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- Nashville's newest star: Texas mom (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
A Texas mother of five is the new “Nashville Star.” Melissa Lawson beat finalist Gabe Garcia on Monday for the title on the country music reality series. Upon winning, Lawson, 32, performed her single “What If It All Goes Right,” which was released to country radio Tuesday. Photo caption: Freeman
- Laureate of Arabia - Hindustan Times
Laureate of ArabiaHindustan Times, India - 17 minutes agoHe wrote short stories and developed a style of writing poems that was a mixture of observation, humanity and irony He argued that poetry was easier to ...
- Gifted Education Programme an important part of Singapore system (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Philippines News)
SINGAPORE : Education Minister Ng Eng Hen on Monday said the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) retains an important place in the Singapore education system.
- Poetry reading series concludes this week in Bethany Beach - Cape Gazette
Poetry reading series concludes this week in Bethany BeachCape Gazette, DE - 28 minutes agoIn addition to being a poet and essayist, he is also a playwright whose play “Death Comes Twice” won the Southern Delaware One Act Play Contest in 2007. ...
- Music and performance art highlight ArtSpree 2008 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Honolulu Star-BulletinMusic and performance art highlight ArtSpree 2008Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - 2 hours agoLoco Moco, a juggling, unicycling, stilt-walking clown, will also appear, and students from Youth Speaks Hawaii will perform their poetry.
- A Rakish Interview with Minnesotan(-by-Proxy) Author Bart Schneider - Rake
A Rakish Interview with Minnesotan(-by-Proxy) Author Bart SchneiderRake, MN - 28 minutes agoJust wondering if you'd riff a bit on that. Schneider: I came up as a poet, and it's a part of my life. I get really excited about reading poetry. ...
- With a no-hassles approach to panhandlers, Dallas' new shelter hopes ... - Dallas Observer
A Dog's Life continues through June 22 at Theatre Three. Call 214-871-3300. Sick continues through June 28 at Kitchen Dog Theater. Call 214-953-1055. Subject(s): Kitchen Dog Theater , A Dog's Life , Sick , Theatre Three The dog days of Dallas theater ...
- Nikki Giovanni Speaks Poetry in NYC July 8-9; Broadway's Jenkins Adds Music (Playbill)
Acclaimed poet and author Nikki Giovanni is in New York City July 8-9 to join Broadway vocalist Capathia Jenkins and songwriter-performer Louis Rosen for a reading event of Giovanni's work, and two performance/signings of the new PS Classics CD, "One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs."
- North Texas Events, August 15 (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
TEXAS RANCH ROUNDUP Today to Sunday, MPEC. A benefit for the North Texas Rehab Center. Historically significant ranches gather to compete in traditional ranching events for bragging rights. Kids Roundup returns. Ranch cook-off: T-bone steaks, corn, rolls, cinnamon rolls.
- Wind of change at Tolethorpe - Peterborough Today
Wind of change at TolethorpePeterborough Today, UK - 23 minutes agoNick (65), from Castle Bytham, has been acting at Tolethorpe for 15 or so years, after writing some poetry for a Midsummer Night's Dream, going along to ...
- Kids will love these two wonderful stories - and so will you - Concord Monitor
One day, as Kathy Brodsky walked her dog along a familiar route, she noticed a crooked pine tree. And it got her thinking. Brodsky, who lives in Manchester and works as a therapist and life coach, plays at poetry. In her first book for children, My ...
- Kay Ryan named U.S. poet laureate - The Money Times
Washington -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09. Ryan, a 63-year-old California native, is to begin her duties in the fall, opening the library's annual ...
- Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild sets third annual young writers contest (Cape Gazette)
Delaware Beach Life magazine and The Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild are once again joining forces to hold the third annual Writing Contest for Young Writers.
- Weekend book reviews (International Herald Tribune)
'White Heat' by Brenda Wineapple; Falun Gong And the Future of China by David Ownby; 'The Return of Ulysses' by Edith Hall.
- Professor Alfred Arteaga, prolific poet, dies - San Francisco Chronicle
Professor Alfred Arteaga, prolific poet, diesSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoHe was born in Los Angeles in 1950 and began writing poetry at age 8, according to his daughter, Mireya Arteaga of Aptos. He received a master's of fine ...
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