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- Religion briefs - Aiken Standard (subscription)
Religion briefsAiken Standard (subscription), SC - 3 minutes agoUU troubadour and minister Ric Masten has posthumously released his final book of poetry, "Going Out Dancing;" our UU hymn "Let It Be a Dance We Do" is ...
- Writing her own ticket - Staten Island Advance - SILive.com
Writing her own ticketStaten Island Advance - SILive.com, NY - 12 hours agoIn whatever spare time she has left, Spierer writes poetry, writing mostly she says, about "what I see around me that sort of angers me. ...
- Nature fest a hit - Shetland News
Nature fest a hitShetland News, UK - 4 hours agoA very popular poetry evening in Shetland library had 60 people attending to hear members of the isles' dialect group Shetland ForWirds read about the ...
- New play explores what search reveals about us - NWI.com
PHILADELPHIA - They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person? That's the premise behind "User 927," a new production in ...
- Reporting on the 2008 Election: Ready, Set, Go! - Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Reporting on the 2008 Election: Ready, Set, Go!Metropolitan News-Enterprise, CA - 3 hours agoI married the love of my life, Nan, while stationed in Mississippi. After the war, I returned to Chicago with my new bride. While working full-time, ...
- Una Noche Idishe (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
In the timbre of the clarinet, you can hear stories tell themselves: boisterous, spirited, painful and proud. Yiddish klezmer is a sound full of color and poetry, laden with history and sung by knowing voices; voices of memory, full of struggle, full of family.
- New Children's Book Offers Fun Poetry, Colorful Illustrations - Earthtimes (press release)
New Children's Book Offers Fun Poetry, Colorful IllustrationsEarthtimes (press release), UK - 10 minutes agoFLORENCE, Ore. , June 5 -- "A Door to Your Imagination" (published by AuthorHouse -- http://www.authorhouse.com), the debut children's poetry book from ...
- A Whole New Approach to Modern Art (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Science and art -- two distinctly different disciplines -- combine to create an exciting new family-fun adventure called ArtQuest, a hunt for art that began on August 8, 2008.
- Slamming in Kinston (Kinston Free Press)
Are you a poet but didn't know it? If you think you might be rhyme-inclined, then you may want to check out Fabulous Ink's first official poetry slam at Sweets Coffee Shop in Kinston.
- Sanya Richards clinches Olympic berth (Miami Herald)
Sanya Richards has her eyes locked on a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. But that didn't prevent her from looking past the first step toward being best in the world, which was to confirm that she is best in the nation in the 400-meter sprint. Slicing through a headwind on the backstretch and gaining momentum with a tailwind on the homestretch, Richards won her race by three strides at the ...
- Grimshaw reunites with award-winning characters (Otago Daily Times)
It's been a huge year for Auckland author Charlotte Grimshaw, who has been named not only the Montana Medal for fiction but also the Reviewer of the Year. She talks to Alastair Bull of NZPA.
- Chat with musician Scott McCaughey - ESPN
ESPNChat with musician Scott McCaugheyESPN - 4 hours agoScott McCaughey: I wear sunglasses to see the world just the way I like it, dark and dismal. I would definitely wear them were I to play ball, ...
- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness (The New York Sun)
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a composer be acclaimed for his mastery of rests? In fact, though Stafford often wrote about silence — and made grand claims for it — he was an unusually ...
- PC's award winning faculty - Buccaneer (subscription)
PC's award winning facultyBuccaneer (subscription), WA - 10 hours agoDerry plans to use the money to support professional writing during the summer quarter through researching, writing and revising poetry, two essay projects ...
- In search of an authentic Arab self - Daily Telegraph
Sami Traifi enjoys showing off his Arabic heritage: at university he sports the red and white kuffiyeh worn by Syrian farmers (even though a "member of his class in Syria would never wear one"), matched with a T-shirt bearing a Palestinian flag. He ...
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