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- Rhyme and punishment: Vandals who trashed Robert Frost's home learn poetry as punishment (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment.
- Estremera: Conversation among brain cells (Sun Star)
THERE seems to be a growing number of kidnappings and major robberies out there in the national capital, and even more dead people being tagged as the robbers of this and kidnappers of that. And it's half a year before 2008 ends.
- Avon Duct Tape Festival offers sticky fun - Cleveland Plain Dealer
FILE PHOTOGRAPH The annual Avon Duct Tape Festival is a three-day salute to that most useful of materials -- duct tape. When a group of citizens asked Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Inc., to sponsor a town festival, Henkel agreed -- if it were also a ...
- Gerda’s history to be unveiled? - Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Gerda’s history to be unveiled?Fergus Falls Daily Journal, MN - 2 hours agoThe contest is free, and no registration is necessary. Pieces will be read in an informal discussion setting, and gift certificates donated by local ...
- There once was a dog named Spot ... - Aspen Times
There once was a dog named Spot ...Aspen Times, CO - 35 minutes agoBy holding a poetry contest on canine feces, the city hopes to raise awareness about unclaimed dog poop in Aspen. In a survey conducted in October, ...
- Artworks not made to order (Wairarapa Times-Age)
A plethora of video art, painting, clay work, needle felting, drypoint etchings and poetry grace Aratoi from today as part of King Street Artwork's 11th retrospective exhibition Not Made To Order.
- Young poet wins prestigious prize - Oxford Mail
Young poet wins prestigious prizeOxford Mail, UK - 38 minutes agoBy Fran Bardsley A poem inscribed on a tiny scrap of paper has won the regional round of a prestigious human rights poetry competition. ...
- Montana NZ Book Awards 2008 finalists booklet - Scoop
Non-fiction Takes a Bow in This Year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards Finalist Line-up The quality and scholarship of the non-fiction finalists are the stand outs among the more than 220 books entered in this year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards ...
- Chilling Tales of the Great White North - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Chilling Tales of the Great White NorthPR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 13 hours agoThe 2009 anthology asks for Dark Fantasy and Horror genre short fiction or poetry, 5000 words or less. Submissions are accepted commencing immediately and ...
- Authors visiting Borealis Books in Wadena - Wadena Pioneer Journal
Authors visiting Borealis Books in WadenaWadena Pioneer Journal, MN - 6 hours agoBorealis will host “Poetry and Chocolate” at 7:30 pm on Friday, June 20. Featured poets are Diana Lundell of Eagan, Minn., and LouAnn Muhm of Park Rapids. ...
- Thursday Best Bets - MetroMix
Feeling strummy: The 20 hopefuls at this year’s U.S. Air Guitar Championships Regional Finals are poised to prove that you don’t need an actual instrument to rock out on stage. Last year’s regional winner, Nordic Thunder, competes again this ...
- Short takes: 'Heaven' is a study of life on Earth (San Jose Mercury News)
'The Edge of Heaven' **** "The Edge of Heaven" is the movie "Babel" so badly wanted to be. Written and directed by the enormously gifted Fatih Akin, "Heaven" deals with many of the same themes of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's over-praised 2006 film (globalization, cultural
- Indiana authors highlight exhibit (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
MERRILLVILLE | Indiana’s rich literary heritage at the turn of the last century is highlighted in the Indiana Historical Society exhibition, "The Golden Age: Indiana Literature, 1880-1920," opening Sunday at the Merrillville Ross Township Historical Society Museum 13 W. 73rd Ave. The exhibit will be available to view from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 24.
- Obama-Clinton ticket pushed, doubted - Owen Sound Sun Times
There's nothing quite like a happy ending - or at least what seems to pass for one. Maybe that's why so many Democrats want to see a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket this fall. The idea of a dream team is gaining ground again, now that Obama's ...
- Diane Ronayne: Remembering kayaker, poet, teacher Bill Studebaker - IdahoStatesman.com
Diane Ronayne: Remembering kayaker, poet, teacher Bill StudebakerIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 1 hour agoHis name was Bill Studebaker, and he went on to write half a dozen chapbooks, a poetical memoir and some prose, including a newspaper column. ...
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