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- US Poet Laureate to kick off Burlington Book Festival - BurlingtonFreePress.com
US Poet Laureate to kick off Burlington Book FestivalBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 11 hours agoA poet, essayist and translator, he has also been honored with the Wallace Stevens Award, the International Griffin Poetry Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship and ...
- Where former stars go for another 15 seconds - Globe and Mail
BURBANK, CALIF. -- You haven't seen lonely until you've witnessed a real, living munchkin patiently waiting to sign autographs for cash. Welcome to the last stop on the Yellow Brick Road. The munchkin in question is Jerry Maren, 88, who appeared in ...
- Fall poetry - Southwest Journal
Change is in the air, and not just as a political slogan. Early adopter maples are already redecorating themselves. On weekdays the malls are as empty as school buses in August. The lakes give up their heat in the mornings, getting all misty about it ...
- SoCo Music Experience: San Diego - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineSoCo Music Experience: San DiegoPaste Magazine, GA - 5 hours agoAs is his form, Williams offered up beat poetry and industrial hip-hop with a masquerade in tow. His keyboard player donned a vampiric cloak, his guitarist ...
- John Betjeman's radio poems - Times Online
Between 1954 and 1957, John Betjeman wrote a series of poems that he read on the radio in a weekly religious programme called The Faith in the West, broadcast on the BBC's West of England Home Service. They were billed under the title Poems in the ...
- ART GALLERIES, MUSEUMS (The Wichita Eagle)
Today Public opening reception for the "Triumph of the Spirit," heritage exhibit, 5-9 p.m., Dugan Library and Campus Center, Newman University. Hours 8 a.m.-midnight Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m.-midnight Sun. Free. Information, 316-942-4291. Final Friday, gallery crawl, 4-10 p.m., at Bella Luz , 7825 Maple (Sally Cobbs/Matthew Hilyard); 5-7 p.m. at ...
- Johnny can read ...Ready to Read distributes free books to kids ... - Grand Rapids Press
If you answered ``yes'' to any of these questions, you may have benefited from the Ready to Read program. The initiative serves Kalamazoo County residents with children ages birth to 5 years, and it does not require registration. ``We started by ...
- Gueco: Merci beaucoup - Sun.Star
Gueco: Merci beaucoupSun.Star, Philippines - 4 hours agoBursting forth with energies in fulfilling our work as a writer, springing up with the vitality of an artist, soaring high on the wings of words, prose or ...
- Highlights of the Big Read festival (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
FOR KIDS — Jennifer Plecas, author of "Please Is a Good Word to Say." Fifty free etiquette books for preschoolers whose parents belong to Parents as Teachers. 9:15 a.m., Kids Stage. — Susan Meddaugh, author of "Martha Speaks."
- 'Chat line' vicar taps into power of the web - Islington Gazette
LIVE chat may seem an unlikely pastime for a man of the cloth - but one Islington vicar is using the web for holier purposes. Canon Dr Graham Kings is chatting live online every weekend - but with people who want to explore affairs of faith rather ...
- Folk Tale-Inspired 'Black Rider', by Waits, Wilson and Burroughs, Begins in Toronto (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The Black Rider, The Casting of the Magic Bullets - the folk tale-inspired avant-garde play with music by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs, seen in Europe, the U.S. and Canada - gets its Toronto premiere at Tarragon Theatre's Mainspace Oct. 8 toward an Oct. 15 opening.
- Announcing the teams competing at the National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison (Isthmus)
Hundreds of spoken work performers from around the United States, along with a handful from Canada and Europe, are in the midst of preparations for this year's National Poetry Slam, which be held in Madison over the first week of August. Competing in teams of four or five members apiece, each will take the stage and give their best through a series of bouts at the competition. Altogether they ...
- Presidential norms - DAWN Group
SYED Yousuf Raza Gilani’s belief that the president and the prime minister should be from the same party to ensure political stability is not supported by Pakistan’s history. Benazir Bhutto had Farooq Leghari elected head of state when she became ...
- The Sister (The New Yorker)
This suspenseful first novel is set in a crumbling Dorset mansion and features two aging sisters, reunited after a separation of nearly fifty years. Virginia is the sensible older sister who stayed, carrying on the family tradition of lepidopterology, while the reckless and free-spirited Vivien left to lead a . . .
- Quantum poetics (Guardian Unlimited)
A friend emailed months ago and asked me to contribute to an anthology of "space poems". He was pairing up poets with astronomers in the hopes that new poetry would result, and my counterpart was Paul Murdin, the treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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