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- Club Penguin gets it right - Denver Post
Club Penguin gets it rightDenver Post, CO - 6 hours agoThe "newspaper" attracts 30000 daily submission from subscribers ranging from Dear Abby-like questions to jokes and poetry. (Photo courtesy of Disney ) The ...
- Pulitzer Prize winner named Va.'s poet laureate (WTOP Radio Network)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Tim Kaine appoints University of Mary Washington professor Claudia Emerson as Virginia 's new poet laureate. Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called "Late Wife." The book uses a collection of handwritten letters to reflect on her failed marriage of 19 years and her blossoming relationship with her second husband.
- SRB: Sam (in) Hunt for Laureateship - Scoop
The old cliché about six degrees of separation recently got a re-airing as the result of some Microsoft research but I suspect there would be few New Zealanders who would separated from Sam Hunt by more than a couple of handshakes and a huge number ...
- Getting His Goat: Fun at the Mid-State Fair (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)
The biggest little fair in the state  the California Mid-State Fair  kicked off its 2008 “Country Days, Rockin’ Nights†run Wednesday at the Paso Robles Event Center, 2198 Riverside Ave.
- Book Talk: Author Kathleen Norris find new life in "acedia" (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
When writer Kathleen Norris came across the word "acedia" used by a 4th century monk she knew she was onto something -- the "bad thought" identified by early Christian monks that lost out to more physical sins.
- Just let them bead (Pensacola News Journal)
Mother, daughter jewelry-makers gain national attention
- Words take flight at festival - Joburg
Words take flight at festivalJoburg, South Africa - 5 hours agoThe Jozi Spoken Word Festival brings poetry to life, with live performances by poets, storytellers and comedians. There are also workshops and a manuscript ...
- Travelin'Arkansas: Events Taking Place August 8-14 - Beebe News
The 13th annual Art in August Competition will be Aug. 2-30 at the Ozark Heritage Arts Center in Leslie. The event is an exhibit of art entries and visitors can vote for a People’s Choice awards. A free public reception and awards ceremony will be ...
- 'Offensive Shadows' revisits the Bard - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - For some people "... and they all lived happily ever after" does not represent a satisfying way to end a romantic tale, particularly as it is usually inserted into a tale just as things are getting interesting, from a real-life point of ...
- THE MAKING OF A MONSTER - New York Post
He was the world's most-wanted war-crimes fugitive - the mastermind of an inhuman "ethnic cleansing" policy that ravaged Serbia in the '90s. Ruthless politician, poet and psychologist, former Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic was born in 1945 in a ...
- Artist's dark genius comes into the light - New Zealand Herald
Artist's dark genius comes into the lightNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 3 hours agoVan Gogh and the Colours of the Night features 23 paintings and 10 works on paper by the Dutch genius, as well as excerpts from his letters and the poetry ...
- Dominic Lawson: A simple lesson in humanity - The Independent
It could be described as the ultimate stamp of approval – to be commemorated on the surface of countless letters sent across the country every day. All of us will have our own idea of the sort of person who deserves the immortality of appearing on ...
- 4th Quaid-e-Azam National Conference: Jinnah had the best voice for ... - Daily Times
KARACHI: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had an extremely charismatic personality, the kind that attracted both men and women. He was a wise lawyer, a seasoned politician and, above all, a man of upright character, said Karachi university Vice ...
- Changing Book Industry Celebrates 150th - YLE News
YLE NewsChanging Book Industry Celebrates 150thYLE News, Finland - 11 hours agoAltogether some 5000 books are published in Finland each year, one of the highest per-capita levels in the world. Fiction and poetry account for less than ...
- Culture With A Capital ‘C’ - Hamptons.com
Hamptons.comCulture With A Capital ‘C’Hamptons.com, NY - 1 hour agoNow for the literary crowd - in for the Writers Conference at Stonybrook Southampton – to plunk down their weighty tomes, volumes of poetry, and scripts in ...
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