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- Whidbey Island Writers Association announces winners - PNW Local News
Whidbey Island Writers Association announces winnersPNW Local News, WA - 5 hours agoThe Whidbey Island Writers Association has announced the winners of its middle and high school writing contest for 2008. Awards were given in poetry, ...
- Of verse and violent crime (Toronto Star)
Crime may not always pay, but writing about it certainly does – it's consistently a lead news item, and murder mysteries and TV shows like CSI are widely popular on the fictional front. So why shouldn't the luridly topical be a subject for poetry, too?
- Novel approach to music-making - Portsmouth News
Novel approach to music-makingPortsmouth News, UK - 21 minutes agoClearly a gifted mimic, he recited a poem he'd written about the people he grew up with, and another about falling in love late in life. ...
- The state of the arts in Nigeria... (1) - Vanguard
VanguardThe state of the arts in Nigeria... (1)Vanguard, Nigeria - 38 minutes agoIn poetry, I look forward to the day when and where a national event like the celebration of Nigeria’s independence, Children’s Day or inauguration of a new ...
- Call Me When You Get This - Estereofonica.com
Call Me When You Get ThisEstereofonica.com, Colombia - 10 hours agonow i just want you to know, how i'm touched deep in my soul just being with you. i've got all this poetry now i didn't know then. i kept inside. guess i ...
- Fun for everyone - Argus Observer Online
Junior-junior division contestant Noemi Turner (left), 9, Otis Orchards, Wash., played in round 1 Tuesday morning at the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest in Weiser. She fiddled with guitarists Jeff Lincoln (center) and Rod Anderson (background ...
- The ethereal world of radio poetry - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe ethereal world of radio poetryguardian.co.uk, UK - 48 minutes agoThat twitching into life of the radio, the nonchalant way it transmits beyond the hypnotic tumult of Larkin's seascape. And this is how the sea and the ...
- WASHINGTON DIARY: Support-for-judges factor —Dr Manzur Ejaz - Daily Times
Ambassador Hussain Haqqani and leader of the lawyers’ movement Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan were the topic of discussion everywhere during the annual convention of the American Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA). While Haqqani had some ...
- Author draws library crowd - Youngstown Vindicator
Author draws library crowdYoungstown Vindicator, OH - 1 hour ago“Just because picture books are short, doesn’t mean that they’re easy to write. It’s like writing poetry and you have to choose just the right word,” she ...
- Quaker Guns by Caroline Knox - Bookslut
Quaker Guns by Caroline KnoxBookslut, IL - 1 hour agoKnox demonstrates that aptitude for poetry and is clearly a master of the craft. The collection is packed with clever and skillful manipulations of form, ...
- Many U.S. Dems support presidential 'dream team' (CTV.ca)
Many Democrats want to see a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket this fall. The idea is gaining ground again, now that Obama's close to locking up the nomination. The latest polls say about 60 per cent support it.
- Poster poems: Calling for Clerihews - Guardian Blogs
Many of you who pass by this humble shop window in search of quaint diversions will already be familiar with the story of Edmund Clerihew Bentley , the dull chemistry lesson, and the birth of the light verse form that bears his name . Legend has it ...
- A Life In Books: John Banville - Newsweek
A Life In Books: John BanvilleNewsweek - 15 minutes agoThe book I most want my kids to read: "The Tower" by WB Yeats. They would learn, or at least glimpse, how magnificent poetry can be.
- World's Hardest-To-Reach Vacation Spots (Forbes)
You'll have to take more than one plane, train or automobile to get to some out-there spots, but the thrill is in the journey as much as the destination itself.
- Gorsuch remembered as caring educator - Ashland Times Gazette
Gorsuch remembered as caring educatorAshland Times Gazette, OH - May 23, 2008"He always gave his students a big lift by reading or reciting poetry. Lots of them remember him for that reason." Harry and Mary Robertson, 1935 and 1936 ...
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