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- Chronicle Podcasts - San Francisco Gate
April was National Poetry Month and dozens of readers responded to our call to read their original poems out loud on our Open Mic podcast. We received so many that we'll have to continue posting poems into May. Susan Slusser , The Chronicle's A's ...
- RAW Deal Looms for Taxpayers Unless Terminator and Lawmakers Act Fast - Santa Barbara Independent
del.icio.us. It’s nut-cutting time in Sacramento, to paraphrase famed wordsmith Dick Nixon, as California politicians face an August 1 deadline, when further dithering over the stalemated state budget will start having real-world financial ...
- News Brief: Counterculture poets - The Carrboro Citizen
News Brief: Counterculture poetsThe Carrboro Citizen, NC - 39 minutes agoWilson Library’s newest exhibit examines the beginning and growth of American counterculture poetry in post-World War II twentieth century in The Beats and ...
- Literary luminaries to attend unveiling of statue of poet Al Purdy (Jam! Showbiz)
TORONTO - Author Margaret Atwood and poet Dennis Lee were among the literary luminaries set to attend an unveiling of a statue of poet Al Purdy on Tuesday.
- Longtime letter-writer dies (Albany Democrat-Herald)
Lunette Mulkey, a 20-year Albany resident and one of the most prominent writers of letters to the Democrat-Herald, has died. She was 96.
- Lost Dog collars $40,000 fiction prize (The Australian)
MELBOURNE author Michelle de Kretser has won the $40,000 Christina Stead Prize for fiction, the biggest of the NSW Premier's literary prizes announced in Sydney last night.
- Pizarro: Ex-Smash Mouth guitarist ignites an explosive weekend - Silicon Valley
It feels topsy-turvy to have fireworks on the first night of the San Jose America Festival, which kicks off Friday, but there should be plenty of fun activities to last the weekend. It'll be a treat to see Greg Camp , the Santa Cruz guitarist and ...
- "Heart," by Rick Campbell (Seattle Times)
I remember being scared to death when, at about 30 years of age, I saw an X-ray of my skull. Seeing one's self as a skeleton, or receiving...
- 3 in 4 Minn. sophomores satisfy reading requirement - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Three-quarters of Minnesota sophomores can begin their summer break knowing they've performed well enough on a state reading exam to satisfy a requirement for high school graduation. As freshmen, they faced a writing exam with diploma implications ...
- The National Day of The American Cowboy - The Bandera Bulletin
The National Day of The American CowboyThe Bandera Bulletin, TX - 3 hours ago"Cowboy dress up, face painting for kids... KR Woods will be there doing a cow chip tossing contest, stick horse races, poetry contest, coloring contest, ...
- Crazy penguins, frozen fish (Newsday)
Antarctica film is a feather in Herzog's ice cap The new documentary from the eccentric German director Werner Herzog, "Encounters at the End of the World", is not your typical nature film.
- Atrocious Victorian Verse Shines at Auction - New York Times Blogs
Atrocious Victorian Verse Shines at AuctionNew York Times Blogs, NY - May 16, 2008By Patrick J. Lyons Even the most exceptionally talented among us have a very difficult time securing lasting fame by writing great poetry. ...
- Former Va. poet laureate George Garrett dies (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
BY JEREMY SLAYTON Times-Dispatch Staff Writer George Palmer Garrett Jr. cast a wide net throughout the literary world. His talent with the written word encompassed poetry, essays, short stories and novels. He even co-wrote the screenplay for the 1965 horror flick "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster." "His topics and styles have ranged from the most somber to the most comic. He has excelled for ...
- 68th annual event draws in writers - Indiana Daily Student
68th annual event draws in writersIndiana Daily Student - 4 hours agoClasses are broken up into four different sections: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and how to read like a writer. “‘Reading Like a Writer’ encourages ...
- Reading by the sea ... (The York Weekly)
One of the big benefits of living in this part of the world is having the opportunity to enjoy the sight, sounds and smell of the sea. When I have a few minutes to myself, I head to the seashore, take a long walk on the beach, and listen to the cry of...
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