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- Martin McGuinness makes parting gift of poetry to Ian Paisley (Times Online)
They once were deadly enemies, but poetry is the language that Martin McGuinness chose to express his feelings to Ian Paisley about the parting of politics’ oddest couple.
- Sadly, what we have here is a failure to be happy (Edison Sentinel)
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think.
- Outfront and center: Bad poetry returns! (The Charlotte Observer)
When the Observer's Doug Robarchek retired in 2005, the humor columnist known as the Outfront Guy single-handedly caused a citywide shortage of cheesy jokes that make you laugh in spite of yourself. For readers who've been jonesing for an Outfront fix ever since, great news: A new book, “The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of OutFrontery,” ($14, Main Street Rag). Most of ...
- Maui poets to compete in National Poetry Slam - KHNL News 8
WAILUKU, Maui (KHNL) - For the first time in three years, a team of poets from Maui will compete in the National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin. Maui SLAM! is sending four of Hawaii's top spoken-word poets to compete in the annual championship ...
- Fourth of July holiday events (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
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- Princeton tots get a 'Teddy Bear Picnic' - Princeton Packet
Princeton tots get a 'Teddy Bear Picnic'Princeton Packet, NJ - 10 hours agoThey then listened attentively as Ms. Groves read books and poetry about teddy bears. One book’s title, “The Boy Who Thought He was a Teddy Bear,” drew a ...
- A Smithsonian exhibit traces the nation’s culinary history - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Food is about more than chewing and swallowing. It's about cooking and culture, mom and memories. This has all been said many times, of course, in everything from cookbooks to poetry, but now the idea takes physical form with the imprimatur of the ...
- SOVER SCENE: Woman on a mission - Rutland Herald
It was called "Love Letters To Vermont" and it was the first book I'd ever opened in the sole Vermont bookstore I'd ever browsed through during the exploratory trip that my family and I made here years ago when we were considering moving to New ...
- PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Mark Rylance - PlaybillArts
PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Mark RylancePlaybillArts, NY - 4 hours agoPlaybill.com: Do you think it's kind of funny that someone with such a reputation for Shakespeare should be making his Broadway debut in Boeing-Boeing? ...
- Words of War - Town Hall
Words of WarTown Hall, DC - 1 hour agoThere are novels such as "All Quiet on the Western Front" or memoirs like Robert Graves' "Good-bye to All That," or poetry by people like Siegfried Sassoon ...
- Young authors find their place with second book publication - Newport News-Times
“Find Your Place: Poetry & Prose from Seashore Family Literacy” is a book published by the participants in the Young Writers Group in Waldport. A book event is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at the Waldport Community Learning Center ...
- Waltham Forest teenagers take SLAM poetry crown - 24dash
24dashWaltham Forest teenagers take SLAM poetry crown24dash, UK - 7 hours ago... helping to extend the legacy of the annual London Teenage Poetry SLAM project. Other such legacy projects include Holy Family’s Spoken Word Club and ...
- Nights at the Red Steinway (The New York Sun)
Now, about that red piano: Charles Bourgeois, the longtime integral member of George Wein's Festival Productions, which produces the ongoing JVC Jazz Festival, told The New York Sun that the company simply requested a standard 9-foot concert grand, but was surprised as anyone when the instrument that was delivered turned out to be encased in bright red enamel, with a bright red bench to match. ...
- Sorted out for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics - The Independent
I don't know what Jarvis Cocker will conclude in his lecture at the Brighton Festival next week, but many of our songwriters would have us believe that their great songs flowed through them, as if from a divine force On a recent trip to Brazil, I ...
- Enter for a chance to win a signed copy of 'ghostgirl' (The Uniontown Herald Standard)
Harry Potter's epic battles against dark forces of evil are nothing compared to Charlotte Usher's struggles with an even more fearsome foe - high school.
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