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- Around Town: Friday, July 11, 2008 (Tri-City Herald)
Mid-Columbia happenings for the week of Friday, July 11, 2008
- Memorial services in Q-C (Quad-City Times)
Founders Day celebration — Saturday, 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Kistenmacher Cemetery, 160th Street and 90th Avenue, Davenport. Event celebrates contributions German immigrants made to the community with music, poetry and more. In case of inclement weather, the event will be cancelled. Free. Contact: (563) 499-6789
- 'Sharecropper's Daughter' author of Gurnee draws on 64 years of hope ... - News Sun
GURNEE -- The story of Annie Louise Howard shouts an "Amen!" from every page of the Gurnee resident's new autobiography "The Sharecropper's Daughter." One of 12 brothers and sisters who grew up picking cotton in the Mississippi delta, Howard headed ...
- The art of the spoken word - Toronto Town Crier Newspapers
Toronto Town Crier NewspapersThe art of the spoken wordToronto Town Crier Newspapers, Canada - 2 hours agoThose who love it, champion the performance-based poetry’s very existence, attending and promoting the genre in underground circles, festivals and at poetry ...
- Perils of Multitasking - Washington Post Blog
I have no regrets in life, other than the fact that it is a thankless grind marked by serial indignities. Not least of these is the constant, humiliating quest for electricity in airports so that I can rejuice my laptop or cellphone. How long before ...
- Book Review: Double Vision by Pat Barker - Blogcritics.org
Book Review: Double Vision by Pat BarkerBlogcritics.org, OH - 39 minutes agoWhatever people’s ages, whatever their motives, whatever the consequences — either real or imagined — people still need love, can sense its promise, ...
- Chuck Landon: Friday night proved good can die when young or old - Herald-Dispatch
The good, they die young. But sometimes the good, they die old. Both philosophical premises met their fateful fruition here in Huntington late Friday night. Former Marshall football player Donte Newsome -- only 25 years old -- was shot in the chest ...
- @ 2gether08: Is politics big enough for the web? - Media Guardian
@ 2gether08: Is politics big enough for the web?Media Guardian, UK - 6 hours agoReturning to that idea of nuance, Fealty used a quote by former New York mayor Mario Cuomo: "You campaign in poetry but govern in prose. ...
- Tales of fathers sail on in The Boat - Kansas City Star
Tales of fathers sail on in The BoatKansas City Star, MO - 1 hour ago“There’s an incredibly rich tradition of father/son literature, in long form as well as in poetry and in short stories,” Le said in a recent interview at ...
- WAY TO GO! Presidential service award - Newsday
WAY TO GO! Presidential service awardNewsday, NY - 26 minutes agoIn April, Isser read original prose and poetry at the "Know Me, Know My Name" Conference at Hofstra University, a Nassau BOCES event in which high-schoolers ...
- Dylan, Hibbing’s most famous former resident, honored this weekend - Duluth News Tribune
Dylan, Hibbing’s most famous former resident, honored this weekendDuluth News Tribune, MN - 4 hours agoOne year we brought everyone up to BJ’s classroom and he gave a lecture on poetry — that red wheelbarrow poem — that he gave for Dylan’s class. ...
- From the Feuilletons - Signandsight.com
From the FeuilletonsSignandsight.com, Germany - 1 hour agoBorn 1955 in Istanbul, he is a master of literary crossover who balances between pop, drama and poetry, in his reworking of Arab-Kurdish-Alevite legends. ...
- Child abuse to be topic in Secaucus Thursday (The Jersey Journal)
Best-selling author and child advocate Andrew Bridge headlines the 19th annual Child Abuse Prevention Conference next Thursday at the La Quinta Inn and Suites in Secaucus. Bridge will deliver the luncheon address.
- Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mix - Gloucester Daily Times
Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mixGloucester Daily Times, USA - 7 hours agoAnd the fact that poets could only submit pieces of a limited length goes against the grain of what free poetry is all about. Now, there is debate over who ...
- Afghan journalist appeals death sentence - Hampton Roads Daily Press
PUL-E CHARKHI, Afghanistan - The prison uniform Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh wears is emblazoned with crudely painted black scales of justice, but the young journalist insists on the eve of his appeal that he has yet to see justice done. A court in January ...
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