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- Jeanette (Yox) Helmbrecht - Post-Journal
Jeanette Yox Helmbrecht passed away Wednesday, June 18, 2008. She was 80 years old. She was born on Dec. 2, 1927 in Jamestown, N.Y., to Jack and Ann Willi-ams Yox. Jeanette was educated as a registered nurse in New York State and served in the U.S ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, July 3rd - OpEdNews.com
Some observations on the news... [Note that this is a shorter ABoT. It won’t take you as long to read, and it still will cover a lot of ground. Your comments are invited .] America Back on Track... for Thursday, July 3rd. Our Quote of the Day is ...
- Fauxhemia: The Same Old Same Old New York School - Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn RailFauxhemia: The Same Old Same Old New York SchoolBrooklyn Rail, NY - 15 minutes agoThe poetry too was a provocation, one the wilder for its recklessness kept in check by rigor. Note the date. This was fully 40 years ago . ...
- Eagle-Tribune poetry winners — adult category - Eagle-Tribune
We throw you for a loop this year. For the last 25 years, The Eagle-Tribune's Spring Poetry Contest focused on tales of the season. Last year we opened up the contest to pieces related to all seasons, and had an overwhelming response. For our 26th ...
- Actress Alanna Ubach makes her NY debut in 'Patriotic Bitch' - New York Daily News
New York Daily NewsActress Alanna Ubach makes her NY debut in 'Patriotic Bitch'New York Daily News, NY - 1 hour agoA couple of months later, Ubach, who was raised in a predominantly Latino suburb of Los Angeles, enrolled in an American poetry class at UCLA and the ...
- What's On: Galleries - Toronto Star
What's On: GalleriesToronto Star, Canada - 19 minutes agoThomas Fisher Rare Book Library (UofT, 120 St. George St. 416-978-5285): Exhibit celebrating the Peter Series of English Canadian Poetry with artists Enzo ...
- Around Town - Beaufort Gazette
•A class on the basics of chess is offered from 4 to 5 p.m. every Tuesday at St. Helena Branch Library, 1025 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena Island. The library shares a space in the St. Helena Elementary School's media center off Eddings Point Road ...
- Teen talent - Anchorage Daily News (subscription)
Teen talentAnchorage Daily News (subscription), AK - 1 hour agoHer word play goes out in poetry slams. In the notebooks, the two areas of interest merge. Laster was born in Anchorage, has lived in Washington state, ...
- Carrboro Day Philosophy - The Carrboro Citizen
Carrboro Day PhilosophyThe Carrboro Citizen, NC - 5 hours agoLocal music, games, dancing, food, poetry, stories, groups, talents and humor will be allowed to offer Carrboro’s citizens a day to forget themselves, ...
- Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerity - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Poetry contest winners are fine specimens of insincerityRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 2 hours agoThe first-place winner, drumroll please, is Leah Warth, 10, of Brighton, who wrote her poem as part of a project in Adele Linton and Ina Sham's fourth-grade ...
- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will host the Olympics Games for the rest of us…the Rejected Olympics.
- The Three Of Us: A Family Story, by Julia Blackburn - The Independent
The trio in the title of this surprising and illuminating book consists of the author and her parents. Thomas Blackburn, the son of a religious fanatic, was a poet who consumed an oceanic amount of booze. He was violent in his cups and for a lengthy ...
- Memoirs (Washington Post)
Harry Bernstein's first critical success came with his memoir The Invisible Wall , published two years ago when he was 96. It described his upbringing in an impoverished Lancashire town, where the Jews lived on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Though he'd been a writer all his...
- Fielding the best summer reads - Denver Post
Fielding the best summer readsDenver Post, CO - 56 minutes agoIf I were to recommend one writer who captures the feeling of baseball — dare I say — the poetry of the game, it would be Roger Angell. ...
- Pocket Change (Soundings)
Jeff Messmer remembers well the Seattle Boat Show in January 2006. He was unveiling a 25-foot tug at one of the biggest boat show on the West Coast, where a thousand vessels vie for the attention of buyers.
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