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- Wilmington storyteller's resume reveals long list of jobs - Dispatch
Ronald McDonald performer. Circus clown boss. Musician in a Cajun/Zydeco band. Actor, wizard, pirate. Stilt walker. Radio man. The Star-News of Wilmington reports that John Henry Scott's eccentric resume reads like a Roald Dahl children's novel ...
- HS Student's Documentary Brings Teen Homelessness Into National Focus - Newsblaze.com
In New York City, there are more than 8,200 homeless families with more than 16,500 children living in shelters, with numerous uncounted others with no place to call home. Nineteen-year old Clevins Browne has distinctive memories of being homeless in ...
- Read a Poem, Help a Child - Haldimand Review
Read a Poem, Help a ChildHaldimand Review, Canada - 39 minutes agoInternational award-winning author Elaine George of Wainfleet is donating all profits from the sale of her book of poetry, entitled, Where the Heart Resides ...
- Johnson also led way to Confederation - Miramichi Leader
Johnson also led way to ConfederationMiramichi Leader, Canada - 1 hour agoWhile there he dazzled the public and the members with his poetry presentations and his dazzling ice skating performances. But Johnson was tired and ...
- What you see is what you get with Vivimarie - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
She tells me, sipping gently on her iced tea, that she was 99.9% sure she would not win the Gratiaen Prize, but then adds unabashedly – “of course, I wanted it.” Her face alight, Vivimarie Vanderpoorten is still riding high on the honour of ...
- Court rejects Lesbos 'insult' - Scotsman
A GREEK court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word "lesbian" to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public yesterday. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient ...
- DISPATCHES: Summer Entertainment in the Cities - Flathead Beacon
Flathead BeaconDISPATCHES: Summer Entertainment in the CitiesFlathead Beacon, MT - 2 hours agoOpened in 1957, Moose’s is a family friendly pizza joint that resembles the roughest of roadhouses. Shuffle through the sawdust and peanut shells on the ...
- Bucyrus man pens book, records CD - Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
BUCYRUS -- Thirty-two-year-old Russell Hunter began writing when he was 19. "I used writing as a way to cope with my father's death and realized I loved to write," said Hunter, who lives in Bucyrus with his family. Hunter decided over a year ago to ...
- Actor Mark Rylance's Tony acceptance speech greeted by uniform ... - Times Online
Actor Mark Rylance's Tony acceptance speech greeted by uniform ...Times Online, UK - Jun 16, 2008Jenkins, who read at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival last year, said Rylance had been given his prose poems by mutual friends. ...
- Bragdon's "Outlook Portland" Keeps City Weird - Oregonian
The show fills KRCW-32's airwaves near dawn on Sunday. But to host David Bragdon,"Outlook Portland" should have the unpredictable feel of an after-hours cafe. "The idea is, you're sitting around late at night talking to someone who is quirky and off ...
- Rekindling a mission to spread word of peace - Boston Globe
The reformed gang leader had become a man of peace and wanted to spread his message of redemption to others around Boston. In the fall of 2006, Jahmol Norfleet started making a video about his conversion that he hoped would inspire other troubled ...
- Bringing beauty to all through surprisingly unrefined language (The Japan Times)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the one most translated into other languages. Yet, until now, no one has gathered into one volume, translated into English, the complete works. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is not only Japan's most revered poet, he is also the... Read the full story.
- On Poetry: Non-Hallmark words for father - Traverse City Record Eagle
On Poetry: Non-Hallmark words for fatherTraverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour agoThe African-American poet Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was raised in a Detroit ghetto by a foster family. His house was full of fights and beatings, ...
- Summer is for fun (Shirley Oracle)
Correspondent SHIRLEY -- Gators and lemurs and snakes, oh my! Kick off your summer vacation with the Wild Reads program at Hazen Memorial Library.
- A National Dog Adoption Event so Exciting that Even "Socks", the ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)A National Dog Adoption Event so Exciting that Even "Socks", the ...PR Web (press release), WA - 58 minutes ago... Celebrities & Interesting Personalities and the 2008 FURocious Concert featuring animal welfare conscious performances by Stop Motion Poetry and Stacy ...
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