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- HUMPHREY GAVE GREATEST CONVENTION SPEECH YOU'VE NEVER HEARD (David Shribman via Yahoo! News)
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium on Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F. Kennedy. The last important speech to be delivered on an Aug. 28 was given by the Rev. Martin Luther King 45 years ago.
- Myriad upcoming cultural choices in New City, Nyack (The Journal News)
A buffet of cultural choices is being offered at Riverspace from May 8 through Mother's Day, May 11. Afaa Michael Weaver and Cat Doty are leading the free Poetry and Prose event at 7:30 May 8. Weaver is featured in the film "A String of Pearls," which is part of the Billops Archives in New York City. He's a retired professor of English at Simmons College in Boston.
- Rare performance brings a piece of old New Orleans - Springfield State Journal Register
Springfield State Journal RegisterRare performance brings a piece of old New OrleansSpringfield State Journal Register, IL - 1 hour ago... Free People of Color,” and also wrote “Gumbo People,” a 1981 collection of poetry, music and essays written in Louisiana French Creole language. ...
- Jade cup puts poetry into auction (Times Online)
Hong Kong An early Mughal shell-shaped carved white jade cup, inscribed in Chinese with a Qianlong imperial poem from the 18th century, is displayed during a Christie’s press preview in Hong Kong. The work of art will be sold at Christie’s Hong Kong spring auctions on May 27 and is expected to fetch more than HK$25 million (£1.65 million).
- After a comparison of more than 200 resorts, Parents magazine has ... - The Freeport News
After a comparison of more than 200 resorts, Parents magazine has ...The Freeport News, Bahamas - Apr 30, 2008... has long been a family favourite. Kids ages three through 12 head out on Bahamian nature adventures and learn local folklore and poetry at Camp Lucaya, ...
- Poetry read tonight - The Union of Grass Valley
Poetry read tonightThe Union of Grass Valley, CA - 1 hour agoHe organized the Marin Poetry Festival as a fund raiser for California Poets in the Schools and has published half a dozen chapbooks. ...
- Plainfield woman waxes poetic about her life - Bolingbrook Sun
Plainfield woman waxes poetic about her lifeBolingbrook Sun, IL - 20 minutes agoIt's been a big adjustment, so I've been writing poetry about it ever since. It's good therapy for me." One of those poems, where Johnson looks back on the ...
- Briefs: Traffic, tennis and military help - St. Petersburg Times
Hillsborough County is holding a public meeting Monday to discuss traffic problems along Oakwood Avenue and Morgan Street. Discussion will focus on solutions, possibly including speed humps, for Oakwood Avenue from State Road 60 to Centennial Lodge ...
- Verse of the Turtle Taking On the Role of Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan ... - Washington Post
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. Ryan's appointment as the nation's new poet laureate ...
- New kid on the block - Star-ecentral.com
Seattle Grace’s newest intern is happy to be in the company of such an accommodating cast on Grey’s Anatomy . INSIDE the elaborate set of Grey’s Anatomy in Los Angeles, where the cosy Emerald City Bar has been built, Chyler Leigh is having a ...
- One day not enough to honor mothers - Leader Times
One day not enough to honor mothersLeader Times, PA - 3 hours agoAlso, I received the adjacent poem, written by Steven Bowser about his late mother, and while we don't publish a lot of poetry I thought this was a nice ...
- Main Course - Galway First
Main CourseGalway First, Ireland - 7 hours agoPoetry in mushrooms At the end of May, I went along to a reading by poet Dennis O'Driscoll at the Galway City Library. And it made me hungry. ...
- Halifax, NS | Sun, June 22nd, 2008 - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Halifax, NS | Sun, June 22nd, 2008TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoJuly 6-11: The Tatamagouche Centre will host Words on the Page, a writing workshop of nonfiction, poetry and fiction. The sessions will help you find your ...
- Barbara Gowdy, Rachel Zolf win Ontario's Trillium Book Awards - Canada East
TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize. Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection ...
- Sometimes I Wonder What I'm Gonna Do! (cmi valparaĂso)
The Who wrote the best version of Summertime Blues, but the final verse needed work, so I wrote a new final verse. This should be folk music by now. Wouldn't you like to honor the last of the Jesus Freak Kid's clan? Well here's a third verse that The Who or you might want to do!
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