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- War in Pieces: Combat Paper Project Sees Veterans Use Uniforms to Heal (Vineyard Gazette)
Robynn Murray stood alone in the kitchen. Bread in the toaster, she twirled a butter knife in a tub of Nutella and looked out across the brown Chilmark fields of North Road. She spread the warm bread thick; stuck the knife back in the jar. “I got these when I got back from Iraq,” she said. She licked a crumb of toast from the corner of her mouth and pointed to the two guns tattooed on her chest, ...
- The Big Question: What's behind the rise in literary festivals, and what's their purpose? (Independent)
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- Beat your ploughshares into pens - Rake
Beat your ploughshares into pensRake, MN - 1 hour agoAnd because everyone is reading, there is a high demand for poetry. And because there is a high demand for poetry, once a week, possibly on Mondays, ...
- Every school every Thursday -- D.M. West (The Des Moines Register)
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- Austin City Limits - Cleveland Free Times
Austin City LimitsCleveland Free Times, OH - 1 hour agoBy Charles Cassady Jr. Robert Redford and Terence Malick were executive producers on the eco-documentary The Unforeseen, a partisan mix of cowboy poetry, ...
- Money Can’t Buy Time - New York Times Blogs
The average human being will be substantially richer in 50 years, just as the average American today has a real income three times what it was in 1955. But the average human being will not have much more time in 50 years than today; and life ...
- Music can be path to better learning in language and math (Alaska Journal of Commerce)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: An educator with a passion for making school fun.
- Baker putting words to paint - Dowagiac News
Used to be a picture was worth a thousand words. Dowagiac artist David Baker and Cindy Rolback, banking office manager, Thursday evening unveiled his painting which Huntington purchased for Dogwood Fine Arts Festival to hang in the lobby on ...
- St. Louis cast mysterious spell on poet TS Eliot - West End Word
St. Louis cast mysterious spell on poet TS EliotWest End Word, MO - 2 hours ago... when he was writing “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” his first commercially published poem. In his poetry Eliot didn’t mention his hometown. ...
- WSU Film Festival displays the finest from beginners to pros - The South End
WSU Film Festival displays the finest from beginners to prosThe South End, MI - 49 minutes agoUp next was David Engelbrink's "Devil's in my House," a humorous tale about film major Derek Szubeczak and the forces of darkness that strain his life. ...
- Quit Your Day Job: Valet - Stereogum
Quit Your Day Job: ValetStereogum, NY - 2 hours agoA couple poetry and fanzines, limited edition CDs/CDRs/tapes, etc. It's not exactly a "record store," but our section is slowly growing bigger. ...
- Bulbs come in colors - Austin Chronicle
Local sound artist/pianist Tom Grzinich plans on taking out some aggression tomorrow night at Ballet Austin. Oko Jumu, the name of the night's event, features performances from guitar/drum duo Bulbs and video from experimental film artist Scott Stark ...
- My chapattis are made for love, not ego - Evening Standard
"Men think first about technique; women think first about their emotions," says Hélène Darroze, the top French chef now running the kitchen in the beautifully refurbished Connaught Hotel. What she describes is true of sex and even more of food ...
- UT grad captures Literature Prize - Austin American-Statesman
A playwright and recent grad of the University of Texas' James A. Michener Center for Writers has won the university's $50,000 Keene Prize for Literature. George Brant 's play, "Elephant's Graveyard," took the top honor out of 51 submissions, which ...
- Spread the word (BBC News)
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