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- Golden Apple-winning teacher is homegrown (The Plainfield Sun)
Holly Bontkowski was using fruit to teach poetry to her eighth-grade students when her husband and two children walked in with a basket overflowing with apples.
- Longest-living Gold Star wife helps remember fallen (El Paso Times)
When the young doctor at Beaumont Army Medical Center asked 106-year-old Celina Balquin if she had made funeral arrangements, she told him she planned to outlive him.
- Poetry column: The ironic hand of fate reveals life's destiny - Evening Sun
When I had been about to graduate from high school, our guidance counselor called me in for a conference. He revealed to me his analysis of the results of our Meyers-Briggs Test and other aptitude tests all the seniors had taken. He was concerned ...
- LeapFrog launches summer reading program - TheChronicleHerald.ca
LeapFrog launches summer reading programTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 46 minutes agoAtwood has published more than 25 volumes of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and has won prestigious awards including Britain’s Booker Prize in 2000 for The ...
- The Peony Pavilion: sexy ghost who returns as a virgin - Daily Telegraph
In the banquet of Chinese arts offered this summer, none will be more epicurean than the Kunqu Opera performances of the three- night romantic saga The Peony Pavilion. Something between a Shakespearean lovers' comedy and a weekend-long vaudeville ...
- Signs of recession - Southeast Missourian
Signs of recessionSoutheast Missourian, MO - 3 hours agoYa ripped off my thunder, albeit I'm not into doing poetry anyway. Even so, I've often pondered what it'd feel like to have suicidal tendancies, ...
- "Third Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons" (Newsday)
WHEN "Third Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons" will feature more than 300 works (paintings, drawings, multi-media sculptures, collages, poetry) by emerging and established artists inspired by their own private worlds, unfettered by the "isms" that drive mainstream contemporary art.
- 45 years later, Dylan's lover tells us what it was like (Toronto Star)
NEW YORK–It was one of the most iconic record album covers ever released, and Suze Rotolo was part of it: on a snowy day in 1963, she snuggled with Bob Dylan as the two walked down a Greenwich Village street.
- Jason Shinder, 52, Poet and Teacher, Dies (New York Times)
Mr. Shinder was a poet, anthologist and teacher who founded the Y.M.C.A. National Writer?s Voice program, one of the country?s largest networks of literary-arts centers.
- Show what you know - Wicked Local Dennis
Show what you knowWicked Local Dennis, MA - 23 hours agoOther projects included African-American History month in February. “Each group studied the biography of an African-American artist,” O’Connor said. ...
- Ari Pahala Hutabarat: Teacher of Lampung's rising poets - Jakarta Post
Over the past decade, Indonesian literary critics have noted that Lampung has become an important national center for poetry, along with Jakarta, Bali and West Sumatra. Many upcoming young poets in the past 10 years have come from Lampung, prompting ...
- Exhibition by Mitra Tabrizian in London: This is that Place (Payvand Iran News)
In June 2008, Tate Britain will open the first major exhibition in the UK of the work of the Iranian-British photographer and film director, Mitra Tabrizian. Born in Tehran, Tabrizian's primary concerns are contemporary issues and debates and her interests range from post-feminism and post-colonial theories and the effects of late capitalism in Britain, to the shifting realities of life in ...
- Do it yourself - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Do it yourselfSeattle Post Intelligencer - Jun 25, 2008Besides what's on the walls and in a garden, there will be break dance, double-dutch and power tool races; sound installations, classic pin-ups, poetry, ...
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 - Hampton Roads Daily Press
LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
- Hey Wii Owners ... It's Time to Eat! - MCV
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - Jul 11, 2008 - Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that the first videogame based on the exciting world of competitive eating will launch exclusively for WiiWare on July 14th, 2008. Major League Eating: The Game ...
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