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- WEbook Closes $5.0 Million Round Led by Vertex and Greylock Partners (Broadcast Newsroom)
BETHESDA, Md. , Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- WEbook.com, the online platform where writers and readers craft the next great books and tap the next breakthrough talent, today announced the company has closed more than $5 million in funding.
- Western Michigan University graduate Bob Hercules to screen Barack ... - Kalamazoo Gazette
It's often been said that "the personal is political," and that was certainly true of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's trip to Africa in August 2006. The tour is documented in "Senator Obama Goes to Africa," directed by Western Michigan University graduate ...
- A change at Women’s Resources - La Crosse Tribune
You are cordially invited to join Houston County Women’s Resources staff, family, community and friends to say goodbye to Rosanne St. Sauver. Rosanne is moving on to the position of executive director of LGBT Resource Center for the 7 Rivers Region ...
- Horse track in Huron Twp. opens today - Detroit Free Press
Motor City horse power -- the four-legged kind -- will kick into gear today in the shadow of Metro Airport when thoroughbreds break from the starting gate on the one-mile dirt oval at Pinnacle Race Course in Huron Township. The hopes of local owners ...
- Sandburg House gets gift from first lady - Asheville Citizen-Times
Sandburg House gets gift from first ladyAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 18 hours agoBush also was treated to a poetry reading by 12-year-old Fletcher resident Abbie Biberdorf and a performance of Sandburg’s “Rootabaga Stories” by a group of ...
- The TLS's poetry editor wins the Forward Prize for Best Collection ... - Times Online
The TLS's poetry editor wins the Forward Prize for Best Collection ...Times Online, UK - 11 hours ago"If, as verse, Imlah’s writing has panache, as poetry it frequently has power to provoke or move", writes Dunn, with his "nifty rhymes . . . and a narrative ...
- After 'historic' trip, Obama turns to issues at home (Honolulu Advertiser)
LONDON — Barack Obama conquered the Middle East and Europe last week, but yesterday he returned to face a more challenging battleground: middle America.
- Sustainable Life Calendar - Sherwood Gazette
Sherwood GazetteSustainable Life CalendarSherwood Gazette, OR - 17 minutes ago... www.belmontbusiness.org, 503-774-2832 The Friends of William Stafford, Oregon’s celebrated poet laureate, will hold its third annual Poetry and Potluck. ...
- Local poets win awards - Asheville Citizen-Times
Local poets win awardsAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 15 hours ago... High School in Asheville, won the first-place Sherry Pruitt Award in the 2008 student contests at a recent meeting of the North Carolina Poetry Society. ...
- Community Events Calendar - WRIC TV
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Richmond YWCA Event Summary: "On Aug 14th at 6:30p, the YWCA of Richmond is urging everyone to participate and tune in to a panel discussion observing Sexual Assault Awareness month. The topic focuses on what the legal and ...
- Plays are only part of Children's Theatre mission (The Greenville News)
If you think that all the S.C. Children's Theatre does is offer five wonderful performances a year at the Peace Center's Gunter Theatre -- in itself a huge undertaking -- think again. That's just one of the many ways that this organization, in its 21st season, serves the Upstate.
- UDHS Latin club wins big at competition - Ambler Gazette
UDHS Latin club wins big at competitionAmbler Gazette, PA - 15 hours agoWeinstein earned fourth place in sight Latin reading poetry and won third place for dramatic interpretation of a passage from the Aeneid. ...
- Gift of words: Festival of the Written Arts (Coast Reporter)
The last line that author Lorna Goodison read aloud from her book, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People, went something like this: “My mother dipped her finger in sugar and ran it around my mouth when I was born to give me the gift of words.”
- Dedicated to the ones he loves (The Star-Ledger)
Earlier this month, drummer Chip White's animated percussion lent a vital spark to tenor saxophonist Houston Person's afternoon performance at the Newark Museum.
- Surprise comes as shake-outs begin on 'Dancing with the Stars' - Grand Rapids Press
Chemistry: Rocco DiSpirito and Karina Smirnoff sizzle. Rocco is safe to saute another week. On "Dancing With the Stars," isn't that all that truly matters? And that lovable-yet-slightly-loony Cloris Leachman will be back as America's favorite batty ...
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