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- Heritage Festival: Cowboy poet Zeb Dennis to perform July 4 - Sterling Journal-Advocate
All day July 4 at Overland Trail Museum and Heidi Park STERLING — In keeping with the Western Heritage theme, Zeb Dennis, a cowboy poet, will be performing at this year’s July 4 Heritage Festival at the Overland Trail Museum. The Festival will ...
- Homeless man was enriched by a circle of friends (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Askew Clark was a recognizable figure on the streets of downtown Venice for more than two decades, but those who looked beyond his homelessness discovered a polite and sober former engineer with a remarkable mind.
- Social Calendar (The Lafayette Daily Advertiser)
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- A safe return on horseback - Christian Science Monitor
Susie loved Buttercup the first time she settled into the saddle on her sturdy back. Buttercup was a nimble, well-trained mountain horse, and Susie was told, "She will take care of you." And she did. When Susie rode Buttercup, she knew that God was ...
- Remembering a classic professor (The Kentucky Kernel)
Music that represented different times in Ross Scaife's life and poems read by family and close friends helped to capture the most important things in the professor's life at his memorial service Saturday. Family, faith, friendship, poetry and song were the elements of the UK professor of classics who died on March 15 after a battle with cancer.
- Ray of Sunshine Amid Economic Gloom - RedOrbit
Ray of Sunshine Amid Economic GloomRedOrbit, TX - 12 hours agoTo that end they are sending out a positive message of support and are offering free places to all those under 16 years of age. ...
- Poetry Column: Hanover first with borough laureateship - Evening Sun
Carl Sandburg once said, "Nothing happens unless first a dream." According to Anna Manahan Bowman, Hanover's first poet laureate, Hanover was first in the state of Pennsylvania to designate the official position of a borough poet laureate. The ...
- Seeking answers: Victim's 13-year-old friend turns to poetry to cope with her grief (Killeen Daily Herald)
Editor's Note: Friends of murder victim Gricelda Ramos interviewed for this story requested that their names be withheld because the killer has not been brought to justice.
- Divas for a Difference: Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame honors ... - IdahoStatesman.com
Divas for a Difference: Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame honors ...IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 7 hours agoBig Tree Arts - Poetry Slam: Monday, June 28; www.boisepoetry.com. Idaho Shakespeare Festival - Fundraising Gala: Monday, July 14; www.idahoshakespeare.org. ...
- Tropicalia: Lehigh's Junior Idol has singing aspirations (The News-Press)
Halie Boling never expected to win the Lehigh Spring Festival Junior Idol contest, a singing competition held at the Lehigh Spring Festival earlier...
- Kish Journal A Passion for Persia, Disneyland and Dolphins - New York Times
New York TimesKish Journal A Passion for Persia, Disneyland and DolphinsNew York Times, United States - 34 minutes agoHe constantly recites Persian poetry, and speaks Persian with the strong accent of Mashad, the northeastern city where he was born and lived until the age ...
- Kaimin Arts proudly presents The Dennies - Montana Kaimin
Kaimin Arts proudly presents The DenniesMontana Kaimin, MT - 4 hours agoSome of the poetry was funny, but most of the images just reaffirmed our suspicions that for some men, female anatomy remains a mystery. ...
- Ukiah's namesake 17-syllable poetry festival a success (The Ukiah Daily Journal)
With more than 1,500 entries from 10 states, four different nations and spanning three continents, it's apparent there's a lot you can do with 17 syllables -- and Sunday's sixth-annual ukiaHaiku festival proved that.
- Consider essences of poetry - Naples Sun TImes
Consider essences of poetryNaples Sun TImes, FL - 1 hour agoWe get our English word, essence, from the Greek ousia (being) and later, from the Latin word, esse (to be/is). It can be translated to mean, "The permanent ...
- Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All (New York Times)
The poet August Kleinzahler writes with elegiac insight about life?s losers, the people he calls ?strange rangers,? the addicted, insane or destitute.
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