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- Jack Kerouac's Colorado Road (Aspen Daily News)
For most of you, Jack Kerouac is the guy who wrote "On the Road" - a novel you read as a teenager that pumped you up for road-tripping and left you wondering about Benzedrine.
- Strike up the symphony to celebrate the Fourth - Inside Bay Area
Strike up the symphony to celebrate the FourthInside Bay Area, CA - 2 hours agoNor is it all dark until fall at SF Opera itself, which through its Merola training program is offering a free Schwabacher Summer Concert with its young ...
- High Meadows Poetry Winner (Revue & News)
Matthew Reingold, a first grade student at High Meadows School in Roswell, was selected as a state winner in the national 2008 River of Words Poetry and Art Contest. He is pictured during the Georgia River of Words Award Ceremony recently held at the Chattahoochee Nature Center.
- Poetry and history for hard men (Guardian Unlimited)
Prison education officer Andy recalls the ex-cons who were captivated by the Battle of Agincourt. Alan Smith reports
- Apples in the wild - Harvard Post
Apples in the wildHarvard Post, MA - 22 minutes ago... and her family used to pick apples and raspberries. Hoffman had read Richmond’s first book of poetry, “Boto,†and the two began working together again. ...
- St. Petersburg, where a morose spirituality brings forth poets (The Japan Times)
In Petersburg we will come together again As if we had buried the sun there. — Osip Mandelstam What city in the world can boast as many great poets and novelists as St. Petersburg? Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, the Bohemian Kharms, the satirist Zoshchenko, Brodsky (the poet who became an exile in the United States), to name a few . . . they created a mystique that ...
- Laughing and learning the traditional way - Times of India
Laughing and learning the traditional wayTimes of India, India - 2 hours agoWith the minimum of Sanskrit prose and poetry the vidushaka expands each word to weave the story fabric in Malayalam, which is understood by every one in ...
- Breaking News: Maria Shriver endorses Barack Obama - Los Angeles Times Blogs
In a dramatic moment at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, California First Lady Maria Shriver just strode out onto a stage that had already seen its share of celebrities -- Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder among them -- and announced that she was joining the ...
- AMTP Premieres Musical "Dangerous Beauty' July 25-Aug. 17 - Media Newswire (press release)
AMTP Premieres Musical "Dangerous Beauty' July 25-Aug. 17Media Newswire (press release), NY - 17 hours agoEVANSTON, Ill. --- The world premiere musical of "Dangerous Beauty" is a blend of passion, poetry and politics with an original score inspired by the best ...
- Still going strong after 25 years - Stratford-upon-Avon Observer
ONE in four of us will experience some sort of mental health illness in our lifetime. That's a staggering statistic, but despite the clear prevalence of the problem it's still an issue surrounded by stigma. Tucked away on a quiet residential road in ...
- Free Grant Writing Workshops (Kansas City InfoZine)
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- Push for 'dream team' accelerates in U.S. (Telegraph-Journal)
There's nothing quite like a happy ending - or at least what seems to pass for one.
- Changing world of commencement speakers (San Francisco Chronicle)
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of the next...
- Books in Brief: 05/25/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Books in Brief: 05/25/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 41 minutes agoA bilingual Ojibwa, Schoolcraft composed prose and poetry and was noted for collecting and translating native peoples' oral stories and legends, ...
- Canadian novelist, poet Margaret Atwood wins Spanish literary award (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MADRID, Spain - Canadian author Margaret Atwood has won Spain's Prince of Asturias literary prize. The jury praised the 68-year-old writer for work that covers several genres "with sharpness and irony."
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