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- Local students win Writer's Guild contest - Fort Scott Tribune
Fort Scott TribuneLocal students win Writer's Guild contestFort Scott Tribune, KS - 23 minutes ago... in previous writing competitions. Both Roberts and DeCocq previously received honorable mentions in the Gordon Parks High School Poetry/Essay Contest. ...
- Not The Front Lines Of Humor - The Bulletin
"I don't read scripts," Robert Downey, Jr. tells us late into "Tropic Thunder," the much-anticipated - and controversial - comedy directed by Ben Stiller, which opens today. "Scripts read me." Mr. Downey is Kirk Lazarus, "a dude playing a dude ...
- Fairfax woman's wild ride as national poet laureate - Marin Independent Journal
What a difference a year has made for Kay Ryan of Fairfax. A year ago, she was recuperating after being run over by a car. Today, she's aglow following her selection by the Library of Congress as the 16th poet laureate of the United States. Back in ...
- Black Dog Music Fest to feature 20-plus acts on July 27 - Democrat and Chronicle
Multi-stringed wizard Dennis Monroe will be celebrated at the Black Dog Music Fest, a six-hour show on July 27 featuring 22 acts from the local folk, alt-country, rock and poetry scenes, including the Dady Brothers, Hunu?, Watkins & the Rapiers ...
- Lively Arts: Have some fun in the park with the bard - Contra Costa Times
Lively Arts: Have some fun in the park with the bardContra Costa Times, CA - 36 minutes agoPLEASANTON POET LAUREATE Martha Meltzer will host two award-winning poets, Charlie Getter and Barry "Bear" Toffoli at the next Century House Poetry Reading, ...
- Being the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total Pain - Gawker
GawkerBeing the Nation's Poet Laureate is a Total PainGawker, NY - 51 minutes ago(Kay Ryan just became the newest laureate, tasked with "bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness.") It's not as idyllic as it seems, ...
- Bergmann aims to go where no poet has gone before - The Capital Times
Bergmann aims to go where no poet has gone beforeThe Capital Times, WI - 3 hours agoThis collection of prose poems that are written as reports from planetary surveys will offer another look at the far-flung places the poet imagines.
- Obituaries for August 3 - HometownAnnapolis.com
William Thomas "Bill" Herndon, 57, of Virginia and formerly of Annapolis, died of Pick's disease July 10 at the Gardens of Fair Oaks in Fairfax, Va., after a long illness. Mr. Herndon was born July 8, 1951, in South Charleston, W.V., to the late ...
- I Am My Own Dragon by Linda Thompson - WTNH
I Am My Own Dragon by Linda ThompsonWTNH, CT - 4 hours agoThrough Thompson's compelling prose, Lucy asks readers to think of "Dragon" as not purely her story, but to become a part of it: "We are creating this ...
- Cleburne poet releases first book, holds plans for future (Cleburne Times-Review)
Twenty-eight-year-old Kandice Jacobs-Armstrong has tried her hand and succeeded at many creative endeavors — singing, writing, entrepreneurship, poetry ...
- Pairs burn survivor and mental health patient - The North Bay Nugget
Pairs burn survivor and mental health patientThe North Bay Nugget, Canada - Aug 24, 2008Davidson -- who had written poetry, stories and plays since age 16, but never had a story that deserved a novel" -- was teaching English in Japan when the ...
- Autistic poet enjoys having a way with words - Canada.com
Canada.comAutistic poet enjoys having a way with wordsCanada.com, Canada - 28 minutes ago... the group will be holding two contests next year: one for visual arts and the other for poetry. Ms. Daabous said Nicholas's poem, You Can Take Away, ...
- Patti Smith and Philip Glass Front Melbourne International Arts ... - Undercover Music News
The return of Patti Smith to Australian shores has been announced as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Smith’s tour is hot on the heels of a new film about her life by Stephen Serbing called ‘Dream of Life’. The festival will ...
- The Broken Word, by Adam Foulds; Mandeville, by Matthew Francis; For All We Know, by Ciaran Carson (Independent)
The Broken Word is Adam Foulds's first published poetry (he has written a well-regarded novel). It shows a young man, Tom, fresh from "the bark/ and whine and snivel/ and brag" of school, plunged into service against the 1950s "Mau Mau" uprising in Kenya. The blurb explains this – a pity, because Foulds lets us find out decade, place and bloody context by degrees. The poem quietly initiates ...
- Above and Beyond - New Yorker
New YorkerAbove and BeyondNew Yorker, United States - 9 minutes agoThe Poetry Society of America and the New School mark the publication of the Library of America’s new book “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters†with ...
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