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- Artist puts inspiring ideas into words - Record Searchlight
Decorative artist Debbie Slavin of Red Bluff, in her studio surrounded by her work, puts finishing touches on a current project. Red Bluff resident Debbie Slavin could identify with the Jimmy Webb song, "If These Walls Could Speak." For more than 30 ...
- Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered (Science Daily)
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically proficient as their counterparts.
- US: Indian student wins prestigious scholarship (rediff.com)
An 18-year-old 'exceptionally promising' high school senior from Andover, Massachusetts, was among 28 students named by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation last week as recipients of its up to $30,000 per year scholarship for four years of college education. Veda Eswarappa was the only Indian American among the 28 students from lower-income backgrounds named for the prestigious scholarship that the ...
- Dead author's estate snatches child's domain - Register
Dead author's estate snatches child's domainRegister, UK - 1 hour agoSaville-Smith, who also writes poetry under the name Gillian Ferguson, said that she and her husband had found the whole experience "dispiriting" and that ...
- Generations and Genres Mix at a Tap-Dance Party (New York Times)
Tap City 2008, a festival presented by the American Tap Dance Foundation, is a bit like a party where you don?t know a soul but the room is overflowing with communal love and gratitude.
- Author spotlight: Kathleen Van Schaick of Victor - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Author spotlight: Kathleen Van Schaick of VictorRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 8 hours agoWhen I'm not writing: I work with fourth-grade students writing poetry, I'm a reader for the blind and visually impaired at WXXI Reachout Radio, ...
- Tepper Galleries - Antiques and Arts Weekly
Antiques and Arts WeeklyTepper GalleriesAntiques and Arts Weekly, CT - 2 hours agoAsian articles and antiques include Japanese erotic art. A variety of carved, gilt, and other decorative mirrors. Lamps, sconces and chandeliers in a ...
- A. S. MAULUCCI: Use nature as an indirect element in your poetry - Norwich Bulletin
My last column was concerned with straightforward nature poetry. This week I’d like to explore poetry that uses nature indirectly, as imagery intended to symbolize an idea, general condition or the speaker’s state of mind. In all the examples in ...
- Seeking photographers - Buckinhamshire Free Press
Seeking photographersBuckinhamshire Free Press, UK - 3 hours agoEvery year the club works on a project with Metroland poets to combine images with poetry. Member Shirley Arnold names India, Nepal, Australia and China ...
- Let's Step Outside - Slate
For some time now, a poet's life has been a lose-lose proposition of little fame and long struggle for a teaching post and a good pair of shoes. But last week poets across the nation rejoiced and then hurried to the fax machine. News had come that ...
- PERFORMING ARTS - Washington Post
Three songs by contemporary Vienna-based composer Wolfram Wagner had their world premieres at baritone Randall Scarlata's Austrian Embassy recital on Monday evening. Spare and quietly melodic, Wagner's subtly crafted Three Songs on Poems by Weldon ...
- Orono: UMaine to name seminar room after Burt Hatlen - Bangor Daily News
Orono: UMaine to name seminar room after Burt HatlenBangor Daily News, ME - 2 hours agoUM President Robert Kennedy announced Friday at a poetry conference sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation and the English department that Room 406 in ...
- Rob Walker's 'Buying In' (International Herald Tribune)
That Americans are consumed by consumerism will surprise few. But as Rob Walker points out in "Buying In," few will admit that they frequently succumb to salesmanship, and that marketing produces needs they never knew they had.
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant-and-rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Talk of the Times with Susan Jaffer - Scranton Times-Tribune
Talk of the Times with Susan JafferScranton Times-Tribune, USA - 1 hour agoHer poetry has been published in Yankee magazine, among other publications, and her fiction has appeared in Woman’s World magazine. A: In September 1978, ...
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