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- Courtesy photo - HometownAnnapolis.com
All Naval Officers' Spouses (active, reserve and retired) are invited to a Welcome Coffee on Wednesday, September 24th at 10 am at the Army Navy Country Clubin Arlington, VA. Directed by Jane B. Wingard. 2nd Star Productions proudly present the ...
- The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory (Science Daily)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a new study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- Cesaria Evora’s Unforgettable Voice Transcends Nostalgia - The Santa Barbara Independent
Cesaria Evora’s Unforgettable Voice Transcends NostalgiaThe Santa Barbara Independent, CA - 14 hours agoAbove all, the morna is poetry. The morna is simply the musical term for the Portuguese word sodade. The word “sodade” is specific to the Portuguese ...
- Finding the Arab Iliad - Egypt Today
ABDEL RAHMAN EL-ABNOUDY knows he’s a good poet. He is arguably the greatest living poet of the activist 1960s and one of the founders of the modern colloquial poem, yet it is not his poetry for which he wants to be remembered. “I am a good poet ...
- War over how to thin herds rages in mustang country - San Francisco Gate
(07-20) 04:00 PDT Gerlach, Nev. -- Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they ran into a corral - unwilling recruits in an emotional debate over whether ...
- Schofield guilty of double murder - DesMoinesRegister.com
Schofield guilty of double murderDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 56 minutes agoJurors heard repeated testimony about Schofield's hatred for snitches, from the poetry posted on a MySpace Web page to snippets from a handwritten journal ...
- Is e-literature just one big anti-climax? - Guardian Unlimited
When I first ventured online, the internet struck me as the last word in literary experimentation. I was in good company. For Kathy Acker , and other pioneers who were already pushing the envelope on papyrus, cyberspace (copyright William Gibson ...
- Poetry Workshop Offered at Court House Library (Cape May County Herald)
09/25/2008 - 6:00p.m. to 09/25/2008 - 7:00p.m.
- Treasure trove of folk songs - Gazette & Herald
Treasure trove of folk songsGazette & Herald, UK - 1 hour agoApart from volumes of poetry and books on the Wiltshire countryside he published the well respected Life in a Railway Factory (1915), and Folk Songs of the ...
- BBC plans audio archive of complete works of Burns (The Herald)
An ambitious project using the voices of leading Scots actors to create a unique audio archive of the complete canon of Robert Burns's poetry was among the highlights unveiled by BBC Scotland when it launched its new schedule yesterday.
- Website: Partial Observers Offer Partial Observations - Evangelical Covenant Church
Website: Partial Observers Offer Partial ObservationsEvangelical Covenant Church, IL - 2 hours agoAsimakoupoulos contributes poetry he likens to “political cartoons comprised of word pictures.” Unlike many columnists, he writes from a point of view that ...
- Banjo Patterson poems found in old diary - News.com.au
The discovery of the 1899 cash book, in which the final pages reveal Paterson's original and unseen poetry, has thrilled Australian literature buffs. Major G.L. Lee, who commanded a squadron of NSW Lancers in South Africa in the Boer War in 1899 ...
- Those wild and crazy 'SNL' gals! - Miami Herald
It's good to be Tina Fey . The bespectacled comedian is not only driving Saturday Night Live ratings with her dead-on Sarah Palin impersonations but she just won two Emmys (Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress) for 30 Rock and ...
- Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka - Bookslut
Trouble and Honey by Jilly DybkaBookslut, IL - 1 hour agoThere are prose-poems and poems in columns that can be read both across and down. There’s even some free verse. Dybka embraces and often acknowledges her ...
- Going West Books and Writers Festival 2008 (Scoop.co.nz)
Karlo Mila is this year’s Curnow reader. Her first book Dream Fish Floating, won the Best First Book of Poetry at the 2006 Montana Book Awards.
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