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- Friends of the Harvard Public Library announce 2008 poetry award winner (Harvard Hillside)
HARVARD -- Experience in a student musical gave Amanda Robinson the inspiration for her poem "Production Week Blues," this year's winner of the John F.
- Blue Heron Committee working to keep statues in public eye (Winona Daily News)
Last summer, Winona went to the birds and decorated the city with 15 blue heron statues. Now, the people who helped the herons land on street corners and storefronts have formed the Blue Heron Committee and want to make sure art is still visible.
- Somethin's Brewin' to celebrate first anniversary - Middleboro Gazette
Somethin's Brewin' to celebrate first anniversaryMiddleboro Gazette, MA - 6 hours agoMs. Scott said, "We have a group that comes in once a month for poetry and drama, live music on Fridays, and the Apponequet Jazz Combo has been here in the ...
- Paul Russell: Say nothing but good of the dead; enough about abortion - Nationalpost.com
Are there any original arguments to be made in the Henry Morgentaler/ abortion/Order of Canada debate? Readers seem to think so, as this topic dominated the letters file again this week. Of the more than 130 letters on this subject, approximately 70 ...
- Senior college sweethearts - MaineCoastNow.com
MOUNT DESERT — Jim Clunan steps down as president of Acadia Senior College this week. But after eight years, he and his wife Dorothy, co-founders of the college, are confident about the organization;s direction and promise for the future. “How ...
- Austin dancers take taps to local venues (The Daily Texan)
Maybe you were at Austin Java one Sunday morning when two guys laid down wooden boards and began tap dancing to the music. Or maybe you were lured by the sugary scent from Hey Cupcake! on South Congress when you discovered a DJ spinning tracks for two talented dancers.
- One foot in Eden - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukOne foot in Edenguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 hours ago... Willa) of Kafka - meant a great deal to me then, and I read my battered copy of his Collected Poems (1952) obsessively. To me, Muir was Scottish poetry, ...
- Kenya: 'We Have Had Enough of Foreign Plays' (AllAfrica.com)
For a very long time, plays that dominated Kenya's theatre scene were all foreign adaptations. Theatre powerhouses such as Mbalamwezi, Phoenix Players and Heartstrings Ensemble barely had a Kenyan production worth writing home about.
- Highlights for Children Launches Korean Edition of Popular Magazine - Forbes
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- At this week's International Reading Association convention in Atlanta, Highlights for Children unveiled the first Korean edition of Highlights High Five, its magazine for children 2 to 6. Beginning with the July ...
- Bosnia's butcher poet - The Australian
Bosnia's butcher poetThe Australian, Australia - 34 minutes agoIn 2005, he thumbed his nose at the world by publishing a book of poetry, Under the Left Breast of the Century. From Pale, Ljiljana reacted yesterday to his ...
- Local New Author Takes the Literary World by Storm - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Local New Author Takes the Literary World by StormPR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - 9 hours ago... and shares profound poetry. Jennifer Williams, one of Felton’s many satisfied readers said, “ ‘Re-Member Yourself’ is a unique self help book that ...
- Tom Meschery: Dishing out knowledge (Sierra Sun)
Editor's note: This is the second installment of a two-part series about Tom Meschery. The first story, on Saturday, June 14, focused on Meschery's professional basketball career.
- Ceremony lets Chicago anatomy students say thanks to their cadavers - Chicago Tribune
F or six months, many of them remained nameless and that seemed only right. It would be disrespectful to completely wipe away who they were when they were alive. To pick some silly name would be degrading, faculty implored them. Medical student Emily ...
- I'm Pretty Sure I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - The Onion (satire)
I'm Pretty Sure I Know Why The Caged Bird SingsThe Onion (satire), NY - 1 hour agoBy Madeleine Schumann I must admit that, at first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like the African-American Lit class I signed up for. ...
- Indian journalist brings out magazine in Braille (OneWorld South Asia)
The visually impaired students of Maharashtra now have an opportunity to be as attuned to what’s happening across the globe as those who are in the habit of reading newspapers and watching television.
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