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- Aurora and Marilla Have Party Primaries Tuesday (East Aurora Advertiser)
Local members of political parties will head to the polls on Tues., Sept. 9 to decide which candidates will run on party lines. Included in primary battles this year are candidates for office in Aurora and Wales, as well as area residents seeking state office.
- Poetic License (The Art Of Writing About Music) (Arts Journal)
"The past century has taught us that good writing can appear in unexpected forms: film scripts, Sopranos-type series, the storytelling of R. Crumb or Art Spiegelman, for instance. And writing about poetry, particularly praising contemporary poetry, is a fine but extremely difficult art."
- Chick-Lit Pioneer - New York Times
New York TimesChick-Lit PioneerNew York Times, United States - 5 hours agoInnocent and natural, Nesbit’s girlish pose was a “backward glance to the Victorian age”; “sultry and mysterious,” she was also a subtly erotic harbinger of ...
- Desk clear, but good reads stay (The News & Observer)
I started this column a year and a half ago as an open forum for writers to explore issues related to reading, writing and journalism. Phillip Manning has written about the state of science book reviewing in The New York Times. Todd Shy has written about the experience of reviewing books. I have written about the limitations of using the five-paragraph essay as a punitive measure for middle ...
- Young poet wins award - Oxford Mail
Young poet wins awardOxford Mail, UK - 6 hours agoPrevious winners of the accolade have gone on to be published in books, anthologies, and popular poetry magazine Acumen. Winners are also invited to read at ...
- Maintaining the Olympics ideals - The Tide
Maintaining the Olympics idealsThe Tide, Nigeria - Aug 7, 2008He says that this is why no African country has won the bid to host the Games to date. Martins says the Games have become an anti-loser platform as losers ...
- Dr. Larry Monk passes away - Leesville Daily Leader
Dr. Larry Monk passes awayLeesville Daily Leader, LA - 1 hour agoGillespie also shared how Monk had a terrific sense of humor and was always singing and writing poetry. “He was fun to work with and was a joy to be around. ...
- One anticipated musical is ‘Road Show,’ which will be off-Broadway ... - Vindicator
NEW YORK — Not since the heyday of the ’80s British musical invasion — which brought “Cats,” “The Phantom of Opera” and “Les Miserables” — has Broadway anticipated such a big, critically lauded musical from across the Atlantic as ...
- Wordslingers 2008 brings a modern message from the 13th Century (The Union)
What could a poet from 13th-century Persia have to say to 21st-century Americans in Nevada County?
- A degree of poetic licence - Sheffield Telegraph
A degree of poetic licenceSheffield Telegraph, UK - 6 hours agoHe explained his long-standing interest in local poetry and song and said he will be researching neglected northern poets of the 1960s and 1970s. ...
- Newtown poets shine at international slam - Danbury News Times
Newtown poets shine at international slamDanbury News Times, CT - 1 hour agoA poem can be thought of as a love poem even if it's not centered on romantic love. The way it worked was we got a partner, and we were told to look into ...
- What next? (The Star)
Then a poem is removed from Britain’s GCSE curriculum because it might encourage those studying for the exam to commit acts of violence. The mind boggles.
- What are your plans for fall? - Tallahassee Democrat
What are your plans for fall?Tallahassee Democrat, FL - 2 hours agoIf your band, bar, concert hall, acting troupe, poetry cabal, school, theater, merry band of revelers, art collective or you-name-it has anything planned ...
- 2008 writing contest winners announced - Picayune Item
2008 writing contest winners announcedPicayune Item, MS - 4 hours agoTwelve and Under Poetry, First Place, “I Like” by Kristina Ziemer. Each winner will receive a copy of the 2008 Anthology of Local Writers and a certificate ...
- Artist Feeds Death Row Inmate To Goldfish - Anorak
GENE Hathorn has been on death row since 1985. He will soon taste freedom, as a goldfish will taste him. When Hathorn is fried, artist Marco Evaristti, “the bad boy of the Danish art scene”, will use his body as an art installation. Says ...
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