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- Young poet wins top prize - Oxfordshire News
A POEM inscribed on a tiny scrap of paper has won the regional round of a prestigious human rights poetry competition. Oxford schoolgirl Aditi Gaddam, a pupil at St Clare's, Banbury Road, was named the Midlands winner for Amnesty International's You ...
- Child Molestation Suspect Captured in Mexico Returns to N.H. - FOX News
BRENTWOOD, N.H — A sex offender who lived with a family after prison, then fled after being accused of molesting their 5-year-old son, appeared in court Friday following his return from Mexico, where he apparently spent a decade on the lam. The FBI ...
- Seniors enjoy day at barrier-free camp (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
Imagine a sky so clear, so exceedingly blue, it could inspire poetry.
- Teaching my girl the very best (China Economic Net)
Liu Hongqing is a special father. After his daughter graduated from elementary school in Beijing last year, he did not send her to a middle school. Instead, he lets her study classic Chinese literature, Kunqu Opera and painting at home with private tutors whom he trusts.
- Poetry winner's grief gave her emotion to become winner - Harrow Observer
Poetry winner's grief gave her emotion to become winnerHarrow Observer, UK - 1 hour agoShe said: "I had written stories and articles at first and then I wrote a poem one day in class. The teacher read it and just said to me 'you're a poet'. ...
- Roger rises toFrench challenge - Liverpool Echo
Roger rises toFrench challengeLiverpool Echo, UK - 18 hours ago“I find it easier to write poetry than prose,” he says. And here, at last, was the opportunity – on a grand scale. But Roger is adamant it’s not a “Scouse” ...
- Věra Chase: the frustrated astronaut who became a writer (Radio Prague)
Věra Chase has had six books published. They include poetry and prose - both short stories and a novel with the intriguing title, “Passion for Peaches”. Věra hails from a Prague literary family and says that she identifies closely with her home city, although she has travelled widely and lived for some time in London. Her grandfather was one of the many journalists thrown out of Czechoslovak ...
- Event opportunity for 'youth to tap into their creative side' - Daytona Beach News-Journal
DAYTONA BEACH -- On Tuesday night at the HotSpot Coffee Shoppe, a "Night of Poetry and Expression Through Music" will feature performances by young local poets and musicians. The 6 p.m. show will be hosted by "Young Prophecy," a 14-year-old poet, and ...
- Serving Long Island's North Fork since 1857 - The Suffolk Times
Serving Long Island's North Fork since 1857The Suffolk Times, NY - 6 hours agoA reception for the show is on Saturday, June 7, from 6 to 9 pm A poetry reading associated with the exhibit, from the North Sea Poetry Scene, ...
- Poetic injustice? (Sunday Herald)
firmament of Scottish stars raise their drams and address the haggis in Alloway on January 25 next year, it will mark the start of Homecoming Scotland 2009, the official year-long celebration of the nation's greatest exports: whisky, golf, ideas, heritage and Robert Burns.
- Sonnets are made to be spoken; author to read some of his (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Steven Nightingale writes a sonnet daily.
- Uncool Britannia - New Statesman
New StatesmanUncool BritanniaNew Statesman, UK - 6 hours agoAndrews is the most painterly: his Flats (1959) look partly Bauhaus and partly other-worldly, marooned as they are in a green landscape, with the odd black ...
- So, where’s the reading tonight? - Hindustan Times
One for literature: Rahul Bose who read from Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies on Sunday night is also planning a film based on Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke . He kick-started the trend of reading from books of substance. It has been raining book ...
- Local Music: Giving Epic a live music foundation - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Local Music: Giving Epic a live music foundationMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 56 minutes agoMany of the songs deal in late-night imagery and starlit poetry, including the wistful, ultra-sweet title track and "The Avalon," a slightly New Wavey ...
- Provincetown Guide (RainbowNetwork.com)
Why go? The largest lesbian and gay holiday resort in the USA is surprisingly a whaling village at the tip of Cape Cod. Provincetown is definitely the place to be for gays and lesbians wanting a bit of sun, sea, sand and whale watching!
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