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- RiverRun Reads: Toby Barlow's 'Sharp Teeth' (Portsmouth Herald)
Editor's note: Every other week in this space, RiverRun Bookstore in downtown Portsmouth will be providing book recommendations and previews of upcoming events at the store.
- World's worst poetry sold for $12,840 (Toronto Star)
EDINBURGH, Scotland – The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English language.
- The Welsh in America and the world - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The red dragon is the symbol of Wales. It's said that the Welsh excel in occupations that involve talking -- acting, preaching, teaching, politics, singing, reciting poetry and storytelling. There was no end of talking before 56 men signed the ...
- The cult of Hadrian - guardian.co.uk
The cult of Hadrianguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoLover Although he was married to Vibia Sabina, a third cousin, his great lost love was the Greek youth Antinous, who drowned in suspicious circumstances in ...
- Batman is Back -- TIME Reviews The Dark Knight (Time Magazine)
Richard Corliss takes an advance look at The Dark Knight and finds it a masterly weave of madness and dread
- Award Winning Author Visited Primary - Monticello News
Monticello NewsAward Winning Author Visited PrimaryMonticello News, GA - 3 hours agoMary-Elizabeth’s grandmother, Mary Purcell, is an award-winning writer of poetry and short stories, and offered to visit her granddaughter’s class in May. ...
- Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again - New York Times Blogs
Tryin’ to Get the Feeling AgainNew York Times Blogs, NY - 20 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Urban arts districts take center stage at CSU conference - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Artists see themselves as devoted to creativity. City planners now look at artists and see something else: a highly valuable form of urban fertilizer. Sprinkle some galleries on a dying main street. Change the zoning to allow live-work loft space ...
- Soloveitchik’s students preparing series of his work - New Jersey Jewish Standard
Soloveitchik’s students preparing series of his workNew Jersey Jewish Standard, NJ - 15 hours agoPosner said that the Kinot project brings together his interest in Soloveitchik’s insights and in Jewish liturgical poetry. Most of these elegies, ...
- Finalists announced for 2008 Oklahoma Book Awards - Daily Oklahoman
Thirty-two books have been chosen as finalists in the 19th annual Oklahoma Book Awards competition. Winners in the categories of fiction, poetry, design/illustration, children’s/young adult and non-fiction will be announced at the Oklahoma Book ...
- Students of the Month - The Free Lance-Star
The Free Lance-StarStudents of the MonthThe Free Lance-Star, VA - 1 hour agoHe also is a member of Mu Alpha Theta and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Chris has participated on varsity soccer, wrestling, cross country, ...
- These kids are poets - Ballard News Tribune
These kids are poetsBallard News Tribune, WA - 33 minutes agoAshley McKee made a poem about her favorite teacher, DeBoie. "My teacher is my friend. My teacher is kind." "I like writing because sometimes you can make ...
- Obama warns seniors on Social Security threats (USA Today)
Democrat Barack Obama told seniors that John McCain supports privatizing the program and their Social Security would be threatened if he were president.
- Narrow Minded (The Tuscaloosa News)
A disturbing genre of Web video flaunts extreme thinness. Is it art or dangerous propaganda?
- Pens and Lens - resident’s photos published - Leduc Representative
Pens and Lens - resident’s photos publishedLeduc Representative, Canada - 46 minutes agoBelcourt took up photography as a hobby and last year when Fay told him he was writing a book with Haiku poetry, Belcourt decided to send his friend some of ...
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