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- Nonprofit thinks big to recruit volunteers (Akron Beacon Journal)
Mary Ann Jackson spoke recently at an Akron Area Arts Alliance event about how to recruit and retain volunteers — a topic that's high on the list for a lot of nonprofits right now. With her talk still on my mind, I was interested to run across a news item about the RockCorps.
- Out and about - Eagle Tribune
Out and aboutEagle Tribune, MA - 1 hour agoIn addition to Rushdie, novelists taking part in the program include Francine Prose, Richard Price, Alexander McCall Smith and Philippa Gregory. ...
- Snubbed by the Queen, abandoned by the muse - Guardian Unlimited
Never mind campaigns to get a female poet laureate instated - comments from present incumbent Andrew Motion yesterday imply it's a bit of a poisoned chalice anyway. In a comical and somewhat petulant rant made at the Ealing Arts Festival in West ...
- Collaborative efforts curbed youth violence in Kalamazoo this summer (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
KALAMAZOO -- After a violent summer for teenagers last year on the streets of Kalamazoo, local leaders say a collection of efforts has made a difference this year.
- Djibouti: Somali PEN Organises a Book Event of Special Interest - African Path
Djibouti: Somali PEN Organises a Book Event of Special InterestAfrican Path, MN - 3 hours agoMr. Abdalla Haji, Osman, who is widely known for his collection of oral history and poetry, was the program presenter and chairperson of the session. ...
- Saginaw arts community reacts to the death of its "vibrant" orchestra ... - MLive.com
Patrick Flynn, since fall of 2004 the conductor of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, died early Wednesday morning of a coronary thrombosis, announced executive director Daniel McGee. "I had just talked to him," McGee said, "and he said had the flu ...
- Why You Should Read Mahmoud Darwish - Huffingtonpost.com
When renowned novelist Ahdaf Soueif said that the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was "the last poet who could fill a football stadium," it wasn't hyperbole. A Darwish reading in Beirut earlier this year drew more than 25,000 people. His funeral two ...
- Awkwardly Speaking - CU Columbia Spectator
Awkwardly SpeakingCU Columbia Spectator, NY - 7 hours agoThere’s also shrinking vocabulary, disdain of poetry, contempt of hyperbole, the “like†epidemic, and indifference to storytelling and jokes. ...
- "The Lucky Ones": When soldiers return home (Seattle Times)
"The Lucky Ones": This attempt to create an Iraq-war home-front classic like "The Best Years of Our Lives" has its moments, but the story line about three returning veterans (played by Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Peña) is predictable.
- Eck named recipient of William Rockhill Nelson Award - digitalBURG.com
digitalBURG.comEck named recipient of William Rockhill Nelson AwarddigitalBURG.com, MO - 11 hours agoThe awards are presented annually for achievement in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Eck will receive the award during a ceremony planned for 2 pm Sunday, ...
- Teen Talk: Weekend reviews: Singing comedians make quite impression - Daily Star
Good morning, campers, be you happy or crazy. It is time once more to present you with another column, this time about the promised material of singing comedians. I've dangled it, so, here it is. We'll start off this review with Stephen Lynch, a ...
- Genesee County churches help support amazing 'Fireproof' debut - Grand Rapids Press
PR NewsFoto | Samuel Goldwyn Films "Fireproof" starring 1980s teen idol Kirk Cameron was No. 4 in the box office this weekend and sold out at a local Genesee County theater. GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- It was the box office equivalent of a miracle ...
- Changes to Design May End Main Street Debate (East Aurora Advertiser)
After long debate, a solution may be in sight: the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Main Street Reconstruction Task Force last week unveiled an amended design for the reconstruction of the Grove to Walnut block of Main Street intended to address the concerns of the East Aurora Fire Department.
- I'll take (a) Manhattan - South Coast Today
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme ...
- Signing off: the weird world of book signings - Independent
Signing off: the weird world of book signingsIndependent, UK - 44 minutes agoDozens of poets can recall poetry readings where no books arrived for sale, but where they were asked, as a kind of booby prize, to sign a member of the ...
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