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- Poetry: Is poetry's future as bright as its past? (The Evening Sun)
Editor's Note: Guest poet columnist Allen Taylor is webmaster of http://www.world-class-poetry.com and writes a daily blog at http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com . He spent 2005 in Iraq with his National Guard unit and is revising a book of poems he wrote during that time.
- Meet Miss Popcorn contestants before this Saturday's pageant - Marion Star
MARION - Twelve young women will vie for the honor of representing Marion as Miss Marion Popcorn Festival Queen this weekend. The pre-show begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9 at Marion Harding High School, and the pageant at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are ...
- Legal eagle-turned-neta Sibal now tries his hand at poetry (The Times of India)
Politicians, for all their flair for speech-making, are not always good poets. But Sibal uses his vantage point to get to the heart of the matter.
- Remarks by the First Lady During a Visit to the Carl Sandburg Home ... - MarketWatch
Remarks by the First Lady During a Visit to the Carl Sandburg Home ...MarketWatch - 1 hour agoAnd they can have their hand at writing poetry of their own -- like the poem that Abbie just shared with us. I want to congratulate all the Junior Rangers ...
- Posted by Josh Lowensohn Post a comment - CNET News
If you're one of the many waiting for Apple to get its act together and offer a copy/paste feature on the iPhone there's a promising development called MagicPad from software creators Proximi. It's an application similar to the notes tool that ships ...
- Arts & Books Digest - Thecalifornian.com
Romance Writers of America has announced local author Kelly Parra's novel "Graffiti Girl" has been named as a finalist in the Best First Book and Young Adult Romance categories of the 2008 RITA awards. The RITA, the romance publishing industry's ...
- Biz Buzz: Web-surfing isn't a sin, even if it's not work (The Star-Ledger)
It's Monday morning and you've been at your desk since 7:30 a.m. -- writing reports, firing off memos, or whatever it is you do in that cubicle. By 11 a.m. you need a break, so you hop on the web to watch the National Zoo's "Panda Cam" -- live footage of pandas walking around, eating and sleeping.
- Marionettes enjoy revival - Myanmar Times
Marionettes enjoy revivalMyanmar Times, Burma - 7 hours agoIn his poetry the monk also wrote of the public fascination with string puppets, using the commemoration ceremony of the completion of Mingalar Zaiti Pagoda ...
- Palestinians plan big funeral for poet Darwish - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday -- an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for ...
- An old band's new life (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
If David Berman tells the audience members at First Unitarian Church on Tuesday that he loves them, he won't just be mouthing hollow stage patter.
- There is little more perverse than the Mafia's sexual morality - Irish Times
There is little more perverse than the Mafia's sexual moralityIrish Times, Ireland - 6 hours agoGiovanni made the mistake of letting it be known that he likes to write poetry. Given also that the "men of honour" in his "family" noticed Giovanni's ...
- THE BOMB (Santa Fe Reporter)
Looking at first like a macro-scale soap bubble, it leapt 7½ miles into the sky to take the form of a heaven-bound jellyfish. The explosion was brighter than the light of the sun. It was the birth of a new scale of death, and it was magnificent.
- Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst - RTE.ie
Conor Oberst - Conor OberstRTE.ie, Ireland - 33 minutes agoLike 2004's 'Lua', it takes beauty from a simple melodic sweep over an acoustic guitar as he breathes out pure poetry. One of his finest songs to date, ...
- Instrumental Women Presents "Lady Jazz in the Key of Grand" at the Ford Amphitheatre (All About Jazz)
Hollywood, CA - The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre and Instrumental Women, La Quetta M. Shamblee, Founder and Executive Director; Phyllis Battle, Artistic Director and Co-Music Director; and Carol Chaikin, Co-Musical Director, present The Ninth Annual Lady Jazz Concert, “LADY JAZZ IN THE KEY OF GRAND," on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ford Amphitheatre; 2580 Cahuenga Boulevard East; ...
- Book notes: Father, son collaborate on book (Asheville Citizen-Times)
ASHEVILLE – Citizen-Times columnist and Together We Read executive director Rob Neufeld has authored a book titled “Asheville’s River Arts District,†with photography contributions by his 17-year-old son, Henry Neufeld.
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