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- The Art of Travel - Filmjerk.com
Filmjerk.comThe Art of TravelFilmjerk.com, CA - 3 hours agoThe direction by Thomas Whelan reaches for poetry and achieves an even flow of culture shock humor and gentle Zen-like absorptions of experiences. ...
- Jackson Heights holds first poetry festival (Queens Courier)
An idea that came up over coffee turned into the recently-held, first annual Jackson Heights Poetry Festival. Festival founders Marina Yoffe and Sarah Heinemann first had the conversation last summer. Yoffe said that afterwards they thought the poetry festival should be more than just an idea.
- Suburban poet shines bright deep in the heart of Texas - Chicago Daily Herald
Suburban poet shines bright deep in the heart of TexasChicago Daily Herald, IL - 22 minutes agoYou can see his performance poetry online at www.youtube.com/user/JeFFStumpo. Stumpo met his wife, Kate, when they were taking a karate class at Wesleyan. ...
- Urdu awards event set for May 15 (Gulf Times)
THE annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards ceremony and the Aalmi Mushaira (International poetry symposium) will be held at the Doha Sheraton on May 15.
- Hold Steady struggle with consistency (Maneater)
The Hold Steady have always toed a thin line between poetry and novelty.
- Mortal Coil by David Boyd Haycock and Not Dead Yet by Julia Neuberger - Times Online
Mortal Coil by David Boyd Haycock and Not Dead Yet by Julia NeubergerTimes Online, UK - 7 hours agoIronically, though, this wellintentioned work is far less fun than Haycock's account of obsessives and death-deniers. But the answer to both may lie in an ...
- Group will hold youth poetry contest - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Word In Motion holds a citywide youth poetry slam at 7 p.m. Friday. Poets age 12-17 will compete for a $100 prize — with the audience as judge. The youths should come with at least three poems that they have written. The slam, sponsored by the ...
- Steel’s themes stress hope - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Occasionally, I have to stick my nose out the door. Otherwise, people are going to think I’m 100 years old and dead. “This is so not me,” she says. “I hate having the spotlight on me. I hate being the focus of attention. I like being the ...
- Monday, July 28 - Advocate Weekly
Monday, July 28Advocate Weekly, MA - 7 hours agoBerkshire Opera Company, "Exhilaration: Songs Based on the Poetry of Emily Dickinson," featuring Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano, and Gregg Kallor, ...
- Indian journalist brings out magazine in Braille (OneWorld South Asia)
The visually impaired students of Maharashtra now have an opportunity to be as attuned to what’s happening across the globe as those who are in the habit of reading newspapers and watching television.
- Camp Ayandeh Lesson: Cumberbund comes from the word "kamarband" (Payvand Iran News)
IAAB's third annual Iranian-American Camp for rising high school sophomores to graduating high school seniors, is being held June 22-28, 2008 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Far from being simply a camp of leisure and recreation, Camp Ayandeh creates a positive, inclusive environment in which each camper has the opportunity to grow and develop. -Sharareh Hakimi
- 2008 Great Adirondack Young People - Adirondack Daily Enterprise
2008 Great Adirondack Young PeopleAdirondack Daily Enterprise, NY - 46 minutes agoThis has been a banner year for the LPI’S annual Young People’s Poetry Contest. The winning poems were selected by Roger Mitchell from more than 800 entries ...
- Saddling up for a weeklong festival - Union
Crowds will watch bucking broncos at the Penn Valley Rodeo next weekend, but Wild Wild West Days will be celebrated all week leading up to the 51st annual event. "The weather's supposed to be fabulous all week and that should have an impact (on ...
- Family briefs: June 7, 2008 (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
PORT HENRY -- Children in grades kindergarten through sixth grade can "Be a Reading Champ" this summer at the Sherman Free Library. From June 7 through Aug. 23, participants can win prizes for every four books they read.
- Web extra: Local literary events - Batavia Sun
For teens: Jordan Sonnenblick, author of teen novels introduces the first in a new series of books about Dodger (an imaginary blue chimp) and a boy named Willie during a reading and booksigning at 7 p.m. at Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave ...
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