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- Go fishin' with Dad (The York Weekly)
As Father's Day approaches this year, I find myself thinking of my own dad and his love of fishing. He was completely at home angling in the ocean, on lakes or in streams, and in the course of his life, he caught fishes, big ones like sailfish and tarpon...
- "Poetry in Motion (Pictures)" The Edge of Love" Film Review - NewsBlaze
"Poetry in Motion (Pictures)" The Edge of Love" Film ReviewNewsBlaze, CA - 11 minutes agoUsing a light hint of the Welsh, Kiera is very convincing indeed, and with her flashing dark eyes could be quite easily believed to have come from Wales. ...
- UTC Professor Named Finalist In International Poetry Competition - The Chattanoogan
UTC Professor Named Finalist In International Poetry CompetitionThe Chattanoogan, TN - 44 minutes agoMr. Braggs, who received the MFA from Vermont College of Norwich University, teaches creative writing, poetry, African-American literature, ...
- Ultrafit: Conquering the 'Marsh Mountain' - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Paul Getzke has his feet on the grass and his hands on Precambrian stone. A wall of rock -- swirled gneiss with lichen, striped pink and gray with granitic veins -- towers 12 feet above his head. "Let's give it a go," he says. Getzke reaches for an ...
- Beauty queen uses poetry to inspire (Miami Herald)
At age 11, Diana Bien-Aime was thrown through the back window of a car in a horrible accident. She suffered a broken nose and internal bleeding and was left with scars on her face and arms.
- Ghana: Youthful Artists Exhibit Work, Collaborate At Wapi (AllAfrica.com)
Some of Ghana's young rappers, artists, poets, designers, film-makers, and other creative types gathered to exhibit their talents last Saturday, the first WAPI in Ghana.
- Religion briefs for July 26 (Rapid City Journal)
Organ recital Wyatt Smith, who will be a senior at Luther Prepatory School in Watertown, Wis., will present an organ recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, at First Presbyterian Church, 710 Kansas City St. Smith is from Rapid City and began his organ study here with Mary Free. He now studies with Bethel Zabell at Luther Prep and has been working this summer with Marylou Torrey. Last summer, Smith ...
- Fairfax poet's original voice draws notice and highest honors - San Francisco Chronicle
Washington PostFairfax poet's original voice draws notice and highest honorsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago"This will flip daily life upside down." Wit and understatement - applied to the quiddities of daily living - are key to Ryan's poetry, which has earned ...Lesbian Takes Poet Laureate Post EDGE BostonKay Ryan, UCLA graduate in English, named 16th poet laureate of US UC Los AngelesPoet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate International Herald TribuneNew York Timesall 143 news articles
- Sweet memories of San Miguel (Ventura County Star)
Betsy Lester Roberti saw ghosts of love and a lost life on a recent afternoon at San Miguel Island. Both had been snatched away — suddenly, darkly — long ago. She held the ruins of her old home in her hands on this sunny midsummer's day. Ghosts, good and bad, have a way of hanging around like a permanent curtain, like the eternal sea. They come back whenever she returns to San Miguel. ...
- Medieval football writers studied - BBC News
BBC NewsMedieval football writers studiedBBC News, UK - Jul 2, 2008"There are surprisingly quite a few references to ball games in early Welsh poetry." Sioe Gelf will be shown on S4C on Wednesday at 2100 BST.
- Book Review - The New Nation
Book ReviewThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 13 minutes agoWhoever is free from attaclm1ent knows neither grief nor fear?" Just find out. Hasan's Madolma of the Rain is an excellent read for the poetry lovers who ...
- A Brief History Of: The Poet Laureate - Time
On July 17, Kay Ryan became the 16th U.S. poet Laureate, one of the most coveted positions in American letters. Yet when Senator Spark Matsunaga, himself an amateur poet, pushed Congress to create the post in 1985, the American literary community was ...
- Tattoos Are Like Heart On Chest - The Ledger
Tattoos Are Like Heart On ChestThe Ledger, FL - 5 hours agoI really like this poem by Sharmila Voorakkara of Ohio. across your chest, a flare of indelible script. up the braid of your backbone, cuff your wrists. ...
- Draw near, good people - New Statesman
guardian.co.ukDraw near, good peopleNew Statesman, UK - 9 hours agoHis next passage, "And we stage it very simply", is in prose and we are relieved, but soon the poetry leaks from the stage into the wings and beyond. ...Afterlife: The rhyme of a slow, spirit-sapping death Telegraph.co.ukall 9 news articles
- Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington.
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