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- Goose was one bad mother - but she helps kids read (Montreal Gazette)
In the age of This Little Piggy Went to Prada, it's easy to get misty-eyed over the diminishing appeal of traditional nursery rhymes. But when Mother Goose is fĂȘted nationally today for her contributions to literacy and storytelling, let's remember that despite the sentimental memories her name evokes, the icon of childhood poetry was one bad mother.
- Organization seeks talented local teens - Danville Commercial News
Organization seeks talented local teensDanville Commercial News, IL - 2 hours agoSeveral of them are preparing songs or poetry performances. âWe hope (the contest) gives them some confidence and reassures them they can accomplish ...
- Writing students share their works - Daily Anaeum
Writing is a labor of love for 10 soon-to-be graduate students of West Virginia Universityâs creative writing program. Today at 7:30 p.m.. in room 130 of Colson Hall, those students will share their poems, short stories, essays and novels they have ...
- Triumph over death - Hindu
HinduTriumph over deathHindu, India - 1 hour agoâPOETRY will steal death from me,â wrote Char Deno. Nothing can be more true of these evocative poems. They are in three sections: love, ...
- âCarpetbaggerâs Childrenâ is storytelling at its best - Cleveland Jewish News
âCarpetbaggerâs Childrenâ is storytelling at its bestCleveland Jewish News, OH - 13 minutes agoThe play, tenderly directed by Lucia Colombi, captures the understated elegance of Footeâs lyrical prose. The intimacy of the performance space at Studio ...
- Ghana: Youthful Artists Exhibit Work, Collaborate At Wapi (AllAfrica.com)
Some of Ghana's young rappers, artists, poets, designers, film-makers, and other creative types gathered to exhibit their talents last Saturday, the first WAPI in Ghana.
- No plea from NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list (Boston Globe)
An FBI most-wanted fugitive charged with molesting the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him is being held without bail after his years on the lam abruptly ended with his arrest in Mexico.
- Around the Valley (The Fresno Bee)
Art show sales to benefit incarcerated youths
- Bards averse to top poetry job - Channel 4 News
A new poet laureate will be chosen when Andrew Motion comes to the end of his term. But who wants the job? Every 10 years there is a new poet laureate - that strange job in which one of Britain's leading writers is nominated to produce verse on state ...
- Mid-summer fair - Emporia Gazette
Mid-summer fairEmporia Gazette, KS - 1 hour agoâWhere the Sidewalk Ends,â directed by Nancy Boyce, will feature the children reading and acting out selected works from Shel Silversteinâs 1974 poetry ...
- Bite Me Harder | Yana Alana and Tha Paranas - Australian Stage Online
Bite Me Harder | Yana Alana and Tha ParanasAustralian Stage Online, Australia - 21 minutes agoHer diva antics litigate the show, while her crass poetry, titled from the self-written book, âIf you were a carrot, I would have cum by now,â is a ...
- Editor, authors slated to speak - Blue Mountain Eagle
Editor, authors slated to speakBlue Mountain Eagle, OR - 2 hours ago... publishing market, and receive specialized instruction in a variety of genres, including fiction and nonfiction, magazine articles, devotionals, poetry, ...
- Immigrant women's stories are worth telling - El Paso Times
Immigrant women's stories are worth tellingEl Paso Times, TX - 4 hours agoShe has published two collections of poetry: "Saturn Falling Down" and "Somewhere between Mexico and a River Called Home." Her work in progress includes a ...
- Pulse contributors for July 22: - Hagerstown Morning Herald
Pulse contributors for July 22:Hagerstown Morning Herald, MD - 4 hours agoLisa McManus is 18 and attends adult education classes at the Washington County Family Center. She has been writing poetry since she was 13. ...
- The poetry-film connection - San Diego Union-Tribune
Give âCatsâ some credit: Few other plays or movies have embraced a poem (or series of poems) so extensively. Plenty, though, have taken titles and themes from works of verse. The pick of the litter: âTill Human Voices Wake Usâ: This 2002 film ...
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