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- There is a Point to all This; it's a Semi-Colon. - Slate
Either everyone in the Fray went to the same school, or else those pesky English professors have a lot to answer for—a surprising number of posters say their teacher told them not to use the semi-colon, the punctuation mark fighting for its life in ...
- Ketchikan Events - Sitnews
Ketchikan, Alaska - This week in Ketchikan a Swan-Tyee Intertie Open House will be held. The Tyee Lake Project has surplus electrical energy. A transmission intertie is planned to deliver renewable hydroelectric power to Ketchikan and displace fossil ...
- The word in color - San Antonio Current
San Antonio CurrentThe word in colorSan Antonio Current, tx - 40 minutes agoNot surprisingly, it’s the work of poets of color that has regularly infused American poetry (in the hemispheric sense) with a striking urgency, ...
- Faith guide (Billings Gazette)
Saturday, June 7, 2008 TodaySt. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 180 24th St. W.: Join in a 40th anniversary celebration with afternoon activities including a pig roast dinner at 5 p.m. A special Taize service is at 6:30 p.m. All mem ...
- Car-Free Day festivities down on Denman - Georgia Straight
Car-Free Day festivities down on DenmanGeorgia Straight, Canada - 15 minutes agoThere was plenty going on: two stages at either end of Denman with bands playing, salsa dancing, double-dutch skip rope, spoken word poetry, ...
- FBLA Exclusive: Rabbi Richard Rushfield Explains the Importance of ... - mediabistro.com
FBLA Exclusive: Rabbi Richard Rushfield Explains the Importance of ...mediabistro.com, NY - 11 minutes agoDuring this past season, Rushfield has regaled us with sermons peppered with poetry about winning, losing, death and love. And we are smitten. ...
- A bit of what you fancy - Telegraph.co.uk
A bit of what you fancyTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 hours agoBeryl Cook was to painting what Pam Ayres is to poetry, at least as far as popularity goes. Cheery postcards, bright with big-bottomed women, ...
- Baghdad’s Other Power Struggle - Truthdig
TruthdigBaghdad’s Other Power StruggleTruthdig, United States - 1 hour ago“The power supply is really bad,” said al-Farji, a judge who loves old Arabic poetry. “We barely get any power from the city, and the power we have from the ...
- Best Bets - Huntsville Item
Best Bets items may be submitted up to two weeks in advance and are subject to editing. Items must be received by 1 p.m. to run the following day. Items must be submitted via e-mail or U.S. Postal Service. All submissions must be typed and may be e ...
- Kay Ryan Is Named New U.S. Poet Laureate (The Online NewsHour)
The Library of Congress announced Thursday the appointment of Kay Ryan as the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009.
- Quake's Artistic Aftershocks: Chengdu Poetry (NPR)
Chengdu, China, is known as a city of writers — with an especially strong community of poets. Last week's earthquake already has made its mark. Poet He Xiaozhu says he wrote a poem about the quake both for those who died and as a way to release what's in his heart.
- The battle that reshaped children’s literature. - New Yorker
New YorkerThe battle that reshaped children’s literature.New Yorker, United States - 3 hours agoShe celebrated the holidays of immigrants (reading Irish poetry aloud, for instance, on St. Patrick’s Day) and stocked the shelves with books in French, ...
- Jonathan Franzen - New York Observer
Robert McCrum, literary editor of the UK Sunday paper The Observer , stepped down this month after a decade on the job. Yesterday he deployed a parting shot both wistful and sober-minded. "When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in ...
- Plato's Greek Taverna , Ponsonby Rd (The New Zealand Herald)
Greek cuisine gets a bad rap. AA Gill reckons it's "unremittingly ghastly. Greek food is best eaten drunk, but even that they don't make easy".
- Beethoven. Five piano concertos. Vermont Mozart Festival. - Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Beethoven. Five piano concertos. Vermont Mozart Festival.Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 1 hour ago... beautiful lyricism and poetry." Latour will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Opus 19, Sunday, July 20, at the Trapp Family ...
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