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- The Write Stuff - North Adams Transcript
It was Carrie Goodell's 11th birthday. She was putting on her tight blue jeans and her pink and black baby doll top. She went downstairs and thought to herself, "Cereal, again?" She remembered right then that she had forgotten her contacts. She ...
- Literary notes - Charlotte Observer
Literary notesCharlotte Observer, NC - 5 hours agoPOETRY READING/OPEN MIKE: Join nationally published poets Jayne Jaudon Ferrer and Dana Wildsmith, 7 pm, Park Road Books. Bring your poems; open mike will ...
- Birthday bash: Karunanidhi accepts partymen's wishes - Chennai Online
Chennai, May 22: Bowing to the appeals of party leaders and cadres, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today accepted the grand bash proposed by the party to celebrate his 85th birthday, falling on June three ...
- Obituaries in the news (The Charlotte Observer)
Eugenio Montejo CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Eugenio Montejo, a Venezuelan poet and essayist who won the 2004 Octavio Paz prize, died Thursday. He was 70. The poet's publishing house said he died of natural causes. Montejo's poetry is known for its rich texture and was published in numerous books in Spanish. His work also reached a wider audience thanks to the 2003 film "21 Grams" by Mexican ...
- Get down with the kids ... (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: Bella, two, was less than impressed by her first music festival, but her father Craig McLean will try again
- A house not for mere mortals (Naples Daily News)
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — The house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie. But, for Arakawa, 71, an artist who designed the house with his wife, Madeline Gins, the floor is a delight, as well as a proving ground.
- Family briefs: June 7, 2008 (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
PORT HENRY -- Children in grades kindergarten through sixth grade can "Be a Reading Champ" this summer at the Sherman Free Library. From June 7 through Aug. 23, participants can win prizes for every four books they read.
- Open for Business - Big Sky Weekly
Open for BusinessBig Sky Weekly, MT - 4 hours agoOn display now is the art, poetry, and prose submitted in the Narratives of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem contest. Attendees at the Grand Opening voted ...
- The lure of the street - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe lure of the streetguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago"There must be eyes on the street," declared Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), and a generation of photographers was on ...
- Woman killed in possible gang crossfire - Chicago Sun-Times
As a child, Ishma Stewart liked to park her kid-sized rocking chair in the middle of a family gathering, where she'd spin a tale about a girl named Wendy who lived within the colored bands of a rainbow. Sometimes, Ishma's living room performances ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance (Boston Globe)
After more than two dozen young people trashed a former residence of poet Robert Frost during a drinking party, the dilemma was how to punish them.
- Wharfies’ hungry struggle remembered - Green Left Weekly
Wharfies’ hungry struggle rememberedGreen Left Weekly, Australia - 46 minutes agoErnest left school at the age of thirteen; a family memory has him winning a school prize for his poetry, around the age of 11 or 12. ...
- Chalk Talk: San Mateo County teen poet makes anthology - Inside Bay Area
Justine Drennan's parents often read stories to her as a young child. "So it seemed natural to think of my own stories to write," said Drennan, 19, a graduate of Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough going into her second year at Princeton ...
- Grimshaw reunites with award-winning characters (Otago Daily Times)
It's been a huge year for Auckland author Charlotte Grimshaw, who has been named not only the Montana Medal for fiction but also the Reviewer of the Year. She talks to Alastair Bull of NZPA.
- Novelist Glenn Patterson on playwright Stewart Parker - Guardian Unlimited
One of the most memorable nights I ever spent at the theatre - and one of the most memorable nights I ever spent in Belfast - was the opening of a revival of Stewart Parker's Northern Star. The play imagines Henry Joy McCracken's final hours of ...
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