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- Des O'Connor to leave Countdown - BBC News
Veteran TV presenter Des O'Connor has announced he is stepping down as the host of Countdown at the end of the current series in November. He began as quizmaster on the Channel 4 show two years ago, replacing Des Lynam, who took over the reigns when ...
- Philly moves to the Fringe - Cherry Hill Courier Post
Philly moves to the FringeCherry Hill Courier Post, NJ - 2 hours ago13, offering dance, comedy, theater, music, poetry, puppetry and multimedia. Once simply an Old City happening, the festival has spread to venues ...
- Teenagers invited to enter writing contest (The Oxford Press)
FAIRFIELD — The Lane Libraries will soon launch its seventh annual Teen Writing Contest, "Our Own Words," for short story and poetry writers ages 13-18. Work will be judged on originality, clarity, ideas presented, voice, word choice, presentation, sentence structure/fluency and spelling.
- Confab to commemorate Sohrab Sepehri in Oct. - IranMania News
Confab to commemorate Sohrab Sepehri in Oct.IranMania News, Iran - Aug 9, 2008New Poetry? and also one of Iran?s foremost modernist painters. He studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Tehran, where he was attracted to ...
- A myth takes shape before our eyes - The Republic of East Vancouver
A myth takes shape before our eyesThe Republic of East Vancouver, Canada - 6 hours agoAs I kept collecting, I realized the genre went from early stories and poems in France and Germany through the reasonably romantic poets, through Byron and ...
- Exhibit a response to book bans - Inside Bay Area
An order by Burlingame schools Superintendent Sonny Da Marto in 2007 to take books out of the hands of schoolchildren landed him on an infamous list maintained by the American Library Association. That list is an electronic compilation of book ...
- Novel deals with suicide, abuse, and the legacy of being Japanese ... - Northwest Asian Weekly
Northwest Asian WeeklyNovel deals with suicide, abuse, and the legacy of being Japanese ...Northwest Asian Weekly, WA - 10 minutes agoBy Calton Breen Working within the emotionally associative forms of poetry and memoir, award-winning poet David Mura has already created a body of work that ...
- Also on stage: ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ Wylliams-Henry and more - Kansas City Star
Also on stage: ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ Wylliams-Henry and moreKansas City Star, MO - 12 hours agoThe movie is far more famous than the play now, but the story about the friendship between a Southern lady and her driver is the same. ...
- Poetry integral part of life in hamlet (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - For generations, both the young and the old in the hamlet of Hoang Duong in Ung Hoa town in the northern province of Ha Tay have communicated by poetry.
- Things to Go and Do - like read poetry (Exeter News-Letter)
The 2008-2009 Poetry Hoot season with the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Café Espresso, 738 Islington St., (Plaza 800) Portsmouth. Featured readers will be Kate Aset and Hugh Hennedy. At 8 p.m. an open mic will be...
- Arson destroys beloved Monstero! of Georgetown - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post IntelligencerArson destroys beloved Monstero! of GeorgetownSeattle Post Intelligencer - 12 minutes agoShe wrote poetry. I think she would have liked it," he said. A graphic designer friend, Mark "Milky" McGuane, came up with the idea of a skull, ...
- Salman Khurshid and the Sons of Babur - Sify
Veteran Congressman and political heavyweight Salman Khurshid will soon debut as a playwright with Sons of Babur, to be published by Rupa & Co. The former law teacher at the prestigious Trinity College, Oxford is believed to be racing against time to ...
- Acquire the write stuff (The Salinas Californian)
Salinas-area residents yearning to see their writing published can meet nationally known authors and agents who can help them make it happen at the East of Eden Writing Conference, running Sept. 5 through 7.
- Alan Cruise-Johnston - SOUNZ
Alan Cruise-Johnston’s enthusiasm for choral music was kindled at Christchurch Boys’ High School singing the works of Griffiths and Galway under the inspired baton of Clifton Cook. His years at Victoria University of Wellington with Page and ...
- EVENT SEARCH RESULTS (East Bay Express)
ARTiFACTS: The Art of Mary Black, Kirk Crippens, and Linda Race Since we glue words together these days to form traincar neologisms, ARTiFACTS is a nice reverse-engineering of "artifact," combining artfulness/artifice and facticity/factuality -- and adding a dollop of i-era pizzazz (is iArt far behind?).
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