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- Around the Region: Summer storytime at Frackville library; Mahanoy City Flag Day ceremony (The Pottsville Republican & Herald)
Frackville: Summer storytime for children ages 3 to 5 at the Frackville Free Public Library will be held on Tuesday, July 8, and Aug. 12 from 6 to 7 p.m. The summer Storytime program will offer reading activities based on the Catch the Reading Bug theme. To register, call 874-3382.
- Poetic injustice? Teaching intern claims she was barred from Noble ... - Fosters Daily Democrat
NORTH BERWICK, Maine — A Noble High School teaching intern says she was barred from the school Tuesday after hosting an in-class poetry slam contest where profanity was used. Wren Hayes, 26, who had been teaching at the school for nearly a year as ...
- Court guardian: Sect girl wed to man - San Angelo Standard-Times
Court guardian: Sect girl wed to manSan Angelo Standard-Times, TX - Jul 18, 2008The girl gives no indication of being anything but a willing bride, and other documents include letters and a poem sent to her husband proclaiming her love ...
- Addicted to life (HT via Yahoo! India News)
The once bitten twice-shy actor has finally realised that all he needs now is 'a simple, ordinary girl to make my world extraordinary.' And even as he is busy 'going on dates' and 'meeting interesting girls', he's quite comfortable leading a bachelor's life.
- Lied Center Presents Laurie Anderson's Homeland (Kansas City InfoZine)
Legendary performance artist's newest work explores her own reactions in post-Sept. 11 New York City
- Pak poet Ahmed Faraz dies at 77 (The Times of India)
Non-conformist in his views and dress, the Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz, died battling kidney failure at a hospital in Islamabad on Monday.
- The evil secret of Radovan Karadzic - Daily Mirror
Under the crazy white beard and specs .. Radovan Karadzic, beast of Bosnia He posed as medic promoting herbal cures and healing with prayer But he was wanted for deaths of thousands in Balkans war massacre With his long, white, bushy beard, scraped ...
- Artists Online: Talking with Christian Benedetto of myartspace.com - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comArtists Online: Talking with Christian Benedetto of myartspace.comThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 2 hours agoI have had four books of poetry published since 2005, which got picked up by amazon.com and target.com - which I am especially proud of. ...
- Original poetry White Moon by Wang Xiaoni - guardian.co.uk
Original poetry White Moon by Wang Xiaoniguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoShe is keenly aware of the perils and paradoxes of the writer's life. "Poet", published in 1984, conjures up a writer "sneering" at poetry alongside society ...
- Riding the good life of adventure - Auburn Reporter
Riding the good life of adventureAuburn Reporter, WA - 16 minutes agoA common man, Bob enjoys history and often recites Robert Service’s poetry and the Gettysburg Address – to the letter. He often wears black, ...
- Diversions for August 7, 2008 (The Gleaner)
THE LITTLE OLD DAM DIXIELAND BAND — 7 p.m., Central Library, 200 SE King Blvd. (free). BADGETT PLAYHOUSE — Grand Rivers, Ky., "Cotton Patch Gospel," 7 p.m. today and Aug. 14, 21 and 28; 2 p.m. Sunday and Aug. 17, 24 and 31; "Variety!
- The Common Pursuit at the Menier Chocolate Factory - London SE1
London SE1The Common Pursuit at the Menier Chocolate FactoryLondon SE1, UK - 2 hours agoAnything that portrays youngish, tweed-clad, bespectacled men tousling their hair over loose pages of poetry, pushing around cardboard boxes full of unread ...
- PACT with excuses for sad test scores (The Rock Hill Herald)
Your South Carolina education department, fresh from showing off that kids in Maine and D.C. and Hawaii scored worse than we did on the SAT, is holding a contest. Not to change the name of state Superintendent Jim Rex to T. Rex or Tyrannosaurus Rex, but to change the name of the state's new testing system.
- Grahamstown Festival broader than ever - The South African
Grahamstown Festival broader than everThe South African, UK - 4 hours agoEach has drawn from her or his own linguistic memory bank – Setswana, Xhosa and North American poetry are among the words that are entwined in the work. ...
- Sol mates in southern Spain (The Villager)
John Reoli didn’t start out to write a gay play or a love story. He says it just turned out that way. “To me, that’s part of the adventure of writing,” explained the actor/playwright. “It’s like being on a ship. You’re the one not driving it. You don’t necessarily know where you’re going.”
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