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- Pizarro: Attentive bird-watcher saves the day at San Jose City Hall - San Jose Mercury News
There was a dramatic rescue Wednesday evening after the first flight of one of San Jose City Hall's peregrine falcon chicks went south. The male chick - who will get a name when the results of a contest are announced today - had flown from the City ...
- Creators of cool - Boston Globe
REYKJAVĂŤK - The Thursday before last, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, president of Iceland, welcomed artists, organizers, and others to his tidy residence on a narrow peninsula to shake hands and sip wine. Outdoors, terns darted above a calm bay and the ...
- Botswana: Bessie Head Competition (AllAfrica.com)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards. They are: Novel - Phidson Mojokeri, for Curse of a Dream (first prize); Khumo Ketlhwaafetse, for Scrap Yard (second); and Yamikani Patson, for Hang Him (third).
- Glances at Undervalued Classics: Waking The Dead (2000) - Amplifier
Glances at Undervalued Classics: Waking The Dead (2000)Amplifier, KY - 57 minutes agoThis isn’ta work that ever panders…compared to most productions from the decade it is like an exceptional piece of poetry that has a rhyme that needs to be ...
- Minnesota writers - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minnesota writersMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 22 minutes agoAuthor of more than 30 collections of poetry, winner of the 1968 National Book Award for the collection "The Light Around the Body. ...
- Aurora seniors finding a place in poetry - Grand Island Independent
Peyton Kauffman and Garrett Janzen started out with poems they wrote for class, just like everyone else. Today, they'll be reading those poems at the Nebraska State Capitol. "I did not imagine it would take me to the Capitol," Janzen says of his ...
- Endearing matriarch frowned on pomposity - Age
T HE gate at 39 St George's Road in Toorak was always open. Anybody looking in might have seen a handsome woman mowing the grass in what looked like a country garden or small park, if they had not already met her outside pushing a mower up a sloping ...
- We're off to see the Wozard - guardian.co.uk
We're off to see the Wozardguardian.co.uk, UK - 29 minutes agoJuilliard-educated, he'd arranged strings for an album of Laurence Harvey's poetry readings, and - just prior to Wozard - Glen Campbell's By the Time I Get ...
- Grimshaw wins Montana honours - Stuff
Charlotte Grimshaw is following in her father's literary footsteps, winning the Montana Medal for her book of short stories, Opportunity. Grimshaw, daughter of CK Stead, scooped the $5000 fiction category and the $10,000 overall award. The Aucklander ...
- Those crazy crazes keep on coming - Telegraph.co.uk
Those crazy crazes keep on comingTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 37 minutes ago"It is certainly revealing about the sorry state of Anglo-American intellectual life that this question - one of the most interesting yet posed to me … has ...
- Remembering two special people - Utica Observer Dispatch
Remembering two special peopleUtica Observer Dispatch, NY - 2 hours agoAfter a quizzical look, he replied with the poetry of a rich, full life well-lived. “I couldn’t be any happier,” said Jim Pounds, who shared his joy every ...
- Garden to host poetry events (The Scotsman)
POETRY is set to be celebrated in the new St Andrew Square Garden, it has been announced.
- Meet the 2008 Academic All-Stars (The Appleton Post-Crescent)
The sky is the limit when these students set their hearts and minds on a goal and unleash their considerable talents.
- Whale of a city (Boston Globe)
DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 112 miles POPULATION: 25,671 WEBSITES: newlondonmainstreet.org, ci.new-london.ct.us ODD FACT: Eugene O'Neill, the country's only Nobel-prize-winning playwright, spent his early summers in New London, where he later wrote stories and poetry for The New London Telegraph. The story of modern-day New London can be seen in Bank Street, not far from the mouth of the Thames River, ...
- Steve’s lineup: Funny, lively stage performers - Carbondale Valley Journal
Steve’s lineup: Funny, lively stage performersCarbondale Valley Journal, CO - 2 hours agoSmith writes the column “Irrelativity” that appears weekly in The Aspen Times and also makes short films, plays a bit of guitar, doodles and writes poetry. ...
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