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- Potato madness has gripped at least one man (Anchorage Daily News)
Palmer potato guru Bill Campbell is a guy with a head stuffed with potato science, potato trivia and potato tales, a guy who can and does talk potatoes longer than most people can listen, a guy with the personal motto, Cogito Ergo Spud. “I think, therefore I yam.”
- Alina Simone moves on from Russian poetry to her own tunes - AfterEllen.com
Alina Simone moves on from Russian poetry to her own tunesAfterEllen.com - 27 minutes agoBlack Emperor. Sounds like a heavenly match to me. I'm hoping the new album will include the infectious "Beautiful Machine," a gorgeous yearning rocker that ...
- $9 million from state benefits arts - The Republican - MassLive.com
The Republican - MassLive.com$9 million from state benefits artsThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 14 hours agoSome education grants in Western Massachusetts include $17950 for Amherst-Pelham Regional schools to design and put into effect poetry curricula that builds ...
- Remarks by the First Lady During a Visit to the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
FLAT ROCK, N.C.----Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site 4:20 P.M. EDT
- Matthew Pearl: top 10 books for Dante lovers - guardian.co.uk
Matthew Pearl: top 10 books for Dante loversguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 22, 2008Matthew Pearl is the author of The Dante Club, a literary thriller about a group of 19th-century Harvard scholars secretly working on a translation of The ...
- Poster poems: Calling for Clerihews - Guardian Blogs
Many of you who pass by this humble shop window in search of quaint diversions will already be familiar with the story of Edmund Clerihew Bentley , the dull chemistry lesson, and the birth of the light verse form that bears his name . Legend has it ...
- Jerome pilots Belfast Telegraph’s revamped website to new heights - Belfast Telegraph
Jerome pilots Belfast Telegraph’s revamped website to new heightsBelfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - 15 minutes agoAlthough the IT background has proved very beneficial — my ability to recite tracts of Golden Age Castillian poetry continues to be ignored by the brains ...
- The outdoors is great for Lincoln Center's free performances - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comThe outdoors is great for Lincoln Center's free performancesThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 6 hours ago... the popular summer arts festival Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors returns tonight, launching three weeks of free dance, music and poetry events. ...
- Ghost Bike Offers Reminder Of Lost Cyclist - OPB News
OPB NewsGhost Bike Offers Reminder Of Lost CyclistOPB News, OR - Aug 6, 2008Laughlin and Sprouse describe David as an unusual young man who was passionate about the environment, music and friendship. Both feel the ghost bike can be ...
- Poet considered for national award (Prince George Citizen Online)
Gillian Wigmore's poetry has won yet another honour. Her current book Soft Geography was shortlisted earlier this year for the coveted Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for top B.C. poet. Now Wigmore has been shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award for top Canadian poet published by an independent publishing company. Northern B.C.-focused book house Caitlin Press is her publisher for Soft Geography. ...
- Obama & the Conquest of Denver (New York Review of Books)
1. I tagged along to the Democratic National Convention in Denver with my wife, Ayelet Waldman, one of five pledged Obama delegates elected from the 9th Congressional District of California. Like every political convention, I suppose, this one was quite a show: a spectacle.
- John Burnside's top 10 Scottish poetry collections - guardian.co.uk
John Burnside's top 10 Scottish poetry collectionsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoHe has published eight previous books of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, and most recently The Light Trap, ..."I never had the least thought or inclination of turning poet till ... guardian.co.ukall 2 news articles
- Lincoln comes alive in bio for children - Independent Record
So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, a big event in publishing for grown-ups but a slice of history in need of some wow for young people. Feiwel and Friends, under the watchful ...
- City must heed poet's strategy for change - Seattle Post Intelligencer
City must heed poet's strategy for changeSeattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours agoOr the thousands of high school and college students she has lectured on the magic of poetry and music to spread messages about politics, environmentalism, ...
- How Fergie and the Duchess in the hit movie are directly related ... - Daily Mail
In a heart-rending scene in the hit movie, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, gives away her love child by a future Prime Minister . . . and incredibly, today we can reveal how that abandoned child is directly related to the Duchess of York and her ...
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