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- She brings special touch to tough subjects - The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette (Montreal)She brings special touch to tough subjectsThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 3 hours agoIt was her instructors at literacy camp who inspired her to finally be brave enough to use poetry in her class and she's been really pleased with the ...
- A small publisher hits the big time - National Post
A small publisher hits the big timeNational Post, Canada - 7 hours agoThe four books that comprise the fall list -- a novel, a short story collection, a volume of poetry and a book of essas -- were chosen by Little from 500 ...
- Tests not so great after all - Delta Democrat Times
Thursday, according to State Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds, was a great day for the children of Mississippi. In theory, Bounds is right. Thursday was the day the Department of Education approved higher standards for scoring state tests ...
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Economist
EconomistAlexander SolzhenitsynEconomist, UK - Aug 7, 2008... stealing his food in the dark, wearing wrist-crushing handcuffs for the least infraction, this land was not fully revealed to the outside world. ...
- Sensei Jim Says: Casablanca - Cinematic Happenings Under Development
Cinematic Happenings Under DevelopmentSensei Jim Says: CasablancaCinematic Happenings Under Development, NY - 15 minutes agoThe whip-snap dialogue rolls off of his tongue like poetry. The one part where Bogart does feel unnatural is during the opening montage to the Paris ...
- National, regional writers expected for SD Festival of Books - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
National, regional writers expected for SD Festival of BooksSioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - 1 hour agoAuthors of fiction, history, non-fiction, poetry and children’s literature, as well as representatives from the publishing industry, will be at the event. ...
- Massachusetts Club News (The Eagle-Tribune)
The Carmel Club will hold a dance on Monday, Aug. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Main Street, Peabody. Refreshments will be served. Music by Pete Saran. Singles and guests are welcome. For more information, write to Paul Micale, 16 Summit Terrace, Peabody, MA 01960.
- O’Connor’s villain (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Patrick O’Connor’s nail polish is chipped. And a packet of Bali Shag tobacco pokes out from his shirt pocket as he talks about his upcoming one-man show titled, “The Crooked Eyed Man.”
- First Look at Steppenwolf: Keith Huff, Sarah Gubbins, Jason Wells ... - Theater Loop - Chicago Tribune Blog
First Look at Steppenwolf: Keith Huff, Sarah Gubbins, Jason Wells ...Theater Loop - Chicago Tribune Blog, IL - Aug 4, 2008In a clever trick, Gubbins concocts an inter-office romance wherein one party “borrows” the expressive romantic powers (and poetry) of a rival. ...
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Hayden Carruth dies - Danbury News-Times
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y.—Hayden Carruth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87. Carruth, a Connecticut native who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 1970s, died Monday at his home in ...
- Lives in the arts: Napa's poet laureate Gary Silva - Napa Valley Register
As we’re often told, Robert Louis Stevenson praised Napa Valley wines as “bottled poetry.” Napa County poet laureate Gary Silva turns the phrase around: “Poetry is bigger than we think,” he told the Napa County Board of Supervisors last ...
- Hayden Carruth, 87; Poems Reflected Struggles of Life - Washington Post
Washington PostHayden Carruth, 87; Poems Reflected Struggles of LifeWashington Post, United States - 2 hours agoHis "Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991" received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry, and he won the National Book Award for the ...
- DCist Interview: April Hill (DCist)
It's safe to assume that when April Hill left the relative stability of her job at a Wall Street powerhouse firm to pursue her love of music, she couldn't have predicted that the country's financial sector would sink to shockingly low depths and her drastic career shift would seem like a smart move. But it has. Hill was recently selected by readers of the independent soul movement's ...
- Meter Man - Barnstable Patriot
Cowboy poetry has been around for over 100 years. Initially, it was an oral tradition, as cowboys would gather 'round the campfire at night, tell tall tales and sing songs. Although no "genre" or "form" defines Cowboy poetry, poetic elements were ...
- The remarkable Howard Ziff - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
The remarkable Howard ZiffThe Massachusetts Daily Collegian, MA - 18 hours agoHe loves poetry and the history of the English language, classic movies and chamber music. And he'll speak with authority on all of it. ...
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