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- Today in History - Aug. 4 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year.
- Riverfront Reading, Featuring Timothy Allen Pettet and Shawn Pavey - Kansas City infoZine
Riverfront Reading, Featuring Timothy Allen Pettet and Shawn PaveyKansas City infoZine, MO - 4 hours agoSince then, his poetry has been published in a variety of regional literary publications including Independence Boulevard, The Blotter, and The Charlotte ...
- The poet who helped a forgotten showman escape from obscurity - Yorkshire Post
The poet who helped a forgotten showman escape from obscurityYorkshire Post, UK - 13 hours agoA newly published American biography of Houdini is thought to be the first to mention that, after a show in Nottingham, the star went out of his way to ...
- Sprinboks' coach knows only victory will suffice - Courier Mail
Sprinboks' coach knows only victory will sufficeCourier Mail, Australia - Jul 17, 2008SOUTH Africa's first black coach, Peter de Villiers, was endorsed by a tight 10-9 vote and he seems fated always to be the centre of strong debate. ...
- 'My Life - My Way': Frank 'Ol' Blue Eyes' Sinatra - Explosive New ... - PR Newswire (press release)
'My Life - My Way': Frank 'Ol' Blue Eyes' Sinatra - Explosive New ...PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jul 1, 2008Ed Starkey is the author of more than two dozen books of poetry and 10 novels. A co-founder of York Poets, he co-chairs a monthly writer's critique at ...
- Reaching out to young readers (Sentinel & Enterprise)
LEOMINSTER --Some teen girls like books better than boys and like art better than shopping at the mall, according to 14-year-old Catherine Brow.
- Film reviews: Killer of Sheep, Her Name is Sabine and more - Daily Telegraph
A classic finally released from copyright-related limbo, Charles Burnett 's 1977 debut observes the lives of a black family in the rundown Watts area of Los Angeles. A black cinema classic: Killer of Sheep At first, the focus is on the youngsters ...
- Damon Albarn and His Adventurous Honest Jon's Label (The Village Voice)
The most mysterious song I've heard all year is by a Londoner named Ben Simmons. Appropriately, the track shows up on iTunes as "[Blank]," as if technology itself couldn't figure out just how to classify this inscrutable sound: He starts off seemingly emulating Dada sound poetry, huffing and puff...
- Education briefs for June 15 - phillyBurbs.com
Education briefs for June 15phillyBurbs.com, PA - 2 hours agoStudents reflected on the writing and completed self-evaluations about their efforts. The collections also included personal artifacts, poetry, reading logs ...
- Jason Isbell: Singing ‘til Things Get Fixed - Tiger Weekly
Jason Isbell: Singing ‘til Things Get FixedTiger Weekly, LA - 7 hours agoWith his first solo album, last year’s Sirens of the Ditch, he proved that he isn’t afraid of plugging in, turning it up and intertwining poetry with ...
- DSO finds little freshness in new music - Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of Stacy Garrop's "Becoming Medusa" on Thursday, a sumptuously scored and meticulously crafted 15-minute tone poem based on a troubled figure of Greek mythology. The winner of the DSO's inaugural ...
- The Anger, the Longing, the Hope - Media Monitors Network
MWC NewsThe Anger, the Longing, the HopeMedia Monitors Network, CA - 1 hour agoHe was a master of classical Arabic, and equally at home with Western and Israeli poetry. Many believe that he was the greatest Arab poet, and one of the ...Video: Inside Story - Mahmoud Darwish remembered - 14 Aug 08 - Part 1 AlJazeeraEnglishall 38 news articles
- Ferguson's a man of many words - Tonight South Africa
Gus Ferguson is one of the greatest poets this country has. His poetry is quirky and sometimes very deep. Based in Cape Town, he's a cartoonist, a pharmacist and a committed cyclist. He publishes other poets through his company, Snailpress, and runs ...
- Contest includes short fiction and poetry writing - Summerland Review
Contest includes short fiction and poetry writingSummerland Review, Canada - 5 hours agoThe Penticton Writers and Publishers are hosting the 2008 Clem Battye Legacy Award Writing Contest opened to Short Fiction and Poetry. ...
- Arizona rancher, poet celebrates vanishing way of life (High Plains Journal)
Under the blazing July sun, rancher Rolf Flake looks over his beloved Corriente cattle. It's at least 117 degrees, a temperature seemingly unfit for any living thing to be outside, and beads of sweat drip from his forehead and glide along the lines of his weathered face to his neck.
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