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- Poem to be published in poetry anthology - Amarillo Globe News
A poem written by Ashlyn Thomas, 12, a Westover Park Junior High School student, will be published by The American Library of Poetry in an anthology, "Brilliance." The entry by the daughter of Alan and Patty Thomas, "The First Day of Spring," has ...
- Words kept her going - Toronto Sun
Words kept her goingToronto Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoShe had yet to hit her 18th birthday. Two years earlier, in an unprecedented raid, 12 Metro Toronto Children's Aid workers had stormed a High Park group ...
- Paintings, poems therapy for daughter's death - Edmonton Sun
Paintings, poems therapy for daughter's deathEdmonton Sun, Canada - 1 hour ago"I think poetry is really the language of grief. A lot of families seem to reach a point at which they write a poem for their loved one. ...
- 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.
- Congo-Kinshasa: Church Embarks On Activities for the Year of St Paul (AllAfrica.com)
An intense schedule of activities is underway here to mark the Year of St. Paul 2008-2009, which was inaugurated worldwide on June 29.
- 'Ah, Wilderness!' sets sentimental comedy in the woods - Wisconsin State Journal
SPRING GREEN -- Punctuated by the pop of Fourth of July firecrackers, the opening of "Ah, Wilderness!" at American Players Theatre reaches back toward a simpler, sweeter time. Like Garrison Keillor's beloved Lake Wobegon, back then, fathers were ...
- Reviving St. Anna's Capital campaign to restore Civil War-era chapel kicks off this weekend (The Daily News of Newburyport)
NEWBURYPORT and mdash; Except for some carpeting and extra mortar, St. Anna's Chapel at St. Paul's Episcopal Church sits on High Street with the same look it did 145 years ago when it was built in 1863 and mdash; the same gray-colored Rockport granite, intricate stained glass windows, wooden rigid pews and its Victorian Gothic architecture.
- Staging of Clifford Odets' classic play is golden - San Diego Union Tribune
Staging of Clifford Odets' classic play is goldenSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 29 minutes agoFrom early on, Odets makes it clear that the golden boy will pay a price for the life he chooses. Though Joe's love for music can feel glossed over – as ...
- CD Reviews: Portishead, Robyn - Northwest Herald
Portishead’s new album starts at a gallop. Never thought I’d write that sentence. New album from Portishead? The band that made two simmering, loungey masterpieces in the ’90s, then promptly disappeared? And gallop? Really? That means that you ...
- Garden of gratitude - San Diego Union Tribune
Garden of gratitudeSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 10 hours agoPreyss said he plans to write full time and wants to pen novels, screenplays and poetry. His favorite poem is “Dreams” by Langston Hughes. ...
- Photo Flash: 'Old Comedy' - Broadway World
Photo Flash: 'Old Comedy'Broadway World, NY - May 8, 2008“In bringing classical tragedy down to earth without losing its forceful poetry, this idiosyncratic version gives our current polis a surprisingly faithful ...
- A life-changing experience: man helps youths in way he was helped years ago (The Chronicle-Journal)
Daniel Sakchekapo says he is “living proof that something as simple as a youth drop-in centre can save lives.”
- Carlin was as good as his words - Boston Globe
It's 1972 in a bedroom somewhere in the endless flatness of suburbia. A phonograph needle drops on the last track of a much-played vinyl album, and a teenage boy cranes his ears once more, waiting for the voice to come through the crackle: "I love ...
- 'Diminished Capacity' (Newsday)
Rating: The most memorable image in "Diminished Capacity" is of a quaint manual typewriter - perched on a wood dock - whose keys occasionally smack the page by themselves. Actually, they're attached to dangling hooks, and it's the fish below who are creating poetry.
- Health Minister at Beverley Minster service to celebrate 60 years ... - Beverley Guardian
Health Minister at Beverley Minster service to celebrate 60 years ...Beverley Guardian, UK - 8 hours agoSchool poetry competition winner Riyona Varghese,11, of Spring Cottage Primary School, Hull, will recite her thought-provoking and funny poem about the ...
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