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- Jenny Chi - Birmingham News
Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope Florence Forest Park Fultondale Gadsden Gardendale ...
- Why not ban Shakespeare then? Poet strikes back after knife verse was dropped from GCSE (Daily Mail)
Her poem was dropped from the GCSE syllabus because it describes the thoughts of someone with a knife who plans to kill - but now Carol Ann Duffy has struck back against the ban with a new poem.
- San Diego datebook (San Diego Union-Tribune)
If you love big dogs, come out to Fiesta Island from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow for a special adoption event featuring more than 100 large breed dogs and puppies from 25 local shelters and rescue groups. The largest adoption event of its kind.
- Tom Perrotta to headline first Portsmouth Literary Festival - Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH — This October, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project kicks off its 20th anniversary celebrations by bringing a three-day literary festival to Portsmouth as part of the New Hampshire Writers’ Trail. On Oct. 23, 24, and 25, the ...
- Where Do People Still Use Cassette Tapes? - New York Times Blogs
The answer: in prisons, where CDs are routinely banned because they can be shattered and the shards refined into shivs. MP3 players are unavailable in most prisons, as are, one imagines, turntables. California-based entrepreneur Bob Paris got the ...
- City Stages review: Ford Turrell - Everything Alabama Blog
Ray LaMontagne? Jakob Dylan? Ryan Adams? John Mayer? Some listeners among a small crowd at the Legacy Stage tried to place the vocal sound of Ford Turrell, a Nashville singer-songwriter who performed at 2 p.m. No verdict was reached, but Turrell's ...
- Home again - Montana Standard
“Hello old friend,” author Patricia Nell Warren says to an old Underwood typewriter. She began writing stories on the typewriter when she was a youngster. Deer Lodge native Patricia Nell Warren has lived a colorful life as a best-selling author ...
- 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' - OhmyNews International
OhmyNews International'And When Did You Last See Your Father?'OhmyNews International, South Korea - 2 hours agoAn honest and unsentimental film, it brings dignity to the subject of family relationships and has a powerful conclusion that left much of the audience, ...
- Paying tribute to the ultimate ladies' man - National Post
Paying tribute to the ultimate ladies' manNational Post, Canada - 57 minutes ago... the lecture hall where he recited poetry to mesmerized undergraduates; and the Yardbird Suite, a legendary music dive (since relocated) where he sang. ...
- Poetry precipitates prizes - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
"I was born like this." Jeannette Barnes sounds as if she's speaking of a medical condition. Instead, the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center librarian is speaking of her passion for poetry. "I was telling poems to the dogs when I was 4," Barnes said ...
- 'Jellyfish' is clever, but like its characters, it drifts - Cleveland Plain Dealer
A couple stands in the harsh sunshine, silently but obviously breaking up. The man is sullen. The woman is silent. Behind them, the sea stretches out in turquoise waves -- but there's something wrong with the perspective. This body of water stretches ...
- Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize (Seattle Times)
Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday.
- East St. Louis student's essay on violence wins statewide contest (Belleville News-Democrat)
Yhazon Kennedy has something to say about handguns.
- COLUMN: Leyde: Murphey follows way of the West (The Salinas Californian)
Michael Martin Murphey isn't shy about sharing what his priorities are: The cowboy way, restoring the American prairie, longhorn cattle and preserving our Western heritage.
- Mohammad Bin Rashid orders the setting up of a House of Poetry in ... - Gulf News
Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday directed the establishment of the ‘House of Poetry’, a centre for researching and documenting Arabic poetry and ...
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