generate more than $1,400 toward Wyne's Homer art project.
- I Am So Popular: Quit Your Job, Eat Some Brownies (Austinist)
Editor’s note: The views expressed in I Am So Popular are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the outlook or beliefs of anyone else in the IST network. Once upon a time, a long time ago, I wrote an essay called Quit Your Job that ran on MSN.com. That piece landed on one of their most hits ever lists. This was back during the high-tech boom, there wasn’t a ...
- Books-a-gazillion - Creative Loafing
Books-a-gazillionCreative Loafing, NC - 31 minutes agoAfrican-American poetry will be celebrated; kids, and children's book fans, have a couple of events tailored to their tastes; and Armistead Maupin, ...
- Christian Fine Arts Society sponsoring poetry contest - Peoria Journal Star
A $1,000 grand prize will be awarded in a poetry contest sponsored by the Christian Fine Arts Society. Poems of no more than 21 lines can be sent to the society by Aug. 18. In all, 50 prizes valued together at $4,000 are being offered. Send a poem ...
- Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in work (Hattiesburg American)
Home for poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey is complicated. "I love this place. Yet this place has made an outsider of me," she said. Trethewey's latest collection of poetry "Native Guard," published in 2006, confronts this conflicting sense of displacement and what she calls "nostos," the Greek word for homecoming. The book takes its name from the first regiments of Louisiana Native ...
- Lost for words - guardian.co.uk
Lost for wordsguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoGrab one of the fantastic Quick Reads series that celebrity authors are now penning, or try a poetry anthology. 5 Read aloud. Importantly, 76% of mothers ...
- OUT THIS WEEK - Columbus Dispatch
Columbus DispatchOUT THIS WEEKColumbus Dispatch, OH - 2 hours ago... Barack Obama; Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman; Third Term: Why John McCain (Hearts) George W. Bush, Paul Begala; poetry -- Ballistics: Poems, ...
- Growing up girl - EastOregonian.info (subscription)
Growing up girlEastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - 1 hour agoBeers said "Just Like A Girl" is packed with the trials and tribulations of life as a female. "The book is basically poetry and writings about what it's ...
- How to write your memoir - Daily Telegraph
You have to ask the question. What brings a group of 11 women together in a room on Wednesday afternoons for 10 consecutive weeks in a small town in Norfolk, equipped with notebooks, pens, boxes of tissues, packets of painkillers and herbal tea bags ...
- Dubai Eid Milan in Al Boom - SahilOnline
SahilOnlineDubai Eid Milan in Al BoomSahilOnline, India - 8 hours agoNawayat Poet Khaja Usman Jabali also sung some good poetry and audience liked him. The third part of the program was lucky draw in which more than 100 ...
- 'Ironic Iconic America' book becomes Bravo special (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
NEW YORK -- Bar Refaeli has a sweet spot for destinations that feed her sugar habit: The Israeli model picked the Necco candy factory near Boston and New York's Serendipity restaurant -- home of the frozen hot chocolate -- as two of her favorite places on a long, winding road trip of the U.S. ...
- Asia's hottest new spaces - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzAsia's hottest new spacesStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours agoWHAT TO DO Visit China Best which showcases innovative product launches from young home-grown designers; attend a poetry reading, book launch or workshop ...
- A Kennedy Goes Public - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Caroline Kennedy is beginning to show a real enthusiasm for the family business. When the daughter of John F. Kennedy was named to Sen. Barack Obama's vice-presidential search committee, many political observers saw the move as mere ...
- Meesha writes her way to success - Harrow Times
A PUPIL from Bentley Wood High School has been named the Middlesex winner of a poetry writing competition. Meesha Patel, 14, won the £20 prize after beating off competition from more than 37,000 other students in the Away With Words competition ...
- John Lundberg: Ranking The Best Poets Ever (HuffingtonPost)
In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James...
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