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- Out and About: July 2 - 13 - Avon Messenger
Out and About: July 2 - 13Avon Messenger, MA - 22 minutes agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Memorial held for murdered student (ABC11 Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville)
Family and friends of Ira Yarmolenko remembered her Saturday in a celebration of life.
- Poet Kay Ryan named next laureate - Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK — Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will be the nation's 16th poet laureate. The Library of Congress announced today that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
- Rural Romeos Ride on the Wild Side - Scoop
The Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year finalists faced a day of physical challenges today at Fieldays in their second day of competition for the Golden Gumboot trophy and title of Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year. The highlight heat of the day ...
- As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap - San Diego Union-Tribune
KIEV, Ukraine – A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free ...
- Highs -- and Lows -- in the 20s (Washington Post)
A trio of area 20-somethings showing at Hillyer Art Space betrays the advantages and pitfalls of youth.
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to candidate search - Charleston Daily Mail
BOSTON - Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is ...
- The Autobiography of a Super-tramp by W.H. Davies - Times Online
The Autobiography of a Super-tramp by W.H. DaviesTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoWH Davies began his hobo life every bit as free as Orwell. Born in 1871 in Newport, an industrial port of 30000 people, he was raised by grandparents who ...
- Hardest-To-Reach Vacation Spots (Forbes)
You'll have to take more than one plane, train or automobile to get to these remarkable spots.
- Another Wooden masterpiece unveiled (Los Angeles Daily News)
DEDICATION: Legendary UCLA coach honored with mural at namesake school.
- Sailing into the past - Baltimore Sun
Sailing into the pastBaltimore Sun, United States - 4 hours ago"I love the poetry of motion, the challenge of it," says John Dickey, an avid sailor and NASA engineer from Houston. "And the nature. I just love it."
- U.S. poet laureate found it hard to hide her talents (San Diego Union-Tribune)
When Kay Ryan was a student at UCLA, the poetry club rejected her application; she was perhaps too much of a loner, she recalls. Now Ryan is being inducted into one of the most elite poetry clubs around.
- Funeral home for pets opens in Orchard Park (The Buffalo News)
Wine-colored drapes and vases of flowers evoke a solemn tone for visitors who walk through the doors of Orchard Park's newest funeral home.
- Cover Story - Artvoice
Cover StoryArtvoice, NY - 4 hours agoThis “definition” was actually the title of a book of his poetry published in 1969, following the first of two brief tenures as visiting professor at the ...
- Slam some poetry (The Star)
EVER felt the urge to write an ode to chocolate cake? Or a sonnet about coffins? Perhaps you prefer limericks in which old ladies choke on apple crumble? At this month’s KL Poetry Slam, you get the chance to wax lyrical about life’s two certainties (forget taxes!): Death and Dessert.
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