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- Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration - Phoenix New Times
The slogan of the Valley of the Sun Juneteenth planning committee is “Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Future.†Ugh. Strangely, the same folks who cooked up that bland, Chamber of Commerce jingle are responsible for the kickin’ Valley of ...
- CSC graduate awaits Abingdon diploma - Galesburg Register-Mail
CSC graduate awaits Abingdon diplomaGalesburg Register-Mail, IL - 19 hours agoStein lives in Dunlap and has published several poetry collections, two poetry anthologies and two scholarly books, as well as penning several poems and ...
- Know it All - San Mateo Daily Journal
Know it AllSan Mateo Daily Journal, CA - 6 hours agoTraditional Japanese haiku poetry has three lines of lyric verse that do not rhyme. The first and third lines have five syllables each, the second line has ...
- Troubled teens motivated by music - Miami Herald
Through his arrests -- and his subsequent efforts to change his life -- Corey B. captured his thoughts and reflections in poetry and rap. So when Corey, 17, of Opa-locka, had the opportunity to record an original rap song with his classmates recently ...
- Gambian 9th Roots Festival Commemorates Enslaved Africans - Emediawire (press release)
Gambian 9th Roots Festival Commemorates Enslaved AfricansEmediawire (press release), WA - 2 hours ago... Founder of the Afrikan Poetry Theatre; Kalilah Allen Harris, winner of the 2007 Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant; and Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, ...
- Residents share literary arts at Elk Grove - Elk Grove Citizen
Residents share literary arts at Elk GroveElk Grove Citizen, CA - 1 hour agoThe library hosted the 2008 Teen Poetry Slam and the Short-Story Contest and Writers’ Conference. There were 10 entries for the poetry competition, ...
- Latitude Festival 2008 preview - Daily Telegraph
Latitude may be 'more than just a music festival', but its music line-up is one of the strongest of the summer, says Rebecca Davies 'It's more than just a music festival' claims the tagline at the top of the Latitude website. And rightly so. Based at ...
- Sanelli delves into deep issues through poetry in new book - Bellingham Herald
Sanelli delves into deep issues through poetry in new bookBellingham Herald, WA - 1 hour agoMy life and my work are one and I feel incredibly grateful to be able to say that. Q: Many of the poems in this collection have to do with choices we make ...
- A prize worth cracking a beer over - Toronto Star
A prize worth cracking a beer overToronto Star, Canada - 10 hours agoToronto-born Alex Boyd and Anne Simpson of Antigonish, NS, have won national poetry prizes. The winners of the 2008 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial ...
- Blackburn poet back to his roots - Lancashire Evening Telegraph
Blackburn poet back to his rootsLancashire Evening Telegraph, UK - 2 hours agoPublished on three different cont-inents he has written numerous collections of poetry and prose, most recently Used Rhymes and A Guide to Historic Haworth ...
- I Am My Own Dragon by Linda Thompson - WTNH
I Am My Own Dragon by Linda ThompsonWTNH, CT - 4 hours agoThrough Thompson's compelling prose, Lucy asks readers to think of "Dragon" as not purely her story, but to become a part of it: "We are creating this ...
- the new way to view life through the old ball game - Seymour Herald
More than two million kids from around the world will play on seven thousand baseball Little League teams this year. These children, ages 13 and younger, are taking part in a tradition that spans nearly 70 years. Parents across the world enroll their ...
- Journey by the book (Kingston Daily Freeman)
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, right, and Joni Rendon. (Photo provided) Some people question the need for English majors, and others, like radio personality Garrison Keillor, lovingly poke fun at them. But a former resident of Kerhonkson and Ellenville has done them proud.
- Worst-ever poetry to equal Harry Potter sales - Daily Telegraph
Because more than a century after his death a collection of poems by the Scot is set to reach up to £6,500 at auction. That would put him in the same league as first edition copies of Harry Potter books signed by author JK Rowling. Nicknamed 'The ...
- Anaïs Mitchell: Hitting a High Note - WCAX
Anaïs Mitchell: Hitting a High NoteWCAX, VT - 1 hour agoThe 'poetry of songwriting.'" She admits to the kids she needed to overcome stage fright. Mitchell tells them, "It's a skill like any other, getting up in ...
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