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- E-town kicks off the fall fair season (Lancaster Online)
David Cavanaugh was taking it easy on a bench early Monday evening while his wife Patricia finished the last of dinner. If he had looked up, he would have seen a beautiful, cloudless sky the same shade of blue as his shirt — but instead, he looked around at all the people with him at the ...
- Stir it up - Colorado Springs Independent
Colorado Springs IndependentStir it upColorado Springs Independent, CO - 33 minutes ago"Many up-and-coming writers work across genres; writing essays, poetry, fiction, drama, screenplays." He says one component of the mixed-genre trend stems ...
- Safety Valve: Letters from readers - The Wenatchee World Online
Safety Valve: Letters from readersThe Wenatchee World Online, WA - 1 hour agoIn my most recent book “Rhymes and Reasons,†I begin the collection of poetry with a tribute to my dad with a piece “A Certain Someone. ...
- Former poet laureate - Daily Local News
I, myself, had a fairly embarrassing time with poetry in high school," Collins said. "I had to kind of write in secret. … Poetry was something that would very likely just get you beat up in the parking lot. I'm overjoyed that poetry seems to be ...
- Kanaka'ole blends old and new traditions (Honolulu Advertiser)
Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole comes from a family with hula pedigree, where song and dance embrace the 'aina and define life in all its glory. From the opening "Grandchild," with chant and incantations (in Hawaiian and in English), delving deeply into family roots, to the closing "E Mai Hawai'i," a traditional mele that recapitulates the birth of the Islands and the emergence of man and woman, ...
- Bar owners claim ban hurts business - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteBar owners claim ban hurts businessPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 17 hours agoWhile attending a poetry reading at the Fuel & Fuddle in Oakland Thursday night, she had to go outside to smoke. "[The ban] helps me to not smoke as much," ...
- The Bengali adda – I - Merinews
The Bengali adda – IMerinews, India - 11 minutes agoThe addas separated into those that had a soft corner for only prose, while another section handled the mysterious world of poetry – the conventional ones ...
- Living in downtown Flint is a mixed bag (The Flint Journal)
Lately a lot of people have asked me how I like living in downtown Flint. I moved to a historic building a block from The Flint Journal last November. Those who don't frequent the city are increasingly curious about all the construction and changes along Saginaw Street.
- Untidy metaphors (Anchorage Daily News)
Three playwrights meet at a coffee shop and stare into space. One leans over the table on her elbows, knees on the floor, while the other two sit in chairs, hands to their chins.
- Death, with Compound Interest - OpEdNews
Death, with Compound InterestOpEdNews, PA - 3 hours agoHis work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. ...
- Find a themed cruise on new Web site - Southern Illinoisan
Cruises can be found with programming on all these themes and more. Some themed cruises offer lectures by experts, some offer performances, others offer hands-on activities from crafts to dance to seminars in photography. A new Web site called ...
- Comments on this story are moderated (Toronto Star)
LONDON–Dozens of renowned British writers have joined the latest protest against that country's proposed new anti-terrorism legislation.
- ebrary Signs 14 New Publishing Partners (Centre Daily Times)
ebrary(R) (www.ebrary.com), a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that it is greatly enhancing its growing selection of more than 170,000 titles with e-books and other authoritative materials from more than 14 new publishing partners. ebrary has now secured partnerships with more than 300 of the world's leading publishers of scholarly, STM, trade, and ...
- The Republicans’ Call to Arms - Canada Free Press
We recall the words of the old popular song, “What a Difference a Day Makes; 24 Little Hours.†In this political year, it was actually 38 hours, but the poetry is the same. That’s the time-spread between the locking up of the 2008 Republican ...
- Offbeat moments: a book for the ages - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Offbeat moments: a book for the agesMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoDickson will be at Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Av. S., Minneapolis, for a book-signing at 5 pm next Sunday. • “Undoing,†a collection of poetry by James ...
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