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- Son's low-key induction earns key - Asbury Park Press
Son's low-key induction earns keyAsbury Park Press, NJ - 2 hours agoSee, the thing about my family is that we are rarely disappointed. It doesn't often matter to us whether things wildly exceed our expectations or go ...
- Lightning from the Depths - TOL (subscription)
Lightning from the DepthsTOL (subscription), Czech Republic - 3 hours agoby Robert Elsie & Janice Mathie-Heck With these words, a challenge is laid down in this new volume of Albanian poetry. Albania, however, has a dynamic ...
- Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformation - Toronto Star
Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformationToronto Star, Canada - 9 minutes agoElsewhere, rocks in a stream stand in contrast to the fleeting nature of human existence: As this passage shows, Donlan is adept at lyric poetry. ...
- 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 ...
- Contest honors young poets (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
Eleventh-grader Shandee Lingard said she has written more than 10,000 poems. The one that's closest to her heart tied for first place in the 11th-grade category at the Jackson District Library's fourth annual Young Poets Contest.
- Calendar for July 3 (The Milpitas Post)
Circus Vargas 2008 is bringing its blend of circus artistry and slapstick comedy to Milpitas from July 10 through July 14 at the GreatMall. From the up-close-and-personal interactive pre-show through the death-defying high-octane finale, Circus Vargas delivers fun for children young and old.
- Jarvis Cocker: the secret of saying the unsayable - Daily Telegraph
Take Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. The lyrics are unintelligible but it doesn't matter: it just sounds right. There are at least 130 versions of Louie Louie out there, but none of them comes even close to that one. Yet when a lyric and a piece of ...
- Haycast 04: Farting, reading and Rushdie - Guardian Unlimited
In today's programme, Claire Armitstead talks to the children's authors Francesca Simon and Eoin Colfer, plus the poet and performer Lemn Sissay. We also hear what some of the youngest fans of the Hay festival like to read. Francesca Simon is author ...
- At Cannes, smallest films get crammed into 'Corner' (San Diego Union-Tribune)
CANNES, France – There are big films and little films here; documentary films and animated films; films with movie stars and films from Belgium. But by far the most numerous are the many, many films that no one will ever see. This is the story of Dan and Guy, who came to the Cannes Film Festival with one of the latter.
- Callaloo workshop presents four prominent African-American writers - University of Washington
Four faculty members from the 2008 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops will read from their poetry and fiction at 7 p.m. Aug. 6 in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge. The event is free and open to the public. A reception for the authors will ...
- Flying SoloNova (Backstage.com)
Five-year-old fest restores the art of storytelling. For as long as humanity has had language, it has had stories. Before the written word or the printing press, storytellers used myths, legends, history, and imagination to entertain and to explain life.
- Heron project is great fun - La Crosse Tribune
Recently, my 9-year-old friend and I accomplished what I call, “The Heron Project.” Within a very limited time frame, we visited 33 of our city’s herons. It was great fun. We used the La Crosse Tribune’s map and set about taking her picture ...
- KARACHI: Zay Khay Sheen’s literary contribution discussed - DAWN Group
KARACHI: Zahida Khatoon Sherwani was a remarkable woman about whom very few people know today. Much ahead of her times in thought and wisdom, this poetess has been brought back to life in the literary circles by Fatima Hasan, a poet and short story ...
- Cloudy Trophies (The New Yorker)
In July, 1820, John Keats published his third and final book, “Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems.” He had no reason to expect that it would be a success, with either the public or the critics: in his short career, the twenty-four-year-old poet . . .
- Special events: Bike to the Bay ready to start benefit rides (The Toledo Blade)
The 2008 MS Reeves Northrup Memorial Bike to the Bay takes place this weekend.
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